Mass Reduction Exhibition - Melbourne Design Week 2022

Thursday, March 17, 2022 to Friday, June 3, 2022

Mass Reduction presents the work of artists and designers who through playful transformation of textile remnants and interrogation of linear modes of textile consumption offer innovative creative design approaches to confronting textile waste.

These works provide an antithesis to heedless textile production by championing mending and embracing wear and tear, privileging waste materials in design, slow process and repurposing and reusing textile waste. As well as through material choices, many artists employ a theoretical investigation into how we create and consume textiles and invite reflection on the value of post-consumer materials.

Presented as part of Melbourne Design Week, ‘Mass Reduction’ speaks to broader concerns around the waste created by the textile and apparel industries and current modes of ‘end-of-life' resource consumption. This exhibition promotes rethinking design process and material choices, reduce environmental impact and posit the transformation of textile waste to an even higher value textile product.

Artists: Eileen Braybrook (VIC), Aaron Billings (VIC), Elise Cakebread (VIC), Aphra Cheesman (VIC), Joanna Fowles (NSW), Blake Griffiths (NSW), Eloise Rapp (NSW), RaasLeela (INDIA), Reiko Sudo/NUNO (JPN) and Lisa Waup (Gunditjmara/Torres Strait Islander/VIC).