Craft Victoria has announced two exhibitions that put sustainability and the environment first. While that hardly feels like a new curatorial premise today, what is exciting about this pairing of exhibitions is the way it shifts the language around material and reuse as design-driven objects with viable commercial applications.
Simply, these objects read as high-end pieces – their materiality just deepens the dialogue. For example, collaborative duo Pit Projects (Anni Hagberg and Michael Gittings) work with materials scavenged from illegal tips, while Locki Humphrey creates leather alternatives from the noxious weed, prickly pear.
