Object Loves Paper

On Saturday 4th June Object was pleased to host a workshop 'Works on Paper' by Bianca Chang as part of the A4 Paper Festival (31st May-5th June. ) Bianca is a Sydney-based emerging paper artist who taught the group techniques for creating layered paper sculptures-such as planning, plotting and cutting.

image from http://blog.paperconvention.com/

Although the A4 paper festival is officially over, you can check out the Paper Convention Collective website and blog for more information on this group of artists dedicated to the documentation of paper expressionism!

http://blog.paperconvention.com/

And for more papery goodness, we have copies of the first edition (May 2011)of Paper Runway Magazine which is sure to inspire DIY crafty paper projects.

Lastly, here are some of the lovely paper works from the pop up exhibition in the Manga-Pod during the festival.

Annual Manual-Showing until 19th June

Well it sure is a woolly winter Tuesday here at Object! It's been chilly of late, but we are cosy up in the gallery with the aid of our trusty heaters and so there is definitely no excuse for not visiting us especially with Annual Manual: A Guide to Australian Design Now in its final weeks! This exhibition curated by Office for Good Design is a significant award show of Australian emerging talent. 8 outstanding finalists have been judged by a panel and the winners have been awarded the opportunity to have a solo exhibition in Object's Project Space in 2012. Apart from the 8 finalists, there are also 10 more names to watch playing on the gallery AV. You will have to come in and see the winning pieces for yourself but for now, here are some pictures that show the breadth of design in this show.

Thomas Llewellyn (VIC) DRAWING BOARD

Emily Nam (VIC) BODY, CLOTHING,OBJECT,EXPERIENCE

Daniel Emma (SA) D.E

Meredith Turnbull (VIC) EARRINGS, OBJECTS, SCULPTURES

Esther Stewart (VIC) PORTABLE COMPACTIBLE

Kristel Britcher (SA) SUSPENSION SERIES RANGE & CRYSTALLINE COMPOSITION 1

In-ah Shin (NSW) ANOTHER: BEING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER

Aly De Groot (NT) GHOST NET BASKETS

All images from Annual Manual: A Guide to Australian Design Now 2011

All Photography: Jamie Williams

Wintery Warmy

Ok so winter is here! What you need is a nice cup of tea, a good book and a toasty fire to curl up in front of. Failing that we do have some very exciting new ceramics and textiles that we promise will make the transition from Autumn into Winter a little easier. As the weather gets colder the best thing to do is surround yourself with comfy, cosy things and definitely drink lots of tea!




























The ever popular hand thrown terracotta and earthenware serving bowls by Cath O'Gorman are back in Collect. These gorgeous colours are the ideal thing to brighten up your days this winter.
































The New range of handmade Crazy Paving Coasters and Table mats from Gaye Abandon are perfect for winter time. they are 100% wool, made from Upcycled, felted jumpers. Starting at $42 for a set they are heat resistant, reversible and just what winter called for.
Malcolm Greenwood's new range of ceramic platters, beakers, sake cups and bowls have just arrived and we couldn't love them more. These beautiful ceramic pieces are bringing some warmth to the cold winter air.

These colours inspire the brightest of moods even on the chilliest winter days.

So rug up warm and enjoy all the things that make you happy during Winter.

Cath O' Gorman is one of our ceramics artists and oh my how we love her work. In beautiful earthy colours and tones she creates a range of different sized Ceramic Serving Bowls, that are just perfect for decoration, using as a fruit bowl or just treating your guests to the lovely meal you just made for dinner.

The beauty of her work is that it's handmade like most of our designs and objects. So if you are looking for the perfect present or want to treat yourself drop by and check her out.

Cath O'Gorman has also been featured in photoshoots for Master Chef Magazine as a part of the styling.

Stay dry and keep the vitamins updated

The Bourke street Cycle way will be officially opened on Sunday 15th May and will come alive with the ‘rolling festival’. More details can be found here http://www.facebook.com/ILoveSydneyBikeLanes.














Polish off your pedals and roll into Collect this Sunday for a visit. The first 15 customers that walk through the door with a helmet will be lucky enough to receive a gift from us – a Trent Jansen recycled road sign reflector!

Underfoot Overhead- Now Showing in the Project Space

Five Australian makers have come together in Object Gallery's Project Space to showcase work that is evocative, unexpected and yet familiar. Each artist embraces the opposing forces inherent in the natural world - of degradation and transformation; healing and death; sublime beauty and harsh reality. These makers inhabit a strange space...

Michelle Kelly's striking installation Basidiomycota, 2007-2011 engages us in the regularly overlooked 'Fifth Kingdom' of fungi. By magnifying these forms the artist gives us a rare and intimate experience of the organisms that contribute so significantly yet thanklessly to the working order of the earth. This photo is just a peek at the work that really does need to be seen in its entirety, occupying the gallery wall. As Kelly's practice centres around architectural works both for space and also for the body, to coincide with this exhibition Collect has brought in a range of Michelle Kelly's gloriously crafted, organic jewellery for a limited time- definately not to be missed!

Repulsed? Beguiled? Indeed I Follow Ewe, 2011 by Juz Kitson will arrest you at once. A curious assemblage of viscera meets science fiction, where an alternate nature is presented. By collecting and borrowing from nature, these extraordinary and evocative pieces have been born and delicately placed out of context-the array of manipulated skulls, bones and vertebrae once decayed and lifeless are given a new chance and a new history. At first glance Still Life: The Food Bowl by Ken & Julia Yonetani appears to be no more than a pure appropriation of the still life genre. Of course upon deeper contact we discover that this traditional display has been superbly crafted entirely from Australian groundwater salt and this realisation elevates the work to a whole new level. By using the salt, a noxious agricultural by-product, along with drawing on the still life genre, the artists are commenting on the current agricultural practices developed to bring new food produce to the table of a rising European bourgeois class. In fact 550, 000 tonnes of groundwater salt are pumped out of the Murray Darling basin alone each year.... Wow! Now we see the themes of consumption, luxury, vanity and mortality emerge...tres chic!

Natalia Milosz-Piekarska's whimsical wearable pieces celebrate the 'spirit' within objects. The fantasmagorical series Immortal Morsels explores the mysterious world of food and its uses as a medium for worship, healing and protection. The artist uses a veritable apothecary of materials to create this collection of weird and wonderful charms and artefacts. Wacky and delicious all at once!

Emily Valentine-Bullock's work prompts us to consider how we classify animals - as pet or pest? In Mynah Squardron, 2011 the artist uses feathers as paint to create a colony of aeroplanes that stimulate us with the uncomfortable nature of the feather. Have we perhaps changed our contemporary view towards wearing bird parts because of fashion? Or are we more caring towards animals today? These are the questions that this body of work begs us to consider.

..................................................................

Curated by Kate Ford Underfoot Overhead is showing until 19th June along with Annual Manual: A Guide to Australian Design Now in the Main Space

Happy Easter!

OBJECT GALLERY AND COLLECT OPENING HOURS ARE:

GOOD FRIDAY 22ND APRIL CLOSED

SATURDAY 23RD APRIL 10AM-5PM

SUNDAY 24TH APRIL CLOSED

MONDAY 25TH APRIL CLOSED

TUESDAY 26TH APRIL CLOSED

HAVE A WONDERFUL BREAK!

(featured above is a lovely Tamara Hahn porcelain celadon bowl $42 from Collect)