The Guide to Collectable Design at Melbourne Design Week 2020 - Presented by Habitus Magazine

The Guide to Collectable Design

at Melbourne Design Week 2020 Presented by Habitus Magazine

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The Guide to Collectable Design at Melbourne Design Week 2020

foreword

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Melbourne Design Week asks the key question ‘How Can Design Shape Life?’

EWAN MCEOIN CURATOR OF CONTEMPORARY DESIGN, NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA

In this context it is important to remember that while much design operates in a commercial paradigm, design is also an important force in shaping culture.

Design exhibitions are a fantastic opportunity for practitioners to explore new technical, social and cultural terrains. As such a culture of designers ‘exhibiting’ and audiences ‘viewing’ are both vital parts of a heathy and robust design ecosystem.

The exhibitions enclosed in this guide offer a unique chance to view arresting and provocative designs by some of our most interesting designers.

These exhibitions present a wide range of objects embedded with meaning, expression, experimentation and utility. They are here to be looked at, talked about, and of course collected.

In contrast to mass production, which is the result of efficient and repeatable manufacturing steps, some designs reject the uniformity and homogeneity of industry. Exploring how design can shape life – we have assembled a band of designers pursuing their own goals over the interests of the mass market.

This presents the opportunity to see unique, one-off and limited-edition designs that prioritise self-expression and experimentation into new forms, aesthetics, processes and materials. It is about time Australia had a significant platform for this kind of work to be made and viewed. Don’t miss it.

Ewan Mceoin and Simon Le Amon Curators of Contemporary Design National Gallery of Victoria

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Meet me at the intersection of art and design

RAJ NANDAN CHAIRMAN & FOUNDER INDESIGN MEDIA, HOLLY CUNNEEN EDITOR HABITUS

Habitus has been an avid supporter of Melbourne Design Week since it’s inception in 2017. We’ve enjoyed seeing the art, graphic and industrial design worlds come together with architecture. Not to mention the droves of enthusiastic consumers and collectors from all over the country pouring in to appreciate the creative smorgasbord.

This coming together of creative forces is really what lies at the core of Habitus. How can we uncover inspiration, collaboration and new ways of thinking from our colleagues and contemporaries that operate within universes parallel to our own? This is the mission of habitusliving.com.au and of each quarterly edition of Habitus magazine.

In recent years, we’ve enjoyed seeing and reporting on the closing gap between art and design, art and architecture. ‘Functional Art’ has emerged as a popular term used to denote the increasingly inhabited intersection between art and industrial design. Moreover, it acknowledges the level of skill and creativity, not to mention personal investment, that our local designers put in to create their works of art that we can sit on, eat at, illuminate, open and close.

This year Melbourne Design Week asks the question: How Can Design Shape Life? In fact, this is the very question we have considered every day of our 12-year history. And here is your guide to all the events and exhibitions which will give you the answers.

Holly Cunneen Editor, Habitus

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The Guide to Collectable Design at Melbourne Design Week 2020

contents 03 FOREWORD Ewan McEoin and Simon Le Amon 04 INTRODUCTION Holly Cunneen

events

FITZROY 12 Transcendence. Presented by Modern Times 13 Laundrotto. Presented By Steelotto COLLINGWOOD

MELBOURNE CBD 08 Black Bamboo: Contemporary Furniture Design From Mer, Torres Strait. Presented by NGV

14 The Grey Zone: Collecting and Collaboration in Contemporary Art and Design. Presented by Artbank 15 Work Shop 4. Presented by Fiona Lynch

A&A: Exquisite Corpse/Cadavre Exquis. Presented by Tolarno Galleries

Osmosis. Presented by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert

09 Partu (Skin) by Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen. Presented by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert and ARC ONE Gallery

A LITTLE FURTHER AFIELD

Australian Furniture Design Award 2020 Exhibition. Presented by NGV and Stylecraft

17 Vores Vævninger: Our Weavings.

Presented by Tove Papp Lindkvist with the weavers from the Danish Institute for the Blind and Partially Sighted

CBD FRINGE 10 Daydream. Presented by Yan design studio, Design by Storm and Technē Architecture and Interior Design

Shifting Occupancy. Presented by One Two One Two

16 Second Life. Presented by Eugenie Kawabata

Light+Life. Presented by Brightspace

habitus walking tour 19 Interactive Map

11 NGV Design Store X Cassie Leatham. Presented by NGV

Life and Death. Presented by Friends and Associates

300+ Talks, exhibitions, tours and workshops explore how design can shape life.

