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RED: Object | The College of Fine Arts
RED: Object | The College of Fine Arts
The Research in Experimental Design: Object group (RED Object) is a recently launched collaboration
of practitioners and researchers at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW, who explore the relationships
between design, craft, visual art and the histories and theories of art and design.
Investigating the parameters of design in relation to visual art and craft, RED Object
examines the influences of modern art in design and the historical links between high and low
technologies and distribution systems. Their research focus centres on how emergent
interdisciplinary design practices question and challenge social conventions in relation to
histories of design and cultural exchange. In particular, RED Object explores the space where
studio practice engages with social action, sustainable resource management, and where the
experimental meshes with the expressive. Ongoing interrogations* of the hybridity and differences
arising between the fields of art and design, mass production and the handmade, physical and
virtual and the past and future has led to the formation of the RED Object group, encouraging
practice based research. Widely published in exhibitions, television programmes* as well as in
academic journals and conferences, researchers involved in RED Object include award winning
designer and ceramicist Rod Bamford, furniture and object designer Karina Clarke, ceramicist
Jacqueline Clayton, artist and design writer Katherine Moline, jewellery designer Wendy Parker, and
esteemed textile artist Liz Williamson.