Pit Projects
Pit Projects — Wall Cabinet, 2025
This Wall Cabinet forms part of 'The Rubbish Works', a series from Naarm based collaborative duo Pit Projects. Emerging from their shared propensity for looking and material play, 'The Rubbish Works' are a series of functional design objects created from salvaged glass and metal collected from illegal tips and roadside refuse. The works are textured and irregular, drawing both their forms and their surfaces directly from the materials they are made of - the steel textured by rust and lives of past use and the glass panels moulded in the kiln to the form of soggy roadside cardboard.
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Pit Projects is an evolving site of creative collaborations between artists Anni Hagberg and Michael Gittings. Hagberg is an Australian-born Finnish visual artist with a particular interest in investigating unpredictable process-driven material encounters through craft, sculpture and installation. Originally from Albury, Gittings established his sculptural design practice in 2016. Directly inspired by his environment and natural forms, Gittings works intuitively with his materials (primarily metal) to create three-dimensional works navigating the intersections of sculpture and functional design.
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: Kiln formed found glass, copper, solder, found steel,
Dimensions: approx. 30.5 x 40 x 10cm
Please note when purchasing, exhibition works are to be collected when exhibition closes.
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