23 January – 21 April
STUDIO FURNITURE 2010
In association with Australian Wood Review magazine and Craft Australia

70 WORKS OF FINE FURNITURE BY 66 MAKERS

Bungendore Wood Works Gallery and Australian Wood Review Magazine opened their second Bi-annual exhibition, Studio Furniture 2010 on Australia Day, Saturday 23 January at 6pm in the Octagon ArtSpace.

The exhibition is the result of an Australia wide competition sponsored by the Wood Works Gallery with $11000 made available for four prizes for the winning entrants.

Over 138 entries were received and from those 70 pieces of furniture from 66 individual wood workers and furniture makers were selected to make up the most extensive exhibition ever held at Bungendore Wood Works Gallery.

The exhibition was opened and awards announced at the Gallery by Catrina Vignando, General Manager of Craft Australia, the premier advocacy body for Craft practitioners in Australia and media partner for the event.

The 70 accepted entries for the exhibition come from furniture makers from around Australia.
New South Wales is represented by 23 makers, with 15 from Queensland, 6 from Western Australia, 5 from Tasmania, 4 from Victoria. 2 from South Australia and 7 from the ACT Region.

The ACT Region entrants are furniture makers Gino Monteleone, Josh Carmody, Amy Fiveash, Scott Mitchell, Mirsad Ramic, Myles Gostelow and Gallery Artistic Director David Mac Laren who is exhibiting out of competition.

Entries for the competition include stools, chairs, lounges, hall, bedside and coffee tables, cabinets, sideboards, mirrors, lamps, chests of drawers, bookshelves, boxes, desks and a dining suite. The brief for the competition was for a well-considered and crafted piece of furniture, made with saleability within a gallery setting in mind. The design and finish needs to communicate a “studio furniture” attitude: that is, an emphasis on individually designed and made work showing an appropriate use of hand work so as to distinguish it from mass-produced manufacture.

Wood and/or wood products (manufactured boards) are the primary material with other materials able to be incorporated such as metal, glass, leather, recycled paper, fibreglass matting and found objects. Most pieces are made exclusively from Australian timber species with a sprinkling of exotics such as Peruvian walnut, American cherry, African padauk and ebony. One occasional table features ink-jet digital prints as part of the design.

With 66 individual makers and 70 pieces, the administration and accommodation of the work in the Gallery has proved a challenge with pieces displayed throughout in the Gallery as some have proved too heavy to place in the upstairs Octagon ArtSpace generally reserved for specific exhibitions in the Gallery.

While all of the work is exceptional and meets the criteria as above, some are bound to be standouts that closely epitomise the organisers ideas of “studio furniture,” which by definition wrestles with the notions of artistic expression and functionality, either in terms of decoration or practical use.

STOP PRESS

At the exhibition opening the winners of various prizes were announced. 1st prize went to Alby Johnston's Rainforest Rocker, 2nd to Neil Erasmus' ELL Cabinet, 3rd to Tony Kenway's Cunji Dining Suite and 4th to Adrian Potter's Ned's Chair. A special Acquisition Award went to Des King for his Shoji Screen and the works of Frank Wiesner (Cabinet), Myles Gostelow (Roo Chair), Simon Ramsey (Music Chair), Darren Oates (Hall Table), Fukutoshi Uneo (Dress Code Table), Will Marx, (Ulysses Chaise Lounge) and Anton Gerner (Cabinet) were Highly Commended by Judges David Boucher (Boucher & Co), Evan Dunstone (Dunstone Design) and Will Matthysen.

23 January – 21 April
STUDIO FURNITURE 2010
In association with Australian Wood Review magazine and Craft Australia

70 WORKS OF FINE FURNITURE BY 66 MAKERS

Bungendore Wood Works Gallery and Australian Wood Review Magazine opened their second Bi-annual exhibition, Studio Furniture 2010 on Australia Day, Saturday 23 January at 6pm in the Octagon ArtSpace.

The exhibition is the result of an Australia wide competition sponsored by the Wood Works Gallery with $11000 made available for four prizes for the winning entrants.

Over 138 entries were received and from those 70 pieces of furniture from 66 individual wood workers and furniture makers were selected to make up the most extensive exhibition ever held at Bungendore Wood Works Gallery.

