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Done / Undone

Curated by Joseph Gardner

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Joseph Gardner is the 2025 Visionaries curator, presenting DONE/UNDONE – an exhibition of 50+ artists.​ DONE/UNDONE is one of Craft’s largest exhibitions to date – featuring artists working across medium, scale and practice, representing exceptional Australian talent. Visionaries is Craft's annual exhibition series – presenting the future of Australian art, craft and design through the lens of one of the country's most influential creatives.​ DONE/UNDONE explores the creative process as a space of constant negotiation - a series of decisions to build, erase, repeat, or let be. It’s about that intuitive moment when a maker chooses to pause, to push further, or to dismantle entirely. These are the choices that define the rhythm of making - choices familiar to artists, designers, and creators across disciplines.

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The works in this exhibition sit at various points along a spectrum of resolution. Some reveal the construction behind the object - raw, unpolished, deconstructed - where process is as visible as form. Others are meticulously refined, their surfaces hiding the complexity of their making. Some pieces revisit past ideas or historical references, reimagined through new materials or techniques. Others venture into entirely new territory, using experimentation as both method and message.​ DONE/UNDONE asks us to look beyond finishedness - to consider how intention, iteration, and even doubt can shape what we make, and how we understand the act of making itself.

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including 

Rachelle Austen, BMDO, Olivia Bossy, Rosanna Ceravolo & Jordan Fleming, Woo-Ram (Sam) Choi (Walk In the Park), Billie Civello, Riley Concannon, Max Copolov, Ashley Corbett-Smith, Studio Corbet, Billy Crellin, Laura de Carteret, Moya Delany, Aunty Patsy Doolan, Em Frank, Jessie French, Jodie Fried, John Gatip, Adam Goodrum, Angela Hayes, Hootan Heydari, Jess Humpston, Tanika Jellis, Lauren Joffe, Nicole Lawrence Studio, Steve Lees, Julienne Lewis, Made by Morgen, Ryan Mueller, Sarah Nedovic, Joanne Odisho, Yoko Ozawa, Annie Paxton, Remy Pajaczkowski-Russell, Christopher Plumridge, Tais Rose Wae, Bruce Rowe, Makiko Ryujin, Astrid Salomon, Kenny Yong-soo Son, Morgan Stokes, Streifen Studio Kaytar, Studio Tops, Sundance Studio (Emma Shepherd), Bolaji Teniola, Belle Thierry, Jade Thorsen, Anna Varendorff, Alana Wilson

These works by Wilson express a sense of iterative sequencing or reassemblage through ceramic, etching, and bronze. They take an antagonistic view to a medium and archetype so integral to her practice - to represent something whole or complete as fragile, repaired, reassembled. 

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The works allude to the fragile and fragmented qualities of the medium. Some pieces have been broken intentionally, yet some broken by accident have undergone kintsugi repair - highlighting the beauty to be found in their imperfections and flaws. In addition, these ceramic works subvert the archetype of the vessel to hold, carry or enclose something inside of it. Functionality is removed and one must consider its history and future, based on its scars and seams. Both the bronze and etching work follow a natural, fibonacci-esque spiral to express iteration, momentum and plurality - a philosophy innately present in the studio making process, yet often not felt in final, singular works.

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