Staff Profiles

Tessa Rapaport

Casual Academic

School of Design Studies

Qualifications

B. Design (Hons 1st class)

Tessa Rapaport is a writer and interdisciplinary artist/designer working on rediection towards sustainment. She collaborates with Karl Logge (as Makeshift) on public projects that span sculpture and installation, drawing, printmaking, object, graphic and exhibition design, writing and curating. In 2010 they produced a mobile food cart/native beehive for the Museum of Contemporary Art as part of ‘In the Balance: Art for a Changing World’, held solo exhibitions at 4A Contemporary Art Centre (‘Make-do Garden City’) and Firstdraft (‘Colony Collapse’), and were awarded a Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship. Tessa has been teaching design theory and studio at the College of Fine Arts (UNSW) & the University of Technology Sydney since 2004.

www.makeshift.com.au