Liesl Hazelton

  • Photo of Punk Bike BeSpoke Basket

    Punk Bike BeSpoke Basket

    When
    15th October 2011
    Where
    Powerhouse Museum
    Why
    Workshop

    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.

  • Photo of Bird Brooch Placemat

    Bird Brooch Placemat

    When
    December 2011
    Where
    Loft Gallery
    Why
    Solo Show

    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.

  • Photo of Recorder Swan Song

    Recorder Swan Song

    When
    May 2011
    Where
    Gaffa Gallery
    Why
    The Curio

    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.

  • Photo of Wind it up!

    Wind it up!

    When
    September 2010
    Where
    Powerhouse Museum
    Why
    PHM Shop

    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.

  • Photo of Reloved Chair

    Reloved Chair

    When
    July/August 2010
    Where
    Powerhouse Museum
    Why
    Sydney Design 2010

    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.

  • Photo of iPod Crucifix

    iPod Crucifix

    When
    December 2009
    Where
    New York
    Why
    Programmed Show

    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.

  • Photo of Berlin Chair

    Berlin Chair

    When
    April 2009
    Where
    Milan
    Why
    Salone del Mobile.

    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.

  • Photo of Socket to Ya

    Socket to Ya

    When
    February 2009
    Where
    Munich
    Why
    Inhorgenta.

    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.

  • Photo of Breeding Like…

    Breeding Like…

    When
    November 2008
    Where
    Pforzheim
    Why
    Education

    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.

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