What We Make
Often projects can be served by work that already exists, or by an artist we commission to make something new. Now and then a space asks for something that sits outside both, perhaps because of an unusual proportion, or a budget constraint. This is usually where typical art consulting hits a wall. For us there is a third route, and one of the things that sets our studio apart.
What Making Means Here
Making takes two forms in the studio, and most projects that involve custom works draw on both.
Prints
We produce hand-pulled silkscreen works on our own press in Marrickville – the same studio and the same hands behind our editions practice, turned toward a single project. For a multi-unit hospitality scheme that might mean a series of limited edition silkscreens developed for the building and exclusive to it, so the work in those rooms exists nowhere else. The press is where the studio began, and it's still where a lot of our thinking gets worked out.
Design, Direction & Fabrication
Often the work a space needs isn't a print at all – it's a textile, a relief, a ceramic, a painted surface. Here we design the piece in the studio and either produce it ourselves or partner with makers we've come to trust over years of our own practice: textile printers, ceramicists, muralists, fabricators with machinery and expertise we don't keep in-house. We can conceive of the piece a space needs and bring the right hands to each part of its creation.
What We’ve Made
Smart for Budgets
There's a reflex to treat custom work as the expensive option, the thing you reach for when budget is no object. In our experience it's frequently the opposite. When we're making the work, we hold the variables that actually move cost – the medium, the scale, the paper, the edition size, the framing – so a constrained budget becomes something to engineer rather than a reason to thin out the art itself. Thinking in terms of a project's whole art budget rather than a price per piece, we can pair a considered anchor work with a custom edition that carries the rest of a scheme, holding the quality across the whole project instead of spending it all in one place. The studio knowledge is the leverage, and it's the part that's hard to find anywhere else.
How it works
Custom design and fabrication grows out of a consulting relationship. We offer it to the designers and developers we're working with on a project, and to clients we've worked with before who come back with a new space. By the time we're making something, we already understand the room, the budget and what the space is reaching for – which is what lets the work be right rather than merely new. If we're already working together and a project reaches the point where the work needs to be made, it's part of the conversation. If we haven't worked together yet, that's where it begins.
Start with a consultation
Tell us the broad strokes of your project and we'll work out together where art belongs in it – and whether making something custom is part of the answer.
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