Welcome to this months exhibition and it’s all about the poWOWer of pattern.
Pattern = "A design in which lines, shapes, forms or colours are repeated in regular or irregular forms" or "a design for life" or "patterns of behaviour". But is it comforting or restricting?
Patterns surround us from nature to the hi-tech, the pattern of life, of learning and family tradition. The artists chosen have used patterns as part f the work or as a process that is intrinsic to their creative practice.
Artist: Megan
Website: https://thatartistmegan.square.site/
Instagram: @that.artist.megan
Description: These pieces are the exploration into bacteria, viruses and fungi. She documents their growth through screen print, playing with the factual and fictional elements through layering, colour and pattern. Her work is heavily based on pattern from a visual point and the research behind it. i.e. bacteria and fungi cultivated.
Artist: Melanie Manos
Instagram: @melanie_manos
Description: This work evolved from a photo shoot where I inserted myself into interior wall spaces of a wood cabin, as physical studies of the body and the built environment. I made this piece from one of the photos, because the raised leg suggested opportunity for an extended rhythmic pattern I was compelled to explore. I don't recall any obstacles in this process - it seemed to flow!
Artist name: Moises Hergueta
Description: “Own Shine” This is a series I'm working on, called "Balance".
Instagram:@moiseshergueta_
Artist: Katerina Gladkova
Instagram: @gladkovaka
Description: This mixed media collage is a meditation on time and habituality of life. Are our lives just a series of patterns that we repeat over and over again? How do we construct our patterns and how different are they from person to person?
Artist: ANN KOPKA
Instagram: @annkopka
Description: Eat Your Greens is a digitally manipulated photo, one of a series of images promoting healthy food in a fun and playful way. The composition comprises a number of brussel sprouts arranged in a grid pattern and is a response to my interests in exploring the relationships between colour and light, repetition and pattern, structure and design. The sprouts were placed on a paper napkin to keep them in a grid formation because they tended to roll around when positioned on a hard surface.
Artist: John Dixon
Instagram: @pollutionartuk
Description: I wanted to create something with a natural/mathematical form using my material of choice which is beach found ocean plastic litter. The purpose was to draw attention to the amount of litter in our oceans. The challenge was to give it vibrancy even though it is actually 2 dimensional.
Artist: Alexandra Buxbaum
Instagram: @buxbaumphoto
Description: This woman seated on a pillar at the Palais-Royal in Paris blends in with, and continues the flow of the vertical lines but horizontally. I happened to be in the right place at the right moment to capture this moment.
Artist: Amy Conder
Instagram: @ivegotatextile
Description: This print is in response to a "fragmented identity" brief. My concept looks into daily routines, instinctual routines that animals follow, and the parts of our routines that we follow without even realising. It just goes to show we are not too dissimilar to animals after all.
Artist: Vincenzo Cohen
Instagram: @vincenzocohenartist
Description: These patterns show three different types of giraffe cloaks. The giraffe pattern always fascinated me for its elegance and its camouflage value. These patterns express the decorativiseness of nature through its creatures and show the respective types of pattern and the different colourations belonging to the home range of the different subspecies: Kordofan, West African and Reticulated,
Artist: Simon Brewster
Instagram: @simonbrewster99
Description: A collection of toy vehicles are inverted and fixed into a square shape. An ambulance with a blinking blue LED is in the centre, and surrounded by the repeating forms of other vehicles.
Artist: JohnC
Instagram: @a.johnnobody
Description: Screen shots from three works in the series of Digitalizing Akira Minagawa. The works are real-time digital generated animations that create texture and patterns inspired by the textile designs from Akira Minagawa. The animations (real-time generated) can be seen on https://johncheung.art/works-digitalising-akira-minagawa/
Artist: Lucy Oates
Instagram: @overnite.oates
Description: Random, notions of bold, textured, collage.Moving around the page to create patterns.
