The Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award
Kate Derum

"Driving to work across the city I am in a place yet not in it
I am in my car
I am enclosed and private yet quite open and public
The world is safely observed through glass and frame and mirror, and sometimes camera
There are signs and rules to be followed and obeyed
There is freedom
There is repetition
There is time consciousness and loss of time consciousness
That half-way place of driving to and from work
I think I’ll go this way today
Thoughts surface, things remembered from yesterday, into today and tomorrow
Tapestry takes a long time but then so does driving to work"

Kate DERUM
born Australia 1943
We Are In A Holding Pattern (detail) (2001–02)
i) from here to there
ii) there and back
iii) back and forth
iv) forth and fourth
wool, cotton, linen; woven tapestry
four of 50.0 x 200.0 cm