View the full program at design week.Melbourne

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Melbourne CBD Exhibition | Free | CBD

Black Bamboo: Contemporary Furniture Design From Mer, Torres Strait Presented by NGV 12–22 March 10am–5pm daily The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Federation Square, Melbourne Following a 3-week workshop on Murray Island (Mer) in the Torres Straight, Black Bamboo is a curation of the cabinets, seating and cushions that have been designed and crafted during that time. Eighteen artists from Mer took residency in the workshop lead by Melbourne furniture designer and craftsman Damien Wright with the support of curators from the NGV, Cairns Art Gallery, Gab Titui Cultural Centre and the Mer Gedkem Le (Torres Strait Islanders) Corporation RNTBC. Read more...

Exhibition | Free | CBD

A&A: Exquisite Corpse/Cadavre Exquis Presented by Tolarno Galleries 12–28 March Tuesday–Friday, 10am–5pm & Saturday, 1–5pm Opening: Saturday 14 March, 2pm Tolarno Galleries, Level 4, 104 Exhibition Street, Melbourne An unsuspecting pair in Australian industrial designer Adam Goodrum and French straw marquetry artisan Arthur Seigneur has resulted in Exquisite Corpse / Cadavre Exquis. The global unveiling of the show presents three unique pieces: Talleo, a tallboy; Archant, a console; and Longbow, a credenza. While Adam initiates shapes and forms during the early stages of design Arthur finishes the pieces by hand in hand-dyed custom straw.

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Exhibition | Free | CBD

Partu (Skin) by Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen.

Presented by Gallery Sally DanCuthbert and ARC ONE Gallery 12 March – 11 April Tueesday – Saturday , 11am–5pm Opening: Friday 13 March, 6–8pm Floor Talk: Saturday 14 March, 3.30–4.30pm Arc One, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne Partu is the Walmajarri word for skin and used to denote the outcome of Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen’s latest collaborative efforts.

Johnny is a Nyikina man who frequently works with leather on a saddling station in remote Australia, while Trent is an object designer with a clear anthropological approach. Partu has resulted as the duo embarks on a design journey together championing their very different backgrounds in design work, rather than blurring them.

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Exhibition | Free | CBD

Australian Furniture Design Award 2020 Exhibition.

Presented by NGV and Stylecraft 12–20 March Monday–Friday, 8.30am–5pm & Saturday, 10am–4pm Stylecraft, 145 Flinders Lane, Melbourne “How can design shape life?” asks Melbourne Design Week to its exhibitors and contributors. Likewise, one of the country’s most significant design awards, the Australian Furniture Design Award, asked its entrants to consider that same question from the standpoint of the broader implications and opportunities of design. Five finalists will present their work during Melbourne Design Week at the Stylecraft showroom for the official jury – and a jury of peers and colleagues.

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CBD Fringe Exhibition | Free | Carlton

Daydream.

Presented by Yan design studio, Design by Storm and Technē Architecture and Interior Design 20–22 March Friday–Sunday, 11am–5pm Opening: Friday 20 March, 6–8PM 1 Elliott Place, Carlton Daydream is an installation work borne of collaboration between multidisciplinary designers Danielle Storm, Yan Huang, Nicholas Travers, Sam Sempill, David Spaccatore and Yasmin Dall that aims to offer an escape from the mind. Utilising various elements under the design umbrella such as space design, visuals, soundscapes and materiality work together to deliver the visitor to a Zenlike space, mentally and physically.

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Exhibition | Free | East Melbourne

Shifting Occupancy.

Presented by One Two One Two 12–22 March 10am–5pm daily Opening: Saturday 14 March, 6pm ICI House, 1 Nicholson Street, East Melbourne Shifting Occupancy responds to the theme of the city. The exhibition focuses on the geographical drift from rural to urban centres and invites participants to consider how this shift impacts communities, the constructed landscape and the environment. The exhibition showcases this theme in a broader context by engaging with designers from the international community, presenting the audience with a range of culturally diverse and personal responses.

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Exhibition | Free | Southbank

NGV Design Store X Cassie Leatham.

Presented by NGV 12–22 March 10am–5pm daily NGV International, 180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne Art is most powerful when it is imbued with meaning and that is certainly the case for Cassie Leatham, a proud Taungurung/Wurundjeri women and practising artist, designer and weaver. Her new contemporary jewellery collection is made from found materials such as feathers, gumnuts, river reeds, flax and seeds set in fine sterling silver. The feathers especially hold meaning to Cassie, as her great grandmother was a feather flower maker. Using found feathers from native Australian birds Cassie is able to pay tribute to her family and culture.