Artist: Something Like Art Maybe
Instagram: @somethinglikeartmaybe
Description: My practice directly disrupts the reality a photograph presents and creates a new image by piercing through the material with needle and thread. The spinning illusive pattern imitates that of the bike wheels the image depicts, emphasising how commonplace the presence of patterns is in the everyday. The piece is busy, confusing your visual perception and depicting both the distortion of illusion and the uniformity of pattern.
Artist: Katharina Siegel
Instagram: @float.blue
Description: The photos from the series 'Is it me or is it you?' (2021) reflect on the artists personal experience with the neurological phenomenon of synesthesia and navigation of memories. Synesthesia lets the artist experience emotions and memories in colours and pattern. The series tries to visualise something that is invisible and only happening in the inner realm. The distortion transforms the original image into a glitch of forms, patterns and colours. The images are a personal attempt of the artist to navigate the complex chaos and unreliability of memories.
Artist: Rosina Godwin
Instagram: @rosina.godwin
Description: This piece is a knitted version of the classic colour study. Each block fits a prescribed sequence, although the pattern and colour arrangement change depending on the dimensions of the layout. This version features 7 x 7 blocks, as the number seven is a lucky number.
Artist: Sue Ridge
Instagram: @susan.ridge
Description: Seizure and Aphasia Wallpapers are part of a project Embroidered Minds about William Morris and Epilepsy. My wallpapers make reference to Glitch using epilepsy as their source. A seizure as an electrical storm in the brain. A visual glitch is a display of lack of control, it is an artifact resulting from error.
Artist: Jaina Cipriano
Instagram: @jainastudio
Description: I construct emotive and enveloping experiences for viewers with my installations
and photographs. Through illusionistic set designs- devoid of any digital manipulation -I communicate the complex grief of growing up as a woman in a culture dedicated to stifling authentic emotion and communication. Patterns communicate the feeling of being trapped somewhere - as if you are in a funhouse and everything you do is reflected back to you.
Artist: Helen K Grant
Instagram: @helenkgrant
Description: New Religion - a diptych comprising two hi vis textile works - was made during my residency at Espacio Lavadero, Granada in September 2022. It references the aniconic patterns found in the nearby Alhambra but also incorporates the graffitied anarchy signs that I saw repeated across the city. I was interested in how ubiquitous this symbol of rebellion has become and used fluorescent colours associated with punk culture and hazard warning workwear to make these gaudily patterned pieces .
Artist: Marjorie Dubois
Instagram: @marjorie_artproject
Description: My focus is on shapes inspired by nature (cocoons, plants, coral, shells..), and everyday life objects like vases, jars, and door frames to ground the composition. I want to play with the perception of the viewer, who can recognize an indoor space with some elements of domesticity, but the repetitive patterns saturate the composition and give this abstract feeling to the work.
The colourful components and the black and white patterns are complementing each other and give this swarming and dynamic aspect to the artwork like a deconstructed still life.
Artist: James Caley
Instagram: @jamescaley
Description: The above poem "Room" is an expert from my first poetry collection, CityBeating and Other Poems (2016). The poems "Being" and "Love" are excerpts from my latest poetry collection, Minutes (2021/2). Though there is time between the works there is similarity in form. In all three poems there is an interplay between image, word and colour. The patterns and structures of the work add a visual element and layer of being upon the word itself.
Within "Room" we are monochrome. Life has been reduced seemingly to just four elements - computer, wall, wire, room. However they build a window in which patterned letters form waves to the eye. The poem is about the relationship between digital connectivity and human isolation.
In the excerpts from Minutes, the keyboard has been replaced by the typewriter with a coloured ribbon. The nature of such a ribbon meant that colours flow and change throughout each piece. With that, the colours add a subtle line of meaning upon the words also.
Artist: Alison Churchill
Instagram: @alisonchurchill4
Description: The constantly moving patterns on the surfaces of the millponds in my local valley have been playing on my mind, setting up rhythms in my body for over 10 years. These dazzling and mesmerising reflections have no mass, they are empty, made of light. It has taken me all this time to embody them, and only recently have been able to paint them.
