Design events from Artichoke 38

<em>Awkward Beauty</em> marries jewellery and fashion

The complex notion of beauty was explored in an exhibition at Form in Perth, which featured industrial railway workshops draped with jewellery and garments inspired by the space. The interdisciplinary collaboration between Munich jeweller Helen Britton, Perth garment designer Justine McKnight and Perth photographer Michelle Taylor was exhibited by Form at the Midland Railway Workshops in Perth. Each artist created ten works in response to the work created by the others, and inspired by the aesthetics, spatiality and suggestions of identity encompassed within the workshops. The historic seventeen-hectare site, which is in itself an awkward beauty, is at once majestic, fragile, industrial and domestic – it is poised in a rare space between a crumbling history and a tangible future.

Form
+61 8 9226 2799
form.net.au

Waterfall by Tokujin Yoshioka stirs the senses

Waterfall is the first installation to be created by Japanese designer/artist Tokujin Yoshioka in Australia. Created by Yoshioka himself from thousands of transparent plastic straws at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation in Sydney, the entire gallery space was taken over, with the artist’s Waterfall benches providing anchor points through the space. The original idea is that these pieces of furniture – made of solid glass – look like a section has been cut out of a waterfall – hence the name. Yoshioka explains: “I try to create something, not physical, but using human senses, something spiritual.”

Tokujin Yoshioka
tokujin.com

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
+61 2 9331 1112
sherman-scaf.org.au