Plant Life: The Nature of Design

PLANT LIFE: THE NATURE OF DESIGN

📍 Location: The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
🎟️ Free entry, booking not required!

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Explore the evolving relationship between humanity and the plant world through design. From leather grown from fungi to fibreboard made from hemp, this exhibition journeys through ancestral craft knowledge, industrial exploitation, and the innovative designers shaping a regenerative material future today.

Discover how plants have served as our most essential material collaborators, providing shelter, sustenance, utility, beauty, and meaning across cultures and eras. This exhibition features a captivating array of furniture, architecture, decorative arts, craft, photography, and film, showcasing pieces drawn from the NGV Collection, alongside new commissions, recent acquisitions, and significant international loans.