ACDC. Art Craft Design + Curiosities

Participants

Fletcher Arts
At Fletcher Arts, they connect artists with space, working with architects, property developers, interior designers and private collectors to enliven their spaces with art. They sell the individual works of artists they are excited about and believe in, which are current and of very high artistic merit. This commitment has enabled Fletcher Arts to cultivate a pulsing community of artists, craftspeople, and collectors. Regularly visiting artists in their studios, Sarah Fletcher gains an inherent understanding of their process and artistic narrative, which she shares with her buyers to enrich their appreciation of acquired works.

Arthur Koutoulas
As a designer, Arthur Koutoulas has over twenty years of practice within interior design, manufacture and construction. He designs branded environments for commercial, retail and hospitality experiences. Koutoulas’s practice explores and straddles the boundaries between art, furniture, object, interior design and architecture, and his work is a vehicle to communicate his own unique local perspective. Beginning with the study of objects as furniture, Koutoulas explored the use of all types of materiality in his projects from timber and metals, plastics, carbon fiber, to resin and foam. He then started to explore the idea of moving into a larger architectural scale and how objects could inform an environment, and eventually developed his philosophy of creating human conditions from objects.

Barbera Studios
Established in 2004, BARBERA produce high quality Australian made and designed furniture. Based in Melbourne, its team of skilled artisans, technicians and designers use a range of classic materials such as marble, bronze, steel, leather and timber to forge a refined aesthetic. Designed for use in domestic and commercial architectural spaces, its product ethos is focused around intelligent design outcomes and process orientated workings; fusing old industrial techniques with modern technology and high craftsmanship.

Porcelain Bear
Traversing the worlds of furniture, lighting and object d’art, the Porcelain Bear studio is distinguished by its unique marriage of traditional techniques with contemporary technology. Led by the artisanship of Gregory Bonasera, Porcelain Bear strives to reimagine porcelain in a decidedly contemporary manner, exploring its boundaries while inventing entirely new applications that respond to the needs of the world’s leading interior design and architecture practices.

Didier Design Studio
The Didier Design Studio has long intuited a world where art meets design, craft blends with engineering and utilitarianism embraces luxury. Didier’s creative furniture design and production practice has always been open to boundless manufacturing techniques, materials and ways of thinking. Studying both Industrial Design and Fine-Art Sculpture at RMIT, Didier always saw furniture design as the closest commercial connection to sculpture. The studio experiments and makes prototypes by hand. Opening the door to explore different manufacturing techniques, including experimental industry skills, traditional production lines and complex 3D tooling. Didier then collaborates with a very wide range of other skilled craftspeople and factories to take the concept into reality. The result is one of Australia’s most eclectic and exciting design studios with a 30 year oeuvre of work that continually blurs lines between sculptural aesthetics and designed function.

Two Lines Studio
Two Lines Studio is a sculptural furniture practice based in Geelong, Victoria. The studio has established itself with a distinct and recognisable aesthetic, pairing metal fabrication techniques with bold, minimalist and often playful design.