2024 Craft + Design Canberra Festival | Speculative Materialism | Multiple Artists

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Speculative Materialism: Making for the Future engages with the complexities of being a material maker in a world where mass consumption and contemporary materiality plagues the health of the planet.

Artists in the exhibition explore the regenerative potential of a range of materials, exploring creative solutions for environmental problems, deploying design thinking to reframe and propose solutions to problems, and utilising innovative use of transformational materials. Works in the exhibition engage with physical, imaginative, terrestrial and aquatic environments.

Curated by Waratah Lahy and Jodie Cunningham, Craft + Design Canberra, with contributions from Christian Sirois.

Artists: Alexi Freeman | Minka Gillian | Nicole Jakins | Living Seawalls | Halie Rubenis | Niklavs Rubenis | Narelle White | Molly Desmond | Daniel Leone | Julie Pennington | Beth O'Sullivan

 

Image Credit: L-R Beth O'Sullivan, Julie Pennington, Daniel Leone, Molly Desmond | Works installed for coral growth at the National Zoo and Aquarium, 2024 | Photograph by Tim Bean
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