The exhibition was opened and awards announced at the Gallery by Catrina Vignando, General Manager of Craft Australia, the premier advocacy body for Craft practitioners in Australia and media partner for the event.

The 70 accepted entries for the exhibition come from furniture makers from around Australia.
New South Wales is represented by 23 makers, with 15 from Queensland, 6 from Western Australia, 5 from Tasmania, 4 from Victoria. 2 from South Australia and 7 from the ACT Region.

The ACT Region entrants are furniture makers Gino Monteleone, Josh Carmody, Amy Fiveash, Scott Mitchell, Mirsad Ramic, Myles Gostelow and Gallery Artistic Director David Mac Laren who is exhibiting out of competition.

Entries for the competition include stools, chairs, lounges, hall, bedside and coffee tables, cabinets, sideboards, mirrors, lamps, chests of drawers, bookshelves, boxes, desks and a dining suite. The brief for the competition was for a well-considered and crafted piece of furniture, made with saleability within a gallery setting in mind. The design and finish needs to communicate a “studio furniture” attitude: that is, an emphasis on individually designed and made work showing an appropriate use of hand work so as to distinguish it from mass-produced manufacture.

Wood and/or wood products (manufactured boards) are the primary material with other materials able to be incorporated such as metal, glass, leather, recycled paper, fibreglass matting and found objects. Most pieces are made exclusively from Australian timber species with a sprinkling of exotics such as Peruvian walnut, American cherry, African padauk and ebony. One occasional table features ink-jet digital prints as part of the design.

With 66 individual makers and 70 pieces, the administration and accommodation of the work in the Gallery has proved a challenge with pieces displayed throughout in the Gallery as some have proved too heavy to place in the upstairs Octagon ArtSpace generally reserved for specific exhibitions in the Gallery.

While all of the work is exceptional and meets the criteria as above, some are bound to be standouts that closely epitomise the organisers ideas of “studio furniture,” which by definition wrestles with the notions of artistic expression and functionality, either in terms of decoration or practical use.

STOP PRESS

At the exhibition opening the winners of various prizes were announced. 1st prize went to Alby Johnston's Rainforest Rocker, 2nd to Neil Erasmus' ELL Cabinet, 3rd to Tony Kenway's Cunji Dining Suite and 4th to Adrian Potter's Ned's Chair. A special Acquisition Award went to Des King for his Shoji Screen and the works of Frank Wiesner (Cabinet), Myles Gostelow (Roo Chair), Simon Ramsey (Music Chair), Darren Oates (Hall Table), Fukutoshi Uneo (Dress Code Table), Will Marx, (Ulysses Chaise Lounge) and Anton Gerner (Cabinet) were Highly Commended by Judges David Boucher (Boucher & Co), Evan Dunstone (Dunstone Design) and Will Matthysen.

24th April - 26th May, 2010
NEW
A group exhibition by 5 artists exhibiting at the Gallery for the first time.

Matthew Ablitt, Tess Barker, Paul Kowalski, Alison Mackay, Tanya Stubbles
Mediums include painting, printmaking, photography and mixed media.
Opening Saturday 24th April, 2010 at 3pm by Richard Morecroft, Photographer and former ABCTV Presenter.

The opening will be followed at 4.30pm in Café Woodworks with a talk by Richard Morecroft on his past and present life in the media, and the arts through his unique photographic representation of the landscape. See below for further details and the Cafe Events page for menu details for the evening.

MATTHEW ABLITT is a young printmaker who has recently made Australia his permanent home. He gained his fine arts honours degree in London, UK and in 1998 won two prizes in the National Print Exhibition in that city. He has exhibited in Darwin, Melbourne and Sydney and well as serving residencies in a number of printing studios in the United Kingdom and Darwin, and is currently printing for the prestigous Griffith Studios in Sydney.

TESS BARKER recently completed a double degree in Teaching and Fine Art (Honours) at the University of Newcastle. She is a printmaker working in linocut and is drawn towards the depiction of Australian flora and fauna. She had the opportunity to document the beauty of the Ku-ring-gai National Park while growing up in the Pittwater area of Sydney. Tess has worked and exhibited in galleries in Newcastle and Sydney and is currently a customer service representative for Bungendore Wood Works Gallery.