Lucia Dohrmann

Lucia Dohrmann — '48 Overlapping Circles - Weft', Textile Artwork, 2025

$4,500

Dohrmann’s practice centres on the connections between pattern and repetition, textile techniques, pattern making and mathematics. Her chosen ground is painters' canvas, a pliable woven textile, which she deconstructs and reassembles. The processes undertaken challenge the idea that canvas acts simply as a ground or support for a painting.

Dohrmann’s love of textile processes comes from early childhood experiences when her mother, a dressmaker, taught her to sew, knit and crochet from a young age. The pattern in this series is a geometric interpretation of circular crocheted doilies, which belonged to her mother, reflecting the mathematical thinking needed to make many domestic textiles. Many of these items along with textile knowledge were brought to Australia through migration, carrying with them emotional and intergenerational connections. 
 
The colour red has had a long association with protection against enemies, witchcraft and evil spirits, in Italian folklore. Red thread was traditionally used by young Italian women to stitch their initials onto linens in preparation for marriage.

Lucia Dohrmann is an early career artist living and working in Adelaide/Tarndanya, graduating from Adelaide Central School of Art with a Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours) in 2017. Lucia’s work is held in a number of private collections and has been exhibited nationally, in solo exhibitions such as Visible Silence, West Gallery Thebarton (2020); and group exhibitions including Pliable Planes, UNSW Galleries (2022); and Radical Textiles, Art Gallery of South Australia (2024).

Lucia’s practice centres on the intersections between pattern and repetition, textile processes and mathematics, within the fields of painting and textiles. Lucia’s work primarily focuses on the materials used and the time-intensive processes of unpicking and reconstructing that she employs. Her works make visible the materiality and physical construction of her chosen ground, painters’ canvas: a pliable grid of woven threads.

Old School

Main Gallery

March 15 - May 3 2025

A contemporary response to the heritage and legacies of craft practice, featuring the work of six diverse practitioners.

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Material: acrylic on canvas, unraveled and knotted

Dimensions: triptych artwork consists of three panels, approx. 170 x 55cm in total

Please note when purchasing, exhibition works are to be collected when exhibition closes.

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