Welcome to Episode 15 of Pattern Portraits!

Lauren Godfrey chats with artist Navine G Dossos, about wearing painting, pattern as lexicon and the connections between geometry and philosophy.

This episode was recorded on the occasion of her solo exhibition ‘Riviera’ at Devonshire Collective’s VOLT gallery in Eastbourne.

Navine is an artist living between London and Aegina in Greece working predominantly in painting and increasingly in the public realm. She has a keen interest in pattern and through her work explores geometric abstraction, merging traditions coming from Islamic art with the algorithmic nature of the interconnected world we live in.

Navine studied History of Art at Cambridge University, Arabic at Kuwait University, Islamic Art at the Prince’s School of Traditional Art in London, and holds an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art & Design.

Her exhibition at Volt is a commission led by Towner Eastbourne in collaboration with Devonshire Collective and presents a new collaboratively designed patterned textile featuring a language of symbols developed from the surrounding area of Eastbourne and the people that live there. The textile is available for free for visitors to take a 2 metre length with which to make a garment or furnishing, thus disseminating the pattern across the town, country and potentially the globe. A truly public artwork it also manifests as a series of awnings on nearby shopfronts, peppering the town with pattern.

Navine has chosen a beautiful palette of patterns including a Raoul Dufy textile from 1920, an Islamic Geometric pattern, A Japanese wave pattern, the Photoshop transparency grid and two patterns by the Bloomsbury Group; ’Pamela’ by Vanessa Bell / Duncan Grant and ‘West Wind’ by Duncan Grant.

You can see all of Navine’s patterns and more on instagram @patternportraitspodcast

‘Monumental Intimacy’ - The PATTERN PORTRAIT print artwork to accompany Navine’s interview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available to buy now at www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

References:

Agnes Martin

Charleston House

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