Mesne: Pattern In(formation)

Tim Schork and Paul Nicholas founded MESNE Design Studio, an innovative architecture and urban design studio working globally as one office from London and Melbourne, to explore the relationship between architecture and divergent domains of knowledge through the use of computation in order to create innovative design strategies for novel spatial structures. They write about the back story of the project "Pricking', an interdisciplinary collaborative project between MESNE Design Studio, Ian Maxwell (supermanoeuvre) and Indae Hwang, which involves an interactive lace-making table with an infra-red based multi-touch interface.

Published March 2012

Exhibitions to Watch

Published March 2012

Artrave

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Caroline Durré: Reforming the earth

Drawing Studio and Program Co-ordinator at Monash University Stephen Garrett examines the optically challenging artworks of Caroline Durré which blend patterns and perspectives.

Published March 2012

Openwork patterns: Love Lace

Powerhouse Museum Curator of Textiles Lindie Ward discusses the groundbreaking 'Love Lace' exhibition on show at the Powerhouse until April 2013. A globally sourced series of works it showcases 130 designs for openwork structures from 20 countries.

Published March 2012

Shadowbox: The Desert Paintings

Liverpool Street Gallery 3 – 23 December 2011

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Sequences and Cycles: contemporary ceramics from the desert

Pantjiti Lionel, Mel Robson, Pip McManus, Patsy Morton, Suzi Lyon, Amanda McMillan
Co-curators: Jo Herbig and Franca Barraclough
Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
19 November 2011 - 22 January 2012

Published March 2012

2112: Imagining the Future

Curator: Linda Williams RMIT Gallery, Melbourne 2 December 2011 - 28 January 2012

Published March 2012

Shape of the wind: pattern & chaos in Sue Lovegrove's island art

Head of Environmental Studies at the University of Tasmania and writer Peter Hay describes the recent paintings of Sue Lovegrove made from her experience of different islands off the coast of Tasmania - Maatsuyker Island, Egg Island and most recently Tasman Island. Lovegrove began with painting clouds but has moved on to paint the shape of the wind.

Published March 2012

Prophecy, pattern, progeny: Champagne Valentine, Mitchell Whitelaw, Peter Miller, Tracy Cornish

Published 01 March 2012

Not just black and white

Scholar and inaugural director of the new Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre in Katherine Cath Bowdler discusses the work of two indigenous artists Brook Andrew and Gunybi Ganambarr and suggests that they are both operating at a conceptual level as bricoleurs in a globalised world, inventing new juxtapositions of materials and revealing new ways of seeing the world through the prism of local histories and traditions.

Published March 2012

Andre Lipscombe: BOO!

Nyisztor Studio 1 - 23 October 2011

Published March 2012