Totem, teapot
(2017)
from the Teapot Menagerie collection 2017
Medium
porcelain
Measurements
(a-b) 23.0 × 10.5 × 10.4 cm (overall)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Dr Sarah Tiffin and Andrew Clark, 2017
© Alterfact
Gallery location
Foyer
Ground Level, NGV Australia
About this work
This collection of porcelain teapots by Melbourne-based designers Ben Landau and Lucile Sciallano explores the evolving relationship between craft and technology. Demonstrating an organic high-tech aesthetic made possible through computer-aided design, 3D printing and robotics, the works are made using a 3D clay printer built by the designers. Once programmed, the printer generates a dynamic visual language shaped by the mechanics of extrusion, the forces of physics and the natural behaviour of clay. Each teapot reflects a rapidly changing world in which designers create both objects and the tools that bring them into being.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Northcote, Melbourne, Victoria
Edition
ed. 1/3
Accession Number
2017.399.a-b
Department
Contemporary Design and Architecture