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WOOD: art design architecture
This exciting contemporary exhibition showcases work by contemporary Australian artists, designers and architects.
It represents a cross-section of current creative practices, modes of thinking and relationships to this fundamental material and combines furniture and functional objects, sculptural works (including wood carving by Indigenous artists), interiors and architectural work. The exhibition looks at the use of wood through three lenses; place and identity, sustainability and ecology, craftsmanship and technology.
Art, design and architecture are rarely brought together in a single exhibition, but doing so allows a broader exploration of our relationship to wood and how we engage with it in our everyday lives.
Wood is inseparably connected to the human condition. From mankind's earliest manipulation of sticks for warmth, shelter and gathering food, the increasingly sophisticated ways that we have used and understood this material reflect the history of civilisation itself.
This landmark exhibition examines our ever evolving relationship to wood through its use in the art, design and architecture of today.
WOOD: art design architecture is showing across two venues in Adelaide - Jam Factory and the Santos Museum of Economic Botany within the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide before touring nationally to eight other venues.
Exhibition dates and venues are:
Riddoch Art Gallery - Mt Gambier, SA. 3 May - 30 June 2013
Design Centre Tasmania - Launceston, TAS. 12 July - 8 September 2013
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery - Bathurst, NSW. 25 October - 8 December 2013
Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery - Lake Macquarie, NSW. 14 Feb - 28 April 2014
QUT Art Museum - Brisbane, QLD. 9 May - 6 July 2014
Kick Arts - Cairns, QLD. 18 July - 14 September 2014
Object The Australian Design Centre - Sydney, NSW. 4 October - 14 December 2014