“INFLECTIONS”
Suzie Attiwill
15 Oct → 24 Oct 2010
Gallery 2
Gallery 2 is a covered space; it is a finished space.
A temporary consistency poised for the moment of exhibition.
The inflections here were textual.
Ideas and exclamations, selected quotes and references, catalogues and drafts.
The collection came from research conducted through exhibition, curatorial and writing practice addressing questions of interior and interiority.
Since 1992, Suzie Attiwill has maintained an independent practice involving the design of exhibitions, curatorial work, writing and working on a range of interdisciplinary projects in Australia and overseas. From 1996-1999, she was the artistic director of Craft Victoria. Suzie has Bachelor qualifications in Interior Design and Fine Arts (Art History), and a Master of Arts (Design).
Gallery 1
Techniques of exhibition-making, interior design and curatorial practice become apparent in Gallery 1
A working space; a space of experimentation, display, demonstration as well as exhibition.
The word ‘inflection’ brings ideas of bending and working with forces and actions which produce an interior as an inside of a folded line. This could be the architectural structure of the white cube; it could also be another line, other forces.
Ideas and forces from gallery 2 in conjunction with those of West Space and the event of the exhibition will be worked and inflected with, within, through, over, aside from the line of West Space’s architectural plan.
Dr Suzie Attiwill is the Professor of Interior Design in the School of Architecture & Urban Design
Gallery 3
Gallery 3 – a third space for outcomes produced from the conjunction of galleries 1 + 2.
An empty space – an expectant interiority.
Making space for interior designs and propositions yet to come.
Space for sketching-in and surfacing; for departures.
A member of Urban Interior (a transdisciplinary research group situated in the Customising Space /Design Research Institute and the School of Architecture + Design, RMIT University) Suzie Attiwill is involved in ongoing research projects which include temporal occupations of the urban environment and the design of interior environments for young people placed in out-of-home care.
Dr Suzie Attiwill is Associate Dean Interior Design in the School of Architecture and Urban Design, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Since 1991, her practice has involved exhibition design, curatorial work, writing and teaching. Projects pose questions of interior and interiority in relation to contemporary conditions of living, inhabitation, subjectivity, pedagogy and praxis. Her creative practice research is conducted through a practice of designing with a curatorial inflection attending to arrangements (and rearrangements) of spatial, temporal and material relations. Previous roles include: artistic director of Craft Victoria (1996-99) and editor of Craft and guest editor, Craft and Design Enquiry; board member/chair of West Space Artist Led Initiative (2006-10); chair of IDEA (Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association, 2006-12) and executive editor of the IDEA Journal (2014-15).