Al Munro

My work often explores the intersections of art and science, and also intersections between textile materials and practices and abstract painting. My current bodies of work explore the
geometry of patterns and how these can be distorted or changes through pleating, folding and stretching. While I am not using textile materials in these pieces, my work reflects on the
geometry of textiles to inform composition, format and structure.

This vertical fold artwork is part of Al Munro’s ongoing investigation of the interaction of colour, pattern and space in painting. As the viewer moves around each work, areas of pattern are either revealed or hidden, allowing the experience of the pattern, colours and forms to change according to the viewer’s position. This activates the viewer’s experience of the space and time of the painted surface.

Al Munro is a Canberra-region artist whose practice spans textile, painting and drawing-based media. She has exhibited throughout Australia and internationally and is held in many collections. Her recent work takes as its point of departure the relationship between textile structures and mathematics, investigating the geometry of pleating and various pattern systems.