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.
STREIFEN, in collaboration with
LEONARD JOEL,
As Artist in Residence for ST. AGNI,
Present:
SENTIMENTAL PULL
Hosted by St Agni Armadale Boutique, Upstairs.
1037 High St, Armadale, 3143
Launch
12.03.2026
Open
12.03.2026 —22.03.2026
Sentimentality
b: resulting from feeling rather than reason or thought
Sentimental Pull draws from the residual tenderness/tired affection of the threads that bind us to rooms and the objects in them. To enact sentimentality, the memory of objects are moored and internalised, through repetition and proximity, formed by daily contact, use and return, and shaped by the gradual attribution of meaning.
New and existing works from Streifen sit in direct conversation with select time-marked pieces from Leonard Joel, allowing attachment to move between past and present without hierarchy. Sitting resolutely between the objects is the recognition that whatever sits at the centre of me, sits at the centre of you.
Sentimentality here is born from both a collective and personal agreement to adore, someone loved this once, I love it still (once more). Sentimental Pull occupies the threshold of attachment, where significance is inherited, named and sustained, allowing objects to move beyond function into forms of reverence and persistence.
STREIFEN, in collaboration with
STUDIO MANIFOLD,
for MELBOURNE DESIGN WEEK,
Present:
SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN
Collingwood House
103 Johnston St Collingwood, 3066
Launch
16.05.2025
Open
16.05.2025 —18.05.2025
Unveiling their first collection, Streifen invited audiences to experience design as intimate and sensual in their debut Melbourne Design Week exhibition, Seven Minutes in Heaven. Presented in collaboration with interior designers Studio Manifold, the evocative installation explored the charged terrain of closeness and anticipation. Drawing on the allure of secluded moments, Seven Minutes in Heaven transformed nostalgia into an immersive spatial experience, where the lines between desire, design, and human connection blurred.
