Kenzee Patterson

Kenzee Patterson is an artist and a descendant of transported convicts, and British and Dutch-Sri Lankan immigrants. He lives and works on the unceded sovereign Country of Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung, Boon Wurrung and Bunurong peoples. His expanded sculptural practice combines material experimentation and unorthodox processes with historical research, autobiography, and language, often reconstituting discarded matter into new forms.

Collective and collaborative modes of working are integral to his practice, and he has been the founding director of three influential ARIs: Locksmith Project Space, Sydney (2007-2011); Cosmopolitan Decline, Broken Hill (2018); and in 2021 Kenzee founded the online reading and field trip working-group Magnetic Topographies with artists Clare Britton and Therese Keogh.