Issue oo4 Sept 2o11 CBR
WOBBLE: machine Design // Art // Architecture
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Profile Alice Carroll
www.wobble.cc hello@wobble.cc
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April‘s Caravan New location
Content
* spring 2011
The Front New venue Locations Map Artists & Designer Elliot Bastianon
www.workshopped.com.au
Luke Batten www.workshopped.com.au
Exhibiton Venues Supporters
Sneak Peak
Wobble Product Collection
Editorial
Chris Hardy
www.workshopped.com.au
Kate Elton
www.workshopped.com.au
Jennifer Edmunds Review Wobble Community Sydney Design Week Workshopped Feature Artist Dan Stewart-Moore www.wobble.cc
www.workshopped.com.au art@wobble.cc
Christiane Nowak www.wobble.cc
Simone Green www.wobble.cc
Doug Hall www.wobble.cc
Daniel Cullen www.wobble.cc
Chloe Gray
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Paul Summerfield www.wobble.cc
Jed ‘Knees‘ Woliki www.wobble.cc 2
Cover ‚Garden Metropolis‘ Paul Summerfield 82x200cm $1400 Limited Edition
* triptych
Review
* Knightsbridge
Highlights from our third Knightsbridge design party, Triptych. DJ, Faux Real on the decks, video work by Katie Ryan on
the projector and the controversial, one night only exhibition of Katherine Griffiths photography. You had to be there.
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design week competition
Workshopped
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August 3rd saw the opening of ‘Workshopped’ the exhibition of finalists for the annual design competition. Workshopped is run during Sydney Design week and opens at the design space ‘Whitehouse’, in Sydney’s Surry Hills Design Precinct.
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An amazing space and well worth a look, the venue was too packed to move before the doors opened. Catered for by Bombay Sapphire, the night is always a smash for those who can remember. Whitehouse’s five gallery spaces hosted the selected 50 designs, a surprisingly broad collection of Australian furniture, lighting and product design. Canberra’s Luke Batten entered a timber chair design with an articulated timber seat along with submissions from other Canberra designers including Jennifer Edmunds, Chris Hardy, Elliot Bastianon and Dave Pidcock. “Workshopped is an extremely important and well run competition – most importantly it generates interest and dialogue between designers and industry.” Says Luke also noting that many of the entries in the competition focused
on production processes. The brief requires each designer to consider process, production and user accessibility. This can be problematic, he says, as it can direct the design process too much and generate designs that are not as thoughtful or considered as they might be. Aside from the party, the advantage of entering competitions like Workshopped is the exposure it offers to young professionals. Among the punters, design firms and manufacturers send scouts out to hunt for talent. Fingers crossed for our local entrants and congratulations to Sydney’s Kate Elton for taking out the peoples choice award for her ‘Molar’ Stool. Take a tour at www.workshopped.com.au
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Elliot Bastianon
* triple stool
Chris Hardy
* cartesian
Luke Batten
* molar
Kate Elton * People‘s Choice Award
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Dan Stuart-Moore * The front
Through a series of large, high impact sculptures, Dan Stuart-Moore examines ideas and forms, creating links between concepts of climate change and sustainability. His recent body of work explores the links between various issues associated with a changing climate – the urbanisation of the landscape; the use of technology as a key to adaption; and the concept that our psychology may hinder us on the path to sustainability.
In making those links he hopes to stimulate discussion, believing that climate change is a problem we are not yet psychologically equipped to deal with. His block-like simplified forms do not provide answers but facilitate a dialogue. Dan describes his work as “boxing things up into forms… a shell, a wave, a house,” making extensive drawings to get an understanding of the object before commencing his construction in steel and automotive paint. His studio in Murrumbateman is an example of his dedicati-
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Dan Stuart-Moore * The front
painted steel 40x50x30cm; $3200 6
folded metal 59x175x10cm; $3200
on to finding a climate change solution. The studio itself is powered by renewable energy, and Dan donates 20% of all sales to Greening Australia as a carbon offset. Dan is currently exhibiting work through Wobble at Knightsbridge and then Sunday Oct 16th at The Front.
