Isabel Hood
Golden Pendas from the BP

Dimensions vary with every mug. Mugs are stoneware fired, dishwasher (please pack carefully to not place pressure on the handles) and microwave safe.Wendy Ma (Kaomoji Ceramics) is a Meanjin (Brisbane) based Ceramic Artist driven by a desire to stimulate joy and warmth - recognising the impact a carefully placed ceramic piece can have on a home space. Her bright, modern homewares encourage ritualistic use to elevate your mood and routine - transforming ordinary meals or your morning coffee into a relished experience.With a background in design and fashion, Wendy has been practicing in ceramics since 2015. Creating under the moniker 'Kaomoji' the term is borrowed from the Japanese art of using symbols to convey emotion.

20224 x 3 x 2cmStoneware & GlazePeta Berghofer is a Giabal and Jarowair (Toowoomba) based Artist working with clay as her medium and the vessel as her form. Her work references historically familiar form and function, but she disrupts these expectations of traditional vessel-based, ceramic art practices. Peta’s self-referential ceramics are most often presented as the same body of work, exhibited as abstracted still-life installations. Here, she plays with distinctions between the gallery and domestic spaces, engaging with historic and contemporary tensions between art, craft, and design.

‘Letting it Sink in’ (left)2022Oil on Wood33 x 24 cmframed‘Letting it Soak in’ (right)2022Oil/Acrylic on canvas33 x 24 cmframedArtworks available for purchase individually on enquiry.Miri Badger is an Australian representational painter living and working in Meanjin (Brisbane). Utilising a highly-saturated colour palette, and assertively flat brushstrokes to render form, her chosen subject matter investigates uncanny human interactions and psychological states. The amalgamation of seemingly mismatched objects and figures results in an unusual mixture of pathos and eerie amusement in her paintings.

13cm diameterFood safe: hand wash onlyEach Lawn Bowls piece is handmade in Meanjin (Brisbane) by Finn O`Sullivan. Finn’s glasswork is made through a continual process of observing how decorative objects enrich our experiences of domestic spaces.Every piece is unlike the last. Small irregularities and wayward details adorn each piece.

Oil on board 202241 x 42cm (inclusive of frame structure)Savannah Jarvis is a Meanjin (Brisbane) based visual artist whose paintings are underpinned by the belief that metaphor, allegory, and discursiveness are powerful ways to communicate situational complexity. Her work explores the ways painting as a form of sign production can uniquely communicate phenomenological experiences — specifically where language fails. Jarvis is a graduate of BFA at the Queensland College of Art.

Assembling a Black Counter Culture is a general history of techno and adjacent electronic music genres, with a focus on Black experiences in industrialised labour systems. It confidently explores the development of on-the-ground culture in relation to a uniquely American art form.Revisiting Detroit’s techno roots through the 1980s, writer and musician DeForrest Brown, Jr. follows the extended thinking and techniques behind key early players and places them in conversation with the African-American working class in the historically emblematic Motor City. From The Belleville Three to today’s international club floor, 'Assembling a Black Counter Culture' illuminates the mechanics of American mainstream cultural production and reinstates electronic music from a Black theoretical perspective.A critical reconsideration emerges with references to Theodore Roszak’s Making of a Counter Culture, writings by African-American autoworker and political activist James Boggs, and the 'techno rebels' of Alvin Toffler’s Third Wave, among others, tracing parallels between movements in Black electronic music and attempts to evade and subvert the race and class-essentialist status quo established by American technocratic distribution of labor and capital.128 pages, 17.5 x 10.5 cm, softcover, Primary Information (New York).