Thursday, July 15, 2010

State of Design Exhibition

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.

Spacecraft South
572 Malvern Road
Prahran 3181
ph (03) 9530 2530

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

New smaller Backing Cloth Artworks


New 70x70 cm and 70x35 cm Backing cloth artworks. Contact stores for more information.

Spacecraft North side
225 Gertrude St, Fitzroy
03 9486 0010
gertrude@spacecraftaustralia.com

Spacecraft South side
572 Malvern Rd, Prahran
03 9530 2530
hawksburn@spacecraftaustralia.com

A4 Artworks


A selection of our A4 artworks available from Gertrude Street.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

ARTPLAY 3D

Artplay 3D has now made it to our stores
The first edition consists of 30 sets, initialed and numbered.
Prints featured are Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation in Marseilles, Amsterdam's House of Faces and St Mark's Basilica in Venice.
20 wood blocks are in each set, box dimensions are 32cm x 42cm x 12cm. Each set boxed weighs approximately 8kgs.

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.


Thursday, July 8, 2010

New Backing Cloth Artwork

New to our Hawksburn and Fitzroy stores- contact stores for details:

Spacecraft Hawksburn
572 Malvern Rd, Prahran +61 (03) 9530 2530
hawksburn@spacecraftaustralia.com

Spacecraft Fitzroy
225 Gertrude St, Fitzroy +61 (03) 9486 0010
gertrude@spacecraftaustralia.com

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

NEW CUSHIONS

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.