Come along to our Exhibition opening- tonight (Friday 16th July) 6-9pm. There will be drinks and nibbles, and the artists will be there to talk about their amazing collaborative gleaming and design projects made as part of the State of Design Festival. The exhibition will be open until the 31st July- Monday-Saturday 10-5, Sunday 11-5.
New 70x70 cm and 70x35 cm Backing cloth artworks. Contact stores for more information.
ARTPLAY 3D
This Artplay 3D set is a freeform model-making kit that gives the
owner title to realise imagined city masterplans, cathedrals, low
cost housing schemes, modernist residences, Tokyo shopping
centres, power stations, tree houses …
Artplay 3D is made by hand screen printing 1960’s photographs of
architecture onto wooden blocks fashioned from timbers salvaged
from heritage Melbourne buildings.
There’s something familiar about working with these blocks, they
trigger memories, perhaps from childhood or a film, or a
constructed image from a novel.
1960’s photography, St Mark’s Basilica, historic wood, Amsterdam,
Unite d’Habitation, tell tale signs of a previous life, Le Corbusier, a
keyhole… All the pieces in this set have a legacy both in their
materials and their form.
The pale, heavy tongue & groove floor boards were taken from
one of the first cuts of Australian old growth Carrie Pine, milled in
1880 for Lonsdale House, later to become The Emporium in the
1930’s. Heralded by the National Trust as a heritage landmark, the
building was demolished in January 2010. Those original Carrie
Pine tongue & groove boards live on in this set.
Another story of natural heritage is found in the exceptionally light
1950’s redwood door sections made from old growth Red Cedar
from British Colombia, part of the giant arborvitae ‘tree of life’
group. Looking at the grain of this wood it’s possible to realise the
scale and age of this species, six metres around and eighty metres
high, living up to 1500 years and now found in this first edition of
Artplay 3D.
Great new spacecraft cushions now in store. Back are our fantastic lion and mother and child prints. Also available classic fennel in red and on soft blue fabric, and hand drawn lines on soft blue. A full colour Munich market scene as well as a photographic cheese print, and a sepia photographic cherries print. New and classic sansoni available also. Click on image for close up.
