No Images? Click here MEDIA RELEASE Future Artefacts: fashion design and contemporary jewellery Australian Design Centre is delighted to present, in collaboration with Karen Woodbury Fine Art, Future Artefacts by Australian designers Alexi Freeman, Tessa Blazey and photographer Jane Burton opening on Thursday 8 February. Future Artefacts is the culmination of a seven-year collaboration between fashion designer Alexi Freeman and contemporary jeweller Tessa Blazey and includes sculptural gowns and veils, with photographs featuring the works in ethereal settings. Freeman and Blazey's collaborative practice is inspired by their shared love of science fiction and geometry, crafting wearable sculptures that could potentially become artefacts of the future. The work explores a fascination with archaeology, evoking the imagined body through the design and production of wearable artefacts. They create a vision of what the future may look like and who the inhabitants might be. The designers acknowledge many influences for this series of work, ranging from medieval scale armour to art deco and the costume design of Paco Rabbane in the 1968 sci-fi classic, Barbarella. They use a mixture of techniques including ancient low-tech jewellery processes, such as lost wax casting and chainmail construction, in combination with contemporary industrial manufacturing like laser cutting. Jane Burton is a photographic artist known for her depictions of female sensuality and sexuality, brooding landscapes, derelict architectures and abandoned interiors. The Future Artefacts photography takes the works to a variety of landscapes, chosen for their primeval appearance or post-apocalyptic aura: places sculpted through volcanic eruption, by wind, and water; structures built by man and then abandoned. The collaboration is brought together by artist Kate Rohde’s resin sculptures as props and Byron Meyer’s ambient soundscape. Future Artefacts is presented in collaboration with Karen Woodbury Fine Art and was first presented at Craft Victoria in 2017. Future Artefacts Australian Design Centre For interviews, images or information please contact: About Australian Design Centre ADC’s mission is to ignite creativity through:
Australian Design Centre is supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments, the New South Wales Government through Create NSW, the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and the City of Sydney. Australian Design Centre is a member of Australian Craft and Design Centres (ACDC) network and the Sydney Culture Network. Image credits: |