Karla Pringle is an interdisciplinary artist working on unceded Wadawurrung Country, Victoria. Her practice grows from embodied pattern-sensing shaped by violence, disability and forms of vigilance that developed through overwhelm and 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 somatic information into form, imperfectly.

Karla works across drawing, sound, film, spectral photography, textiles, and botanical and microbial chemistries. Intersections, crossings, and desire lines emerge through shared conditions between environmental patterns, body chemistry, and ways of sensing considered other than human.

To work sortitiously with place is to shuffle known and unknown spectrums of the world, staying open to what cannot always be humanly perceived.

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 prevail. 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.