Patrick Stratton - Artist Statement

Patrick Stratton's work combines weaving with simple mechanical systems to explore small, overlooked human behaviours. Stratton focuses on micro rituals—scrolling a phone, fastening a toggle, pacing a room—and translate them into kinetic tapestries that move with a fragile, bodily logic.

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Using weaving as a language of labour and memory, Stratton builds soft surfaces animated by visible mechanical structures. The movements are never fully reliable; they stutter, drift or repeat incorrectly. This fallibility reflects the quiet frustrations and absurdities within daily life.

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Alongside these moving pieces, Stratton makes static tapestries that freeze gestures or moments in time. Together, the works examine the tension between routine and malfunction, care and collapse, softness and machinery.