DONE/UNDONE
DONE/UNDONE
Joseph Gardner is the 2025 Visionaries curator, presenting DONE/UNDONE – an exhibition of over 50 artists. Visionaries is Craft's annual exhibition series – presenting the future of Australian art, craft and design through the lens of one of the country's most influential creatives. DONE/UNDONE is one of Craft’s largest exhibitions to date – featuring artists working across medium, scale and practice, representing exceptional Australian talent.
From the curator "DONE/UNDONE explores the creative process as a space of constant negotiation — a series of decisions to build, erase, repeat, or let be. It’s about that intuitive moment when a maker chooses to pause, to push further, or to dismantle entirely. These are the choices that define the rhythm of making — choices familiar to artists, designers, and creators across disciplines. The works in this exhibition sit at various points along a spectrum of resolution. Some reveal the construction behind the object — raw, unpolished, deconstructed — where process is as visible as form. Others are meticulously refined, their surfaces hiding the complexity of their making. Some pieces revisit past ideas or historical references, reimagined through new materials or techniques. Others venture into entirely new territory, using experimentation as both method and message. DONE/UNDONE asks us to look beyond finishedness — to consider how intention, iteration, and even doubt can shape what we make, and how we understand the act of making itself." Joseph Gardner
Artists
Rachelle Austen / BMDO / Olivia Bossy / Rosanna Ceravolo & Jordan Fleming / Woo-Ram (Sam) Choi (Walk In the Park) / Billie Civello / Riley Concannon / Max Copolov / Ashley Corbett-Smith / Studio Corbet / Billy Crellin / Laura de Carteret / Moya Delany / Aunty Patsy Doolan / Em Frank / Jessie French / Jodie Fried / John Gatip / Adam Goodrum / Angela Hayes / Hootan Heydari / Jess Humpston / Tanika Jellis / Lauren Joffe / Nicole Lawrence Studio / Steve Lees / Julienne Lewis / Made by Morgen / Ryan Mueller / Sarah Nedovic / Joanne Odisho / Yoko Ozawa / Annie Paxton / Remy Pajaczkowski-Russell / Christopher Plumridge / Tais Rose Wae / Bruce Rowe / Makiko Ryujin / Astrid Salomon / Kenny Yong-soo Son / Morgan Stokes / Streifen / Studio Kaytar / Studio Tops / Sundance Studio (Emma Shepherd) / Bolaji Teniola / Belle Thierry / Jade Thorsen / Anna Varendorff / Alana Wilson
From the curator "DONE/UNDONE explores the creative process as a space of constant negotiation — a series of decisions to build, erase, repeat, or let be. It’s about that intuitive moment when a maker chooses to pause, to push further, or to dismantle entirely. These are the choices that define the rhythm of making — choices familiar to artists, designers, and creators across disciplines. The works in this exhibition sit at various points along a spectrum of resolution. Some reveal the construction behind the object — raw, unpolished, deconstructed — where process is as visible as form. Others are meticulously refined, their surfaces hiding the complexity of their making. Some pieces revisit past ideas or historical references, reimagined through new materials or techniques. Others venture into entirely new territory, using experimentation as both method and message. DONE/UNDONE asks us to look beyond finishedness — to consider how intention, iteration, and even doubt can shape what we make, and how we understand the act of making itself." Joseph Gardner
Artists
Rachelle Austen / BMDO / Olivia Bossy / Rosanna Ceravolo & Jordan Fleming / Woo-Ram (Sam) Choi (Walk In the Park) / Billie Civello / Riley Concannon / Max Copolov / Ashley Corbett-Smith / Studio Corbet / Billy Crellin / Laura de Carteret / Moya Delany / Aunty Patsy Doolan / Em Frank / Jessie French / Jodie Fried / John Gatip / Adam Goodrum / Angela Hayes / Hootan Heydari / Jess Humpston / Tanika Jellis / Lauren Joffe / Nicole Lawrence Studio / Steve Lees / Julienne Lewis / Made by Morgen / Ryan Mueller / Sarah Nedovic / Joanne Odisho / Yoko Ozawa / Annie Paxton / Remy Pajaczkowski-Russell / Christopher Plumridge / Tais Rose Wae / Bruce Rowe / Makiko Ryujin / Astrid Salomon / Kenny Yong-soo Son / Morgan Stokes / Streifen / Studio Kaytar / Studio Tops / Sundance Studio (Emma Shepherd) / Bolaji Teniola / Belle Thierry / Jade Thorsen / Anna Varendorff / Alana Wilson
- Works:
'November 4' / 'November 5'
'November 4' and 'November 5' form part of an ongoing series of ceramic reliefs framed within shelves, box frames, and containers. I see them as documentation; a record of the here and now shaped by a personal symbolic language. My practice explores thresholds and transitions, the spaces between the known and unknown, seen and unseen. I work with natural rhythms, material, symbol and colour to give form to what resists definition.
The making process is a conversation between intention and intuition. I divide a clay slab into a grid and work left to right, top to bottom, cutting and shaping without pre-planning. Much like writing, marks emerge in response to what comes before, each decision shaping the next. Unlike a written text however, the forms resist translation; they can’t be deciphered, repeated, or reconstructed. What is captured is shaped by the conditions and the moment of its making, always in flux and shifting from one work to the next.
After firing, framing gathers the ceramic fragments and holds them as an integrated whole. Each frame is calibrated to its ceramic counterpart, aligning in colour, scale, and depth. The relationship between collection and containment is deliberate; adjacencies, alignments, and the spaces between hold as much weight as the forms themselves.
Credits:
With thanks to Joseph Gardner, Sarah Kelk / Craft, Piers Brown
Images courtesy Craft
Photography:
Pier Carthew
