Emerge

EMERGENT

E M E R G I N G TA L E N T. UNKNOWN FUTURES.

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Contents 03.

DAVE BONE PHOTOGRAPHY

Gyre Extract of showcase

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E M I LY G R AY Fashion entreprenuer Extract of full interview

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BONES STUDIO Architecture design Interview

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MEGAN BINNS PHOTOGRAPHY

Our Ocean’s Unseen Additions Extract of showcase

Emergent

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Editor’s Note JEMIMA UNG

The human mind is so amazing because of the creativity it is able to express. For many, we choose to follow this creative path whether it be as a career or simply as a passion in which we hope to learn and be successful. Success is a marker that we are capable and competent, but to get there we must go through a journey of learning, trial and error, some wins and many moments of doubt. How we overcome those moments is tackled by each and every one of us in a different way.

We started Emergent to acknowledge and celebrate the myriad of talent that is still emerging in the world and that deserves to be seen. But also, to create a community of this emerging talent through shared experiences.

There will be a time where we will find ourselves inspired and motivated, but at a stage in our life where we wonder whether our passion and talent will be enough, where success is unknown. Sometimes in our moments of doubt, advice and stories of success are not what we need; sometimes it’s knowing that there are others out there going through the same experiences of uncertainty to help keep us going. We want to provide a space where people can share their experiences and learn from each other and open up different perspectives and possibilities.

Top & bottom: Gyre © Dave Bone Photography

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Gyre British photographer Dave Bone represents the world’s global consumption of plastic in his own investigation into the effect it has on our global environment

Eight million tonnes of plastic waste ends up in our oceans each year. There are estimates that there will be more plastic floating in our oceans than fish by 2050 which highlights a real global issue. Gyre is a visual representation of the issues surrounding our own consumer culture as well as plastics impact on our ecosystem.

The spherical composition aims to highlight the continuous dispersion of plastic debris through circulating ocean currents, and the re-emergence of micro-plastics into our food chain through marine digestion. The abstract imagery is suggestive of this convergence of manufactured and organic material. The distortion within this series intends to disorientate the familiarity of plastic from its everyday use. www.davebone.co.uk Instagram: @davebonephotography

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Starting your own business is one of those daunting endeavours where risk is guaranteed but success is not. Brisbane-based fashion entrepreneur Emily Gray sits down with Jemima Ung to talk about her experience of trying to start her own fashion business

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“We’re not afraid of going into the workplace and being the sh*tkicker who buys coffee for everyone for a few weeks”

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Emily Gray is a young Australian entrepreneur

to set herself up as a creative director, Gray

with a Bachelor of Creative Industries and a

realistically knows that this can’t be done

Major in Fashion Communication. She has big

on her own. “Even from the initial concept

dreams of becoming the creative director of her

I’ve wanted a business partner and technical

own lingerie brand fittingly self-titled,

support. I did marketing at university so that

Gray Lingerie.

I could understand marketing pitches, but it was never my forte. I could never take on this

I asked Gray, “why lingerie?” Talking woman-

venture completely on my own.” She’d also

to-woman that may sound like an obvious

be bringing on a pattern maker as fashion

question, but to take the risk of starting your

communication gave her the business acumen

own business, a love for pretty things isn’t

for product development, and not the technical

enough for someone of Gray’s intelligence and

training for creating her designs. “I still want

level-headedness – I highly doubted it was

to have a design role and dictate the trends,

simply a love affair with lingerie that was her

but being a creative director is more of a

only reason. “I’d just lost a heap of weight

management role”, she tells me.

and suddenly I stopped being the perfect 32C and I couldn’t find anything that fit. I had

We talk about the stress of trying to succeed

never realised that there was such a problem

off the back of your own capabilities and

with bra sizing.” Of all the women out there

creativity, the possibility of not making it and

in the world, she’s not the first one to make

coming up against the hackneyed stereotype

that complaint. “That’s what sparked the

of being a ‘millennial’. For Gray it’s an issue

idea initially and it snowballed from there. In

of mind over matter. “I have a background in

Australia, we don’t have the wide range that

music and they always told us ‘fake it until

a lot of the French lingerie brands offer, the

you make it’ and that’s really stuck with me”,

size 30’s and half cup sizes”. She explains

she explains. “No matter what happens, I’ll

that Gray would be an umbrella brand offering

always be like, ‘nah, it’s all good, I’m still

smaller brands below it that would target

doing it’ which ends up being bad in some

different back and cup size ranges. “It’s what

ways when you take that too far, but it’s been

they call mass customisation in the fashion

quite helpful in the whole process.” It’s not

industry – offering an extremely wide range,

surprising that if there aren’t enough jobs

but to keep it in scope, you section it off into

around people will start creating their own.

different categories.”

