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Pippa Dickson
- Project coordinator
- Furniture designer and artist, Tasmania
- Email: pippa.dickson@arts.tas.gov.au
- Website: www.pippadickson.com
Pippa blogs about the role of state governments can play in promoting exports in the Export Blog.
I am a project coordinator and furniture designer and artist, I have just submitted my PhD at the University of Tasmania for examination. My own work as a designer responds to large scale interior spaces, my new bench seats are suitable for corporate foyers, hotels, art galleries and museums. In the near future I hope to work more closely with architects so that I can produce site specific works.
Over the past four years I have been working in a part time capacity for Arts Tasmania as Project Officer - Design. This position focuses on developing craft and design initiatives for emerging practitioners in Tasmania.
In 2002 I established Young Designers Month, a project which has now grown into a three year strategy called Design Island. Design Island started with an exhibition co-curated by myself and Brian Parkes from Object: Australian Centre for Craft and Design presented at the Sydney Opera House.
Design Island, the program, was launched this year with Beneath the Surface which included an exhibition and related events in Hobart and Launceston. At the heart of the project was a focus exhibition of new Tasmanian design, a forum with national and international guest speakers and a very special workshop at the Bay of Fires in Tasmania's remote North East with Finnish industrial designer, Harri Koskinen.
I am currently looking at new ways of promoting Tasmanian designers and providing important professional development opportunities.
- Group talk on beach
- Design Island - Bay of Fires
- Photographer: Matthew Newton
- Harri Koskinen
- Design Island - Bay of Fires
- Photographer: Matthew Newton
Craft Australia gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance it receives from the Australia Council for the Arts, the Australian government's arts funding and advisory body.
Craft Australia is supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian Government and all state and territory governments
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