Pattern Recognition

'Pattern Recognition' celebrates female and non-binary artists from the ACT region who use abstraction and design principles to explore colour perception and spatial relationships, highlighting the variety of ways artists approach colour, geometry, and form. While the artists in the exhibition explore similar visual terrain, embracing non-objective abstraction, repetition and pattern, their underlying conceptual investigations and influences vary and include post-colonial and feminist frameworks, climate activism, architecture, memory, extended pictorial space, mindfulness, and sensory engagement with the materials. The exhibition investigates regeneration, exploring the influence of traditional craft disciplines on contemporary art practice. Artists include Liz Coats, Kirsten Farrell, Ngaio Fitzpatrick, Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello, Al Munro, Hannah Quinlivan and Emma Rani Hodges. A collaborative project presented as part of 'Regenerate', the 2024 Craft + Design Canberra Festival. Image credit: Hannah Quinlivan, 'Fluency', 2023, Moulded acrylic, yarn, shadow wire, dimensions variable. Photo by Peter Morgan