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Contents 03. DAVE BONE PHOTOGRAPHY
Gyre Extract of showcase
05. E M I LY G R AY Fashion entreprenuer Extract of full interview
09. BONES STUDIO Architecture design Interview
12. MEGAN BINNS PHOTOGRAPHY
Our Ocean’s Unseen Additions Extract of showcase
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Editor’s Note JEMIMA UNG
The human mind is so amazing because of the creativity it is able to express. For many, we choose to follow this creative path whether it be as a career or simply as a passion in which we hope to learn and be successful. Success is a marker that we are capable and competent, but to get there we must go through a journey of learning, trial and error, some wins and many moments of doubt. How we overcome those moments is tackled by each and every one of us in a different way. We started Emergent to acknowledge and celebrate the myriad of talent that is still emerging in the world and that deserves to be seen. But also, to create a community of this emerging talent through shared experiences. There will be a time where we will find ourselves inspired and motivated, but at a stage in our life where we wonder whether our passion and talent will be enough, where success is unknown. Sometimes in our moments of doubt, advice and stories of success are not what we need; sometimes it’s knowing that there are others out there going through the same experiences of uncertainty to help keep us going. We want to provide a space where people can share their experiences and learn from each other and open up different perspectives and possibilities.
Top & bottom: Gyre © Dave Bone Photography
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Gyre British photographer Dave Bone represents the world’s global consumption of plastic in his own investigation into the effect it has on our global environment
Eight million tonnes of plastic waste ends up in our oceans each year. There are estimates that there will be more plastic floating in our oceans than fish by 2050 which highlights a real global issue. Gyre is a visual representation of the issues surrounding our own consumer culture as well as plastics impact on our ecosystem. The spherical composition aims to highlight the continuous dispersion of plastic debris through circulating ocean currents, and the re-emergence of micro-plastics into our food chain through marine digestion. The abstract imagery is suggestive of this convergence of manufactured and organic material. The distortion within this series intends to disorientate the familiarity of plastic from its everyday use. www.davebone.co.uk Instagram: @davebonephotography
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Starting your own business is one of those daunting endeavours where risk is guaranteed but success is not. Brisbane-based fashion entrepreneur Emily Gray sits down with Jemima Ung to talk about her experience of trying to start her own fashion business
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“We’re not afraid of going into the workplace and being the sh*tkicker who buys coffee for everyone for a few weeks”
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Emily Gray is a young Australian entrepreneur
to set herself up as a creative director, Gray
with a Bachelor of Creative Industries and a
realistically knows that this can’t be done
Major in Fashion Communication. She has big
on her own. “Even from the initial concept
dreams of becoming the creative director of her
I’ve wanted a business partner and technical
own lingerie brand fittingly self-titled,
support. I did marketing at university so that
Gray Lingerie.
I could understand marketing pitches, but it was never my forte. I could never take on this
I asked Gray, “why lingerie?” Talking woman-
venture completely on my own.” She’d also
to-woman that may sound like an obvious
be bringing on a pattern maker as fashion
question, but to take the risk of starting your
communication gave her the business acumen
own business, a love for pretty things isn’t
for product development, and not the technical
enough for someone of Gray’s intelligence and
training for creating her designs. “I still want
level-headedness – I highly doubted it was
to have a design role and dictate the trends,
simply a love affair with lingerie that was her
but being a creative director is more of a
only reason. “I’d just lost a heap of weight
management role”, she tells me.
and suddenly I stopped being the perfect 32C and I couldn’t find anything that fit. I had
We talk about the stress of trying to succeed
never realised that there was such a problem
off the back of your own capabilities and
with bra sizing.” Of all the women out there
creativity, the possibility of not making it and
in the world, she’s not the first one to make
coming up against the hackneyed stereotype
that complaint. “That’s what sparked the
of being a ‘millennial’. For Gray it’s an issue
idea initially and it snowballed from there. In
of mind over matter. “I have a background in
Australia, we don’t have the wide range that
music and they always told us ‘fake it until
a lot of the French lingerie brands offer, the
you make it’ and that’s really stuck with me”,
size 30’s and half cup sizes”. She explains
she explains. “No matter what happens, I’ll
that Gray would be an umbrella brand offering
always be like, ‘nah, it’s all good, I’m still
smaller brands below it that would target
doing it’ which ends up being bad in some
different back and cup size ranges. “It’s what
ways when you take that too far, but it’s been
they call mass customisation in the fashion
quite helpful in the whole process.” It’s not
industry – offering an extremely wide range,
surprising that if there aren’t enough jobs
but to keep it in scope, you section it off into
around people will start creating their own.
different categories.”
