Karla Pringle is an interdisciplinary artist working on unceded Wadawurrung Country, Victoria. Her practice grows from embodied pattern-sensing shaped by disability, overwhelm, and forms of vigilance that developed before language. These ways of sensing keep her attentive to subtle shifts in her environment and inform how materials are met and worked with. The work becomes a way of translating bodily and environmental intensities into form, imperfectly.

Karla works across drawing, sound, film, spectral photography, textiles, and botanical and microbial chemistries. The work gathers at points of affect between environmental patterning, body chemistry, and ways of sensing and being, often overlooked within human perception.

Through chance, weather, and sortitious methods, the work attempts to sense what may otherwise remain quiet or outside direct perception. It tries to acknowledge shapes of life our narrow sensory band and inward logic cannot fully know. What lies beyond perception marks the edge of what we can recognise, and therefore the limit of our knowing.

Documentation of somatic, atmospheric, bacterial, and symbiotic signals through durational cycles becomes a way of mapping the shared space between her body and her environment.

Within this co-temporal terrain, uneven timings hold. Bodies and biomes sense, adapt, and shift together without alignment, making space for different forms of sense-making to take shape.

The work is grounded in place. It stays with the complexities that arise when ways of knowing, being, and sensing move alongside each other, often interacting, without being comprehended.