01_ Transformative Repair × ADC Live Auction
2nd June – 10th June 2022
Artist talk: 4th June
Auction: 9th June
On Thursday evening June 9, 2022 the Australian Design Centre (ADC) will host a ground-breaking design event, an auction of creatively repaired broken objects provided by notable climate change activists, creatives and champions of design from Sydney and the Illawarra.
A selection of emerging and leading Australian artists, designers and craftspeople were specially commissioned to reinterpret these objects using innovative approaches to repair and reuse.
In partnership with the ADC, the University of South Australia, the University of New South Wales and JamFactory Craft and Design, and funded by the Australian Research Council, this project develops and tests new models for the sustainable use of materials and products, establishing new opportunities for consumers, collectors and the public to thoughtfully and beautifully repair their broken things.
From June 2 to 10, 2022 this exciting and eclectic mix of objects will be on display at the Australian Design Centre on 101—115 William Street, Darlinghurst, in Sydney. On June 9, 2022 works for sale will be auctioned by Andrew Shapiro, Sydney’s noted auctioneer with 30 years of experience across collectible design and decorative arts.
Download the digital catalogue for estimates and details.
Contributors include:
Sally Dan-Cuthbert × Liz Williamson
Master weaver Liz Williamson and collaborator Tulla Carson were tasked with the challenge of restoring two extraordinary ’Plan-o-spider’ chairs owned by Sydney gallerist Sally Dan-Cuthbert. These chairs, designed in France by Hoffer and manufactured by Plan in the 1950s, presented a range of technical challenges. With the assistance of Nicole Robins and Chris Hitch, Liz and Tulla built on their provenance and stretched the boundaries of restoration with new materials and a colour palette that brings these once disintegrating chairs into the 21st century. Williamson then used the scrap elastic from the old webbing to create a series of elegant weavings, challenging the expectations of what can be done with waste.
Hugo Gruzman × Kyoko Hashimoto
Contemporary jeweller Kyoko Hashimoto repairs and transforms two broken model aeroplanes from musician Hugo Gruzman of Flight Facilities, one of them being a scale model of a Cessna 310 belonging to Hugo’s grandfather, air-sea rescue inventor Laurie Gruzman, a formative influence on the name and concept of Hugo’s band. In collaboration with Australian-born, Texas-based visual artist Ebony Fleur, a 3D animated version of the model aeroplane in flight was also created and minted as an NFT. Rounding off her transformative repairs, Kyoko transformed the second model, a Qantas 747, the “Queen of Skies”, into the zenith of jewellery typologies: a crown.
Edra & The Campana Brothers × Adam Goodrum
Leading Australian furniture designer Adam Goodrum obtained a magnificent but damaged aluminium lamp, designed by the Campana Brothers and provided to the project by Italian furniture manufacturer Edra. In a deft poetic move, Adam chose to transition the lamp from a pendant to floor standing lamp using only the existing aluminium components. With studio assistant Xavier Tafft, Adam slowly and painstakingly disassembled and reassembled hundreds of aluminium components to manifest this transformation.
Tim Flannery × Illiam Nargoodah
Nyikina artist and craftsman Illiam Nargoodah, hailing from Fitzroy Crossing in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia, received a broken axe from scientist, explorer and conservationist Tim Flannery. Through creative application of his metal working skills, Illiam transformed the axe into a poetic visual narrative or tableau vivant, expressing the power and agency of the axe as an instrument of production. Illiam also used a small off cut from this metalsmithing, to create a replica miniature axe as a gift for Tim.
Yael Stone × David Caon
Leading Australian industrial designer David Caon repairs and transforms a broken Vespa motor scooter donated by actor and climate change activist Yael Stone. With a focus on functional and aesthetic requirements, David updates the scooter through mechanical and styling changes to deliver a sophisticated contribution to the custom and modding genres of automotive design.
Bianca Spender × Lucy Mcrae
World renowned science fiction artist and body architect Lucy McRae received a box of unsalable garments from fashion designer Bianca Spender. Combining the garments with a well-used Knoll chaise lounge designed by Richard Schultz in 1966 that was found on craigslist in Los Angeles, Lucy creates a striking addition to her iconic survival/compression series of artworks.
