Biomateriality Exhibition - Delmar Gallery 14 May - 12 June 2022

14 May – 12 June

Biomateriality brings together researchers, designers and artists who are pioneering biomaterials in Australia, embracing principles of regenerative design, cyclical economies and interspecies collaboration.

Joining a growing global movement, their research includes developing new materials such as seaweed-based polymers for 3D printing, biofoams and mycelium applications in the construction, packaging, design and textile industries.

This exhibition goes behind their studio and lab doors and reveals this research in progress, including material experiments, speculative design, prototypes and samples.  It will also include art installations that explore the new aesthetics and philosophical implications of this emerging field of design.

JOANNA FOWLES
KATH FRIES
FUNGI SOLUTIONS
MICOEDEN
PHILIPPA ABBOTT, EDWARD LINACRE, MATT WOODS, MYCELIUM STUDIOS
ALIA PARKER
JOSH RIESEL
STUDIO FLEK
SUSTINENT & ELLEN FERRIER
MONASH, RMIT AND SWINBURNE DESIGN STUDENTS WITH GYUNGJU CHYON, JOHN SADAR & CANHUI CHEN
NAHUM MCLEAN, KATE SCARDIFIELD AND ELLA WILLIAMS, MATERIAL ECOLOGIES LAB, UTS

Delmar Gallery

Exhibition opening: Saturday 14 May, 3 – 5pm
with artist & designer talks by Alia Parker, Josh Riesel and Kate Scardifield

Panel discussion: Sunday 22 May, 2.30pm
Panellists: Amanda Morglund, CEO, Fungi Solutions
Daniel Goldsmith, founding director, Micoeden
Nahum McLean, academic and biobased materials researcher, UTS
Free admission, registration required.

Register for panel discussion

Exhibition dates: 15 May – 12 June, 2022
Gallery hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 12-5pm. Free admission.

Mass Reduction Exhibition - Melbourne Design Week 2022

Thursday, March 17, 2022 to Friday, June 3, 2022

Mass Reduction presents the work of artists and designers who through playful transformation of textile remnants and interrogation of linear modes of textile consumption offer innovative creative design approaches to confronting textile waste.

These works provide an antithesis to heedless textile production by championing mending and embracing wear and tear, privileging waste materials in design, slow process and repurposing and reusing textile waste. As well as through material choices, many artists employ a theoretical investigation into how we create and consume textiles and invite reflection on the value of post-consumer materials.

Presented as part of Melbourne Design Week, ‘Mass Reduction’ speaks to broader concerns around the waste created by the textile and apparel industries and current modes of ‘end-of-life' resource consumption. This exhibition promotes rethinking design process and material choices, reduce environmental impact and posit the transformation of textile waste to an even higher value textile product.

Artists: Eileen Braybrook (VIC), Aaron Billings (VIC), Elise Cakebread (VIC), Aphra Cheesman (VIC), Joanna Fowles (NSW), Blake Griffiths (NSW), Eloise Rapp (NSW), RaasLeela (INDIA), Reiko Sudo/NUNO (JPN) and Lisa Waup (Gunditjmara/Torres Strait Islander/VIC).

Dyevert shirt - Wins the Northern Beaches Environmental Art Prize 2021

Delighted to be the recipient of the inaugural Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize.

Thank you to everyone especially my co-collaborator Nina Smith for realising such a beautifully crafted garment.

The shirt utilises food waste and zero waste pattern cutting techniques to reimagine overlooked waste materials. The DYEVERT shirt demonstrates the potential of sustainable practice within textiles by applying circular design processes. I identified waste streams transforming discarded food waste into a dye resource to colour the shirt. Each stripe in the shirt is hand-painted using a traditional textile technique revealing multiple colours after dyeing the cloth in vegetal waste. Nina Smith then applied zero-waste pattern techniques to minimise waste in the garment design and construction process.

Both designers are responding to the systemic issues of fast fashion and the landfill of textiles. The ongoing collaboration demonstrates a less impactful garment that can be recoloured multiple times with other food waste to reactivate the stripes. The garment can eventually return to the earth and decompose.

Tartan Mind Mend

My beautiful friend Sally, owner of Tartan asked me to contribute to her mind mend auction this November. The project asked Australian creatives to reimagine deadstock garments, samples and fabrics and respond in a circular waste reducing way to create reimagined pieces. This silk top was hand painted and dyed with madder root and can be purchased through the online action with 100% of proceeds going to mental health charities.