Seeing and Knowing New Perspectives in Furniture Exhibition Catalogue

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Georgia Szymanski ARTIST STATEMENT I am a multi-disciplinary designer maker based in Naarm (Melbourne). I work primarily with wood to create functional pieces, blurring the lines between furniture, object and sculpture. My practice investigates intimacy within personal and collective spaces through a variety of scale and material matter. I am intent on practicing my craft as a way of re-evaluating the beauty of commonplace objects and their role in our sense of place. Made to Measure tabletop uses offcuts from a previous project and legs that I developed and created at Sturt School for Wood in 2022. The legs are formed using a sliding partner jig with 12 laminations steam bent and glued in the jig. The steam bent process was my first experience at bending and re-producing multiples. I worked with a metal fabricator Old Four Legs to create the prototype Weight of Some Thing. Working with a fabricator on a piece of furniture was another first experience. The development of my furniture craft hinges on incorporating new materials, techniques and ways of production. ARTIST BIOGRAPHY Georgia completed a Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) at RMIT in 2018, a Certificate II in Cabinet and Furniture Making at Box Hill Institute in 2020 and graduated from Sturt School for Wood with a Certificate IV in Fine Furniture Making in 2022. Georgia currently teaches an open course at the Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking and facilitates furniture making with people with disabilities at Connecting to Australia in Brunswick, Melbourne. Georgia is currently curating and presenting an exhibition with Jess Humpston for Melbourne Design Week 2024. Georgia has recently exhibited at the Melbourne Design Fringe 2023 Speculation: Eight Billion Little Utopias. She exhibited as part of the Ceres Fair Wood exhibition for Melbourne Design Week 2023 and with Vivid Emerging Designer Awards. Georgia was jointly granted the Furniture Design Award and Authentic Design Alliance Award of Merit in 2022 by the Latitude Group Vivid Emerging Designer Awards.
Image: Georgia Szymanski | Curved Drawers, 2022 | Photo: Issy Connelley
Page 1 and 2: Seeing and Knowing: New Perspective
Page 5 and 6: Image: Jess Humpston | Calefaction,
Page 9 and 10: Image: Bryn Davies | Solace 1, 2023
Page 11 and 12: Image: Bryn Davies | Solace 1, 2023
Page 13 and 14: Image: Brandon Harrison | Minilith,
Page 15 and 16: Image: Brandon Harrison | SLYD, 202
Page 17 and 18: Image: Daniel Little | ARBR Chair,
Page 19 and 20: Image: Daniel Little | ARBR Chair,
Page 21 and 22: Image: Jess Humpston | Calefaction,
Page 23 and 24: Image: Jess Humpston | Margin, 2023
Page 25: Image: Claudia Vogel | Adapt A Benc

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