PATTERN RECOGNITION.

spatial deconstruction #31 (sequence), 2024
Emma Coulter, 2024
ink pigment on vinyl polymer on architecture
900 x 162cm

Exhibition runs:
14 August 2024 - 26 October 2024
Town Hall Gallery
Hawthorn Arts Centre, Melbourne

Curated by Alana Seal

‘Pattern Recognition’, brings together six artists who have employed pattern and repetition to form a distinct visual language that has informed and evolved their creative practice’, says curator Alana Seal. The exhibition features the works of Melbourne artists, Emma Coulter, Casey Jeffrey, Chaco Kato, Jenna Lee, Kent Morris and Esther Stewart.

Exploring the idea of a pattern as a sequence, Coulter has created a site specific work for the exhibition, extending upon her series of spatial deconstruction artworks, she has been creating since 2014.

For ‘pattern recognition’, Coulter has taken a minimal composition, (initially intended for a painting), rearranged it, mirrored it, and repeated it sequentially to form a pattern repeat. Whether it be painting, sculpture or a site-specific installation, central to Coulter’s practice is the idea of deconstruction – taking the essential elements of a site, subject or situation, and breaking them down, to establish a new configuration, through an intuitive process of abstraction. For pattern recognition Coulter took the curatorial premise of the exhibition as the primary context to respond to on the gallery walls, in conjunction with her ongoing enquiries into colour semantics and geometric relationships.

Photo Credits: Emma Coulter