Artwork: Pattern Distortion 1 2024
Artist: Al Munro
Medium: acrylic on boxboard and wood panel
Dimensions: 70 x 70 x 4cm
Acquisition: An acquisition of the ACT Legislative Assembly Art Advisory Committee, 2025
Asset no: OLA002996
About the Work
Munro’s principal interest, while expressed in a variety of media, has recently focussed on increasingly complex geometry combined with a pleated and corrugated surface. Her work is informed by a diverse range of sources including artistic abstraction, mathematics, architecture and philosophy to explore the relationships between visual art, craft and design practices. Her interest in geometric patterning is a hybrid, having its origins in mosaic tiling, quilting patterns and geometric abstraction.
About the Artist
Al Munro is an established Canberra-based artist. She regularly exhibits within Australia and overseas, most recently presenting a solo show at the MATDOT Art Centre in Bangkok in December 2024. After graduating in 1997 with aBachelor of Visual Arts (First Class Hons.) ANU School of Art (Printmedia and Drawing), she undertook a do ctorate from the Australian National University School of Art and Design awarded in 2013.
Munro has presented solo exhibitions in Canberra and Sydney since 2009, and been included in group show in Australia and overseas. In addition she has been invited for residencies in the UK, Thailand and Japan. In 2014 she was an ANU Vice-Chancellor’s College Visiting Artist Fellow.