DETAILS
Free, no booking required
Made Studio
175 Rose St, Fitzroy VIC, Australia
DATES
Thu 15 May 6 – 8pm
Opening event and artist discussion
Fri 16 May 12 – 4.30pm
Sat 17 May 11am – 5pm
Sun 18 May 11am – 4pm
Mon 19 May 12 – 4.30pm
Tue 20 May 12 – 4.30pm
Wed 21 May 12 – 4.30pm
Thu 22 May 12 – 4.30pm
Fri 23 May 12 – 4.30pm
Sat 24 May 11am – 5pm
Sun 25 May 11am – 4pm
Offcuts is an exhibition of sculptural art and furniture pieces by Garrett Lark and Alex Lark primarily made of the solid oak offcuts generated from the studio’s main furniture collection. Informed by the discarded material, the pieces celebrate the organic nature of matter and the playful reimagining of structures.
Participants
Garrett Lark
Garrett Lark (b. 1990 Melbourne, Australia) is a furniture designer and sculptor based in Melbourne. Driven by a tactile intuition and intimate understanding of materiality his work draws inspiration from the rich native flora of the Australian landscape. After receiving his Master of Landscape Architecture from Melbourne University in 2017, Garrett shifted his focus from larger-scale projects to functional objects, most notably his furniture pieces, created through his company with his brother, Made Studio. As director and head of design at Made Studio, Garrett’s pieces have been featured in leading architectural and interior design projects across every major city in Australia.
Alex Lark
Alex Lark (b. 1992, Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian-American-German artist based in Melbourne. Lark’s work explores the subjective nature of experience through a phenomenological lens, eschewing the objective world in favour of playful questioning; experimenting with perception, colour and materiality to gently pull on the threads of time, space and human experience. From 2015-2022, he worked extensively across art, design, film, photography and architecture industries based between USA and Germany, establishing ongoing collaborative partnerships with international artists and creatives. Alex is the creative director and co-owner of Made Studio with his brother Garrett Lark.