Pattern Recognition

Canberra Contemporary Art Space Lakeside

November 1st 2024-25th January 2025

Pattern Recognition, curated by Jodie Cunningham and Janice Falsone, celebrates female and non-binary artists from the Kamberri/Canberra region who use abstraction and design principles to explore colour perception and spatial relationships, highlighting a variety of approaches to colour, geometry and form.

The exhibition also reveals the regenerative influence of re-imagined craft disciplines on contemporary art practice. While the exhibiting artists explore similar visual terrain — embracing non-objective abstraction, repetition or pattern in their work — their purposes range from the political (post-colonial and feminist critique, climate activism) to a more formalist concern with pictorial space and sensory engagement with materials.

Shrine, 2024, found plastic, cotton thread, dimensions variable.

Photographs by Brenton McGeachie

Opening night photography by Hilary Wardhagh, with thanks to Canberra Contemporary Art Space and Canberra Craft and Design Centre.