The Ikea Home Project

The IKEA Home Project will mark the 30th birthday of the iconic KLIPPAN sofa, one of IKEA's most recognisable and affordable items. A selection of acclaimed Australian artists are creating unique works which the public can buy. The artists create a one-off KLIPPAN cover in their own style, focusing on the theme of ‘home’.

Two time Academy Award winner Catherine Martin, Australian fashion icon Akira Isogawa, and Archibald Prize winner Del Kathryn Barton in collaboration with fashion label Romance Was Born are amongst the contributing artists.

The resulting masterpieces will be exhibited at CarriageWorks from 28 July – 4 August and sold via an online auction event.

Proceeds of the auction will be given as a cash donation to the Victorian Bushfire Relief effort.

Click the Artists' names to see their personal KLIPPAN cover. More artists TBA!

Ron Adams // Del Kathryn Barton & Romance Was Born // Cash Brown // Sarah Contos //Daniel Mudie Cunningham // Louisa Dawson // Deb // Will French // Jessica Geron // Agatha Gothe-Snape // The Glue Society // Mini Graff // Michelle Hanlin // Deborah Kelly // Catherine Martin // Akira Isogawa // Jasper Knight // Lindy Lee & Robert Scott- Mitchell // Nana Ohnesorge // Phibs // Tom Polo // Mickie Quick // Reko Rennie // Kate Rhode // Elvis Richardson // Stewart Russell // Rachel Scott // Naomi Troski // Pete Volich

+ Exhibition Dates: 29 July to 4 August 2009
+ Exhibition Times: M-F 10am - 5pm; Sat 9am - 1pm
+ Where: CarriageWorks, Wilson St, Eveleigh NSW 2015
+ Online Auction: 29 July to 4 August at graysonline.com

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Will French, Give Us A Wave 2009

Will French’s multidisciplinary practice examines a broad range of issues and ideas, from the popular to the political. In this work, nautical signal flags - used to communicate the distress call associated with fire - are reorganised to form an abstract, indecipherable pattern. In his practice Will uses flags and their symbolic, coded meaning to create strong statements relating to events that affect us all.

Born in Melbourne in 1981, Will French spent much of his youth as an expatriate growing up in Seoul and Jakarta. Now based in Sydney, Will constantly seeks to challenge himself to gain new skills and technical knowledge in creating his works. Examples include the creation of a motorcycle-powered sewing machine titled, Check out my stitches (for which he won the prestigious Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artist Travel Scholarship in 2008) and a mechanical replica of the Tour de France titled, Franc-o-phile / Velo-style exhibited in 2009 at GRANTPIRRIE gallery, Sydney.

Will French, Give Us A Wave 2009

Will French’s multidisciplinary practice examines a broad range of issues and ideas, from the popular to the political. In this work, nautical signal flags - used to communicate the distress call associated with fire - are reorganised to form an abstract, indecipherable pattern. In his practice Will uses flags and their symbolic, coded meaning to create strong statements relating to events that affect us all.

Born in Melbourne in 1981, Will French spent much of his youth as an expatriate growing up in Seoul and Jakarta. Now based in Sydney, Will constantly seeks to challenge himself to gain new skills and technical knowledge in creating his works. Examples include the creation of a motorcycle-powered sewing machine titled, Check out my stitches (for which he won the prestigious Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artist Travel Scholarship in 2008) and a mechanical replica of the Tour de France titled, Franc-o-phile / Velo-style exhibited in 2009 at GRANTPIRRIE gallery, Sydney.

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