Seeing and Knowing New Perspectives in Furniture Exhibition Catalogue

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Image: Brandon Harrison | Minilith, 2023 | Photo: Allena Tran
Seeing and Knowing: New Perspectives in Furniture Exhibition Statement Seeing and Knowing: New Perspectives in Furniture is a group exhibition featuring the work of Bryn Davies, Brandon Harrison, Jess Humpston, Daniel Little and Georgia Szymanski. Furniture holds an interesting dichotomy within our everyday lives: it is a phenomenon that spans the artistic and the functional, from complex to minimalist. Like all craft it has been deeply affected by changes in culture, trends, and technology. How we see a piece of furniture is guided by many preconceptions and enculturated assumptions about where they fit in our world. Mass consumption, ease of production, and ubiquity are just some of many modern forces that change how we live with our objects and skew their value. Modern consumerism has altered our connection to the materials, the process and the inspiration behind much artistry and craft. These forces constitute the ‘knowing’ that we bring to our ‘seeing’ of objects. The purpose of this group exhibition is to encourage the viewer to explore different ways of seeing, to bring curiosity to the mundane and to challenge the familiarity, preconceptions and ‘knowing’ that influence our view of objects, in this case furniture. This exhibition hopes to be a celebration of the human aspect in making, the beauty of everyday things, to shed light on the familiar and allow the viewer to explore, touch and experience furniture, its material, and its process from a different perspective.
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Page 5: 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 and 26: Image: Claudia Vogel | Adapt A Benc
Page 27 and 28: Image: Georgia Szymanski | Curved D

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