Ryan Mueller
Ryan Mueller — Lithos Candelabra, 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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Lithos provides the base of the geological term ‘Lithosphere’ - the immediate outer crust of our earth. As the piece takes majority of its form in sandstone, it is very much an abstracted yet raw form of our own lithosphere.
Prior to this iteration, the Lithos series was most recently featured in Melbourne Design Week 2025 as part of HARD following a successful debut in Melbourne Design Week 2022 garnering a feature in The Australian Financial Review.
20 beeswax candles included.
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Ryan Mueller is a designer specialising in branding, object and jewellery design. His work showcases inspirations of ancient craft and human curiosity. Working across mediums such as lighting, gold and silversmithing, collage and sculpture, Mueller explores robust material and heroes a simple purity in his work. His work is an "evolving body of concept, curation and collection.”
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: Barabool sandstone, steel, beeswax candle
Dimensions: approx. 35 x 35 x 20cm
Please note: purchased works are to be collected at the conclusion of the exhibition (7 February 2026).
Shipping costs may be estimates. Please contact us via shop@craft.org.au and we will be available to provide an Art Courier quote or shipping costs for larger items.