Collection Online
Medium
pandanus (Pandanus sp.), natural dyes, PET plastic bottle, electrical cord, low voltage LEDs
Measurements
126.0 × 415.0 × 355.0 cm (variable) (installed)
Place/s of Execution
Ramingining, Northern Territory; Madrid, Spain; Melbourne, Victoria
Accession Number
2018.176
Department
Contemporary Design and Architecture
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased NGV Foundation with the assistance of Vicki Vidor OAM and Peter Avery, 2018
© Alvaro Catalán de Ocón
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work

In these works designer Alvaro Catalán de Ocón and the Bula’bula artists devised a system for joining traditional woven mat forms, resulting in large-scale collaborative works, to be presented as suspension lamps. Alongside, studies of the development process track the process of collaboration and the merging of traditional gathered, dyed and woven pandanus with PET plastic bottles.