Simone Tops
Simone Tops — 'Chrysalis 02' Floor Light, 2024
The work explores forms in states of antithetical co-existence. A visual and exacting balance between a something at full capacity, and that which has been hallowed. The piece suggests a presence despite the nothingness and exhaustion of its evacuated form, paired with a form bloated and plump yet vacuous in contents, dark deceptive in weight and materiality. It sits with a beautiful discomfort.
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Artist and designer Simone Tops established the creative workshop Studio Tops in 2017 and is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Founded on the principles of longevity, craftsmanship, and a cross-disciplinary approach Top’s studio brings together a technical knowledge of glass, steel and leatherwork to create both sculptural and architectural forms, as well as a range of hand-crafted sculptural leather bags which honour the qualities of these materials.
For artist and maker Simone Tops, materials are not merely passive recipients of form, but active agents in the process of becoming. The objects are a result of the artist's material experimentation which is shaped by an intimate technical knowledge of glass, steel, and leatherwork. These materials do not have fixed essences, rather they run in a continuum, matter into matter, surface into surface and form into form.
Simone Tops creates works that are crafted to last, patina over time, and designed to be companions for life.
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August 10 - September 21 2024
Luminosity presents the work of four artists engaging with light through material practice.
Material: leather, steel, kangaroo vellum, light,
Dimensions: approx. 260 x 60cm
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