Isabel Avendano Hazbun
Isabel Avendaño-Hazbún — Rubber Cloth, 2024
Rubber Cloth, from Naarm based interdisciplinary designer/maker Avendaño Hazbún, is a hand woven textile sample made from thin strips of recycled tyre inner tube on a 4 - shaft loom. It is the first step exploring this material for future fashion and upholstery applications.
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Isabel is an interdisciplinary designer/maker running a research-based studio focused on sustainability. Avendaño Hazbún is interested in how things are made and the stuff that things are made of. Through self-initiated projects Avendaño Hazbún investigates materials and their properties and applies sustainable processes in the design and manufacture of rigorously made conceptual collections that follow a cohesive visual language.
Mainly working with excess and the discarded with the intention to repurpose and considering the entire ecological impact of the object, Avendaño Hazbún's work aims to use design to revise out-dated manufacturing models making sustainability the true measure of an objects' worth.
Applying their shared penchant for hands-on material experimentation across their multidisciplinary capabilities, Hagberg and Gittings' collaborate to create strange yet alluring objects that confuse our senses and prompt enquiry.
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Main Gallery
May 9 - June 21, 2025
Future Ambition showcases innovative and ambitious works by seven artists and makers investing in new pathways forward – generating both creative and conscious furniture, lighting, artworks and installations, with the hope for a better tomorrow.
The development of sustainable art, craft and design produces specialised knowledge and skills are highly prized assets in the commercial world. This exhibition examines unrealised value of this creative intellectual property and showcases pathways to positive real-world outcomes for artists, who are investing boldly in our collective futures.
Future Ambition forms part of Conscious Craft – a movement to redefine our relationship with materials in a considered, responsible and responsive way.
Material: Tasmanian Oak, recycled tyre inner tube, repurposed fluorescent tube LED strip
Please note when purchasing, exhibition works are to be collected when exhibition closes.
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