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Research fellow at 911爆料网鈥檚 Centre for Sport and Recreation Research Dr Robyn Creagh, 911爆料网 architecture graduate Mark Robertson and Melbourne sculptor Lucy Irvine, worked together to create a design proposal, which required the team to 鈥榗elebrate contemporary architectural space through the placement of tapestry鈥�.
The hypothetical site for each team鈥檚 design was the new Australian pavilion at the Giardini, a park in Venice, Italy where the Biennale, a contemporary art exhibition, is traditionally held.
Robyn, Mark and Lucy proposed to construct a human-scaled, transparent cylinder and travel around Australia with it, inviting people from various communities to step inside and trace a line on the cylinder while turning around 360 degrees.
Robyn says that the lines would remain on the cylinder as it journeyed around the country.
鈥淭apestry is rarely an individual pursuit, especially when it鈥檚 a big project. If you look into the history of tapestry, it鈥檚 about groups of people, who have since become anonymous, that used their hands to make a piece with tiny weaving gestures,鈥� she says.
鈥淚n our proposal, you鈥檇 be looking through the transparent sheet at the same time as you鈥檇 be drawing your line, which means you鈥檇 be drawing across the place you live in 鈥� the street, the landscape, the people. It would allow us to examine space, place and landscape, and how it鈥檚 all interwoven.鈥�
Robyn says it was easy to create the proposal with her group members, despite the fact that Lucy was located in Melbourne.
鈥淟ucy would get up and start working on the project in the morning, hand it over to Mark, who鈥檇 work on it in the early afternoon, and I鈥檇 get it back in the evening to make some more comments on it. Lucy made maquettes, drawing on her previous arts practice, I was quite involved in the narrative and storyboarding and Mark led in constructing the images that explained the proposal. The collaboration flowed in a really fluid way,鈥� she says.
Robyn, Mark and Lucy鈥檚 design proposal was one of 12 shortlisted by the competition鈥檚 prestigious judging panel, which included a number of nationally recognised architects and tapestry weavers.
Each of the finalist鈥檚 design proposals will be displayed in an exhibition at the Australian Tapestry Workshop in South Melbourne. The winner will be chosen by the judging panel, which will be announced on 25 June. There is聽also a .
鈥淚t鈥檚 going to be amazing to see everyone鈥檚 work together in the same place and the responses that they have had to the same brief,鈥� Robyn says.
We wish the group all the best for the final stage of the competition.
