Elliot Bastianon wins $20k major NSW design award
Elliot Bastianon receives his award from awards judge Genevieve Smart, fashion designer and co-founder of Ginger & Smart.
Canberra designer maker Elliot Bastianon is ‘absolutely stoked’ to have won the $20k Northern Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Prize in the design category. ‘A big congratulations to all of the finalists and to the curators Ben Rak and Katherine Roberts for delivering a large and complex show across two locations’, said Bastianon.’
The work of more than 200 finalists is on show until 25 August, 2024. Design category finalists’ work may be seen at Curl Curl Creative Space in Northern Beaches, NSW. Finalists were selected from 680 entries submitted across Australia. Artists and designers were asked to respond to the environment and contribute to positive change.
Elliott Bastianon’s prize-winning Oregon Chair was made from reclaimed oregon and patinated copper.
Judges for the exhibition were fashion designer Genevieve Smart (Ginger & Smart), industrial designer Trent Jansen and visual artist Khaled Sabsabi. The winning piece is his Oregon Chair which is made from reclaimed oregon and salvaged copper pipe treated with the maker’s signature electroplating and patination technique. The judges praised its ‘sculptured curiosity and beautifully realised junctions of materials’.
Side view of Elliot Bastianon’s prize-winning Oregon Chair, made from reclaimed oregon and patinated copper.
‘The form is unfussy, leaving the materials to do the heavy lifting with their generous sizes and contrasting surfaces’, said Elliot Bastianon. ‘The aged copper and fine growth rings are an acknowledgment of time and change and encourage the viewer to consider our relationship with materials that may have had a previous life elsewhere.’
Photos: Brenton Colley
Head to Curl Curl Creative space,105 Abbott Rd, North Curl Curl, NSW to see the work, on display until Sun 25 Aug.
Learn more about the Northern Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Prize here