ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA

WOOD: HARD MAPLE, CHERRY AND RED OAK

Ivana Taylor is a designer based in Adelaide, Australia. She completed a Bachelor of Design/ Art Education at UNSW, Sydney in 2018 and the Associate Program in the Furniture Studio at JamFactory Contemporary Craft & Design, Adelaide in 2020. Through her practice, she explores the relationship between textiles and timber. Most recently, Taylor shifted her focus from surface design to large-scale sculptural, woven, knotted or wrapped three-dimensional objects and furniture. She is represented by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert.

'My initial thoughts were that I was interested in how differently people talk about their experiences of isolation. I didn’t feel that mine was wholly negative and I found it required more complicated reflection to figure out exactly how much the situation has taught us,’ she says. ‘I wanted to do something a little more poetic, a little more narrative-based and something sculptural as well. The concept is very much about seeing how we see things.’