Details
Free, no booking required
Oddaný Gallery
491 Sydney Road, Brunswick VIC 3056, Australia
Dates
Fri 22 May 6.30 – 9pm
Opening Night
Sat 23 May 12 – 6pm
Intermediary is a publication and curatorial testing ground that seeks to develop a fertile space for dialogue between estranged creative disciplines.
Sisters, Ellen and Frances Waite – alongside their friend and collaborator, Adele D’Souza – have co-curated and co-designed the publication to examine the complex networks that connect art, design and craft. Drawing on the dual definitions of ‘intermediary,’ as both a mediator and an indeterminate stage, the publication aims to instigate collaboration and critique between creative disciplines, without flattening the complex and often fraught distinctions between them.
In the debut issue of Intermediary, we consider failed utopias and handicraft, publishing the work and writing of fourteen early-to-mid career crafts people, artists, designers, writers and hobbyists.
The launch of this project will involve an exhibition of works by Intermediary’s contributors with the publication available for purchase.
Participants
Frances Waite
Frances Waite is an early-career artist, utilising collage, assemblage and bastardised craft practices. Her practice ritualises the picking and peeling of historical imagination.
Ellen Waite
Ellen Waite is an Experience Designer, working across exhibition graphic design, wayfinding and placemaking. They have worked with the National Gallery of Victoria’s Exhibition Design Team, along with RMIT University’s School of Design and RMIT Culture. Their personal practice puts community at the forefront, weaving together tactility, playful graphic design, spatial design and co-design.
Other contributors
Azul Bermudez, Nicholas Currie, Joseph Doggett-Willias, Adele D'Souza, Eleanor Jordan-Gahan, Josephine Floyd, Indy Heath, Rachelle Koumouris, Xinyuan (Caesar) Li, Lara Oluklu, Nandini Sathyamurthy, Angela Sexton, Lola Soupionas, Isabel Trufas and Ziyi Wei.