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Tarryn Handcock

Bachelor of Design (Honours)
[Image work: Sprung Chair]
Sprung Chair  (enlarge image)
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Conceived as hardy outdoor public seating, 'Sprung' incorporates industrial materials including reo, concrete and galvanised iron. The recycled car suspension spring encourages exercise and play through kinetic interaction.

Student Biography

My works draw on the fantastical, the aesthetics of ink line work, and the concept of trans-automatic growth; the product of a misspent youth, bent poring over books with informative diagrams and footnoted footnotes.

Recent works have incorporated living plants and industrial materials as part of an ongoing exploration of the human body's interaction with technology, architecture, and organic material. While this is partly due to an interest in the slow development of society into a race of interconnected cyborgs, the official line is that my works are conceptual narratives addressing mimetic identification with our environment. I have a strong interest in the dynamics of public art and design, and the aesthetics of all things mechanical and cold-joined. One day I hope to create an empire of quality products based on the one universal truth: there is nothing more elegant than a clean rivet.

Other Works by Tarryn

[Tree Tenancy: Transautomatism] [Tree Tenancy: Symbiosis] [The Third Skin: Window Rights] [Tree Tenancy: Mimesis] [The Third Skin: Mimesis] [The Third Skin: Transautomatism] [Will It Hurt?] [Sprung Chair] [Muscle]
 

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