The Poliness wall drawings: not quite right

Artist Kerrie Poliness writes about her wall drawing projects, one of which appears in the exhibition 'Art, Pattern and Complexity' at RiAus, Adelaide from 16 February to 16 May 2012. The wall drawings begin with the artist's instructions but are produced with intuition rather than rulers.

Published March 2012

The inchworm revisited

Artist, writer and honorary visiting Professor at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at the University of Sussex in England Paul Brown sketches out the long intertwining history of the relationship between C.P. Snow's two cultures - art and science, design and mathematics, beauty and computation, and extrapolates upon Lady Ada
Lovelace's famous words: "We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves."

Published March 2012

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

A Meme is born

Adelaide writer and artist Peter Drew looks at various examples of recent street art and the many ways it is circulated and reproduced as a meme in a wired and globally connected world. "As it turns out," he says, "memetics can be very useful in understanding the patterns of street art."

Published March 2012

Shadowbox: The Desert Paintings

Liverpool Street Gallery 3 – 23 December 2011

Published March 2012

Revealed: Emerging Aboriginal Artists from Western Australia

Curator: Thelma John
Gallery Central, Perth
24 October - 12 November 2011

Published March 2012

2112: Imagining the Future

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

Published March 2012

Helen Fuller: Bless this mesh

Critic and author John Neylon unpacks the long and illustrious career of Helen Fuller who has turned to handbuilding clay vessels in the last three years. He writes: "Responding to patterns of connection based on colour, shape, functionality, memory or caprice is the hallmark of Fuller’s behaviour as an artist. The pas de deux of pattern-based painting and patterning embedded within objects is a constant reminder of the role which patterning, particularly grid and checkered, continues to play in expressing an inner state of mind which simultaneously celebrates and defies a call to order. "

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

Socially engaged FIFO art? IASKA's Spaced

Published March 2012

The future is now: Songailo's short-circuits

Sam Songailo's hypnotic artwork "goes directly to the heart of pattern and its universal application across human cultures throughout history". Matt Huppatz vividly describes and contextualises both recent and earlier manifestations of Songailo's paintings and installations that use colour and design to create experiences that resonate in your eyes, body and mind in a kind of ‘techno-archaeology’.

Published March 2012

Artrave

Published March 2012