Join us for a casual Wednesday Talk with Transformative Repair Investigator Guy Keulemans, and artist Kay Lawrence.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Guy Keulemans

Guy Keulemans is a designer, artist and curator researching repair, reuse, materials and generative processes for environmental sustainability. Guy has a Masters in Humanitarian Design from the Design Academy Eindhoven and a PhD from the University of New South Wales. An Enterprise Fellow at the University of South Australia, he is a member of the Creative People, Products and Places Research Centre (CP3) and associate member of the Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments (IVE).

Guy has exhibited in museums and galleries across Australia, Asia and Europe including COCA in Poland, KORA in Italy and ARS Electronica in Austria. He has works in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria and Art Gallery of South Australia. With frequent collaborator Kyoko Hashimoto he is represented by Gallery Sally Dan Cuthbert in Sydney and was named one of the Top 100 Game Changers in Design by Architectural Digest Italia in 2021.

Kay Lawrence

Kay Lawrence AM is Emeritus Professor at the University of South Australia where she had a distinguished career as an educator in the visual arts, becoming the first woman appointed to head the South Australian School of Art in 2002. She has an international profile as a tapestry weaver and her work is held in many public collections in Australia and overseas. In her visual art and writing practices she critically engages with matters of personal and community identity, exploring ideas of loss and connection through the materiality of textiles. Her art practice ranges across woven tapestry to installation and performance works using humble domestic materials like buttons and string to explore the material and immaterial resonances of human life.

ABOUT US

JamFactory is a unique not-for-profit organisation that champions the social, cultural, and economic value of craft and design in daily life. Through our programs we inspire audiences, build careers, and extend contemporary craft and design into new markets.