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Accessible bathroom, All gender bathroom, Low sensory / relaxedHARD showcases the world queer people want, which is one of inclusivity and resourcefulness. Creating new works, each participant designs around the availability of found objects, often found from hard rubbish, to create a range of design outcomes.
This is the third and final iteration of HARD. Having showcased resourcefulness from queer designers from Melbourne and Australia, this installament includes international participation.
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Tay Haggarty’s practice explores how reductive forms can be used as an open field to reflect upon personal and shared experience. These investigations take the form of performance, public art, video and sculpture. Haggarty uses industrial and ready-made materials that, when arranged within a space, heighten precarious elements through tension and balance. Their work is often minimal and site specific.
Christopher Sherman is a Canadian queer photographer, videographer and writer, located in Toronto, Canada.
Genevieve Douglas-Byrnes is a Melbourne-based artist situated at the intersection of functionality and creativity. As a queer designer, she infuses her work with a unique perspective, challenging conventional notions of form and utility. Genevieve’s creative practice is primarily based around functional object design and installation art; and she is consistently striving to uncover sustainable methods of creation.
Born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia. Drew Abrahamson can now most frequently be found in his Melbourne studio. The self-taught designer and artist lets his surroundings become the active ingredients of his work: hedonism, the fabulous, Earth’s natural wonders. Bestowing the asymmetric chaos of nature and modern civilization for interrogation. Working across multiple mediums, Drew draws on a robust past of working in the heavily methodical- illustration, sculpture, landscaping and carpentry.
Imari Calvert is an Australian-born maker and student of architecture practicing on Kaurna Country. Informed by her ongoing studies, she explores how space, scale, and form, can satirise or critique their own functions through utilising traditional silver jewellery making techniques and architectural choreography.
Lucy Tolan is a queer ceramics artist based on the lands of the Kulin Nation. Having completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2018, she utilises a combination of pinch and slab-building techniques to negotiate concerns of tension and harmony within her pieces. Through bold juxtaposition of form, colour and texture, Tolan’s work catalyses the generative power of aesthetic contradiction.
Juliette Berkeley has been stealing flowers from the yards of her richest neighbours all year and she’s going to have to put them somewhere. An emerging artist based on the lands of the Kulin Nation, she works within the (extremely unnecessary) art of dirtbag floral design. Influenced by contemporary ikebana practices, her work features playful ventures into experimental floral arrangement and sculptural works utilising natural and found materials.
Ryan Mueller is a multidisciplinary designer specialising in environmental, branding and object design. Ryan’s focus of brand identity and environment design meet in a space where the brand integrity, intention and codes will be expressed and elevated in every expression. Ryan’s own artistic brand takes inspiration from ancient cultures, raw materiality and resourceful design.
James Lemon, born in 1993 in Te Awamutu, Aotearoa New Zealand, has been based on the lands of the Kulin Nation since 2012. He’s a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on clay. Lemon explores the historical and ecological aspects of clay, looking into its role in the development of civilisations and its connection with other life forms. With a career spanning several years, Lemon creates tactile and dynamic sculptures that blend art and design.
Locki is a furniture designer and 3D artist, based in Melbourne (Naarm/Birrarung-ga), whose work spans both physical and digital mediums. Growing up in Sydney, they studied Science & Arts at the University of Sydney before developing a love for furniture working as an upholsterer. Locki’s work re-interprets traditional forms and methods for a modern audience, and by using few visible fixtures, they are able to achieve clean silhouettes that are dramatic and playful in proportion.
Raphy is a ceramic artist from Fitzroy North on Wurundjeri Woiwurrung Country. Raphy works with clay and tells stories through colourful, humorous sculptures that are reflections of his life, neighbourhood and community. Recently, Raphy has completed a residency at ARTA Ceramica in Mexico City, exhibited in Ypres, Belgium and is currently on display at the Vitrine Gallery in Craft Victoria.
Bobby Corica, born in Melbourne (Naarm/Birrarung-ga) in 1994, lives and works from his Brunswick studio. Drawing from his Italian/Australian heritage and a background in biochemistry and molecular biology, Bobby embarked on his silversmithing journey in 2019, honing his craft in the art of chain making. Bobby is an alumni of the ISS Institute’s Italian Australian Fellowship program, which saw him travel to Italy and Germany in 2023 to research the applications of glass and leather within a contemporary jewellery context.
Jax Oliver is a photographer and film maker utilising a variety of mediums to tell stories of environmental, cultural and/or artistic significance. His background is in wildlife conservation and photo journalism, taking him around the world to document global conservation projects. More recently, Jax has been immersed in the creative scenes of Melbourne (Naarm/Birrarung-ga) and Brisbane (Meanjin) working on music media, fashion portraiture and digital media for an evolving world.
