VESSEL is a perfume launch which casts a light on fragrance as an art form.
Four local and national artists have each been assigned a newly-developed fragrance and asked to produce five vessels to house them in. They are each following a distinct brief so that there is unity between perfume, vessel & commercial narrative.
Interview with Dimitri Dimitriades on ABC Radio:
Perth perfume expert awakens the senses in unique fragrance exhibition - ABC listen
2 - 6 Oct 11am - 4.30pm
Kate Rohde completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2001. Since then she has become known for her intensely colourful jewellery and sculptural object-based practice, nowadays working predominately with resin and hand casting techniques.
Her work is held in the collections of several institutions including the National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia and Bendigo Art Gallery.
Responding to Dimitri Dimitriades' new perfume URANIUM, Kate explores forms which seemingly buzz and crackle with radioactive emission. Her artistic narrative addresses nuclear catastrophe, and nature's resolute wish to claim everything back.
BISMUTH extrait de parfum: A thousand-coloured jewel resembling ancient alien architecture, Bismuth streaks across the visible spectrum with iridescent fire; like the opalescent flash of Angel feathers, or the crumpled silks worn by a pious saint.
Inspired by Byzantine art and Slavic fairytales all resplendent with shining gods and deities, Mira Dimitriadis venerates holy artefacts and divine protagonists from the spiritual pantheon, rendering them in dazzling three dimensions. An Archangel’s orb; a sacrificial lamb; a twisting minaret, all scintillating with polychromatic God-fire.
A perfume which fluctuates like a colour-shifting prism, Bismuth darts between the earthbound and the ethereal, boasting perfume materials lifted from every bar of the rainbow.
Red cherry, Mandarin, Daffodil, Lime, Iris, Lavender, Benzoin.
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MANACCANITE Extrait de Parfum
Charmaine Ball was Born in South Africa and moved to Australia in 1981. Ball's practice responds to structural elements encountered in the built environment. Architecture and materials – forms, angles, shadows – provide impetus for response. Spanning sculpture and painting, her work is characterised by an exploration of line, shape and colour. Formal geometric composition is paired with an organic approach that imbues a liveliness to abstract pieces.
Working with white stoneware clay and mid fire black clay, Ball’s sculptures examine the spatial configuration, weight and tactility of matter. Hand-built sculptures are bisque fired and left chalkily unglazed. Through the manipulation of material the works arrive at an interplay of...