SATELLITE EXHIBITIONS: Melbourne


Anita Cummins’ Pompoms


Bio-accessory by Brittany Veitch and Ben Landau

PANTONE POMPOM
by Anita Cummins
Dates: Tuesday 30 June – Saturday 22 August
Venue: Mailbox 141, Entrance 141-143 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

Explores the relationship between colour, landscape and urban topography.

Anita Cummins is a Melbourne based textile artist. She graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma of Creative Arts. Having exhibited in a number of group shows, Anita is making her debut as an independent artist with her installation Pantone PomPom. Anita is an obsessive knitter and maker of pom-poms and has recently launched a commercial range of handmade scarves under her own name.

 

BIO-ACCESSORIES
by Brittany Veitch and Ben Landau
Dates: Sunday 2 – Sunday 30 August
Artist talk: Saturday 8 August, 2pm @ City Library Seminar Room
Venue: City Library Niches, 253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

Living in the city isolates us from the natural world. Built environments are barriers to greenery, fresh air, sea breezes and sunlight. Skyscrapers soar above us instead of trees, while laneway stench emanates from the city grid. Bio-accessories is a series of wearable couture pieces which mask the unpleasant sights, sounds and scents of the city in an attempt to bring some of the natural world back into civil living.

Each work in Bio-accessories incorporates a living organism to accompany the wearer throughout their day, creating a symbiotic relationship. The human tends to the animal or plant, which reciprocates by bringing fresh air, light, greenery, privacy or birdsong to the wearer. The pieces are representative of mobile natural environments, framed within a fashionable alternative the couture accessory. With a trend towards boutique individuality, Bio-accessories provide an unusual take on the wearable garment.

Bio-accessories is an experimental speculation of responsive, functional, fashionable and emotional craft within a city living context.

Ben Landau recently graduated from Industrial Design at RMIT, where his focus was on interactive, exhibition, experience and theatre design. He is currently a freelance designer, working at Melbourne Museums MV studios and tutoring at RMIT. Bens interests stem from speculative and experimental designs which examine the way people interact with each other and their environment. Ben hopes to travel, learn every day, design valuable experiences for users/audiences and continue to work with creative companies of various disciplines, in Australia and abroad.

Brittany Veitch is a Melbourne based felt and soft sculpture artist. In late 2007, Brittany created The Vibrant City to incubate ideas and give a home to an ever-increasing collection of hand-sewn curios. Brittany makes designer hand-sewn toys and soft sculpture, influenced by macabre and kooky humour using handmade felt and vintage fabrics. A self-taught textile enthusiast, Brittanys interest in working with natural fibres stems from her family’s Alpaca farm. As a trained Industrial Designer (BA Design, Industrial Design, RMIT University, 2007), Brittany is a Toymaker at heart, with a love for all things fabric, the tragically cute and Cribbage.

 

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