Image by Matt Mcquiggan

CRUX | Crafting Light from the Essence of the Cosmos Past Event

Presented by Christopher Boots

Dates

Thu 23 May 10:00am - 4:00pm
Fri 24 May 10:00am - 4:00pm
Sat 25 May 10:00am - 4:00pm
Weekend walk-in
Sun 26 May 10:00am - 4:00pm
Weekend walk-in
Mon 27 May 10:00am - 4:00pm
Tue 28 May 10:00am - 4:00pm
Wed 29 May 10:00am - 4:00pm
Thu 30 May 10:00am - 4:00pm
Fri 31 May 10:00am - 4:00pm
Sat 01 Jun 10:00am - 4:00pm
Weekend walk-in
Sun 02 Jun 10:00am - 4:00pm
Weekend walk-in

Tickets

Free, Booking Required

Venue

Christopher Boots
8 Wood St, Fitzroy VIC 3065, Australia

Access

All gender bathroom, Assistance animals welcome

How can design translate the ethereal and metaphysical into a decorative lighting collection? Join Christopher Boots Studio at their offsite atelier for an immersive lighting installation off the back of the launch of CRUX at Milan Design Week 2024.

Crux is a constellation of the southern hemisphere that is centered on five bright stars in a cross-shaped asterism commonly known as the Southern Cross. Explore this familiar constellation through contemporary design and experience the hand-blown glass forms explicitly developed for CRUX in collaboration with local glass blowers. The collection highlights how the studio translates the metaphysical into matter, continuing its playful and envelop-pushing exploration into its medium and expanding on its signature lexicon of materials. The exhibition demonstrates the ‘crux’ where astronomy and contemporary lighting design intersect, incorporating textured blown glass forms, moving away from the studio’s signature library of quartz crystal. Attendees will be transported to an other-worldly lunar landscape to experience this new lighting collection.

Participants

Christopher Boots Studio

The Christopher Boots Studio is based in Melbourne (Naarm/Birrarung-ga); an industrial design studio situated on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. The studio pays its respects to the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people, acknowledging that sovereignty was never ceded, and pays its respects to elders past, present, and emerging, and extends this respect to all Indigenous Australians.

 

 


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