Georgie Brunmayr
Georgie Brunmayr – 'The Full Ellipses', 2023
Ellipses series is a celebration of local industry and small-scale textile manufacturing. To create the work, Brunmayr worked closely with a local mattress manufacturer, pairing her technical-weave material with their specialist quilting processes. The resulting fabric, featuring geometric embroidery, has been upholstered onto large, semi-functional forms inviting playful engagement – inviting the viewer to touch, sit on and play with the works. The series is an expression of the technical complexities used within contemporary textile production and makes attribution to the numerous hands, processes, and minds within the local industry. For Brunmayr, the installation celebrates the artistry of weaving, knitting and quilting and fosters a deep sense of collaboration and shared creativity.
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Georgie Brunmayr is a material designer specialising in textile innovation and technical weave structures. She has a diverse portfolio spanning fashion, lifestyle, and commercial design and has worked with a wide range of brands across Europe, the USA and China. Brunmayr’s expertise lies in closely collaborating with material-making machines to create pieces ranging from highly technical footwear to knitted homewares. Brunmayr approaches her practice with an intuitive, authentic design process that reveals stories through touch and form. In 2019, she founded the label CURIO Practice.
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Occupying Space
September 23 – November 4
Occupying Space considers spatiality in contemporary textile practice. Five artists explore three-dimensionality in a series of fibre-based sculptural installations. The works are assertive and bold in their manipulation of fibre and thread; transformed into dynamic structures of mass and volume.
These exhibitors are part of a powerful history of fibre-based knowledge and skill, and together expand the assurance and versatility of textile practice today.
Occupying Space is presented as part of Craft Contemporary 2023 – our annual festival celebrating craft practice today.
Material: woven New Zealand merino wool, cotton, recycled poly wadding, foam (3 components)
Dimensions: 1 x Large: 127W x 74D x 194H cm. x2 Smalls: 88W x 74D x 60H cm
