envelop: kwodrent x farmwork

11 July – 23 August 2008

envelop features one of Asia’s most exciting young designers, Singapore based Grace Tan. After a successful career in fashion Grace started kwodrent in 2003 as a personal project to explore fashion and design in a new light. Since then kwodrent has emerged as a critically rigorous series of works that have been featured in exhibitions and publications all over the world.

Grace’s interpretation of form in fashion, and nature creates a world of rigorous, repetitive shapes, curled and furled into elegant pieces. They are numbered in a series that has evolved each year for the past five years. In envelop, she continues to blur the lines between fashion, fine art and architecture. Still working from the simple rectangle, she has developed her earlier experiments to give us meticulously crafted large-scale fabric sculptures that sit equally well on the body, as on the wall.

Interested in promoting a dialogue through design, Grace has invited Singapore architecture firm FARMWORK to interpret the gallery space and structure in response to kwodrent; to envelop kwodrent within a new spatial experience just as kwodrent envelops the body in new ways.

RMIT Gallery Website: www.rmit.edu.au/rmitgallery

Public Programs Friday 18 July, 3 pm Floor talk: Grace Tan and FARMWORK Wednesday 16 July, 10 am-12 pm State of Design: design culture lecture by architect William Lim Storey Hall followed by a visit to the exhibition

For more information visit www.kwodrent.com www.work.farm.sg