Liesl Hazelton

Ever hankered for a cool looking bike basket but never been able to find just the right edgy design. Here is an opportunity to make your own customised version that will turn heads as it hangs off your handle bars. I created a design that oozes bike bespoke, using a twist on traditional weaving techniques and recycled materials. Low carbon footprint but high in style, this basket can also be adapted to take shopping. Materials and equipment provided. From Beginners level.

Solo show in December in sunny Bowral. Wearables and not! Placemats made ornamental. Magic tricks involving drum kits, and everything else that happens. December is a while away.

War is never pretty. A trumpet and violin is recorded, and then destroyed – and from those remnants comes fire. In the context of Sydney Design 2011‘s theme of “Is old new again?“, the classical tradition is thrown into chaos, and our primal instincts are revealed through order. Pictured is Violin Skull Brooch – Deathmask #2. A video of the installation exists at this link.

When approached to interpret Woven Image’s Dino Stripe, thoughts were with the outdoors – but fresh air and sunlight aren’t enough. Behind the glory is the fabric of nature – hiding under canopies, in thick air, growing from darkness – holding everything together.

Every recorder gets its swan song. A limited series of three (Cookie/Cream/Cherry) – consisting of a necklace, 2 rings, and one-off CD of the swan song. Each recorder and its deconstruction was documented to offer a history from which rebirth becomes possible. Listen to the sound of Cookie’s final breaths.

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Sustainability means minimal waste, and to use the entire cable for jewellery would become an extra challenge. Inside cables are unraveled revealing individuality, and outside cables wrap into themselves, exposing structure and fragility – but! cables are dirty things, and require an eye for cleanliness. The toothbrush is essential.

Young hearts swing freely. Taking an old and abandoned chair, and seeing with new eyes. Evolution means movement, and that which seems sacred becomes the burden. Cables will come to life, engulfing structures of old, creating new patterns. Life must flow. As part of the work, a children’s storybook (The Electrical Garden) was made, and with it a soundtrack.

New York! New Work! Conversations about consumerism being sacred, whilst dismantling personal soundtracks in 4×3 configurations. A series of works was produced taking unserviceable Apple products (supplied by The Mac Support Store in Brooklyn), and turning them into new objects of desire.

Being inspired by ideas of recycling, abandoned German materials were used to create a chair for display at Italian furniture shows. The Berlin Chair is comfy, and good looking – all that accumulation of waves upon waves – a snapshot of the Big Bang to relax in.

After a focus on conceptual training at Enmore Design Centre, Sydney, there was a continuation of formal education at Fakultät für Gestaltung (School of Design) Pforzheim, Schmuck und Objekte der Alltagskultur. Quests of recycling the whole allowed stone cutting studies to become the way forward.

Bunny Love. With the help of Behindertenzentrum (disabled workshop) in Stuttgart, the project involved the development of objects which could be made and sold through the workshop. This would lead to a series of wearables and non-wearables to be exhibited inside and outside of Germany. Although the series was never mass-produced, avenues has been uncovered.