My practice centers on the connections between pattern and repetition, textile processes and mathematical thinking. My chosen ground is painters’ canvas, a woven textile, which I deconstruct in order to enable the employment of various textile processes to this material, such as stitching and knotting.

Lately, I have been referencing the grid patterns of loom punch cards, which produced manufactured patterned textiles, in my works. In a sense I am reclaiming these industrial binary coded patterns and turning a plain woven textile, my canvas, back into a hand-made patterned artwork.

Visible Silence
In the words of Saskia Scott, artist and curator, “Dohrmann’s work makes visible the underlying properties of the material (canvas). The form of the canvas – a construction of woven thread – ceases to be a merely functional surface.”

Repetitive, labour-intensive processes are key to my practice. The spaces of peace and calmness they create for me are somehow transferred into the emotional sensibility inherent in the final outcomes.