Exhibitions

 

Craft Victoria exhibition 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. 

[Codependence] places two stools in dialogue, their surfaces upholstered in textiles created by dismantling Victorian beaded garments and appliquéing them onto deteriorating silk dupion. Each stool carries a metal maker’s plaque, grounding the object in a language of craft and repair.

Streifen’s approach is direct and inquisitive, shaped by instinct and material curiosity. Drawn to objects already alive with sentiment, the studio fragments and reworks fabrics to reveal traces of history, erosion and unravelling. Working in this way allows them to create pieces that feel lived-in and personal. Through decay the work draws breath — a quiet sense of renewal. These objects embrace process over polish, leaving space for histories to remain visible and unfinished.

 

 

Seven Minutes in Heaven marked Streifen’s debut at Melbourne Design Week. The exhibition explored intimacy and anticipation through a series of handcrafted furniture pieces and lighting objects developed over months of research and material experimentation.

Each design began with a simple question: how can objects hold feeling? Working with materials like chain maille, patinated metal, leather and textile, the pieces examined the tension between strength and vulnerability — the pull between what is revealed and what is concealed.

Presented in collaboration with Studio Manifold, the installation was imagined as a quiet, immersive space that invited pause and reflection. Rather than showcasing products, Seven Minutes in Heaven examined design as an emotional experience — how texture, light, and form can influence the way we connect with the objects around us.