Trent & Johnny in the Thirroul studio. Photo: Romello Pereira.
Come to ARC ONE Gallery at 3:30pm tomorrow (Sat 14 March) to hear insights from JOHNNY NARGOODAH & TRENT JANSEN on the cross-cultural collaboration and experimental making processes that lead to Partu, their latest collaboration in furniture design, realised in animal skin.
Johnny Nargoodah is a Nyikina man who has spent much of his life working with leather as a saddler on remote cattle stations, and Trent Jansen is an avant-garde object designer from Thirroul in New South Wales, who regularly experiments with leather and animal pelts in his collectable design work.
The artists will be present for the floor talk from 3:30 - 4:30pm.
This event is part of Melbourne Design Week, an initiative of the Victorian government in collaboration with the National Gallery of Victoria. The project is assisted by the Australian government through the Australia Council for the Arts.