The Gradients
2024
Acrylic, film

20 x 28 x 25 cm (iridescent / cloud)
55 x 30 x 25 cm (iridescent / triple drawer)
20 x 25 x 25 cm (clear / square)
20 x 25 x 25 cm (blue / square)

The Gradients were born with the first skies of the planet, mythic in both scale and concept they exist in the liminal space between day and night. Shimmering through atmospheres to horizons.

The Gradients are the ancient collectors of colour, responsible for the safe keeping of hues through the silver light of nights. And then, the resaturation; the tints and tones diffused again, an entire spectrum cast upon the Country.

First shown through Sophie Gannon Gallery at Melbourne Design Week 2024

The Gradients triple drawer published through Mythica Ignota at Canberra Glassworks 2024

All enquiries via Sophie Gannon Gallery.

Images by James Morgan, Studio Pew Pew and Brenton McGeachie*

*courtesy of Canberra Glassworks

From Designing Mythology

Designing Mythology is a questioning and proposal for old ways / new to exist as humans, using the process of 'mything' to reorientate back towards the planet, and recalibrate our value systems by dismantling the current shadow metaphors of the Western-colonial worldview. It proposes the restorying of scientific perspectives to offer a cosmology that includes humans as part of the living world whilst simultaneously removing us from the centre. Thus a recognition and return, via a circuitous route, to the worldviews, deep connection and sustainment of the first peoples of our planet.