INTER:ALTER was an exhibition of work by contemporary artists and designers - exploring the boundaries between the two practices - as part of London Design Festival 2010.
Contemporary culture is continually cross-referencing and borrowing from different practices and ways of making: This exhibition examined the individual practices of a selection of artists and designers whose work explores form, function, material and aesthetic and implies a distinct cross-over between the fields of art and design.
"With a current trend and aesthetic in art to exploit function - to make objects, machines, experiences and work which involves the viewers’ physical participation, there is a blurring of the accepted boundaries between fine art and real design and a hybridisation of the two."
Alexander Mulligan
Untitled
CNC Machined Aluminium, painted MDF
Alison Dunlop
Untitled
Mirrors and Leather (moveable)
Andrew Friend
Disappearing At Sea
Fiberglass and buoyancy aids
CUSTHOM Design
Again
Non-woven paper, clear and gold foil
Edmund Francis
Chairs
Reinforced plastic casts
James Capper
Blast Drill
Hannah Thomson
Inner Workings
Found ready made and brass
Julian Bond
Pixel Casting Machine and Vases
Leo Bruno Todd
This is it
Wood, Glass, Lightbulb
Maitland Mason
Silver Birch Lamp
Birch bark, acrylic, halogen bulbs
Olivia Decaris
Social Drop
Laser cut birch ply, steel. fabric, halogen bulb