Pattern and Chaos in Art, Science and Everyday Life

Victoria Mitchell is Research Fellow at Norwich University of the Arts. She has published papers on various aspects of art, design and textile culture, pursuing an interdisciplinary theoretical approach which focuses on material, making, metaphor and meaning, and is co-editor of The Material Culture of Basketry (Bloomsbury, 2020), for which she wrote on pattern in the context of braiding and dancing. Dr Sarah Horton is an artist-researcher whose practice includes sculpture, drawing and painting often resulting in site-specific artwork. Her doctorate ‘Decoration: Disrupting the workplace and challenging the work of art’ indicates an ongoing interest in the way pattern, decoration and ornament is used in fine art and in a wider sense to indicate value and identity.

Acknowledgements



List of Figures



Introduction



Sarah Horton and Victoria Mitchell



 



PART 1: PATTERN DYNAMICS



Introduction





The Anxious Spiral


Krzysztof Fijalkowski





Representing Kinematics and Dynamics by Pattern-Breaking in Nature, Art and Music
Brian Whalley and J. Harry Whalley
Drawing Dynamic Patterns: The Protein Maze


Gemma Anderson, Jonathan Phillips and John Dupré





The Metamorphogram: Pattern as Memory of Experience


Alun Kirby





Crumpling: An Exploration of Nature


Dewi Brunet and Gwenaël Prost, for the CRIMP Ccollective





Somewhere Between Weaving and Painting


Geoff Diego Litherland (with Angharad McLaren)





Knotting Across Species: Creating Order from Chaos


Eleanor Morgan





Simplifying Complexity: The Visual Language of Neuroscience


Gill Brown



 



PART 2: MORPH, FLUX, MUTATE



Introduction





Unrepeating-Repeat


Danica Maier





Pattern Evolution


Kate Farley





Geomorphology: Mapping the Land, Above and Below Water


Glyn Brewerton





Flux


Katy Hammond





Drawing Fire


David Griffin





Imago Images


Robert Hillier





The Chaos of Delight: Spatial and Temporal Interruptions


Lesley Halliwell



 



PART 3: DECOMPOSE–-RECOMPOSE



Introduction





Foment


Catherine Yass





Meniscus


James Quinn





Digital Dadaism


Chris Brown





Forty-Four Sounds


Mark Graver





A Type of Chaos


Pauline Clancy





Fragile Order


Charlotte Hodes





Shatter


Zoë Hillyard





The Moments I am Looking For…


Judith Stewart





Expanded Visuality: Photography as a Patterning Mechanism for the Animated Form


Katarina Andjelkovic



 



PART 4: VIRUS



Introduction





Global Ghost Map


Anne Eggebert





Embodied and Coded: Drawings as Viral Systems


Daksha Patel





Viral Experiments


Louise Mackenzie





Contagious Pattern: The Spread of Appropriated Patterns by Contemporary Artists


Andrew Bracey



 



PART 5: SOCIAL IMAGINARY



Introduction





You’ll Never Walk Alone: Aa Song of Community and Struggle 1945–2021


Sarah Lowndes





Dialectical Reversal in About Two Worlds


David Mabb





Distance and Disruption: The Organizsed Disorder of the Body in Illness


Catherine Baker





Unfolding Thinking: Nanotechnology Meets Fine Art Practice


Les Bicknell





Instead of the Feeling of Home


Townley and Bradby





Designing for the Real World: The Importance of Chaos


Anthony Hudson





Order?


Sarah Blair





You Guys Are So Stochastic


Lucy Ward and Karoline Wiesner





Clouds in the Machine


Sarah Horton



 



PART 6 NOTHINGS IN PARTICULAR



Introduction





The Shape of Dust


Doris Rohr





Mimesis: Nothings in Particular


William Prosser





Mottled Geometries: The Lure and Allure of the Pattern in the Carpet


Victoria Mitchell





Ghost Flower 3


Andrea Stokes





Dom Sylvester Houédard: Exhibiting Spiritual Architypestractures and Cosmic Dust


Nicola Simpson



 



Notes on Contributors



Bibliography



Index