Fiona Lynch Opens Experimental Gallery Inwards Melbourne
Thursday, March 14, 2019
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Coinciding with NGV Melbourne Design Week, leading Melbourne interior designer Fiona Lynch is opening the doors to Work Shop, a permanent gallery inwards Collingwood. Located following to her eponymous pattern studio, the gallery is a curatorial showcase of experimental design, fine fine art together with objects from leading Australian together with international artists together with designers.
Renowned for her artistic approach to interior pattern together with observe winning projects, Fiona says Work Shop is the realisation of a long held dream, informed yesteryear her early on career inwards fine art. “Prior to studying interior pattern I studied Fine Art at RMIT inwards Melbourne,” she says. “This unique path has ever been reflected inwards my function together with the agency nosotros approach design. Work Shop volition afford my studio together with I the chance to explore this further, identifying commonalities across mediums together with materials, together with examining the dialogue betwixt fine art together with pattern inwards a agency that challenges together with inspires.”
In its opening exhibition titled Ideas to Intuition, Work Shop volition characteristic contributing artists including New York based lighting designer Mary Wallis, Australian contemporary artists Makiko Ryujin together with Jiaxin Nong, together with British porcelain creative somebody Olivia Walker. Revealing an innovative together with daring exercise of their chosen mediums, these industrial plant are exhibited alongside master copy designs from Fiona's ain studio. Showcased against a rich together with earthy textural backdrop, the outcome is captivating. Excited to meet how it evolves over time, I'm together with thus glad the gallery is permanent equally I'd dearest to see 1 day.
As good equally presenting an evolving array of discovered works, commissioned pieces together with master copy designs, Work Shop is likewise envisioned equally a testing basis for Fiona's award-winning interior pattern practice; an experimental pattern laboratory without the confines of convention.
“In this historic current of 2nd gratification, it’s really slowly to instruct caught upwards inwards the destination result, disregarding the creative procedure required to brand it at a resolved outcome,” says Fiona. “For our begin exhibition we’ve called on our contributing artists to investigate the tension betwixt the constructed together with deconstructed, the resolved together with incomplete, the built together with undone, encouraging the viewer to observe beauty at all stages of creative evolution.”
Located at seven Glasshouse Road, Collingwood, Work Shop together with its debut exhibition Ideas to Intuition volition opened upwards on Fri xv March from 5pm to 7pm as part of the official NGV Melbourne Design Week program. The first exhibition volition run for 3 months - see betwixt 10am together with 5pm Monday to Fri, together with 11am to 3pm Sabbatum to Lord's Day until March 24th, together with yesteryear engagement thereafter.