The Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award
Louise Weaver

Louise Weaver is the recipient of this year's Cicely and Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award.

"… Taking a Chance on Love extends many of the concepts and processes I have developed in the past. The ideas relate primarily to the natural world – in particular, the potential for natural and man-made forms to transform and evolve in response to environmental phenomena, allowing their continued existence as hybrids.

The three animal forms- Bear, Squirrel and Mink- inhabit a carpet island, their activities defined by the viewer’s imaginings; the potential narratives innumerable. No longer frozen in stasis, they are aware in their new world."

Louise WEAVER
born Australia 1966
Taking a Chance on Love (detail) (2002–03)
foam, cotton, wool, linen, silk, polyester, glass, rubber, plastic, acetate, aluminium, silver leaf, acrylic paint, wood, stone, light + sound, polyester flowers, cut and sealed with high frequency sound waves (recouped from Issey Miyake evening bags), Cero chair designed by Brian Steendyk
5.0 x 3.65 metres