Margaret and Christine Wertheim: Value and Transformation of Corals Product Type / Vases offering new ways of seeing

offering new ways of seeing and reading the lands of the surrounding Sydney region

Yellow Horned Antelope on paper

From green grass and fluffy white clouds to pebbles and shells on the seashore

and with the addition of 100 new items that highlight designers from a diverse variety of backgrounds (including a greater number of female designers) and products from the last 15 years

Mother-and-daughter team Penelope and Tansy Curtin start this fascinating journey in the late eighteenth century

Margaret and Christine Wertheim: Value and Transformation of Corals Product Type / Vases offering new ways of seeingAustralian born, California based sister artists Margaret and Christine Wertheim draw on a unique fusion of mathematics, marine biology, traditional handicraft methods and collective art practice to create large scale coralline landscapes both beautiful and blighted. Responding to anthropogenic crisis, their soft sculptures and wall mounted reliefs simulate living reefs using crochet techniques to mimic in yarn the curling, crenelated forms of actual