A design exhibition showcasing a collection of works from previous and current students of the School of Art Furniture Workshop, Australian National University, Canberra.
“This exhibition is about design; it is about imagination and creativity: it is the argument of how the Furniture/Wood Workshop has evolved in the first decade of the 21st century.
George Ingham established the Workshop in 1982 as a centre of excellence in fine furniture making within the then Canberra School of Art. Changes wrought to the School by its subsequent insertion into the Australian National University, along with societal identification of issues of sustainability, environmental carbon impost, and economic stringency, has seen the evolution of a different character. With no falling away of the standards of ‘how to’, there has been increasing emphasis on ‘why’.
Furniture & Events | Where: Canberra, ACT
So, what is memory? An intuitive response might be that it is past experiences retrieved. Yet, memory is implicated in the identity of the Workshop as much as it is in that of any individual. Through the past and present student body memories have become a body of knowledge, an ethos of shared, lived experience. Meaning, learning actively happens here, constructed from images that overlap each other, aligning themselves momentarily; then shifting slightly, encouraging re-evaluation and re-interpretation.
The objects in this exhibition will be from singular lives, but all originate from the commonality of experience of the practice derived from the elicitation and growth of ideas.”
Rodney Hayward, 2010 (Head of Furniture Workshop - ANU School Of Art, Canberra)
DETAILS
A CONTAINER OF MEMORIES
When: 8 - 31 July, OPENING: 6pm Thursday 8th July by Vincent Plush (Director of Research and Development, National Film and Sound Archive)
Where: ANU School of Art Gallery, Ellery Crescent, Acton, A.C.T 0200
Gallery Hours: 10.30am - 5pm Tuesday - Friday, Noon - 5pm Saturday
Contact: (02) 6125 5841 [E] sofagallery@anu.edu.au
Images: Elaine Kong, James Milligan - Photography: Stuart Hay
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