Studio Kaytar
Studio Kaytar — Palea, 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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Palea is a sculptural light formed from layered dupioni silk, held in stillness upon a sandcast aluminium base. Its sheer folds diffuse a muted glow, evoking the quiet interplay of fragility and strength, ephemerality and solidity. The work reflects a meditation on transformation, where delicate material is suspended in permanence and light assumes a tactile presence.
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Jacqueline Kaytar is a Croatian Australian artist and designer. Beginning her creative journey in textile design, she has developed a distinctive vocabulary over more than twenty years in the making of objects and space.
Kaytar’s work moves between art and design. Some pieces are pure artistic expression, while others are both sculptural and functional. Her lighting works engage with space through form and illumination, blurring the boundaries between object and atmosphere. Guided by alchemical experimentation, Kaytar transforms natural matter in ways that reveal its inner essence. Sandcast metals, plant fibres, natural dyes, minerals, and beeswax are chosen for their symbolic resonance. When shaped by human touch, this material becomes animate.
The spark of life present in their making extends to the finished works, inviting moments of sensory pleasure, memory, and contemplation.
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: Dupioni silk, sandcast aluminium, acrylic
Dimensions: approx. 90 x 35 x 35cm
Please note: purchased works are to be collected at the conclusion of the exhibition (7 February 2026).
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