In Media Res


Exhibition
Walyalup
2019



Paper Chair


Furniture
Boorloo & Kepa Kurl
2019



Mutable Mobile



Exhibition piece
Walyalup
2019



Curated Exhibition
PS Art Space
Walyalup/Fremantle
2019
As co-curators of In Media Res, Charlotte and Mark worked with a group of emerging and established Western Australian designers and architects in a curated exhibition of material-practice in product, furniture, spatial, and lighting design. The curated exhibition, public programming, and original essays, highlight  the transformative agency of material practice and the role of design in within contemporary societies. The collection of objects exhibited — critical, speculative, and reflexive — is part of our longer-term interrogation of contemporary material-based design, its many forms and permutations.

Exhibitors:
Amber Martin
Charlotte May
Guy Eddington
Kitely Kianoosh
Lara Camilla Pinho
Mark Sawyer
MORQ
Patrick Bendall
Phillip Goldswain
Tyron Hanlon
Sarah Brooke

Above: Tyran Hanlon, ‘Laminae Collection’ 

Above: Phillip Goldswain & Guy Eddington, ‘Boundary Objects’ 

Above: Amber Martin, ‘Homeward Drawers’


Above and below: Patrick Bendall, ‘Cardboard Therapy’




MORQ, ‘A Process of Matter’


Above: Catalogue and flyer








Installation 
with Lara Camilla Pinho 
& Sarah Brooke
Walyalup/Fremantle
2019
This is a Mutable Mobile a fluid object designed to travel and change over time. It can be assembled and disassembled with simple tools and might gradually change shape without disappearing altogether. This object sits within the broader web of concerns of the Re-Form Initiative: a design-research project examining the responsibility of designers in the context of post-consumer plastic waste. That larger project assembles a multitude of actors designers, architects, funding bodies, government agencies, non-profit organisations, community groups, marine scientists, students, shearwaters, molds, mills, and machines around a common concern. A three-dimensional grid combining the ‘natural’ and the ‘synthetic’: Tasmanian Oak horizontal and vertical members are literally and metaphorically drawn together with a bespoke pin of injection-molded recycled plastic while a simple timber wedge applies pressure to the connection. 
 















Furniture design
Boorloo & Kepa Kurl
2019
The life of a chair during its use and after it is no longer a useful object were the initial concerns for this design. The project asks two critical questions. How can a human-object relationship strengthen over time? And, what happens when a delicate composition of linen, cotton, wool, beeswax, plywood, and steel is no longer considered an ‘object of value’ and moves into the less desirable classification of ‘waste’.

Beeswax is an effective barrier against air and moisture. It has been used to coat both the fabric and metal, affording them some protection. It is also a biodegradable material, meaning it will slowly dissipate, carried away by oily hands and clothing fibres. Over time the linen will soften, like worn paper that has been folded and refolded again and again. The metal frame will develop a rich patina defined by areas that hands touch most frequently. These marks of use are left on the chair just as the chair leaves its marks on the bodies held within its frame. The steel will last lifetimes if properly cared for and can make a home for new upholstery. All the soft materials are undyed, untreated, and biodegradable. These parts can be easily composted, giving new meaning and an extended life to this object beyond its immediate aesthetic and functional value.