LUST
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14 – 23 FEBRUARY
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Biography
John Warwicker & Naomi Troski
John Warwicker b.1955, London) is an artist, designer, and educator now based in Melbourne, Australia.
He is a co-founder and continuing member of the creative collective ’tomato’ in London and a Royal Designer for Industry (UK), a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (UK), a Professor of Graphic Design, at the Victorian College of the Arts VCA, University of Melbourne, and a visiting Professor at Tokyo Zokei University and the Kuwasawa Design School (Japan).
Warwicker’s daily practice blurs the distinction between disciplines - from typography and graphic design, video and film, painting and drawing, curation, object design, electronic interactive media, installations and architecture - describing his practice as ’Thought into Form by means of Language, irrelevant of medium or media, at any scale, for any duration, placed within the world’.
NOTABLE SHOWS:
SOLO
2010 For John Cage (La Mer). G/P Gallery, Ebisu, Tokyo. (Japan)
TOMATO GROUP SHOWS
1997 Process; A Tomato Projekt. Die Neue Sammlung, Munich. (Germany)
1998 Life. Bregenz. (Austria)
2007 ArtJam. Makuhari Messe, Tokyo, (Japan)
2008 Beautiful Burnout. Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York. (USA)
2016 O tomato Parco. Parco Museum, Tokyo. (Japan). and throughout Shibuya.
GROUP SHOWS
1996 JAM style + Music + Media. The Barbican, London. (UK)
2000 Onedotzero. Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (UK)
2001 Aller Anfang ist Merz – von Kurt Schwitters bis heute. Sprengel Museum, Hannover. (Germany)
2003 Typojanchi. Seoul Design Biennale. (Korea)
2014 Hong Kong International Poster Triennial 2014
2018 Design Storytellers: Broached Colonial, NGV (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne)
2020 UNESCO World heritage, Parco, Tokyo. (Japan)
2020 Electronic Design Museum, London
A print/film section devoted to Underworld at the major respective of Electronic Music.
2022 Playback, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Dumb Type.
The Japan Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 23 April – 27 November 2022. and at the Haus der Kunst Munich, 6 May-11 September 2022. Participated as one of 16 artists around the world (including Seigen Ono) to contribute a field recording of their immediate environment that was mixed/re-engineered as a sonic experience within the multi-media installation. Each sonic contribution remastered by Ryuichi was then turned into a vinyl ‘album’ and all played simultaneously in the installation. “Playback is about the ways in which we perceive the world having been drastically changed with the spread of things such as social media and coronavirus. Playback is also recognises the noise that exists in cities around the world and to feel the atmosphere of a city that doesn’t exist in that space, through its sounds’ – Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Naomi Troski is a Melbourne based artist who has exhibited in Australia and overseas.
Her work is based on observational responses to nature; where subtle perceived shifts of colour and light, shape and shadow, form and texture are expressed through the use of different media.
She has a BSc and MFA from Monash University and a BAFA (Hons) First Class from London’s Central St Martins College of Art and Design.
She has recently exhibited work with John Warwicker at MARS Gallery, Melbourne (2025). She also completed a commission for the offices of McKinsey & Company in the City of Melbourne (2022), tlc Healthcare (2022), a suite of art works for the offices of Techne Architects (2021), worked with the architects EATAS(2021) for a commission in Chadstone Shopping Centre and has completed a number of commissions for private clients during 2021/2022, and is currently working on new commissions.
Troski has held solo shows and been included in a number of group shows in Australia, USA, UK and Japan. She presented work as part of Melbourne Design Week (2022), and Open House Melbourne (2022), was a finalist in the Toorak Sculpture Exhibition (2021) with work presented in the Mercedes Benz Showroom, was a recipient of a City of Melbourne Covid-19 response grant (2020) for development of new work, curated a group show and presented works in A Daily Circus for the Dirty Dozen (2019) programme for the City of Melbourne, co-curated Unhidden (2017) with Kali Michailidis at the Counihan Gallery for which they were recipients of a Japan Foundation grant (2017), was a finalist in the Deakin University Small Sculpture Award (2018), Wyndham Art Prize (2016), MCollection Art Award (2015), ScenicWorld Artprize (2015) and Substation Contemporary Art Prize (2011) and a recipient of an ArtStart Grant( 2012).
She has completed large scale public sculptural commissions and her work is held in a number of private collections.
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Works
A’ Un: What the streets give up (2) 2026. Site specific installation. Mixed media, found objects, 3 channel video loop, sound, colour. Dimensions approx. 7m x 7m x 7m
Proudly Supported by:
NotFair Art Foundation
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