DETAILS
Free, no booking required
Packing Room
Abbotsford Convent, Saint Heliers Street, Abbotsford VIC, Australia
DATES
Thu 14 May 11am – 6pm
Fri 15 May 11am – 6pm
Sat 16 May 11am – 6pm
All Heaven Broke Loose convenes objects that operate through gentleness, attending to form, material and bodily address as sites of meaning. Set against an increasingly hardened visual and material culture, the exhibition advances an alternative set of values grounded in sensitivity, permeability and welcome.
The dominant force in All Heaven Broke Loose is one that actively slouches, leans and curls in response to touch.
Presented by KOEH Studio, All Heaven Broke Loose positions gentleness as an active force – one that guides behaviour, shapes encounter and reconsiders what authority can look like within contemporary design.
The exhibition is open from Wednesday 13th to Saturday 16th May, from 11am to 6pm.
Curatorial concepts by Object Massive.
Participants
1000 Realms
1000 Realms is the Melbourne-based design practice of sisters Tori and Rubi Dinardo. Drawing on backgrounds in spatial design, theatre, and festival production, their object-making practice transforms fleeting, immersive worlds into enduring pieces. Each work honours process, collaboration, and craft—physical manifestations of story, instinct, and the labour of love.
Alana Beveridge
Alana is a multifaceted designer with a focus that blends interior architecture, furniture and object design with a deep appreciation for warmth, art and history with contemporary sensibilities. She creates bespoke, intimate designs from interiors to objects that celebrate craftsmanship, materials and a sense of place, bringing curiosity and rigour to every project.
Belle Thierry
Belle Thierry is a visual artist based in regional Victoria whose practice incorporates elements of ceramics, sculpture and mixed media. Materiality is a critical aspect of Thierry's practice - each material chosen is shown in its most authentic state, highlighting its integral qualities and innate disposition. Her current work explores material engagement with architectural space, capturing details of ornamentation in heritage architecture through a series of ‘pressings’. These fragmented pressings act as vessels for emotions, contemplations and memories of place.
Camile Moir
Camille Laddawan is an artist whose practice centres on beading to examine how institutions use language to structure experience, and how these systems shape individual lives. Her work incorporates fragments of text and musical notation that function as a visual code. Through this coded language, her practice considers how meaning is produced, withheld, and inherited.
Fomu
Fomu is a Melbourne and Tasmanian design studio founded by Gabrielle Beswick and Andrew Beveridge. They design and create furniture, lighting, and objects that blend simplicity with thoughtful form and detail. Manufactured in Australia using ethically sourced materials, their pieces merge art and design to connect people with their spaces.
John Gatip
The works of John Gatip span within the transection of art and architecture. He explores through the mode of sculpture, painting, and art installations. His work derives from the need to narrate the immediate, record his introspections and create his explorations. His work prominently features colour and geometry as key elements, weaving them into expressions of his thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Through these principles, Gatip infuses his art with architectural metaphors and symbolism, creating layered narratives.
KOEH Studio
KOEH is a multidisciplinary practice founded by Lucy Mayne Dennis, who grew up in Western Australia. Working across architecture, interiors and object design, the studio creates experiential environments grounded in earth, craft and story. Informed by international practice, its work is guided by a belief that design shapes how we feel and love, responding to a global web of creativity, culture, art, landscape and beauty.
Kohl Tyler
Kohl Tyler is an Aotearoa/New Zealand-born artist/designer who’s been based in Naarm/Melbourne since 2018. She works primarily in ceramics and occasionally in watercolour painting, and social practice. In her art and design practice, Kohl Tyler (b.1993) contemplates notions of ephemerality, interconnectedness and employs speculative frameworks. Drawing inspiration from both physical and phenomenal elements, she grapples with ecological grief and posits future material and biological ecologies
Lauren Trantino
Lauren Trantino is a Melbourne-based furniture designer. Her work has a playful sensibility and a romanticism for the everyday object. Her practice is slow and personal, with each piece emerging from a need within her own home. She describes her design style as timelessly tacky.
Locki Humphrey
Locki’s approach to object design focuses on minimal intervention, craft and sustainability. Their process is driven by both intuition and intention, an exploration of material, colour, texture, proportion and the potential of recycled materials. Championing Australian manufacturing and designing for deconstruction, Locki's contemporary furniture and lighting challenge convention by balancing craft and innovation.
Nicole Lawrence
Nicole Lawrence Studio exists as a study of the graphic form materialised. Drawing on a decade of experience in industrial design and manufacturing, Nicole’s vision is to create unique products that are placed with pride and go the distance.
Studio Dokola
Studio Dokola is a Melbourne glassblowing studio founded by maker Billy Crellin, focused on transforming historical and provocative design elements into modern, functional glass objects. The studio embraces the cyclical nature of design through concepts of re-melting and revival — a sensibility captured in the name Dokola, meaning "around and around." Based in West Footscray, the studio produces tableware, lighting, and sculptural works of enduring craft.
Studio Backcountry
Studio Backcountry is a Melbourne-based emerging design studio that collaborates with ceramicist Dasha Tolotchkov. Known for tactile, expressive objects that blend timber and ceramic, the studio has presented at Melbourne Design Week across multiple years, championing curiosity-led experimentation, material contrast, and a design language that is playful, sculptural, and impossible to ignore.