The Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award
Patrick Snelling

The effects of colour and pattern on textile surfaces have always intrigued me. In my work I try … to illustrate a premise that working with dyes, screens and fabrics continues to challenge me, in my thoughts, in my professional work and in my environment… I have no rules or secret techniques. I have ideas about textiles and how we engage with materials that have been crafted and decorated for millennia, and which continue to converge and blur the boundaries between new media and craft traditions.

Patrick SNELLING
born Great Britain 1955, arrived Australia 1984
Capricious Blur (detail) (2001–02)
digital, screen-printed and embroidered fabrics
107 of 16.0 cm diameter
digital, screen-printed fabric layers
200.0 x 200.0 cm
digital, handpainted and assembled folios
four of 30.0 x 30.0 cm