Title

Great Brits: the New Alchemists

Collective title

British Council travelling exhibition

Venues

UTS Gallery (4 April 2006 – 5 May 2006)

Date

(2006)

Summary

Multi-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (NSW).

Curator

British Council and the Design Museum with Sir Paul Smith

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

Curated by the British Council and the Design Museum with Sir Paul Smith, Great Brits: the New Alchemists is a showcase for the new generation of talented young designers working in Britain. Each of the designers - Pascal Anson, Michael Cross and Julie Mathias (Wokmedia), Julia Lohmann, Matthias Megyeri and Peter Tragg - is at the start of their career, yet has developed a distinctive approach to design. They share a passion for experimentation with new materials and manufacturing technologies and for exploring the transformative - or alchemical - possibilities of design.

Great Brits explores the development of a raw, surreal design aesthetic that transforms base objects or materials and commonplace typologies in unexpected ways. [gallery media]