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1 WOBBLE: machine Issue oo4 Sept 2o11 CBR Design // Art // Architecture

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Wobble Magazine is guide to Canberra, Australia's creative scene. Founded in 2010, Wobble now publishes 5000, 36 page magazines every 2 months.

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Content* wobble oo4

* spring 2011

Artists & Designer

Elliot Bastianonwww.workshopped.com.au

Luke Battenwww.workshopped.com.au

Chris Hardywww.workshopped.com.au

Kate Eltonwww.workshopped.com.au

Jennifer [email protected]

Christiane Nowakwww.wobble.cc

Simone Greenwww.wobble.cc

Doug Hallwww.wobble.cc

Daniel Cullenwww.wobble.cc

Chloe Graywww.wobble.cc

Paul Summerfieldwww.wobble.cc

Jed ‘Knees‘ Wolikiwww.wobble.cc

ReviewWobble Community

Sydney Design WeekWorkshopped

Feature ArtistDan Stewart-Moorewww.wobble.cc

ProfileAlice [email protected]

April‘s CaravanNew location

The FrontNew venue

LocationsMapExhibiton VenuesSupporters

Sneak PeakWobble Product Collection

Editorial

Cover ‚Garden Metropolis‘ Paul Summerfield82x200cm $1400 Limited Edition

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Review* triptych

* Knightsbridge

Highlights from our third Knightsbridge design party, Triptych. DJ, Faux Real on the decks, video work by Katie Ryan on

the projector and the cont-roversial, one night only ex-hibition of Katherine Griffiths photography. You had to be there.

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Workshopped* design week competition

* sydney

August 3rd saw the opening of ‘Workshopped’ the exhibi-tion of finalists for the annual design competition. Work-shopped is run during Syd-ney Design week and opens at the design space ‘White-house’, in Sydney’s Surry Hills Design Precinct.

An amazing space and well worth a look, the venue was too packed to move before the doors opened. Catered for by Bombay Sapphire, the night is always a smash for those who can remem-ber. Whitehouse’s five gallery spaces hosted the selected 50 designs, a surprisingly broad collection of Australian furniture, lighting and product design.

Canberra’s Luke Batten ente-red a timber chair design with an articulated timber seat along with submissions from other Canberra designers including Jennifer Edmunds, Chris Hardy, Elliot Bastianon and Dave Pidcock. “Work-shopped is an extremely important and well run com-petition – most importantly it generates interest and dia-logue between designers and industry.” Says Luke also no-ting that many of the entries in the competition focused

on production processes.

The brief requires each desig-ner to consider process, pro-duction and user accessibili-ty. This can be problematic, he says, as it can direct the design process too much and generate designs that are not as thoughtful or considered as they might be.

Aside from the party, the advantage of entering com-petitions like Workshopped is the exposure it offers to young professionals. Among the punters, design firms and manufacturers send scouts out to hunt for talent. Fingers crossed for our local ent-rants and congratulations to Sydney’s Kate Elton for taking out the peoples choice award for her ‘Molar’ Stool.

Take a tour at www.workshopped.com.au

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Chris Hardy

Kate Elton

* triple stool

* molar

* People‘s Choice Award

Elliot Bastianon* negative

Jen Edmunds* c10

Luke Batten* cartesian

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In making those links he ho-pes to stimulate discussion, believing that climate change is a problem we are not yet psychologically equipped to deal with. His block-like simplified forms do not provide answers but facilitate a dialogue.

Dan describes his work as “boxing things up into forms… a shell, a wave, a house,” ma-king extensive drawings to get an understanding of the object before commencing his construction in steel and automotive paint.

His studio in Murrumbateman is an example of his dedicati-

on to finding a climate change solution. The studio itself is powered by renewable ener-gy, and Dan donates 20% of all sales to Greening Australia as a carbon offset.

Dan is currently exhibiting work through Wobble at Knightsbridge and then Sun-day Oct 16th at The Front.

Dan Stuart-Moore

Dan Stuart-Moore

* fibonacci developments

* watching

* The front

* The front

folded metal 59x175x10cm; $3200

painted steel 40x50x30cm; $3200

Through a series of large, high impact sculptures, Dan Stuart-Moore examines ide-as and forms, creating links between concepts of climate change and sustainability.

His recent body of work ex-plores the links between vari-ous issues associated with a changing climate – the urba-nisation of the landscape; the use of technology as a key to adaption; and the concept that our psychology may hin-der us on the path to sustai-nability.

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Christiane Nowak* kurt 4u

* knightsbridge

Dan Stuart-Moore* cloud concerns

* Knightsbridge

timber 175x60cm 2011; $200

painted steel 133x150x40cm; $3700

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* modern sky

* The frontDoug Hall

inkjet print 30x42cm; $140

printed to aluminium 20x30“ $495

Simone Green* Goulburn Series #8

* knightsbridge

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* hallway

* knightsbridgeChloe Gray

analog on ilford paper 30x45cm; $380

digital print 10x15“; $50

Daniel Cullen* smoko

* knightsbridge

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50x50cm; $350

etching 42x60cm; $120

50x50cm; $360

* blank

* The front

* my heart core

* passed on

* The frontPaul Summerfield

Jed ‘Knees‘ Woliki

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Alice Carroll

A few weeks ago saw Alice rushing about the Depart-ment of Immigration & Citi-zenship, seeking out signato-ries to verify that yes, she has returned her Cabcharge card and no, she hasn’t held onto any books borrowed from the internal library. Only after the final signatures, those of kind remarks in her farewell card – only then did it become of-ficial: Alice Carroll has depar-ted the APS to pursue her il-lustration on a full-time basis.