01_ Transformative Repair × ADC Live Auction
2nd June – 10th June 2022
Artist talk: 4th June
Auction: 9th June
On Thursday evening June 9, 2022 the Australian Design Centre (ADC) will host a ground-breaking design event, an auction of creatively repaired broken objects provided by notable climate change activists, creatives and champions of design from Sydney and the Illawarra.
A selection of emerging and leading Australian artists, designers and craftspeople were specially commissioned to reinterpret these objects using innovative approaches to repair and reuse.
In partnership with the ADC, the University of South Australia, the University of New South Wales and JamFactory Craft and Design, and funded by the Australian Research Council, this project develops and tests new models for the sustainable use of materials and products, establishing new opportunities for consumers, collectors and the public to thoughtfully and beautifully repair their broken things.
From June 2 to 10, 2022 this exciting and eclectic mix of objects will be on display at the Australian Design Centre on 101—115 William Street, Darlinghurst, in Sydney. On June 9, 2022 works for sale will be auctioned by Andrew Shapiro, Sydney’s noted auctioneer with 30 years of experience across collectible design and decorative arts.
Download the digital catalogue for estimates and details.
To be a part of the experience, register below and find out more.
Contributors include:
Sally Dan-Cuthbert × Liz Williamson
Master weaver Liz Williamson and collaborator Tulla Carson were tasked with the challenge of restoring two extraordinary ’Plan-o-spider’ chairs owned by Sydney gallerist Sally Dan-Cuthbert. These chairs, designed in France by Hoffer and manufactured by Plan in the 1950s, presented a range of technical challenges. With the assistance of Nicole Robins and Chris Hitch, Liz and Tulla built on their provenance and stretched the boundaries of restoration with new materials and a colour palette that brings these once disintegrating chairs into the 21st century. Williamson then used the scrap elastic from the old webbing to create a series of elegant weavings, challenging the expectations of what can be done with waste.
Hugo Gruzman × Kyoko Hashimoto
Contemporary jeweller Kyoko Hashimoto repairs and transforms two broken model aeroplanes from musician Hugo Gruzman of Flight Facilities, one of them being a scale model of a Cessna 310 belonging to Hugo’s grandfather, air-sea rescue inventor Laurie Gruzman, a formative influence on the name and concept of Hugo’s band. In collaboration with Australian-born, Texas-based visual artist Ebony Fleur, a 3D animated version of the model aeroplane in flight was also created and minted as an NFT. Rounding off her transformative repairs, Kyoko transformed the second model, a Qantas 747, the “Queen of Skies”, into the zenith of jewellery typologies: a crown.
Tim Flannery × Illiam Nargoodah
Nyikina artist and craftsman Illiam Nargoodah, hailing from Fitzroy Crossing in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia, received a broken axe from scientist, explorer and conservationist Tim Flannery. Through creative application of his metal working skills, Illiam transformed the axe into a poetic visual narrative or tableau vivant, expressing the power and agency of the axe as an instrument of production. Illiam also used a small off cut from this metalsmithing, to create a replica miniature axe as a gift for Tim.
Edra & The Campana Brothers × Adam Goodrum
Leading Australian furniture designer Adam Goodrum obtained a magnificent but damaged aluminium lamp, designed by the Campana Brothers and provided to the project by Italian furniture manufacturer Edra. In a deft poetic move, Adam chose to transition the lamp from a pendant to floor standing lamp using only the existing aluminium components. With studio assistant Xavier Tafft, Adam slowly and painstakingly disassembled and reassembled hundreds of aluminium components to manifest this transformation.
Yael Stone × David Caon
Leading Australian industrial designer David Caon repairs and transforms a broken Vespa motor scooter donated by actor and climate change activist Yael Stone. With a focus on functional and aesthetic requirements, David updates the scooter through mechanical and styling changes to deliver a sophisticated contribution to the custom and modding genres of automotive design.
