ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Random International
A London-based collective set up in 2002 by Stuart Wood, Flo Ortkrass and Hannes Koch.

 


EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS (selection)
2011
/ Design Miami/Miami, United States.
/ Pavilion of Art and Design, London.

2010
/ Design MIami/Miami, United States.
/ ‘Wayne McGregor’s Deloitte Ignite’, Royal Opera House, London.
/ ‘The Behaviour of Objects’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London.
/ Pavillion of Art & Design, London.
/ Design Miami/Basel, Switzerland.
/ Pavilion of Art & Design, Paris.

2009
/ Pavilion of Art & Design, London.
/ ‘Telling Tales: Fantasy and Fear in Contemporary Design’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
/ Design Miami/Basel, Switzerland.

2008
/ ‘Design and the Elastic Mind’, Museum of Modern Art, New York

 

 

AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS (selection)
2011
/ Swarm Study/III, Victoria & Albert Museum commission in collaboration Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London.

2010
/ Designers of the Future, Design Miami/Basel, Switzerland.

2009
/ Prix Ars Electronica -- Honourable Mention in Interactive Art category.

2007
/ Observer Future -- 500 List Top Ten Creative Talent in the UK.

2006
/ Wallpaper* -- Design Award.
/ iF Design Award -- Concepts category (Germany).
/ CR -- Creative Futures Award, Interaction Design category.

2005
/ 18th Koizumi International Lighting Design Competition -- Bronze Award and Best Design Internet Voting (Japan).
/ Matthews Wrightson Trust Award.
/ iF Design Award -- Concepts category (Germany).

2004
/ Rosenthal European Competition -- Runners up.
/ Identity for Egyptian Museum (Doha, Qatar).

2002
/ Audi Design Foundation -- Sponsorship (2001 - 02, 2003 - 05).
/ European Green Light Design Competition -- Finalist.
/ OPOS -- Designers under 35 (Italy).

 

 

LITERATURE (selection)
2009
/ Gareth Williams, “Telling Tales: Fantasy and Fear in contemporary Design”, London: V&A Publishing.

2008
/ “Design and the Elastic Mind”, New York: The Museum of Modern Art.

 

 

MUSEUMS REFERENCES
MoMA, New York. Korea Design Museum, Seoul

 

 


Established in 2005 by Parisian entrepreneurs and art devotees Loic Le Gaillard and Julien Lombrail, Carpenters Workshop Gallery is known for its discovery of bold and iconic design-art. Like many of the artists it fosters, the gallery takes a young, fresh and dynamic approach, primarily following its own aesthetic. They exhibit unique and limited edition works both by emerging and established artists, and designers.

Carpenters Workshop GaIlery is committed to making ambitious ideas work, through its daring and integrity it has cultivated strong relationships with the artists it works with. Carpenters Workshop Gallery presents the work of established artists including: Atelier Van Lieshout, Maarten Baas, Sebastian Brajkovic, Andrea Branzi, Wendell Castle, Demakersvan, Ingrid Donat, Vincent Dubourg, Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta, Johanna Grawunder, Mathieu Lehanneur, Frederik Molenschot, Nendo, Marc Quinn, Random International, Pablo Reinoso, Robert Stadler, Studio Job & Charles Trevelyan.

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