Pattern: Found, Exchanged, Unraveled

Does pattern have to be flat? Is it always regular? Or can it be irregular? If we look again, what patterns can we find?

This exhibition of exciting, contemporary artists plays with what pattern can be. Traditionally pattern means decoration; marks, lines, dashes and dots. Day to day you find patterns by chance, in behaviours; breaths, wakeup times or work routes. Pattern can also be a set of instructions to follow. The artworks in this show explore how patterns are made, found and pulled apart. By expanding the idea of what pattern can be these artists highlight how it seeps into our every day and becomes so commonplace that it goes unnoticed. Through a mixture of wallpaper design and painting, drawing, knitting and sound work this exhibition celebrates repetition, routine and the often overlooked.

Artists David Smith and Clare Thatcher explore how revisiting the same site time and again can ingrain a sense of place in their work. Meanwhile Caroline McGlone’s disorientating piece draws attention to those everyday sounds that have been discovered by chance or unexpectedly. Alec Stevens and Nicola Pearce’s playful take on this theme highlights what passes us by.

Some artists work questions how patterns can be exchanged: Maximillian Malone’s set of instructions explores what might come out of a conversation between artist and audience. George Malyckjy wall paper designs explore how pattern can change a space. Meanwhile through repeating an action over time Cai burton’s drawing performance makes theprocess of drawing a pattern in itself.  

EVENT: Colouring in and a chat with the curators June 5th 11-2pm - Colouring in sheets 

Feat. Draw the textures that you see, What’s in the drain? & What sounds do you hear everyday?