Caro Pattle — Laminae - Spotted Bowl, 2025

Laminae - Spotted Bowl is handwoven in a mix of leopard-print velvets. The weave structure has two faces, and the vessel can be turned inside out to produce a new form. The work is a result of a cyclical studio process; a larger sculpture was un-woven and the velvet knotted once more into a new form. Laminae is a series of works that explore the constancy of material within a world which experiences perpetual recreation.

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Caro Pattle is a textile artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her 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 and synthetic, past and present and functional and non-functional binaries. Her work is underpinned by ongoing research into historical and current, material culture, animism, and domestic worlds. Embedded across all of her output is a sense of pleasure and play. Pattle's practice spans large-scale public art installation through to objects for interiors.

Named the Australian Textile Graduate of the Year by the Design Institute of Australia, 2020 Pattle has had her work presented at the inaugural NGV Melbourne Design Fair and selected for the group exhibitions: Improper Structures, By/Product and Welcome. Pattle completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts, 2009 and a Bachelor of Textiles, 2019 at RMIT.

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Material: velvet

Dimensions: approx. 36 x 22 x 23cm