* cloud concerns
Dan Stuart-Moore * Knightsbridge
painted steel 133x150x40cm; $3700
* kurt 4u
Christiane Nowak * knightsbridge
timber 175x60cm 2011; $200
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inkjet print 30x42cm; $140
* Goulburn Series #8
Simone Green * knightsbridge
* modern sky
Doug Hall
* The front
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printed to aluminium 20x30“ $495
digital print 10x15“; $50
* smoko
Daniel Cullen * knightsbridge
* hallway
Chloe Gray
* knightsbridge
analog on ilford paper 30x45cm; $380
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50x50cm; $350
* my heart core * passed on
Paul Summerfield
50x50cm; $360
* The front
etching 42x60cm; $120
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Jed ‘Knees‘ Woliki * The front
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A few weeks ago saw Alice rushing about the Department of Immigration & Citizenship, seeking out signatories to verify that yes, she has returned her Cabcharge card and no, she hasn’t held onto any books borrowed from the internal library. Only after the final signatures, those of kind remarks in her farewell card – only then did it become official: Alice Carroll has departed the APS to pursue her illustration on a full-time basis. Now, Alice is illustrating a pop-up book for The National Portrait Gallery. “This is the project that has given me the final push, I guess,” Alice says. “That gave me the con-
fidence to take the leap [into full-time art].” The book is intended to introduce younger children to the Gallery, and will feature a backpack-laden girl and her wombat companion wandering through stylised versions of its exhibits and discovering what portraiture is all about. Late last year, the project’s coordinators were directed to Alice’s website, and were impressed by what they saw. “They saw a picture that I’d drawn of myself which they liked,” Alice blushes, “and they wanted to use that person as a character for the book.” Putting together a pop-up book is an inherently difficult process, involving many literal and figurative layers of design and production. “There’s paper engineers in Singapore, and they’ll be building the book based on our requests. So we just say, ‘Can you make this awesome thing?’ and they’ll tell us whether or not it’s possible.” The core of her workstation is an iMac – “a little bit of an old beast now, almost time to upgrade” – and a recently acquired Wacom Cintiq 12WX tablet running MangaStudio software. “I trained myself to look at the computer screen while drawing with a tablet for many years, and now I get to go back to actually looking at my hand – which was weird for a while, but it didn’t take long to get back into it.” “All my blackand-white stuff I do on the tablet, and then I export to
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Alice Carroll
Photoshop to colour and do all the other fancy stuff, all the textures and messing around with negative space.” Over the past few years, Alice has built up an impressively varied portfolio: gig and exhibition posters, illustrations for picture books and graphic novels, even artwork for a browser-based promotional game. “I didn’t really consider it as something that I could do as a job, ever.” She may have been a fine bureaucrat, but in the long run, Alice Carroll’s departure from the APS is truly doing the Australian public a great service. * Doug Fry Read the full article online www.wobble.cc
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Aprils Caravan The vintage clothing store opens its doors on Saturday October 29 for the first time at the new Braddon location. Grand opening from 12pm featuring rock‘n roll dj and bands. 23 Lonsdale street [next to Pink Inc]
* April‘s Caravan
New location
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Six months ago, April’s Caravan opened in the gallery space at The Front in Lyneham. It was so popular, Netti decided it was time to open up her own shop. This November will see a new and improved April’s Caravan open in Braddon. “The new shop will be my second home where each customer is our guest to come and play with the clothes, have a coffee and something to eat while grooving along to records. I will of course be hosting regular parties featuring both
local and interstate bands.” Netti Vonthethoff aka April has a passion – or rather obsession – with vintage. Her style developed while spending time with her grandmother, finding her teenage self surrounded by furniture and nic nacs from the 1950s, 60s and 70s. She pawed over photos of her grandmother from another era, and marvelled at her sense of style and pride in her clothing. Since her grandmother’s passing, Netti began collecting things that reminded her of that much-loved woman. Over the years, her obsession got a little out of hand and she found herself in a position where there was no longer any room for her collection. She started holding vintage parties at her house and although it was initially hard to watch the things she loved going to new homes, she started a precedent. “I now love to see other people get excited over things that I love. It‘s an amazing feeling to see someone wearing an ‚April‘s‘ item and to know that they look amazing in it… and that it’s going to the right home.”
The love of vintage will go on, while Netti continues to source the most exciting old clothes in the city. Each piece is special for its own reasons – the fabric, the cut, the colour, the lapels, buttons or maybe just the stiching around the pockets. Some of the items are beautiful, some are quirky and some are so ridiculous you just have to have them.*
5pm Sunday October 16 will unveil a new look for the friendly arts venue. DJ’d, VJ’d and all decked out in its new attire. See The Front as you’ve never seen it before.
Wobble Takes The Front
For the first time this year, The Front bar and café in Lyneham has its gallery space back. With Nettie moving her caravan to Braddon, the venue will host a new collection of art and design. For the first time, Wobble will be curating the new work and hosting a series of events.
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New to Wobble * lyneham
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Exhibition Venues
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Editor
Jennifer Edmunds Christiane Nowak
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Sneak Peak
will be launching * Wobble its first product collection
Director 34 Mort St, Braddon
Jennifer Edmunds
Publisher
Wobble Collective
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Design & Layout 1 Wattle Pl, Lyneham
Christiane Nowak
Journalist Doug Fry
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Aprils Caravan
23 Londsdale St, Braddon
Arts Writer Suzy Kay
Wobble Venues
Knightsbridge Penthouse The Front
Supporters
April‘s Caravan 2before10 Trevs @ dickson
Contact
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