[Past Event] Melbourne Design Week 2024: TO SIT, OUT IN THE WILD

TO SIT, OUT IN THE WILD reimagines the chair through a contemplation of the natural landscape.

The exhibition questions what counts as a seat and where the need for formality begins to construct sitting forms. When does a stump become a chair and an indent create a sitting spot?

Furniture Designer Cam Morgan and Interior Designer Dasha Tolotchkov curate a space between practices that supports experimentation and testing, extending preliminary ideas that are often perfected or sketched over.

Through an iterative process the exhibition showcases a series of material forms at a miniature scale exploring the detail of nature’s wildly-ness and its solidity in the form of a chair, functional, imaginative and instinctual. 

A propos de 

Cam Morgan 

A furniture designer and director of Studio Backcountry. His practice is characterised by a foregrounding of materiality, creating objects that are both functional and artistic in nature. By drawing on principle of simplicity, Backcountry’s forms express a softness, clarity and a sense of charm.

Dasha Tolotchkov  

A spatial designer and interior architect. Her work revolves around interdisciplinary spatial practice that explores the connection between installation, performance, interior design and costume, with a focus on performativity within the interior. 

Accessibilité 

The Packing Room is wheelchair accessible.

Gender diversity is welcome at the Convent, and patrons are welcome to use any restroom that matches their gender identity or expression. There are gender-neutral toilets available close to the venue and gendered toilets available in other locations within the Convent precinct. View the Public Toilet Map to find a bathroom of your preference.

Melbourne Design Week and the Victorian Design Program are initiatives of the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.