“It’s the shitty internet articles trash-talking
Emily Gray © Emily Gray
millennials”, and we both cringe at the use Self-starting a business takes copious amounts
of the term, “that forget that it’s harder to
of planning, time and help. “To get a bra from
get jobs because there’s more people trying
initial sketches to a saleable product takes
to squeeze into the same categories. And we
about eighteen months. But then if you’re
work hard. We’re not afraid of going into the
tweaking and experimenting it’s probably
workplace and being the sh*t-kicker who buys
more of a two year process. I’ve always said
coffee for...
it would be a three year start up.” Wanting
(Extract continued in full magazine) Interview
Bones Studio
Bones Studio is an emerging architecture and interior design practice based in Brisbane and Sydney. Rhiannan Bastin spoke with Allana Chiu of Bones Studio to ask her about starting her own architectural practice with co-founder Chris Brandon
Yeerongpilly Pool House Š Bones Studio
What sparked the idea for Bones Studio?
For me personally, it was about being able
I was approached about doing a healthcare
to have complete ownership of designs and
fit out as a private job outside of Sparc [the
control over decision-making. It was also
previous architecture practice she worked
about having more flexibility with life/work.
at], so I got in contact with Chris to help
I now have a lot more freedom with choosing
brainstorm ideas and discuss how we could
work hours and managing work load.
do it together and it grew from there. Chris and I both wanted to progress professionally
Bones Studio began in 2015, tell me a bit
and didn’t feel we were achieving that at the
about getting started and how long it took to
architectural practices where we worked, so we
go from idea to realisation.
started the discussion about starting our own
Yes, we officially launched Bones Studio in
practice.
2015. One of the most important things is being able to work as a team so we started a
Why did you want to move away from a
bit of a trial partnership in 2014 to see how we
well-established practice to start your
liked working with each other before deciding
own company?
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Allana Chiu & Chris Brandon © Bones Studio
© Bones Studio
long term. In terms of how long it took, not
Architecture is a slow-moving beast, so we
very long actually! It happened within a few
have to be patient with the progression with
weeks from first floating the idea and we both
the company. It takes time for projects to be
set about looking for projects that might help
designed and built, some projects can take
kick things off for us, and from there we had a
years. This means that there can be a long
few leads.
waiting period between starting a project, and then having it photographed and uploaded on
What was has the journey been like?
our website!
What have been the biggest challenges and successes?
What’s it like having the freedom and
So far, the biggest success for us has been
responsibility of being your own boss?
being able to tackle Bones full-time. At the
It has pros and cons. There is a lot more
outset, Bones was a part-time venture, so
flexibility with hours. At the beginning
we could still earn a regular income while
working from home, it was difficult to stay
getting Bones off the ground. We had to give
focused, but it’s much easier being in an office.
up a higher salary but the upside of that, is in the future potential earnings are much
Has anything changed since you first started?
higher. Generally, we didn’t have to give up
We’ve moved into a little office space in
too much and were very lucky in that sense.
Fortitude Valley! It’s a room within another
It was a pretty smooth transition from being
architect’s office, so it’s great to be around
an employee to a business-owner. In terms of
peers again, and know that are more people we
having the finances to back the venture, we
can talk to for advice/opinions.
were very fortunate in that the first project we worked on together was able to provide the
Do you have any future plans?
funding required to get the company going.
Just to keep growing our business!
Have you achieved what you wanted with Bones?
www.bonesstudio.co
So far yes. We still have a long way to go.
Instagram: @bonesstudio Q&A
Our Ocean’s Unseen Additions Emergent
At Gyllyngvase, Falmouth, Megan Binns explores environmentally harmful household chemicals through the medium of analogue photography
Our Oceans Unseen Additions Š Megan Binns
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‘Conservation needs to lose its begging,
have harmful or poisonous effects. Long-
apologetic image – it needs to be bold,
term effects of pollutants depend upon the
embracing, confident and above all…creative.’
length of time taken to be broken down into
Synchronicity Earth, 2017
a harmless form. The more time it takes for a product to break down, the more severe its impacts are.
Photography is the powerful, modern-day tool used to promote conservation and issues surrounding it. Experimental processes, in
The image to the left was soaked in a
particular, can create extremely intricate,
combination of Colgate toothpaste, Listerine
interesting and arresting images that are
mouthwash and seawater sampled from
used to demonstrate problems. The images
Gyllyngvase, Falmouth, the location of
in this article are results of 35mm film
the shoot. As chemicals that we put in our
being soaked in household products that
mouths with nationwide trust it is difficult
have detrimental impacts on the aquatic
to see and force ourselves to analyse the
environment. These have also been mixed
actual ingredients. The surfactants have
with samples of sea water from each shoot
impacted the film by spreading throughout
location in order to see how pollutants react
the detergent-seawater mixture to disperse
with seawater, leaving an impression on the
along the length of the roll, damaging the
film’s surface. Through this process, a visual
film’s surface. Areas of the layers of film
aid has been built to creatively document
have been dissolved, leaving behind empty
how damaging such substances can be.
spaces, a stark reminder of how barren and empty the marine environment could
The word pollution is thrown around a lot,
potentially become.
especially in recent times in the news and journalism, as well as in every day conversation. But what does it actually mean?
Instagram: @meganbinnsphotography
Pollutants are substances present or introduced into the environment which
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