“It’s the shitty internet articles trash-talking

Emily Gray © Emily Gray

millennials”, and we both cringe at the use Self-starting a business takes copious amounts

of the term, “that forget that it’s harder to

of planning, time and help. “To get a bra from

get jobs because there’s more people trying

initial sketches to a saleable product takes

to squeeze into the same categories. And we

about eighteen months. But then if you’re

work hard. We’re not afraid of going into the

tweaking and experimenting it’s probably

workplace and being the sh*t-kicker who buys

more of a two year process. I’ve always said

coffee for...

it would be a three year start up.” Wanting

(Extract continued in full magazine) Interview

Bones Studio

Bones Studio is an emerging architecture and interior design practice based in Brisbane and Sydney. Rhiannan Bastin spoke with Allana Chiu of Bones Studio to ask her about starting her own architectural practice with co-founder Chris Brandon

Yeerongpilly Pool House Š Bones Studio

What sparked the idea for Bones Studio?

For me personally, it was about being able

I was approached about doing a healthcare

to have complete ownership of designs and

fit out as a private job outside of Sparc [the

control over decision-making. It was also

previous architecture practice she worked

about having more flexibility with life/work.

at], so I got in contact with Chris to help

I now have a lot more freedom with choosing

brainstorm ideas and discuss how we could

work hours and managing work load.

do it together and it grew from there. Chris and I both wanted to progress professionally

Bones Studio began in 2015, tell me a bit

and didn’t feel we were achieving that at the

about getting started and how long it took to

architectural practices where we worked, so we

go from idea to realisation.

started the discussion about starting our own

Yes, we officially launched Bones Studio in

practice.

2015. One of the most important things is being able to work as a team so we started a

Why did you want to move away from a

bit of a trial partnership in 2014 to see how we

well-established practice to start your

liked working with each other before deciding

own company?

if we could happily continue working together Q&A

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Allana Chiu & Chris Brandon © Bones Studio

© Bones Studio

long term. In terms of how long it took, not

Architecture is a slow-moving beast, so we

very long actually! It happened within a few

have to be patient with the progression with

weeks from first floating the idea and we both

the company. It takes time for projects to be

set about looking for projects that might help

designed and built, some projects can take

kick things off for us, and from there we had a

years. This means that there can be a long

few leads.

waiting period between starting a project, and then having it photographed and uploaded on

What was has the journey been like?

our website!

What have been the biggest challenges and successes?

What’s it like having the freedom and

So far, the biggest success for us has been

responsibility of being your own boss?

being able to tackle Bones full-time. At the

It has pros and cons. There is a lot more

outset, Bones was a part-time venture, so

flexibility with hours. At the beginning

we could still earn a regular income while

working from home, it was difficult to stay

getting Bones off the ground. We had to give

focused, but it’s much easier being in an office.

up a higher salary but the upside of that, is in the future potential earnings are much

Has anything changed since you first started?

higher. Generally, we didn’t have to give up

We’ve moved into a little office space in

too much and were very lucky in that sense.

Fortitude Valley! It’s a room within another

It was a pretty smooth transition from being

architect’s office, so it’s great to be around

an employee to a business-owner. In terms of

peers again, and know that are more people we

having the finances to back the venture, we

can talk to for advice/opinions.

were very fortunate in that the first project we worked on together was able to provide the

Do you have any future plans?

funding required to get the company going.

Just to keep growing our business!

Have you achieved what you wanted with Bones?

www.bonesstudio.co

So far yes. We still have a long way to go.

Instagram: @bonesstudio Q&A

Our Ocean’s Unseen Additions Emergent

At Gyllyngvase, Falmouth, Megan Binns explores environmentally harmful household chemicals through the medium of analogue photography

Our Oceans Unseen Additions Š Megan Binns

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‘Conservation needs to lose its begging,

have harmful or poisonous effects. Long-

apologetic image – it needs to be bold,

term effects of pollutants depend upon the

embracing, confident and above all…creative.’

length of time taken to be broken down into

Synchronicity Earth, 2017

a harmless form. The more time it takes for a product to break down, the more severe its impacts are.

Photography is the powerful, modern-day tool used to promote conservation and issues surrounding it. Experimental processes, in

The image to the left was soaked in a

particular, can create extremely intricate,

combination of Colgate toothpaste, Listerine

interesting and arresting images that are

mouthwash and seawater sampled from

used to demonstrate problems. The images

Gyllyngvase, Falmouth, the location of

in this article are results of 35mm film

the shoot. As chemicals that we put in our

being soaked in household products that

mouths with nationwide trust it is difficult

have detrimental impacts on the aquatic

to see and force ourselves to analyse the

environment. These have also been mixed

actual ingredients. The surfactants have

with samples of sea water from each shoot

impacted the film by spreading throughout

location in order to see how pollutants react

the detergent-seawater mixture to disperse

with seawater, leaving an impression on the

along the length of the roll, damaging the

film’s surface. Through this process, a visual

film’s surface. Areas of the layers of film

aid has been built to creatively document

have been dissolved, leaving behind empty

how damaging such substances can be.

spaces, a stark reminder of how barren and empty the marine environment could

The word pollution is thrown around a lot,

potentially become.

especially in recent times in the news and journalism, as well as in every day conversation. But what does it actually mean?

Instagram: @meganbinnsphotography

Pollutants are substances present or introduced into the environment which

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