ON-GOING presents a curated selection of work from Swedish design duo Studio Brieditis & Evans that questions the foundations of textile construction, consumer use and functional materiality. Through an exhibition-based practice their projects utilise post-consumer textile waste, clothing donations and dead stock fabric to challenge consumer relationships to ‘worthless’ waste materials.
Driven by the technical construction of textiles, they ask the question – ‘how does the choice of material and material properties affect the technique and final outcome’. By pushing the material and experimenting with techniques they explore if the textile can morph into another sculptural form.
In their largest project to date Re Rag Rug (2012 – 2017) the duo challenged themselves to make twelve rugs using twelve different techniques in twelve months, using only donated materials and without using a loom.
ON-GOING features three of the works featured in Re Rag Rug - Off Pist, Tailor and Confetti as well as new works that represent Brieditis & Evans interest in process, technique, and construction. Working with textiles, offers many facets, endless challenges, surprises, and adventures. A never-ending process, that is ON-GOING.
Studio Brieditis & Evans is a collaborative textile studio based in Sweden run by Katarina Brieditis and Katarina Evans. Since their initial collaboration in 2001, Studio Brieditis & Evans have continued to push design boundaries by uniquely transforming textile waste.
This exhibition has been made possible through the inaugural Irene Davies International Residency Scholarship at the Australian Tapestry Workshop (ATW).
