The Rigg Design exhibition runs from October until February 2019 and is the highest accolade for contemporary design in Australia and is awarded as an outcome of an exhibition that takes place every three years at the NGV Australia. The exhibition is an opportunity for an invited shortlist of participants to present their ideas and practice entitled ‘Domestic Living'. Curated by NGV curators for Contemporary Design and Architecture, Ewan McEoin and Simone Leamon, the Rigg Design Prize 2018 will feature ten outstanding Australian practitioners working in the field of interior design and decoration. Displayed at NGV Australia on level 3 across four galleries comprising of one thousand and one hundred square metres the Rigg Design Prize 2018 is a high-profile opportunity for the shortlisted designers to showcase their creative practice in a single purpose build room for the consideration of an international judge.
Exhibition October 2018 - February 2019
National Gallery Victoria, Australia
NGV Rigg Design Prize
WUNDERKAMMER
As an Architect, for me the interior of a space is equally important as the built form it sits within.
I am currently building my own home, Villa Carmelina, a grand 1889 Victorian Italiante terrace showcasing my passion of colour, pattern, texture, art, light, form, functionality and beautifully crafted artisanal materials and finishes.
The sequence of six rooms on exhibition are an abstract respresentation of my home, setup as monochromatic dioramas. The artworks, sculptures, objects and collectables featured in the monochromatic wallpaper vignettes are items I have gathered throughout my lifetime.
Each room displays a ‘wunderkammer’. Within each cabinet of curiosities resides a prized “jewel”, a miniature object from my collection which has inspired the ‘Domestic Living’ space in which it is being displayed.
These curiosities are intrinsic to my living environment and I have invited six artists I have collected over the years to recreate them as “jewels” in miniature.
The macabrely beautiful forms created in tiny bones by Linde Ivimey, the exquisite intricacy of Benja Harney’s paper sculptures, the light refracting from Reuben Paterson’s glitter artworks, Di Holdsworth’s extraordinary automata assemblages, the tactile pleasures of Kirsten Frederick’s knitted Angora woolwork and Maris Cummin’s intricate Japanese glass beading are all things that provide me with wonder and delight.
An Architect who is not cookie cutter or formulaic that thrives on tailoring spaces that embrace and celebrates colour, pattern, decoration and texture in domestic interiors. Adopting all those elements to create a multi-dimensional , living portrait of the life lived within those walls. A philosophy which underpins everything I create for each and every client.
Creating Villa Carmelina has given me the ultimate canvas to do that, but this time for myself.