when: 06 - 17 August 2025 | | cost: Free | address: 6 Bourke St Woolloomooloo NSW 2011 Australia | website: https://franceskeevil.com.au/alan-rose-pareidolia
published: 04 Aug 2025, 5 min read
My art practice is concerned with abstract (mainly geometric) forms, made from various materials, which are intended to stimulate thought processes in the viewer. In this respect they connect with the op-art of Bright Riley and others, who aimed for a prolonged viewing, and maybe wonderment, to occur.
The word pareidolia refers to the phenomenon of seeing meaningful patterns, images or forms in abstract or random stimuli. This is a normal human tendency, an example being perceiving animal forms in cloud formations, and in reference to art, this has the effect of holding the viewer's attention while they try to make sense of the work.
I hope these drawings and sculptures demonstrate this phenomenon.
- Alan Rose
Join the artist at the opening.
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My art practice is concerned with abstract (mainly geometric) forms, made from various materials, which are intended to stimulate thought processes in the viewer. In this respect they connect with the op-art of Bright Riley and others, who aimed for a prolonged viewing, and maybe wonderment, to occur.
The word pareidolia refers to the phenomenon of seeing meaningful patterns, images or forms in abstract or random stimuli. This is a normal human tendency, an example being perceiving animal forms in cloud formations, and in reference to art, this has the effect of holding the viewer's attention while they try to make sense of the work.
I hope these drawings and sculptures demonstrate this phenomenon.
- Alan Rose
Join the artist at the opening.
Go see Alan Rose: Pareidolia 2025.
Alan Rose: Pareidolia 2025 is on 06 - 17 August 2025. See start and end times below. Conveniently located in Woolloomooloo. Call 0411 821 550 for details. Visit their website at https://franceskeevil.com.au/alan-rose-pareidolia.
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