Food as art, decoration and delicious consumption spotted at the opening celebration to honour 50 years of Kaldor Public Art Projects. In collaboration with the Art Gallery of New South Wales the Kaldor Public Art Projects has been created by British artist Michael Landy. This exhibition at the Gallery of NSW brings an artist’s perspective to bear on the 50-year history and 34 ground breaking, art projects. Making Art Public also features major new commissions and presentations as well as a new creative learning space.
Viktor & Rolf is a fashion house which specialises in creating conceptual and avant-garde designs. It was founded in 1993 by Dutch designers Viktor Horsting Geldrop and Rolf Snoeren. For more than twenty years Viktor & Rolf have sought to challenge preconceptions of fashion, and bridge the divide between fashion and art. Viktor & Rolf have designed both haute couture and ready-to-wear collections. The duo is renowned for their avant-garde designs, which rely heavily on theatrical and performative fashion runways as seen in the examples featured. www.viktor-rolf.com
Spotted in K11 Hong Kong. Sustainability is at the core of everything brand BOTTLETOP does on the product journey; from the raw materials, to the moment it reaches a customer’s hands. All of their bags incorporate upcycled metal ring pulls in their design. These are sourced and cleaned in Brazil to create their signature chain mail fabric. The company trains local artisans with new skills and crafts to manufacture the items and use plastic-free packaging. To reduce pollution, they do not use any plastic when the goods are shipped to customers- instead, they arrive in recycled cardboard packaging.
https://bottletop.org/
Sculptor Douglas Tausik Ryder is an American artist whose organic, sensual style is a tension between geometry and nature. He responds to the digital age with conceptual, digital, and analog practices. Tausik Ryder’s technology-assisted art making delivers expressive, crafted sculptures. His sculptures are CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machined after a series of creative interventions, then painstakingly assembled and hand-finished. His trial and error methods push against digital and industrial limitations informed by his decades of exploration in this area. He ignites a dialogue about what art is now and what it will be in the future. www.douglastausikryder.com
Fashion brand Gorman's Indigenous Artist Collaboration. Lisa Gorman has teamed up with the remote Art Centre Mangkaja in WA to produce a collection to launch in MCA in Sydney and Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair. The artworks of 5 senior artists feature in this collection: Ngarralja Tommy May, Sonia Kurarra, Daisy Japulija, Nada Tigila Rawlins and Lisa Uhl (Sadly Ms Lisa Uhl and Mrs Nada Rawlins have since passed away). To further enhance this important collection Lisa collaborated with French photographer Charles Freger who is known for his series of photographic portraits. Here he has captured fashion as art- in landscape. https://www.gormanshop.com.au/mangkaja-x-gorman-lookbook/
