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Production Partners
Victorian Woodworkers Association
The Victorian Woodworkers Association is the leading woodcraft guild in Victoria. Its membership includes professional designer/makers, artists working with wood, students and industry organisations.
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The VWA are based at the Meat Market on Courtney Street, North Melbourne. Courtney Street is the extension of Grattan Street beyond Flemington Road, approximately 800m from the corner of Grattan Street and Royal Parade.
The VWA initiates exhibitions, skills workshops and the School of Woodcraft running a programme of master classes.
We met with VWA President Jerome Wielens to discuss the possible involvement of the VWA members as a key production partner. Jerome is a University of Melbourne alumni and previously a medical researcher at University of Melbourne, this intimate connection to site was understood as important.
We discussed the overarching themes of the project and canvassed working with the VWA collectively and individually. We talked about the role ‘technical collaboration’ working with artists from strong research based practices to realise informed and technically ambitious outcomes.
We recommend that the VWA are perfectly placed to unearth the stories told by the wood and add a layer to the final results. We found common ground and a shared vocabulary around The Hanging Studio Table project led by VWA member Adam Markowitz and again through Storm a project for City of Melbourne using English Elms damaged during the 2004 storms.
Woodworkers of Melbourne University
Stakeholder engagement, involving the University of Melbourne community, where ever possible. The project will provide opportunities to introduce the Woodworkers of Melbourne University, a woodworking club established in 2015, to the VWA established in the 1970’s.
The WMU has already attracted 40 members and we see opportunities to enable a working relationship and establish lines of communication with the VWA. The project would create pathways to future opportunities.
Paperlab
Paperlab is a small business run by Louise Seymour. Paperlab runs paper making workshops and devises technological solutions for small scale, bespoke paper making. Interestingly like Jerome Wielens from VWA, Louise’s background is in biomedicine research.
