Annie Paxton
Annie Paxton — Portrait xvii, 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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Vestiges of form - the remnants of making. How the remnants form, the latent possibilities of process.
The portrait series is an ongoing material extrapolation of the vestige series - forms that seek to explore the inbetween, the underside, the craft of making. Casting aluminium into organic sand, they ask: how can the process have a voice in the product?
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Annie Paxton (b.1995) is an architect and designer who works across the disciplines of architecture, interior, research, and the applied arts.
Completing a Master of Architecture at the University of Melbourne in 2020, her creative practice seeks to navigate the juncture between architecture and furniture/object, with a keen interest in how design drives, and is driven by, the poetics of everyday life. Drawing on history, material memory, and place, her practice is interested in how design can shift between the scale of the personal and the urban. Her works, often constructed from blending aluminium, steel, and silk, attempt to investigate this interplay of material, memory, and environment.
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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: Sand cast aluminium, silver glass mirror
Dimensions: approx. 201 x 97cm
Please note: purchased works are to be collected at the conclusion of the exhibition (7 February 2026).
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