Ashley Corbett-Smith
Ashley Corbett-Smith — Balanced Tension, 2025
DONE/UNDONE
Curated by Joseph Gardner
VISIONARIES 2025: Presenting the future of Australian art, craft and design through the lens of one of the country's most influential creatives.
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Balanced tension is a visual representation of the weight of consumption. The shelf and boulder in lieu of earth and our resources, can be used to hold several objects. When the total weight of the shelf and objects increases above the weight of the stone, the stone will rise up into the air while the shelf sinks down.
Too many objects and the shelf will be on the floor and the stone in the air, just the right amount of objects and the shelf and stone are in equilibrium and can balance themselves.
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Ashley Corbett-Smith is an industrial designer working across product, furniture and lighting design. As both a designer and maker, specialising in bespoke pieces for over a decade, he is not limited to a single material, style, theme or process. Through a combination of material and process research, exploration and play, his aim is to create works as simply as possible. Functional or not, it should be a little fun.
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14 November 2025 - 7 February 2026
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Joseph Gardner is the 2025 Visionaries curator – presenting DONE/UNDONE: an exhibition of 50+ artists, and one of Craft’s largest exhibitions to date – featuring artists working across medium, scale and practice, representing exceptional Australian talent.
DONE/UNDONE explores the creative process as a space of constant negotiation – a series of decisions to build, erase, repeat, or let be. It’s about that intuitive moment when a maker chooses to pause, to push further, or to dismantle entirely. These are the choices that define the rhythm of making – choices familiar to artists, designers, and creators across disciplines.
Joseph Gardner is the Style Editor at Vogue Living, with a decade of experience in publishing and styling, and the founder of Sydney-based gallery, Studio Gardner.
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Material: Australian sandstone balast, shelves in blackbutt, toughened bronze glass, brass, verde kamaleo marble. Stainless steel wire, aluminium
Dimensions: approx. 250 x 250 x 50cm
Please note: purchased works are to be collected at the conclusion of the exhibition (7 February 2026).
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