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A Brisbane Artist Fusing Paper, Crochet + Porcelain In Her Sculptures

Artist Liz Sofield moved to Brisbane 16 years ago and has lived in the coastal town of Scarborough, 30 kilometres north of the city, since. Before that, she and her young family did a brief stint living in a remote mining town. Devoid of a creative outlet, it was here that she reconnected with her childhood love for making art.

Drawing on training textile design and interior design, and with a lifelong love for craft, Liz began making simple sculptures from paper and thread. Now, her works consists of crochet and porcelain forms, which she makes from her sunny 1950s home in Queensland.

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Shaping The Future Of Design Materials, With Designer Jessie French

Did you know that seaweed has truly extraordinary carbon sequestering qualities – absorbing around five times more carbon than most land-based plants? But that’s not where its superpowers end. Seaweed also presents incredible opportunities as a biofuel and renewable bioplastic, and it’s these qualities which have spurred Melbourne based artist and experimental designer Jessie French on a passionate quest to investigate seaweed, and its potential to contribute to a ‘post-petrochemical’ world.

After studying the diverse material properties of seaweed for around five years, in 2019, Jessie befriended the founder of Seaweed Appreciation Society International (SASi), comically named Lichen Kelp (!), and together the pair applied for an artist residency in Morocco, which produces most of the world’s agar from red algae. They won it, and in 2020, the pair set out to North Africa, to experiment with seaweed-based recipes for bioplastics.

The resin-like pieces Jessie now makes under her practice, Other Matter, are the result of these years of research. We recently visited Jessie in the fantastic new studio space in Melbourne’s CBD she shares with ceramicists Fluff Corp. and asked her a million and one questions about her fascinating explorations!

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'Pana-Bon' Appetit – The Design Files | Australia's most popular design blog.

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Remember those Maxibon challenges? How fast can you eat the crunchy end before attempting the biscuit end? We’ve taken that old sugary favourite and recreated it as a raw, vegan alternative. A silky ice cream with a nice nutty flavour, using activated quinoa (remember we made some of this as part of the ‘rejuvelac’ component for last week’s nut cheese?) and delicious biscuit shell. So who dares wins?

The ‘Pana-Bon Appetit’ aka raw, vegan ice cream sandwich! HAY Field board from CULT, HAY Paper Porcelain teacup and saucer from CULT and HAY Paper Porcelain plate form CULT. Styling – Lucy Feagins, Styling assistant – Nat Turnbull, photo – Eve Wilson.


The ‘Pana-Bon Appetit’ ingredients. Small Resin Earth Bowl in Black & Snow Swil by Dinosaur Designs and Sands Made Hard Maple Plate from Make. Styling – Lucy Feagins, Styling assistant – Nat Turnbull, photo – Eve Wilson.

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