PATTERN RECOGNITION

Liz Coats, Kirsten Farrell, Ngaio Fitzpatrick, Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello, Al Munro, Hannah Quinlivan, Emma Rani Hodges 

Curated by Janice Falsone and Jodie Cunningham

2 November 2024 – 25 January 2025 (closed 15 December 2024 – 13 January 2025)
Exhibition Opening: Friday 1 November 2024, 5:30pm speed artist talks, 6pm opening (featuring a performance by vocalist Shikara Ringdahl in collaboration with the work by Hannah Quinlivan)

Free Public Program: Friday 24 January & Saturday 25 January 2025, 11am-9pm each day
Over two days, Hannah Quinlivan will create a drawing using salt live in the gallery, inviting visitors to slow down and witness this ephemeral artwork take shape.

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. 

A collaborative project presented as part of Regenerate, the 2024 Craft + Design Canberra Festival.

Image:
Installation view of works by Hannah Quinlivan and Al Munro in 'Pattern Recognition', Canberra Contemporary, November 2024. Photo by Brenton McGeachie.