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2022Paper collage - drum scanned and printed on archival Hahnmüle Photo Rag 308GSM, with archival Japanese inks42 x 59.4cmLimited Edition of 5 in each formatFramed options available - email hello@waitingroom.storeMeanjin (Brisbane) based artist Des Skordilis has an innate ability to illustrate their feelings as a form of communication. Radiant compositions with bold primary colours and charming bulbous figures defy the rules of proportion. Working across a diverse range of mediums — from digital illustration to drawing, painting, sculpting and stop-motion animation — Skordilis crafts small and thoughtful worlds of intentional lines, block colour and joyful characters.

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.

'Cut Papers' features some of the artist’s most whimsical and intriguing works made on paper and in paper, alongside a select group of sculptures in metal, wood and ceramic. The first publication to focus solely on Picasso’s cut papers, this book features many works reproduced for the first time with newly commissioned photography, alongside new scholarship on a little-known aspect of one of the 20th century’s most pivotal practices.Although Picasso rarely sold or exhibited his cut papers (or papiers découpés) during his lifetime, he signed, dated and archived them just as he did all his works. They were simply part of a more private studio practice, often made for family or as models for his fabricators.Also featured is a photo section that surveys Picasso’s engagement with cut paper and sculpture over the decades and documents his practice of cutting paper, both in and out of the studio.256 pages150 colour illustrations25 x 22 cm.DelMonico Books/Hammer Museum

Bilums are traditional, intricately-woven bags, made by women throughout Papua New Guinea using natural fibres and recycled nylons & acrylics. The complex and unique patterns are integral to bilums, and many are particular to specific communities - recording and expressing provenance, current events and familial stories, often with spiritual or symbolic significance.Natural Fibre bilums are made from small trees and the weavers use natural plant-based dyes and as such are not designed to get wet. Please keep them dry.Each piece is entirely one-of-a-kind, and comes with a hand-written card acknowledging the cooperative and province.

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.

20225 x 7 x 7cm Stoneware & 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.