Category: Exhibitions
DEATH AND LIFE
Death and Life marks designer Dean Toepfer’s debut solo exhibition, an evocative exploration of transformation, renewal, and the dualities of human experience. Specialising in furniture, objects, and lighting, this exhibition sees Toepfer using reclaimed parachute silk as the central material in this body of work. Through a meticulous journey of design and craft, he breathes…
DIEGO SUPER BONZA STORE
Diego Faivre presents Diego Super Bonza Store, with guest David Wadelton. Diego Faivre is a French designer and artist based in The Netherlands, known for his playful and conceptual approach to design. Useful Objects welcomes Diego to Melbourne for his first solo exhibition in Australia. Inspired by the disappearing cultural icon of the suburban Milk Bar, Diego…
GAMUT
GAMUT is a unique creative partnership between Alexandra Blac, Australia’s avant-garde fashion accessories designer-maker and Marcus Piper, a leading multi-disciplinary creative, working at the intersection of analogue and digital design. GAMUT, the exhibition’s title, refers to a spectrum of colour, while alluding to the full range of human emotion and hope. Alongside new bodies of…
MARLO LYDA
Marlo Lyda returns to Melbourne with her first solo exhibition at Useful Objects, bringing together recent bodies of work with a new collaboration with Melbourne’s Spacecraft. Lyda’s Turning (Camphor) is a collection of turned timber objects, meticulously crafted from Camphor Laurel timber sourced from forest rehabilitation efforts in the Northern Rivers Region of NSW. Through a process…
DESIRE x DESIGN
Desire is the subject of the first thematic exhibition at Useful Objects. The drive to attain and consume is itself consuming, both the individual and society. Through materials, ideas and forms, a group of designers flesh out the impulse to want – found at the heart of the Design Week prompt ‘Design The World You Want’ – and…