Bio
Born 1985, Aotearoa (New Zealand). Naarm based since 2014.
Caro Pattle’s 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/inorganic binaries. Pattle’s practice spans large-scale public art installation through to small sculpture and is underpinned by ongoing research into material agency, object power and future worlds. Embedded across all of her output is a sense of pleasure and play.
Pattle graduated from a Bachelor of Textiles at RMIT in 2019 with a previous Bachelor of Fine Arts completed in 2009. The recipient of several travel grants and industry prizes, she was named the Australian Textile Graduate of the Year by the Design Institute of Australia for 2020. Pattle’s work was presented by Craft at the 2022 & 2023 NGV Melbourne Design Fairs and selected for the group exhibitions: Foreign Dialogues, The Gentle Going Hour, The Vessel Project, Improper Structures, By/Product, Welcome, Cheers, A Gentle Unwinding, and It’s Not Just Blue. In 2023, Pattle presented a commissioned work in Melbourne Now, Vessels at NGV Australia: Ian Potter Centre.
Stocked by Craft, selling by commission and exhibition.
Exhibitions & Awards
2024
Collapsed Ecologies – group exhibition, Australian Tapestry Workshop
Summer 23/24 – group exhibition, FIN Gallery
2023
Melbourne Now, Vessels – group exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria
Plinth – group exhibition, presented by Miscobjet as part of Craft Contemporary
Patterns and textures and lines - Oh My! – group exhibition, Jam Factory
Hosterium – group exhibition, Waxflower
The Gentle Going Hour – group exhibition, Collingwood House
Foreign Dialogues – group exhibition, Fin Gallery
The Vessel Project – group exhibition, Craft
Presented by Craft at the Melbourne Design Fair, NGV Design Week.
2022
Virtual Maker in Residence – residency, Craft Contemporary 2022
Cheers – group exhibition, Craft.
Welcome – group exhibition, Lene Upstairs.
High Commendation – Vivid Design Prize, Colour Category
Presented by Craft at the inaugural Melbourne Design Fair, NGV Design Week.
Improper Structures – group exhibition, Creo Gallery.
By/Product – group exhibition, Craft.
A Gentle Unwinding – group exhibition, Modern Times.
It’s Not Just Blue – group exhibition, Craft.
2021
Shortlisted for the Design Files Awards 2021.
2020
Winner of the Design Institute of Australia’s Textile Graduate of the Year Award.
2019
Recipient of travel grant for Japan study tour. Presented at Bunka Gakuen University, Tokyo.
Presentation of speculative textile designs to Nike International Leadership Team.
2018
State Library of Victoria Vision 2020 Swanston Street construction hoarding.
2017
Anthropocene: A New Era of Fashion – group exhibition, First Site Gallery.
ACMI x RMIT Collaboration – retail production.
Recipient of travel grant for European study tour. Presented at Central Saint Martins University.
Education
2015 - 19 – Bachelor of Textiles, RMIT
2003 - 09 – Bachelor of Fine Arts/Arts, UTAS
Media
The Design Files, The Financial Review, Herald Sun, ArtZone, Hunter & Folk, Made Rupert, Feeling Wonen | Gael Maison, Eigen Huis & Interieur
