Emerging Contemporaries

Maitlan Brown: As a young and
productive industrial designer Maitlan
explores and experiments with organic
forms, new technologies and processes
to access functional and aesthetic
solutions.
Her final chair prototype shows both
creative flair and sensitive design and
reflects her genuine excitement in the
possibilities and newness of 3D printing
technologies.
Akka Ballinger Constanin: Akka
communicates an ecological awareness
in her drawing and printmaking,
sometimes using leaves to paint on
to emphasize this foundation in her
practice .Her excellent video gives a
summary of her work and process, her
awareness of environment and the need
for education and action.
Ned Collins: Through exploration and
questioning, and applying a curious and
contemporary mindset, together with
fine cabinetry techniques and skills, Ned
has created a functional and fluid form
in ‘A Statement on Cabinets and the
Curiosities of Containment’ (2020). It is
a design to be played with. It achieves
as an interactive work of art. And it is
beautiful.
Lea Durie: Lea combines her studies
in Landscape Architecture, Ceramics
and Visual Arts to inform her work
and her responses to drought in the
Murray Darling system; ‘When the Rivers
Run Dry’ originates from the artist’s
shock experienced in encountering
dry waterways on a road trip to Broken
Hill. The work leaves us pondering and
so delivers the thoughtful ecological
message it intends to.
Annalise Frediwicks: Using her wit and
the convention of the trope this artist
brings an incisive vision to the knitwear
catalogue, featuring items such as a
knitted aluminum mask.
Daniel Leone: David’s ceramic sculpture
with its primitive-modernist feel
encourages us to rethink a simple
human stance, with a simplicity of being,
and of form. The work encourages us to
see the human form in a new way.
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