Repeat Pattern Design Workshop by Karen Yvette Clarke

Led by visual artist Karen Yvette Clarke, the Repeat Pattern Design Workshop is an interactive, hands-on creative session that invites participants to explore pattern making through playful mark-making and digital design. This workshop is presented as part of The Dax Centre’s Re/Connect program, designed to foster creativity and social connection in a welcoming, inclusive environment.

This event is also part of Analog Art Club is a statewide initiative that invites Victorians to slow down, switch off their screens and connect in real life - through art. Hosted by galleries across Victoria, these phone-free events offer a welcoming space to reflect, discuss and experience art together, making creativity social, accessible and refreshingly analog.

Participants will:

Create original hand-drawn motifs using simple materials (e.g. paper, pencils, flowers for inspiration)
Learn how to turn their drawings into repeat patterns
Each participant will receive one final digital pattern by the end of the session or emailed afterward if time constraints arise

Where: The Dax Centre, 30 Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC
When: 26 July, 1pm-3pm
Tickets: $25 + booking fee. Limited spots available for each session. Your ticket covers one session. All of the proceeds from the tickets go toward the artist, life model and supporting artists with lived experience of mental illness.

Drinks provided.

All materials will be provided included drawing utensils and paper. Participants are welcome to bring along any additional materials they may wish to include in their own work. Participants with all levels of experience welcomed and encouraged.

About the Artist
Karen Yvette Clarke grew up in Melbourne during the 1960s and 1970s, and recently studied a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) at RMIT. Her work is an autoethnographic journey through the visual iconography of mid-century design and domestic space.

Combining nostalgia with elements of uncanny disorientation, Clarke creates images that appear decorative, yet are charged with an underlying narrative and hidden truths. By drawing on her lived experience of visual and audible disturbance, Clarke’s work questions the idea that perception is a singular and fixed experience.

Get in touch!
Please email info@daxcentre.org with any questions or dietary requirements, or please call 03 9349 2538.

Accessing the gallery
The Dax Centre is situated on the ground floor of the Melbourne Brain Centre at 30 Royal Parade in the Kenneth Myer Building,
located on the University of Melbourne Parkville campus

The Dax Centre is wheelchair accessible and has accessible toilets.

The Dax Centre is on the west side of Royal Parade, Melbourne near Grattan Street. Metered parking is available on Royal Parade

Car drop offs can be made out the front of the Kenneth Myer Building, with ramp access through to The Dax Centre via the side or front entrance of the building

The Kenneth Myer Building has underground parking with fees of $12.50 for four hours or $25 all day to midnight. There are accessible car parks in the undergroud carpark, with lift access to The Dax Centre on the ground floor

Private Bus Parking is available at Wilson Hall, University of Melbourne

Please enter The Dax Centre from Genetics Lane. You access Genetic Lane from Royal Parade, walk down Genetics Lane (alongside the Kenneth Myer Building away) and you will find The Dax Centre entry on your right.