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Exhibition | Free | North Melbourne

Life and Death.

Presented by Friends and Associates 12–21 March, 10am–5pm Opening: Friday 13 March, 6–10pm Meat Market Stables, 2–8 Wreckyn St, North Melbourne Breathe Architecture, Sarah Ceravolo, Alexi Freeman, Mark Richardson, Liane Rossler, Andrew Simpson, March Studio, Flack Studio and more well known Australian creative practitioners have come together at the behest of Friends and Associates offering individual interpretations of life and death through various mediums. These include urns made from soil, screens made from urine fed bacteria and chandeliers made from cracked phone screens. There is even an artwork sent to outer space.

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Fitzroy

Exhibition | Free | Fitzroy

Transcendence.

Presented by Modern Times 12–22 March Monday–Friday, 10am–6pm, Saturday, 10am–5pm & Sunday, 11Am–5Pm Opening: Saturday 14 March, 4–6pm Modern Times, 311 Smith Street, Fitzroy Transcendence has asked its contributing artists to consider human experience through objects in posing the following question: How can messages travel through an object? This can be thought of in two core interpretations. Firstly, how an object can transcend a physical experience and invoke an emotional one, or secondly, the continuing story in the life of an object as it moves from designer/maker to consumer..

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“Exploring how design can shape life we have assembled a band of designers pursuing their own goals over the interests of the mass market.”

Ewan McEoin and Simon Le Amon

Exhibition | Free | Fitzroy

Laundrotto.

Presented By Steelotto 18–20 March 10am–9pm daily Opening: Friday 13 March, 6pm My Beautiful Laundrette, 151/153 Brunswick St, Fitzroy For three days only My Beautiful Laundrette in Fitzroy, a fully functioning Laundromat and favourite among locals, will be host to an exhibition that aims to explore the intersection between design for art, and design for function. Using the location as a case in point, there will be complementary work from local and international designers Steelotto, Andrew Carvolth, Bazaar PVP, Confetti Studio, Marsha Golemac, Thomas Coward and PSP. Read more...

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Collingwood Exhibition | Free | Collingwood

The Grey Zone: Collecting and Collaboration in Contemporary Art and Design.

Presented by Artbank 12–22 March Monday–Saturday, 9am–5pm Opening: Saturday 14 March, 12–3pm, *booking required Artbank Melbourne, 18–24 Down Street, Collingwood In a first for Artbank, this exhibition highlights a world in which art and design are intrinsically linked. Crossdiscipline practitioners and architecture firm, Edition Office designed the large-scale warehouse space when Artbank relocated to Collingwood from Armadale in 2018. Now, they have been invited back to revisit the space with other design practitioners to question and consider the nature of Artbank’s collection.

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Exhibition | Free | Collingwood

Work Shop 4.

Presented by Fiona Lynch 12–20 March 10am–3pm Opening: Saturday 14 March, 4–6pm Fiona Lynch Interior Design, 7 Glasshouse Road, Collingwood Celebrated interior designer Fiona Lynch has curated a collection of art and objects displayed in her studio that combines the work of skilled local makers, up-and-coming artists, and bespoke pieces designed by her. The exhibition is both an intentional contrast between artistic materials and a showcase of the studio’s burgeoning interest in nature and the digital world.

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Exhibition | Free | Collingwood

Osmosis.

Presented by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert 12–22 March Monday–Friday, 10am–5pm Opening: Sunday 15 March, 12–2pm LCI Melbourne Gallery, 150 Oxford Street, Collingwood Architects and designers are no strangers to cross pollinary collaborations and taking design influences from adjacent creative industries, Osmosis extends this into the world of art. Showcasing the work of Darren Fry, Holly Board and Peter Grove, Trent Jansen, Michael Gittings, Edward Waring, Guy Keulemans and Kyoko Hashimoto, Olive Gill-Hille, Rive Roshan and Ivana Taylor, this exhibition aims to present examples of the cross pollination of art and design.

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A little further afield

Exhibition | Free | Abbotsford (east)

Second Life.

Presented by Eugenie Kawabata 12–21 March Monday, 8am–3pm, Tuesday–Saturday, 8am–11pm & Sunday, 9am–4pm St Heliers Gallery, 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford Eugenie Kawabata is Melbourne based maker whos practice heavily revolves around designing through making, and the exploration of a material’s transformation through design.

