Tactile Imagination: Design Research Processes | The College of Fine Arts
Tactile Imagination: Design Research Processes
| When: | May 24, 2007 - Jun 30, 2007 |
| Artist(s): | Rina Bernabei + Kelly Freeman, Tom Loveday, Andrew Macklin, Bill MacMahon + Matthew Johnson, Ainslie Murray, Ann Quinlan + Oya Demirbilek |
| Curated by: | Tom Loveday |
| Additional Information: | Thursday 24 May Opening Night 5.30-7.30pm Exhibition Talk Thursday 7 June 2.00pm |
In Tactile Imagination, industrial designers, architects and
artists deliberately step outside their comfort zones and smash the boundaries of their
disciplines.
Tactile Imagination is the brain child of Tom Loveday,
senior lecturer in the Faculty of the Built Environment at UNSW. He invited fellow members of the
faculty's Design Research Group to celebrate the creative process.
Tactile Imagination, is about taking risks and using a
hands-on approach to making discoveries. Rina Bernabei + Kelly Freeman, Tom Loveday, Andrew
Macklin, William MacMahon + Matthew Johnson, Ainslie Murray and Ann Quinlan + Oya Demirbilek use
painting, sculpture, installation and digital projections to extend their theoretical research into
the real world of art.
Architect William MacMahon teamed up with Matthew Johnson, one of Australia's best known
abstract painters. In Apelles' Line 4, they explore the dynamic possibilities of
LED lights as colour compositions in interior space.
Tom Loveday tries to see the world through the eyes of an extra terrestrial. His 52 paintings
and book, Infrathin: Advice for Aliens, are a bold graphic mix of
semaphore-esqie symbols and the deliberately obscure notions of avant garde trickster Marcel
Duchamp.
Successful industrial design duo, bernabeifreeman use their distinctive lighting designs to
create an installation which explores the unexpected similarities between textiles and sheet metal.
For further information please contact
Ivan Dougherty Gallery