Bianca Spender × Lucy Mcrae
World renowned science fiction artist and body architect Lucy McRae received a box of unsalable garments from fashion designer Bianca Spender. Combining the garments with a well-used Knoll chaise lounge designed by Richard Schultz in 1966 that was found on craigslist in Los Angeles, Lucy creates a striking addition to her iconic survival/compression series of artworks.
Featured Designers
TR × Australian Design Centre
David Caon
David’s studio excels at applying design thinking to industrial process and prides itself on an ability to connect people to the things they use and the spaces they move through from day to day.
The combination of big ideas, industrial logic and acute commercial awareness form the core of David’s practice. Operating at this level of excellence has instilled in him an elegance of process and an intuitive sense of complex client requirements.
Adam Goodrum
Adam’s work unifies functionality, aesthetics and a fascination for movement, geometry, and bold colour. His designs celebrate process and craftsmanship and accentuate components and joinery to create functional pieces with spirit and personality.
A firm believer that every environment is defined by the objects within it, Adam designs with the philosophy that an object must therefore justify its existence – through its story and detailing.
Kyoko Hashimoto
Kyoko creates objects that address existential threats posed by globalised resource extraction – particularly for those materials that dominate 21st century existence.
Advocating for new kinds of sensory engagement with materials, she positions her work as tools to open up discussion around objects that transition between exhibition, commercial and domestic spaces in relation to ecology and the body.
Kyoko Hashimoto is working with collaborator Ebony Satchwell.
Lucy McRae
Lucy uses art as a mechanism to signal and provoke our ideologies and ethics about who we are and where we are headed.
Working across installation, film, photography, artificial intelligence and edible technology, Lucy is regarded as a pioneer who blurs the boundaries across art, architecture, design and technology with a healthy disregard for labels that limit interdisciplinary practice.
Illiam Nargoodah
Illiam began his creative practice at an early age in Coolgardie, making helmets out of cardboard. Now living at Jimbalakudunj Community in the Kimberley region and working as studio technician at Mangkaja Arts, Illiam makes knives, coolamons and bowls. In 2015 he was a selected for Fremantle Art Centre’s Revealed Exhibition program and in 2020 became a finalist in the National Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Award. His functional blades are crafted on a home made forge and incorporate metal, leather and wood scraps he finds lying around, as well as natural materials such as glue from sap and honey.
Liz Williamson
Specialising in hand-woven textiles, Liz’s practice involves specific cultural, community and historical associations. At the heart of her weaving is an interest in innovative, experimental, and unusual designs created at the loom, many involving collaborating with colleagues. Recent weavings reference the tradition of woven rag rugs, the domestic art of darning cloth and the idea of ‘making do’ with readily available materials; many works are woven with materials naturally coloured by locally sourced eucalyptus dyes.
Liz Williamson is working with collaborator Tulla Carson.
Collaborators
Ebony Satchwell
Ebony Fleur is Australian 3D artist and designer working out of Austin, Texas, with a diverse range of creative production spanning 3D rendering, 3D animation, product visualisation, album artwork, typography and jewellery design.
Her work has been shown in galleries and boutiques around the world including the Museum of Arts and Design NY and Art Gallery of NSW Sydney, and has been featured in publications including Vogue, W Magazine, Oyster, Frankie and Harper’s Bazaar.
Ebony Satchwell is collaborating with featured designer Kyoko Hashimoto.
Tulla Carson
Tulla Carson is a Sydney-based multidisciplinary object designer, originally from the Byron Bay hinterland. Impassioned by meaningful and authentic design, Tulla weaves her connection to place and landscape into objects, sculpture and materiality. With a process grounded in form and tactility, her her work seeks to provoke a deeper connection between the viewer and the viewed.
She believes unequivocally that objects can enrich our existence through their underlying narrative, seeking to provoke deeper conversations and cultivate meaningful interactions.
Tulla Carson is collaborating with featured designer Liz Williamson.
Transformative Repair is a UniSA led Australian Research Council project funded by the Australian Government in collaboration with the following organisations:
