#kerbauction

LOT 40: Study Model for the Edithvale Seaford Wetland Discovery Centre (with Minifie van Schaik)

Current Bid (28/05): $225

Birch ply, zinc and paperclip  

(265 x 265 mm)

OCULUS 

OCULUS is a design based Urban Design and Landscape Architecture studio with a studio in Melbourne.

LOT 38: 'Hoarding Test' (2014)

Opening Bid: $200

Signed Sketch  

( -- mm height)

Sacha Coles / ASPECT Studios 

 ASPECT Studios is a group of design studios delivering innovative leading edge landscape architecture, urban design and urban planning, both within Australia and internationally.

Sacha Coles graduated from RMIT University’s Landscape Architecture program in 1998. Sacha is a Landscape Architect and the founding director of the Sydney Studio of ASPECT, as well as National Studios Director. He is also the past president of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects NSW and is currently on the advocacy committee.

LOT 37: 'Canopy Test' (2014)

Opening Bid: $200

Signed Sketch  

( — mm height)

Sacha Coles / ASPECT Studios 

ASPECT Studios is a group of design studios delivering innovative leading edge landscape architecture, urban design and urban planning, both within Australia and internationally.

Sacha Coles graduated from RMIT University’s Landscape Architecture program in 1998. Sacha is a Landscape Architect and the founding director of the Sydney Studio of ASPECT, as well as National Studios Director. He is also the past president of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects NSW and is currently on the advocacy committee.

LOT 36: 'Federation Square' (2014)

Current Bid (29/05): $300

Signed Original Concept Sketch of Federation Square 

( -- mm height)

Bart Brands / Karres en Brands, Netherlands 

A successful plan begins with a clear idea that has the opportunity to grow during the planning process. Its success is in part determined by the exploration and careful consideration of alternatives. In this way, the actual task becomes clear.

With an eye for results, our designs evolve in a cyclical manner. Our work is characterised by a balance between common sense, intuition and maximum creativity. We are curious, and open ourselves to further development and inspiration. This leads to an enrichment of our plans.

Our projects are not only based on strong spatial concepts, but are also achievable and carefully detailed. In this sense, we do not disregard the everyday and the essence of our profession: beauty and the spatial perception of a place. Well-balanced design can reveal hidden qualities in the landscape. With our projects we add new layers to the landscape; contemporary and recognisable. Our commitment is based on the belief that through our projects we can make a contribution to an attractive, healthy and sustainable environment, now and later. We create designs with a powerful identity, strongly related to the specific context, but also resilient and open enough to respond to uncertain futures, without loss of clarity and hierarchy. We see asking questions and giving insight as the basis of the design process. Our plans develop in close dialogue with the client and society. Our role, therefore, is never explicit, but instead based on customisation and a balance between control and participation. We are passionate builders, and contribute to the success of a plan together with good patronage.

LOT 35: 'Untitled' (2014)

Current Bid (25/5): $220

Original Mixed Media Collage (framed)

( -- mm height)

Site Office, Brunswick

Site Office is a landscape architectural consultancy specialising in the design of innovative and high quality public spaces. For the past 10 years, we have been working steadily on a range of projects with a strong public realm focus, exploring different strategies designed to improve the quality of many urban spaces within the city. We are advocates of innovative landscape design solutions that become the catalyst for change within the urban environment.

We are particularly interested in the myriad of wonderful and often unpredictable ways in which people inhabit and use public space. The beauty of public space is it’s multiplicity and complexity; as such we explore design strategies that avoid simplification and reduction and seek to draw out the inherent richness and diversity of the site and its inhabitants. Our work focuses strongly on developing functional designs that offer multiple and new ways of experiencing public space. We are also interested in the overlap and interaction of different uses that often results in spontaneous and unexpected interactions.

LOT 34: 'Untitled' (2014)

Opening Bid: $200

Original water colour sketch 

( -- mm height)

Anton James - Director of JMD Design 

Anton is an accomplished and highly regarded landscape architect and artist with more than 20 years experience in the profession. He developed his unique design language whilst working in Europe and North America. Which has been further strengthened by his studies in visual arts, and his ongoing public art commissions. As Director of JMD design he brings an innovative and site specific approach to each project producing unique outcomes that blur the boundary between art, architecture and landscape. 1986 - Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, UNSW 1994 - Graduate Diploma Visual Arts Painting (Merit), USYD

LOT 33: CAPTAIN COOK ENCOUNTERS A FEATHEROO (2005)

Opening Bid: $100

Original diorama

(150 mm height)

Sharon West

Sharon West is a visual artist working across various media including photography, painting, assemblage and digital media. She has been a teacher at the School of Art at RMIT University since 1999. West completed her Masters of Art at RMIT in 2009, exploring the relationships between settler and Indigenous cultures within Australian colonial art history. She has curated a number of exhibitions and exhibited nationally and internationally. This work was part of a series that portrayed mythical indigenous creatures, which West imagined to inhabit pre-settlement Melbourne. She constructs narrative-based scenarios that parody the concept of the museum diorama, featuring models of indigenous fauna and flora and domestic scenes of Koori people. 

LOT 19: YARRA FOOTBRIDGE (2011)

Opening Bid: $150

Digital print

(800 x 400 mm)

Barney Meyer

"Engineer, Mathematician, Itinerant street photographer, Denizen of the Dark, Dank and Derelict. I depict for you the endless cycle of dereliction, decay and renewal of Megalopolis." - Barney Meyer.

The artistic and technical challenge of making art out of dark and derelict buildings and back city alleys excites Meyer.

To produce these large panoramic images of 100 Megapixels or more, he has to capture 50 to 100+ images of a scene, blend them together seamlessly, and map them using mathematical projections based on those first developed by ancient mapmakers, modified suitably for the nature of the scene and what he wants to finally project.