The Grid Reimagined
Bin Dixon-Ward, Enframing Grid 2, 2016, 280mm x 240mm x 15mm, nylon, ink. Photo: Jeremy Dillon
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Map reference number: 60
SITE EIGHT
RMIT University Building 2, Lvl 2, Rm 8, Bowen St Melbourne 24 August – 1 September
Mon–Sat 1–5pm Opening: Thu 24 August, 5–8pm
Artist/s: Bin Dixon–Ward
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The Grid Reimagined is a practiced based research project which has revealed four states of the city grid and interpreted these as jewellery and small objects. I explore the materials and technology involved in my making, and while the means of making (CAD and 3d Printing), itself grid based, remains constant, my research reveals the relationship between artist, wearer, material, and object as adaptable and mutable. A thread through the research is an interrogation of the apparent binary of the controlled logic of the grid and the organic nature of human interaction. In isolating and downsizing the forms of the city grid, I have produced work of a human and wearable scale. Through duplicating and layering these forms, the objects are abstracted from their origin, allowing the wearer the freedom to transform the work while a trace of the source, the rigid grid, remains as a gesture to its origins.
a. Bin Dixon-Ward, Tower, 2015, Nylon, Ink, 300x120x40mm, Photo- Screaming Pixel
b. Bin Dixon-Ward, Containing Grid, 2015, Nylon, Ink, Photo- Jeremy Dillon
c. Bin Dixon-Ward, Tower (detail), 2015, Nylon, Ink, 300x120x40mm, Photo- Screaming Pixel
b. Bin Dixon-Ward, Containing Grid, 2015, Nylon, Ink, Photo- Jeremy Dillon
c. Bin Dixon-Ward, Tower (detail), 2015, Nylon, Ink, 300x120x40mm, Photo- Screaming Pixel
About the Artist
A graduate of RMIT, Gold and Silversmithing, Bin Dixon-Ward has exhibited in Australia, Europe, Japan and North America and is the recipient of several awards including the Diana Morgan Post Graduate Award 2016, Itami Award and the Toowoomba Contemporary Wearables Student Prize. Exhibitions include, Melbourne Now, at the NGV, Schmuck, The Future is Here at RMIT, A Fine, Possession and Out of Hand at the Powerhouse Museum and most recently her solo exhibition The Captain’s Daughter in the Art&Industry Festival. Her work is held in public and private collections including the NGV, RMIT’s McMillan Collection, The Powerhouse Museum, and Musee des Artes Decoritifs, Paris. Bin teaches digital technologies at RMIT.
A graduate of RMIT, Gold and Silversmithing, Bin Dixon-Ward has exhibited in Australia, Europe, Japan and North America and is the recipient of several awards including the Diana Morgan Post Graduate Award 2016, Itami Award and the Toowoomba Contemporary Wearables Student Prize. Exhibitions include, Melbourne Now, at the NGV, Schmuck, The Future is Here at RMIT, A Fine, Possession and Out of Hand at the Powerhouse Museum and most recently her solo exhibition The Captain’s Daughter in the Art&Industry Festival. Her work is held in public and private collections including the NGV, RMIT’s McMillan Collection, The Powerhouse Museum, and Musee des Artes Decoritifs, Paris. Bin teaches digital technologies at RMIT.
