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All gender bathroom Assistance animals welcome Wheelchair accessibleDO WORKS presents its first project, Trade Between, at the Nicholas Building. The exhibition features a group of emerging architects and designers who have created furniture that transcends the mundane and enters the realm of the metaphysical, bridging the gap between aesthetic form and assumptions of use.
The exhibition draws on the rich history and cultural significance of furniture, positioning these objects as a continued medium of exchange, expressing human scale and functioning as a tool for architects and designers to test broader ideas.
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Angus Grant is a designer and architecture graduate based in Melbourne (Naarm/Birrarun-ga). His work exists between the functional and the hyper-functional – artifacts of absurd briefs that question the role of the objects we surround ourselves with. His work fluctuates between furniture and autonomous object, no longer something of assumed use, set against a wall, but rather something to be worked around, engaged with, set in the foreground of a room. An assemblage of simple geometries and mechanical construction, an object’s material appearance recedes to highlight its uncertain function.
Annie Paxton is a multidisciplinary designer based in Melbourne (Naarm/Birrarunga-ga). She works as an architecture graduate with the talented team at Kennedy Nolan while pursuing her creative practice which navigates the juncture between architecture and furniture/object. Annie has a keen interest in the poetics of everyday life and how design both drives and is driven by it. Her work often resides in the liminal space between the functional and the sculptural, the robust and the fragile, and the material and the spatial. The interrogation of time and process as materials are salient drivers in her practice, with a tendency to imbue her works with patina and the trace of the hand.
Dalton Stewart lives in Melbourne (Naarm/Birrarunga-ga) working in the productive overlap of visual art, architecture, and design. His practice gives form to ideas that experiment with simple materials and processes that appear formal and abstract, exploring the possibilities of these disciplinary overlaps. Through material assemblage, his work occupies and questions the space between form and function, furniture and sculpture.
Shalini Rautela lives and works on the lands of the Kulin Nation. Rautela was the recipient of Bates Smart Medal for her thesis project, Studio Dirt, responding to material flows within the context of deconstruction and reuse in Melbourne’s built environment. Shalini is concerned with a tectonic and material-driven approach to design, formal outcomes being reciprocally influenced by these processes.
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All gender bathroom Assistance animals welcome Wheelchair accessibleDO WORKS presents its first project, Trade Between, at the Nicholas Building. The exhibition features a group of emerging architects and designers who have created furniture that transcends the mundane and enters the realm of the metaphysical, bridging the gap between aesthetic form and assumptions of use.
The exhibition draws on the rich history and cultural significance of furniture, positioning these objects as a continued medium of exchange, expressing human scale and functioning as a tool for architects and designers to test broader ideas.
Participants
Angus Grant is a designer and architecture graduate based in Melbourne (Naarm/Birrarun-ga). His work exists between the functional and the hyper-functional – artifacts of absurd briefs that question the role of the objects we surround ourselves with. His work fluctuates between furniture and autonomous object, no longer something of assumed use, set against a wall, but rather something to be worked around, engaged with, set in the foreground of a room. An assemblage of simple geometries and mechanical construction, an object’s material appearance recedes to highlight its uncertain function.
Annie Paxton is a multidisciplinary designer based in Melbourne (Naarm/Birrarunga-ga). She works as an architecture graduate with the talented team at Kennedy Nolan while pursuing her creative practice which navigates the juncture between architecture and furniture/object. Annie has a keen interest in the poetics of everyday life and how design both drives and is driven by it. Her work often resides in the liminal space between the functional and the sculptural, the robust and the fragile, and the material and the spatial. The interrogation of time and process as materials are salient drivers in her practice, with a tendency to imbue her works with patina and the trace of the hand.
Dalton Stewart lives in Melbourne (Naarm/Birrarunga-ga) working in the productive overlap of visual art, architecture, and design. His practice gives form to ideas that experiment with simple materials and processes that appear formal and abstract, exploring the possibilities of these disciplinary overlaps. Through material assemblage, his work occupies and questions the space between form and function, furniture and sculpture.
Shalini Rautela lives and works on the lands of the Kulin Nation. Rautela was the recipient of Bates Smart Medal for her thesis project, Studio Dirt, responding to material flows within the context of deconstruction and reuse in Melbourne’s built environment. Shalini is concerned with a tectonic and material-driven approach to design, formal outcomes being reciprocally influenced by these processes.
