Tais Rose Wae
Tais Rose Wae — Stone Spirit, From Upon the Silver Bank, 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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Stone Spirit, from Upon the Silver Bank’ is a conversation of duality, of multiple truths and complex dimensions, of meeting points of friction and eruption. It is where the land meets the sea but it is also the sea itself. It is the oyster that made the pearl, but also the grain of sand that initiated the creation of the lustrous formation. It is an end, but also a beginning, the birth but also the death, and the life that comes from death itself.
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Tais Rose Wae is an award-winning artist and poet gratefully based on Bundjalung Country. Her work explores the interconnections and imprints of maps of lineage, motherhood, and her Aboriginal ancestry and has most recently been reimagined and displayed across The Biennale of Sydney, The Dot Project, Powerhouse Museum and Tweed Regional Gallery.
Her poetry collection, Riverbed Sky Songs (Vagabond Press), won the 2024 Kenneth Slessor NSW Premier's Literary Award and has been short-listed for the ASAL Mary Gilmore Award.
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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: Linen, 14ct solid gold hand-forged beads, pearls, paint
Dimensions: approx. 162 x 85cm
Please note: purchased works are to be collected at the conclusion of the exhibition (7 February 2026).
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