Daniel Downing
Eunice Wake
Rohan Morris
Exhibition on until 26th June 2014
24 hours a day.
Enjoy the works by LOCAL ARTIST.
21st
Century Tea
My
work explores gender representation within the home and wider society. This
work depicts the current change in domestic roles where the teacup is a representation
of the traditional female gender roles within the home, the blue represents
masculinity and the sparkle represents sexuality. This work explores the
current change of gender stereotypes within contemporary domesticity
May and June Artists
Artists Walk 10am Saturday 17 May 2014
Join us for the October artist walk meeting at Stefano's Cafe Bakery 27 Deakin Avenue at 10am, then off to Premier Arts and finishing at Chan & Naylor.
Stefano’s Café Bakery
27 Deakin Avenue
Premier Arts Supplies
10th Street
Chan & Naylor
126 Lime Avenue
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21st Century Tea
My work explores gender representation within the home and wider society. This work depicts the current change in domestic roles where the teacup is a representation of the traditional female gender roles within the home, the blue represents masculinity and the sparkle represents sexuality. This work explores the current change of gender stereotypes within contemporary domesticity
Introducing one artist for May-June 2014
Daniel Downing
‘Pollock’s Tissue box’
This piece is part of a project (Form more worthy of Pollock) that forms
an antithesis to the design industry’s foundations, deconstructing the
modernist square box of commercialism, replacing it with an organic packaging
style. The focus of the work places greater value on form, while sacrificing
commercial practicalities, yet maintaining essential function in new designs,
that speak new language. The project was also a lesson on shape and form
through the experimentation process of manufacturing three dimensional
constructs from two dimensional media.
What would happen if we designed
packaging as artists instead of designers, forgetting the ‘price of design’ and
making the work more informed by the form? If we discard function entirely, is
it still packaging? Must we separate art and design?
Reading about Pollock’s efforts to convince people that he was a cowboy
alerted me to the potential of this design, and the need to revisit the
experiment. The flap rolling over the cylinder reminded me of a horse saddle,
which became the premise of inspiration from Pollock the man, NOT his art. In
addition to his cowboy alter-ego, Pollock liked fast cars, and as most art
lovers know, he died in one. The Pollock tissue box transforms into an almost
macabre long slender coffin with a car grill and headlights at the front, tail
lights to the rear, and a saddle slung over the middle.
Thomas Demand: and the ghost of Jackson Pollock
Daniel Downing
‘Pollock’s Tissue box’
Daniel Downing, 2013,
250gsm white card (single folded
sheet)
Pollock’s Tissue box started as a package
concept to hold a bottle of drying oil or olive oil, then I dropped the idea
for a while before realising the potential for a tissue box and the obvious
association with Demand’s ‘Pollock ghost’.
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