Artist Talk // Liz Bryan: Pattern Recognition

Artist Talk // Liz Bryan: Pattern Recognition

Saturday 28 February, 11am

Hear from artist Liz Bryan on her BRAG Foyer Gallery exhibition Pattern Recognition 

FREE, all welcome, RSVP essential

About the Exhibition

Liz Bryan: Pattern Recognition

Liz Bryan is a visual artist and designer working across drawing, painting, textiles, sculpture and digital media. Her practice is shaped by an ongoing interest in esoteric knowledge, mythologies and ritual, and engages with themes of womanhood, place, and the hidden or overlooked histories of feminine experience. Moving fluidly between art and craft, Liz’s work also reflects on the intersections of science, mysticism and material knowledge.

For Pattern Recognition at BRAG, Liz presents a body of work that explores the microcosmic world and the underlying geometry inherent in biological structures. Informed by sacred geometry and esoteric traditions outlined in Plato’s Timaeus, the exhibition draws on the symbolism of the five Platonic solids—earth, water, air, fire and ether—as metaphors for both physical and metaphysical systems. The relationship between microcosm and macrocosm, particularly as seen in DNA structures and natural patterning, underpins the work.

Through this work Liz explores the esoteric potential of shape, line, colour and form. Historic textile motifs, including ogee forms and repeating half-brick patterns, further inform the visual language of the exhibition. Through sculptures and paintings, Pattern Recognition reveals pattern as a connective force—linking matter, meaning and the unseen structures that shape our world.

Bathurst Regional Art Gallery is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.

Image: Liz Bryan, Elemental Transmissions, 2025, found and repurposed wood, acrylic paint, gold and silver gilding. Photo: Maja Baska. Courtesy the artist.