Write and Repeat
‘Patterns are all around us’, says Stolenspace Gallery. ‘Even the landscape of our minds are built upon patterns and repetition.’
![Maya hayuk, Rainbow Madras](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/standfirst-designweek-production/uploads/2013/02/mayaHayukrainbowmadras.jpg)
Without taxing our tired afternoon mind-patterns with the biology behind this claim, the gallery’s new show certainly proves the beauty of repetition in the right artists’ hands.
![Shepard Fairey, Japanese Pattern](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/standfirst-designweek-production/uploads/2013/02/Shepard-FaireyJapanesePattern.jpg)
And while it’s by no means a new idea to incorporate text and pattern in art, the forthcoming Write & Repeat exhibition looks to highlight the capacity of lettering and repetition to create works that can communicate ideas and visually stimulate simultaneously.
![Word To Mother, Compare and Despair](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/standfirst-designweek-production/uploads/2013/02/WTMCompare-n-Despar.jpg)
The show features a huge cast of contemporary artists and designers, all creating work that looks to demonstrate how repetition and lettering can be used to create meaning, symbolism and aesthetic beauty.
![Word To Mother, Pattern](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/standfirst-designweek-production/uploads/2013/02/WTMPattern.jpg)
Among the artists showing their work are Cyrcle, Josie Morway, Shepard Fairey, D*Face, Eine, Jim houser, Kai & Sunny, Maya hayuk, Pete Fowler, Usugrow and Word To Mother.
![Cyrcle](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/standfirst-designweek-production/uploads/2013/02/Cyrcle10.jpg)
All works are formed solely from text and pattern based pieces, and among our favourites are this complex insect-based piece by D*Face:
![D*Face, Flutterdie Mandala](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/standfirst-designweek-production/uploads/2013/02/DFaceFlutterdie-Mandala.jpg)
And the simple monochrome majesty of Kai & Sunny’s Flower:
![Kai and Sunny, Flower](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/standfirst-designweek-production/uploads/2013/02/kai-and-sunny-flower.jpg)
Write & Repeat runs from 22 February – 10 March at Stolenspace Gallery, The Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London E1
![Josie Morway](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/standfirst-designweek-production/uploads/2013/02/JMorway.jpg)
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