Pit Projects / Collaboration with Michael Gittings
May 25, 2024 — June 02, 2024 (Melbourne Design Week)
Room 13, Level 8, Nicholas Building
37 Swanston Street, VIC 3000
Thistle Chair is a large sculptural couch constructed from stainless steel and upholstered in the pappus-clad seeding flowers of Artichoke Thistles. The work is driven by an interest in the brittle and inhospitable fur-like materiality of the matured thistles as well as the play between utility and complete uselessness in furniture as pure sculpture.
Thistle Chair is presented as the debut exhibition by Pit Projects, an evolving site of creative collaborations between artists Anni Hagberg and Michael Gittings.
This event is part of Melbourne Design Week 2024, an initiative of the Victorian Government in collaboration with the NGV.
