Caro Pattle
Caro Pattle — 'Hide for a Lamb' Textile Work, 2024
$3,800
The tale of the wolf in sheep’s clothing tells us to distrust appearances; that a being’s true nature will always be betrayed by their behaviour. Of course, trickery and deception are practices intrinsic to the natural world, with many creatures using mimicry to avoid detection or lure prey.
'Hide for a Lamb' celebrates a nature in which form and matter is always shapeshifting. The work uses tannery deadstock lambskin - a meat industry waste product - as a substrate. A combination of silk, wool, linen and acrylic yarn is hand-knotted through the lambskin before being combed out with a carding brush to produce a dense fleece. Like Joseph's technicolour coat, 'Hide for a Lamb' is a disguise which both conceals and makes conspicuous.
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Born 1985, Aotearoa (New Zealand). Naarm based since 2014. Caro Pattle’s experimental object-based practice explores handcraft processes through a lens of contemporary materiality. She draws from a range of craft disciplines to create works that joyfully muddle organic/inorganic binaries. Pattle’s practice spans large-scale public art installation through to small sculpture and is underpinned by ongoing research into material agency, object power and future worlds. Pattle graduated from a Bachelor of Textiles at RMIT in 2019 with a previous Bachelor of Fine Arts completed in 2009. The recipient of several travel grants and industry prizes, she was named the Australian Textile Graduate of the Year by the Design Institute of Australia for 2020. Exhibiting nationally, Pattle has presented commissioned work at the NGV as part of Melbourne Now, and at the National Library of Australia in conjunction with the Canberra Biennial.
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November 14, 2024 - January 25, 2025
Curated by Simone Haag
Craft is thrilled to invite internationally renowned Australian decorator Simone Haag as the guest curator of Craft’s final main gallery exhibition of 2024. Making her curatorial debut, Haag presents a group exhibition featuring works by more than 30 Australian artists.
Material: lambskin, wool, silk, cotton, alpaca, linen, nylon, acrylic
Dimensions: 87 x 64 x 5cm
Please note when purchasing, exhibition works are to be collected when exhibition closes.