Dozing
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Accessible bathroom, All gender bathroom, Seating available, Wheelchair accessibleAs part of Melbourne Design Week 2024, Artbank has invited Melbourne artist Narelle Desmond to exhibit recent and historical works alongside works by Hany Armanious, Vivienne Binns, Lou Hubbard and Sangeeta Sandrasegar from the Artbank Collection.
Desmond is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the intersections of design, art history, critical theory, and popular culture. Her practice examines the role of design and manufactured objects in shaping our experiences. Themes such as consumerism and practices of mass production raise questions for her about the consequences of modernity and its reductive afterlife. Through this lens her artworks, reinterpret familiar objects and commercial products, using them as tools to navigate and critique the world, revealing the complex ways in which design influences our reality.
Dozing presents a series of Desmond’s works alongside works from the Artbank Collection. The works range from the playful informal aesthetic of the ready-made in Lou Hubbard and Hany Armanious, through to critical juxtapositions posed by Vivienne Binns and Sangeeta Sandrasegar. These works operate in the exhibition space with consideration to staging and the interior.
The exhibition will continue until July 5.
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Accessible bathroom, All gender bathroom, Seating available, Wheelchair accessibleAs part of Melbourne Design Week 2024, Artbank has invited Melbourne artist Narelle Desmond to exhibit recent and historical works alongside works by Hany Armanious, Vivienne Binns, Lou Hubbard and Sangeeta Sandrasegar from the Artbank Collection.
Desmond is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the intersections of design, art history, critical theory, and popular culture. Her practice examines the role of design and manufactured objects in shaping our experiences. Themes such as consumerism and practices of mass production raise questions for her about the consequences of modernity and its reductive afterlife. Through this lens her artworks, reinterpret familiar objects and commercial products, using them as tools to navigate and critique the world, revealing the complex ways in which design influences our reality.
Dozing presents a series of Desmond’s works alongside works from the Artbank Collection. The works range from the playful informal aesthetic of the ready-made in Lou Hubbard and Hany Armanious, through to critical juxtapositions posed by Vivienne Binns and Sangeeta Sandrasegar. These works operate in the exhibition space with consideration to staging and the interior.
The exhibition will continue until July 5.