Floras Localis: Colour + Place brings together practitioners connected by a shared exploration of colour, materiality and place. Combining natural dyeing and circular design methodologies, the works develop hyper local palettes drawn directly from the Australian landscape through foraged, found, and reclaimed materials.
The exhibition surveys how colour emerges from natural and urban environments. Revealing how natural hues can embody place and carry the narratives embedded within them.
The resulting works offer new insights into current sustainable design methodologies and imagine future production possibilities. Unfolding as a series of textiles, ceramics, jewellery and vessels that trace the dialogue between design and site.
As part the ATW exhibition Floras Localis: Colour + Place ATW will present the community project ‘Postcode Colour’ by artist & designer Joanna Fowles. This interactive botanical dye project encourages participants to experiment with botanical dyeing and connect with the invisible colour around them.
Fowles has prepared over 100 swatches for participants to dye using local materials collected within their postcode.
Postcard size swatches can be collected in person from the exhibition along with simple to follow instructions and a return post envelope. As the dyed swatches return to ATW they will be exhibited in an evolving, collaborative wall of colour as part of a growing map of colour drawn from postcodes across the nation.
Floras Localis curated by Sally Evans
Including works by: Sally Evans, Heather ThomasColour + Place curated Beck Jobson
Including works by: Joanna Fowles, Tammy Gilson (Waddawurrung), Siri Hayes, Amanda Ho, Spiraro, Georgia Stevenson, Melinda Young.
This exhibition is a part of Melbourne Design Week. Melbourne Design Week is an initiative of the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.
