For NGV Triennial 2020, Faye Toogood presents designs for furniture, lighting, scenography, sculpture, and large-scale tapestries alongside seventeenth-century artworks from the NGV Collection in her installation Downtime: Daytime, Candlelight, Moonlight.
Designing and curating three spaces – each alluding to the lighting effects present in the historical artworks, Toogood plunges us deep into a period sensibility using her own innovative designs as a connecting device to the past. Toogood sees her work as Gesamtkunstwerk; a total work of art, whereby the interior – all works of art and design and their display – synthesise to deliver with full effect the experience and meaning of her presentation.
Celebrating the opening of the NGV Triennial at NGV International, Toogood reflects on her practice and work presented in the exhibition with NGV’s Curator of Contemporary Design and Architecture Simone LeAmon.
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Faye Toogood is a British designer working across interior, furniture, textile and object design, sculpture and drawing. Her interdisciplinary practice is characterised by material experimentation and the merging of historical and personal narratives to reclaim interior and furniture design as contexts for creative exploration and cultural commentary.
Simone LeAmon is the Hugh D. T Williamson Curator of Contemporary Design and Architecture at NGV and co-curates the department’s extensive program of commissioning, collecting, and exhibiting Australian and International contemporary design and architecture.