Rethinking Contemporary Craft Commission

Project Type: Artwork Commission, Placemaking

Collaborating with client, Charter Hall, Craft facilitated the creation and delivery of, Continuum - a new digital work for their landmark building at 130 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne. The work provides an opportunity to rethink contemporary craft through the creative collaboration of mixed-cultural First Nations artist Lisa Waup and Western Australian digital artist Sam Price.

Continuum transforms elements of Waup's traditional mark-making practice into the digital realm. Through the celebration of shared connections of Country and topographic views of salt water, the work details narratives of the significance of water as a connector and essential for life.

Continuum details a sequence of adjoining elements in a progression of connection at varying degrees of perception. These cannot be perceptibly altered from each other— they are one. One does not exist without the other, they are harmonised in every way - akin.

/ Lisa Waup

Project Details


Artwork Title:
Continuum

Artists: Lisa Waup, Sam Price

Client: Charter Hall

Location: Naarm/Melbourne, Australia

Year: 2020