In Second Life, Eugenie uses fabric offcuts that would otherwise contribute to landfill as waste to create a series of sculptural, watertight vases – yes watertight – to challenge the true end of life of upholstery offcuts, and by extension the haste with which we are quick to disregard “waste”.

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Exhibition | Free | Kew

Vores Vævninger: Our Weavings.

Presented by Tove Papp Lindkvist with the weavers from the Danish Institute for the Blind and Partially Sighted 12–21 March Tuesday–Friday, 12–6pm & Saturday 1pm–8pm Ladder Art Space, 81 Denmark Street, Kew In an exhibition designed to be accessible to both blind and non-visually impaired attendees, Vores Vævninger: Our Weavings is a collaboration between the Danish Institute for the Blind and Partially Sighted (IBOS) and exhibition designer Tove Papp Lindkvist. Visitors can hope to learn how some artists and designers can compensate for a lost sense.

Moreover, the exhibition will offer insight into the creative process not solely the finished textiles.

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Exhibition | Free | St Kilda (south)

Light+Life.

Presented by Brightspace 13–22 March Monday–Friday, 10am–6pm & Saturday–Sunday, 12–4pm Opening: Thursday 19 March, 6–9pm Brightspace, 8 Martin St, St Kilda In this highly personal, highly experiential exhibition eight artists and designers have come together to create immersive installations that exemplifies the profound effects of light and colour on our psyche in both the long and short term. No small feat, to turn the intangible into shapes and forms, Ilan El, Mathew Woodgate, James Tapscott, Aly Indermuhle, Veronica Caven Aldous, Jasmine Targett, Danielle Storm, Marc Pascal have created a series of meditative, scientific and visually stimulating expressions of art through light.

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Exhibition | Free | CBD

Exhibition | Free | CBD

Shifting Occupancy.

Presented by One Two One Two 12–22 March, 10am–5pm daily

Partu (Skin) by Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen. Presented by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert and ARC ONE Gallery

Opening: Saturday 14 March, 6pm

12 March – 11 April, Tuesday–Saturday, 11am–5pm

ICI House, 1 Nicholson Street, East Melbourne

Opening: Friday 13 March, 6–8pm

Shifting Occupancy responds to the theme of the city. The exhibition focuses on the geographical drift from rural to urban centres and invites participants to consider how this shift impacts communities, the constructed landscape and the environment. The exhibition showcases this theme in a broader context by engaging with designers from the international community, presenting the audience with a range of culturally diverse and personal responses.

Floor Talk: Saturday 14 March, 3.30pm–4.30pm

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Exhibition | Free | CBD

Exhibition | Free | CBD

Elegy.

Presented by Gallery Funaki

Australian Furniture Design Award 2020 Exhibition. Presented by NGV and Stylecraft

12–22 March Monday–Friday, 10.30am–5pm & Saturday, 12–4pm

12–20 March

Opening: Wednesday 11 March, 6pm

Arc One, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne Partu is the Walmajarri word for skin and used to denote the outcome of Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen’s latest collaborative efforts. Johnny is a Nyikina man who frequently works with leather on a saddling station in remote Australia, while Trent in an object designer with a clear anthropological approach. Partu has resulted as the duo embarks on a design journey together championing their very different backgrounds in design work, rather than blurring them.

Monday–Friday, 8.30am–5pm & Saturday, 10am–4pm Stylecraft, 145 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

Gallery Funaki, 4 Crossley Street, Melbourne Humankind may not be adept at facing existential grief but in the face of unfolding ecological disaster, the need to do so is real. Connected to mourning throughout human history, jewellery can carry memory, express grief and offer consolation. Elegy invites Australian designers to present jewellery and objects that facilitate mourning. It asks for recognition of the profound mental and emotional impacts of climate change on individuals and society, and to acknowledge our collective grief by allowing it to be held, carried and used.

“How can design shape life?” asks Melbourne Design Week to its exhibitors and contributors. Likewise, one of the country’s most significant design awards, the Australian Furniture Design Award, asked its entrants to consider that same question from the standpoint of the broader implications and opportunities of design. Five finalists will present their work during Melbourne Design Week at the Stylecraft showroom for the official jury – and a jury of peers and colleagues.

Read more...

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300+ Talks, exhibitions, tours and workshops explore how design can shape life.

View the full program at design week.Melbourne

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