Speech Patterns is an entwined and layered conversation between the work of contemporary artists Nadia Hernández and Jon Campbell. The exhibition comprises paintings, paste-ups, drawings, posters, banners, and flags from across the span of their individual practices.
Both mobilise the rhythms, harmonies, and dissonances of written and pictorial language to deal with experiences of relocation and questions around identity, class, cultural and national value systems. Within this, they offer their voices in direct political protest, celebration, and critique of everyday life, values, and relationships.

Jon Campbell, It’s gonna take a lotta love, 2008, bunting cotton handstitched reverse appliqué, unique state, 200 × 120cm. © the artist. Courtesy the artist, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney and Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Art Gallery of Western Australia
24 September 2022 to 8 January 2023
Perth