This exhibition takes the theme of Craft + Design Canberra Festival ‘Regenerate’ to go a step further and support new material propositions for new ways of living, new relationships with the material world, and demonstrations of design thinking through making and remaking objects.
Some of our community go beyond recycling an object to transforming its purpose and relation to people: a teapot becomes a planter. This exhibition showcases the results of artists engaging with objects that have failed at auction and will be discarded. The artists have used ‘unsuccessful’ goods in new work including wide cross-section of innovative contemporary design and design thinking, including both ‘useful’ and ‘speculative’ objects.
The works are available in an online auction:
Opening Hours | Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm | Saturday to Sunday 10am - 3pm
Entry to this exhibition is free | No bookings required
The Reimagination Project is coordinated by Dierdre Pearce and Simone Jordan
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The Auction Barn is a family business committed since 2008 to a sustainable future through keeping goods and materials in circulation. We operate online and in a physical location in Fyshwick. Our audiences include residents of Canberra, regional NSW and Victoria, and community centres throughout Australia. Our auctions celebrate and support the work of designers, artists and artisans, from the past through to contemporary practitioners. We also support small businesses specialising in second hand goods, mid-century design and antiques restoration.
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Byrd Is a freelance graffiti muralist and sculptor whose creative practice is informed by a deep interest in the interfaces of cultural spaces. His sculptural works often incorporate repurposed materials and is influenced by ‘kludging’ or ‘bodging’, construction from whatever is available to sometimes awkward effect, which can inspire fresh thinking by its refusal to meet expectations
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Tom Buckland works across sculpture, installation and performance to construct and explore alternate worlds which prompt the viewer to consider their place in the world they inhabit, using an encyclopaedic catalogue of salvaged materials to playful, absurdist effect.
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Dierdre Pearce is an artist, educator and researcher whose practice is driven by interests in materiality, material histories and accumulation, particularly by the implications of increasing digital immersion on human engagement with the environment and with other beings.
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Ngaire Gamack is a well-known Canberra-based floral artist and former art teacher. The foundation of her work is a deep commitment to mindfulness and sustainability, expressed through upcycling and reusing materials in unexpected ways.
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Sarah Earle is a Canberra-based painter and collage artist who aims to capture observation, reflection and memory of landscape and human nature.
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Meagan Blyth is a creative writer and maker whose aesthetic blends the antiquarian with classical portraiture and contemporary Japanese illustration.
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Danielle Killick works with textiles and jewellery, including recycled fabrics. She shares her colourful creations online as the @colourcurator.
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Amardeep Shergill works primarily with drawing, photography and collage across a variety of media to explore the liminal spaces between cultures.
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Mike Muggleton Is a garden designer who also creates pieces from architectural and furniture salvage. His aesthetic is influenced by antique French decorative arts and his practice in garden design.
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Sarah Busby is dedicated to reviving mid-century classics in furniture and decorative arts. She works with a team of craftspeople and documents her work on Instagram @goodasoldfurniture and through her physical presence at Mantle and Muse.
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Glenys Cameron holds a fine arts degree in textiles and has an enviable collection of vintage Liberty of London. Her work is inspired by the artists Joseph of London and Rosalie Gascoigne.
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Nikki Simons and Simon Mansfield are inspired by the history and materiality of industrial and agricultural salvage. They are based in Cooma and source their materials from the surrounding district.
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Pauline Barnes is a painter based in Malua Bay, New South Wales, where she is inspired by the beautiful local environment and its inhabitants.
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Peter Killick is an experienced Canberra-based carpenter who upcycles old timber into a wide variety of new objects.
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Therese Verma is transitioning into a new career in the creative arts.
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Simone Jordan has a central role in The Auction Barn, a family owned and operated business committed to keeping goods in circulation and out of landfill. Her work includes community development and communications, reaching a diverse community located in Canberra, the wider ACT, NSW and Victorian region and nationally.
Image Credit: Deidre Pearce, 2024 | Image courtesy of the artist