Isabel Avendano Hazbun
Isabel Avendaño-Hazbún — 'No 1 (Bathroom Stall Wall) - Up Yours Collection', 2026
'Fanzines were the perfect Punk expression - cheap and instant. By using paper and recycled rubber from tyre inner tubes these lights are a physical representation of Punk's DIY attitude and its aim to shock by adopting gimp fashion.
Isabel Avendaño Hazbún continues her focus on using material waste sustainably. Through punk-inspired experimentalism and iconography she reboots her use of tyre inner tubes to create an aesthetic of rips, fractures and tensions by playing with rubber’s intrinsic qualities of friction and elasticity to pull, tighten, restrain and release in this series of wall lights and a woven rug.
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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.
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FUTUREOBJEKT — Melbourne Art Fair — February 19 – 22 2026
Conscious Craft - The Future is in the Making
Design begins with desire – with the urge to create, to connect and to shape the future. Conscious Craft – The Future is in the Making invites audiences into a space where exceptional design meets deep material intelligence. Curated by Craft, this exhibition showcases the work of four pioneering artists and makers: Isabel Avendaño-Hazbún, Billie Civello, Claire Ellis, and Locki Humphrey.
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Material: Paper, rubber from recycled tyre inner tubes, LED lights, rechargeable 9V battery
Dimensions: 44 x 41 x 90cm
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