Jemima Wyman is a Palawa artist who was born in Sydney and grew up in the Isaac and Mackay regions. As a high-profile practicing artist, living and working between Brisbane and Los Angeles, USA, Wyman has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally since 1998.

Using collage across paper, digital and textile media, Wyman hand cuts camouflage imagery from global protest movements to create beguiling pattern-based formations. Both visually delightful and visceral, her compilation-based imagery embeds the genre of pattern and design as a powerful making tool.

Crisis Patterns brings together work from the last decade by Wyman highlighting her increasing interest in the use of smoke and masks as a means of camouflage alongside a more local story – tracing her awareness of surface design to her mother’s creative influence.