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Accessible bathroom, All gender bathroom, Low sensory / relaxedHARD showcases the world queer people want, which is one of inclusivity and resourcefulness. Creating new works, each participant designs around the availability of found objects, often found from hard rubbish, to create a range of design outcomes.
This is the third and final iteration of HARD. Having showcased resourcefulness from queer designers from Melbourne and Australia, this installament includes international participation.
Participants
Tay Haggarty’s practice explores how reductive forms can be used as an open field to reflect upon personal and shared experience. These investigations take the form of performance, public art, video and sculpture. Haggarty uses industrial and ready-made materials that, when arranged within a space, heighten precarious elements through tension and balance. Their work is often minimal and site specific.
Christopher Sherman is a Canadian queer photographer, videographer and writer, located in Toronto, Canada.
Genevieve Douglas-Byrnes is a Melbourne-based artist situated at the intersection of functionality and creativity. As a queer designer, she infuses her work with a unique perspective, challenging conventional notions of form and utility. Genevieve’s creative practice is primarily based around functional object design and installation art; and she is consistently striving to uncover sustainable methods of creation.
Born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia. Drew Abrahamson can now most frequently be found in his Melbourne studio. The self-taught designer and artist lets his surroundings become the active ingredients of his work: hedonism, the fabulous, Earth’s natural wonders. Bestowing the asymmetric chaos of nature and modern civilization for interrogation. Working across multiple mediums, Drew draws on a robust past of working in the heavily methodical- illustration, sculpture, landscaping and carpentry.
Imari Calvert is an Australian-born maker and student of architecture practicing on Kaurna Country. Informed by her ongoing studies, she explores how space, scale, and form, can satirise or critique their own functions through utilising traditional silver jewellery making techniques and architectural choreography.
Lucy Tolan is a queer ceramics artist based on the lands of the Kulin Nation. Having completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2018, she utilises a combination of pinch and slab-building techniques to negotiate concerns of tension and harmony within her pieces. Through bold juxtaposition of form, colour and texture, Tolan’s work catalyses the generative power of aesthetic contradiction.
Juliette Berkeley has been stealing flowers from the yards of her richest neighbours all year and she’s going to have to put them somewhere. An emerging artist based on the lands of the Kulin Nation, she works within the (extremely unnecessary) art of dirtbag floral design. Influenced by contemporary ikebana practices, her work features playful ventures into experimental floral arrangement and sculptural works utilising natural and found materials.
Ryan Mueller is a multidisciplinary designer specialising in environmental, branding and object design. Ryan’s focus of brand identity and environment design meet in a space where the brand integrity, intention and codes will be expressed and elevated in every expression. Ryan’s own artistic brand takes inspiration from ancient cultures, raw materiality and resourceful design.
James Lemon, born in 1993 in Te Awamutu, Aotearoa New Zealand, has been based on the lands of the Kulin Nation since 2012. He’s a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on clay. Lemon explores the historical and ecological aspects of clay, looking into its role in the development of civilisations and its connection with other life forms. With a career spanning several years, Lemon creates tactile and dynamic sculptures that blend art and design.
Locki is a furniture designer and 3D artist, based in Melbourne (Naarm/Birrarung-ga), whose work spans both physical and digital mediums. Growing up in Sydney, they studied Science & Arts at the University of Sydney before developing a love for furniture working as an upholsterer. Locki’s work re-interprets traditional forms and methods for a modern audience, and by using few visible fixtures, they are able to achieve clean silhouettes that are dramatic and playful in proportion.
Raphy is a ceramic artist from Fitzroy North on Wurundjeri Woiwurrung Country. Raphy works with clay and tells stories through colourful, humorous sculptures that are reflections of his life, neighbourhood and community. Recently, Raphy has completed a residency at ARTA Ceramica in Mexico City, exhibited in Ypres, Belgium and is currently on display at the Vitrine Gallery in Craft Victoria.
Bobby Corica, born in Melbourne (Naarm/Birrarung-ga) in 1994, lives and works from his Brunswick studio. Drawing from his Italian/Australian heritage and a background in biochemistry and molecular biology, Bobby embarked on his silversmithing journey in 2019, honing his craft in the art of chain making. Bobby is an alumni of the ISS Institute’s Italian Australian Fellowship program, which saw him travel to Italy and Germany in 2023 to research the applications of glass and leather within a contemporary jewellery context.
Jax Oliver is a photographer and film maker utilising a variety of mediums to tell stories of environmental, cultural and/or artistic significance. His background is in wildlife conservation and photo journalism, taking him around the world to document global conservation projects. More recently, Jax has been immersed in the creative scenes of Melbourne (Naarm/Birrarung-ga) and Brisbane (Meanjin) working on music media, fashion portraiture and digital media for an evolving world.