Emerging Contemporaries
Emerging Contemporaries 4 February - 20 March 2021 Akka Ballenger | Mika Benesh | Millie Black | Maitlan Brown | Ned Collins | Lea Durie | Annalise Fredericks | Daniel Leone | Christine Little | David Liu | Denni Maroudas | Olinda Narayanan | Bling Yiu | Jonathon Zalakos Emerging Contemporaries is the Craft ACT National Award Exhibition for early-career artists. This exhibition plays a pivotal role in supporting and transitioning artists into professional practice and placing Australian artists in view of the national cultural collecting institutions, business and industry, and audience. We're always looking for new talent to nurture and add to our Craft ACT community. We have an Emerging Contemporaries Award that we give to emerging talent from a number of sources: Sturt School for Wood, Canberra Potters Society, Canberra Institute of Technology, University of Canberra, the ANU School of Art + Design, University of New South Wales and the CAPO Craft ACT Emerging Artist award.
Emerging Contemporaries
4 February - 20 March 2021
Akka Ballenger | Mika Benesh | Millie Black | Maitlan Brown | Ned Collins | Lea Durie | Annalise Fredericks | Daniel Leone | Christine Little | David Liu | Denni Maroudas | Olinda Narayanan | Bling Yiu | Jonathon Zalakos
Emerging Contemporaries is the Craft ACT National Award Exhibition for early-career artists. This exhibition plays a pivotal role in supporting and transitioning artists into professional practice and placing Australian artists in view of the national cultural collecting institutions, business and industry, and audience.
We're always looking for new talent to nurture and add to our Craft ACT community. We have an Emerging Contemporaries Award that we give to emerging talent from a number of sources: Sturt School for Wood, Canberra Potters Society, Canberra Institute of Technology, University of Canberra, the ANU School of Art + Design, University of New South Wales and the CAPO Craft ACT Emerging Artist award.
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David Liu<br />
ANU School of Art + Design<br />
Artist statement<br />
I never thought I would like making<br />
wooden furniture. But from the moment<br />
I touched the fresh timber out of the<br />
thicknesser, I realised that it is the thing<br />
I endeavour for the rest of my life. I love<br />
traditional tools and using them to make<br />
hand-crafted joineries. It helped me to<br />
understand the timber better. My practice<br />
focuses on the geometric forms and<br />
perspective view of the object, which I<br />
hope to invite people to contemplate my<br />
works and rethink it from a distinct angle.<br />
Biography<br />
David is a Cabrera-based artist, designer<br />
and furniture maker. He uses geometric<br />
shapes and perspective views in his<br />
furniture practice and highlights his<br />
work with optical illusion. Audiences are<br />
invited to look at and interpret his works<br />
from different angles. David understands<br />
and expresses the beauty of a complex<br />
world with simplified forms. For instance,<br />
he abstracted the shapes of a curly<br />
leaf and designed the Leaf Table. David<br />
holds a Bachelor of Design degree from<br />
ANU School of Art and Design, is the<br />
2021 furniture workshop associate in<br />
JamFactory, Adelaide.<br />
Image: Leaf Table (detail), 2018, walnut, 30 x 150 x 40cm.<br />
Photo: Prue Hazelgrove.<br />
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