Now, Alice is illustrating a pop-up book for The Natio-nal Portrait Gallery. “This is the project that has given me the final push, I guess,” Alice says. “That gave me the con-

Photoshop to colour and do all the other fancy stuff, all the textures and messing around with negative space.”

Over the past few years, Alice has built up an impressively varied portfolio: gig and ex-hibition posters, illustrations for picture books and graphic novels, even artwork for a browser-based promotional game.

“I didn’t really consider it as something that I could do as a job, ever.”

She may have been a fine bureaucrat, but in the long run, Alice Carroll’s departure from the APS is truly doing the Australian public a great service. *

Doug FryRead the full article online

www.wobble.cc

* Professional...

fidence to take the leap [into full-time art].” The book is in-tended to introduce younger children to the Gallery, and will feature a backpack-laden girl and her wombat compa-nion wandering through sty-lised versions of its exhibits and discovering what por-traiture is all about.

Late last year, the project’s coordinators were directed to Alice’s website, and were impressed by what they saw. “They saw a picture that I’d drawn of myself which they liked,” Alice blushes, “and they wanted to use that per-son as a character for the book.”

Putting together a pop-up book is an inherently difficult process, involving many li-teral and figurative layers of design and production. “There’s paper engineers in Singapore, and they’ll be building the book based on our requests. So we just say, ‘Can you make this aweso-me thing?’ and they’ll tell us whether or not it’s possib-le.”

The core of her workstation is an iMac – “a little bit of an old beast now, almost time to upgrade” – and a recently acquired Wacom Cintiq 12WX tablet running Manga-Studio software. “I trained myself to look at the com-puter screen while drawing with a tablet for many years, and now I get to go back to actually looking at my hand – which was weird for a while, but it didn’t take long to get back into it.” “All my black-and-white stuff I do on the tablet, and then I export to

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* braddonNew location

Aprils Caravan

The vintage clothing store opens its doors on Saturday October 29 for the first time at the new Braddon location. Grand opening from 12pm featuring rock‘n roll dj and bands.

23 Lonsdale street [next to Pink Inc]

Six months ago, April’s Ca-ravan opened in the gallery space at The Front in Lyne-ham. It was so popular, Netti decided it was time to open up her own shop.

This November will see a new and improved April’s Caravan open in Braddon. “The new shop will be my second home where each customer is our guest to come and play with the clothes, have a cof-fee and something to eat whi-le grooving along to records. I will of course be hosting regular parties featuring both

* April‘s Caravan

local and interstate bands.”Netti Vonthethoff aka April has a passion – or rather ob-session – with vintage. Her style developed while spen-ding time with her grandmo-ther, finding her teenage self surrounded by furniture and nic nacs from the 1950s, 60s and 70s. She pawed over photos of her grandmother from another era, and mar-velled at her sense of style and pride in her clothing. Since her grandmother’s pas-sing, Netti began collecting things that reminded her of that much-loved woman.

Over the years, her obsessi-on got a little out of hand and she found herself in a positi-on where there was no longer any room for her collection. She started holding vintage parties at her house and alt-hough it was initially hard to watch the things she loved going to new homes, she started a precedent. “I now love to see other people get excited over things that I love. It‘s an amazing feeling to see someone wearing an ‚April‘s‘ item and to know that they look amazing in it… and that it’s going to the right home.”

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For the first time this year, The Front bar and café in Ly-neham has its gallery space back. With Nettie moving her caravan to Braddon, the ve-nue will host a new collection of art and design. For the first time, Wobble will be curating the new work and hosting a series of events. New to Wobble

* The front

* lyneham

5pm Sunday October 16 will unveil a new look for the fri-endly arts venue. DJ’d, VJ’d and all decked out in its new attire. See The Front as you’ve never seen it before.*

Wobble Takes The Front

The love of vintage will go on, while Netti continues to sour-ce the most exciting old clo-thes in the city. Each piece is special for its own reasons – the fabric, the cut, the colour, the lapels, buttons or maybe just the stiching around the pockets. Some of the items are beautiful, some are quirky and some are so ridiculous you just have to have them.

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* Wobble recommends

* Exhibition Venues

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EditorJennifer EdmundsChristiane Nowak

DirectorJennifer Edmunds

Publisher Wobble Collective

Design & Layout Christiane Nowak

JournalistDoug Fry

Arts WriterSuzy Kay

Wobble VenuesKnightsbridge PenthouseThe Front

SupportersApril‘s Caravan2before10Trevs @ dickson

[email protected]

Editorial

Sneak Peak

* Wobble

* Wobble will be launching its first product collection

5 20 Challis St, Dickson

2 1 Wattle Pl, Lyneham

4 40 Marcus Clarke St, City

Aprils Caravan3 23 Londsdale St, Braddon

34 Mort St, Braddon1

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