crash II

The second series of Crash objects, this time exhibited at Craft Victoria for the 2018 ‘Lights Out’ group exhibition.

Crash is a series of experimental design objects created for  Artefacts, a 2018 Melbourne Design Week satellite exhibition. The collection consists of two bowls, two wall lights and a table lamp.

Named after the controversial 1996 David Cronenberg film, Crash is a series of objects that seek to create attraction from the remnants of disaster. What initially appear to be abstract rippling surfaces, are in fact re-purposed sections of car panels salvaged from car wreckers. The most dynamic sections of panel are cut away and sandblasted back to their raw metal state. They are then re-coated in high gloss automotive paint and assigned a new functional purpose. Crash is not an exercise in up-cycling, but rather an attempt to up-end how we relate to a surplus material we usually associate with catastrophe.

Hand-made in our Melbourne studio.