Roseanne Bartley

In crafting an intersection between material culture and conceptual practice (contemporary jewellery/performance/interactivity), I address the decorative or supplementary nature of jewellery and designs a strategy to activate jewellery as a process through which to mediate a global environmental issue. In doing so I offer an intimate tangible experience that invites us to recalibrate established notions of preciousness and re-imagine our relationship to matter, place and time.

Join Roseanne Bartlery for her Seeding the Cloud jewellery events, 11, 13 & 20 August 2011.

Watch a video of Roseanne Bartley demonstrating her artistric process, and check out some more photos of Roseanne's work by Alison Bennett.

Emma Davies

My artwork intends to present to my viewers a world in which the natural and unnatural fuse, transforming the commonplace into something curious and thereby evoking the imagination and allowing the audience to be transported into an abstract environment. In my work, I satisfy my curiosity for working with new materials and often unconventional modes of manufacture. My process of discovery and invention is largely experimental. My reward is in removing the material from its common functionality such as packaging and being able to transform what is intrinsically ugly into something beautiful. A contradiction to this is the introduction of bone incorporated in the works. Although the forms are constructed with a man-made banal material its outcome is organic depicting ethereal forms that portray plant life the bone compliments the forms with its inherent qualities. The materials and forms create the subject matter. During research and experience new areas of interest arise and lead to the creation of the next body of work.

Penny Malone

The starting point for the series Satellite City began during a month long residency at The Australian Tapestry Workshop in 2010, and via the ritual of the daily tram ride through Melbourne's CBD, a kaleidoscope of pattern. Various architectural designs and details were simplified into flattened shapes and narrowed down to an inspired list of addresses. Each button embraces a hybrid of design and hand printed colour. The series is inclusive of other cities with particular reference to Hobart and London.

Scott Mitchell

Hello. What are you doing here?
I can't visit?
No. Of course. It's just... I'm surprised.
I thought we could do something. Maybe see a movie?...

Treading a path between art and design, this project brings functionality to works from a number of Melbourne based artists; a Bianca Hester speaker, a Spiros Panigirakis radio, a Charlie Sofo coffee table and a Robert Owen TV antenna. It's not always a happy meeting - perhaps an error of judgement, an awkward conversation. The last thing art needs is a function. Image: Radio National Shelf by Scott Mitchell and Spiros Panigirakis.

Adele Varcoe
iFOLD: Your World

Welcome Fashionistas, your time has arrived. It is time for you to shine. Newfangled Fashion Productions has broken bad with the show you've been waiting for. All your questions will be answered and all your dreams will come true. There will be nothing left to your imagination and this is not for the faint-hearted. We can't promise you eternal bliss, but we can promise you a moment you will never forget. Are you ready leave yourself and enter the world of iFold?

View images of the opening night performance