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Fragment One, Fragment Two and Fragment Three, 2023
Glass beads, 24 karat gold, thread
22cm x 22cm (beading itself)
52cm x 52cm (framed with anti-glare art glass)

Exhibited at the Australian Design Centre in 2023-4.
Developed at Bundanon Trust.
Supported by Creative Australia.

More info here.


Price Breakdown

Framing
Framemart — $430 x 3 = $1,290

Historical Price
Australian Design Centre — $4,400 x 3 = $13,200
(40% commission)

Without Commission / framing within price
Artists share — $3,070 x 3 = $9,210

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Fragment One, 2023
Glass beads, 24 karat gold, thread
22cm x 22cm (beading itself)
52cm x 52cm (framed with anti-glare art glass)

Exhibited at the Australian Design Centre in 2023-4.
Developed at Bundanon Trust.
Supported by Creative Australia.

Translated text within the beading:
Tapioca is crushed and dried on big concrete pads it has a sour starchy smell.
The red of betel nut.

More info here.


Price Breakdown

Framing
Framemart — $430

Historical Price
Australian Design Centre — $4,400
(40% commission)

Without Commission / framing within price
Artists share — $3,070

About

Fragment Two, 2023
Glass beads, 24 karat gold, thread
22cm x 22cm (beading itself)
52cm x 52cm (framed with anti-glare art glass)

Exhibited at the Australian Design Centre in 2023-4.
Developed at Bundanon Trust.
Supported by Creative Australia.

Translated text within the beading:
Somebody was handing the kids through the window. I remember the tanks coming through my father’s orchard. The castro (castle) was one room made of stones. There were seven of us living there. We had a well, and mostly lemon trees. The nazis took the cow.

More info here.


Price Breakdown

Framing
Framemart — $430

Historical Price
Australian Design Centre — $4,400
(40% commission)

Without Commission / framing within price
Artists share — $3,070

About

Fragment Three, 2023
Glass beads, 24 karat gold, thread
22cm x 22cm (beading itself)
52cm x 52cm (framed with anti-glare art glass)

Exhibited at the Australian Design Centre in 2023-4.
Developed at Bundanon Trust.
Supported by Creative Australia.

Translated text within the beading:
We would crush glass and stick it to the kite tail. The wooden house was surrounded by lots of vegetation, it was like a jungle to me. It backed onto a canal and a small banana plantation. Behind it was an army base. Kim had a little boat that was big enough for me to sit in. I think it was red.

More info here.


Price Breakdown

Framing
Framemart — $430

Historical Price
Australian Design Centre — $4,400
(40% commission)

Without Commission / framing within price
Artists share — $3,070

About

Opus No.1, 2023
Glass beads, sterling silver plated glass beads, thread
77cm x 62cm (unframed, 100,000+ sterling silver plated glass beads)
93cm x 110cm (framed with anti-glare art glass)

Exhibited at West Space in 2023 and Spring 1883 in 2023.

Opus No.1' is named after a song written by Tim Carleton. This song is now used as hold music by many institutions, including the Australian Government's social services program, Centrelink. This song has been transcribed into a visual code and woven into the grid of the beading. In the context of Centrelink, 'Opus No.1' is used to obscure one's experience of lived time, and to create the sensation of moving forward. Without hold music playing, there is silence, and more unstructured space for 'lived time' to be felt (impatience). Hold music draws the body into the time of the institution, filling the gap produced by expectation. By translating 'Opus No. 1' as a visual score and embedding it into the work, the institutional hold music that 'holds' the individual in time, is rendered visible.

Translated music within the beading:
Centrelink hold music

More info here.


Price breakdown

Framing
Frame Of Mind — $750
FINI (reframed) — $1000
Total $1,750

Historical Price
Spring1883 with Caves Gallery — $18,000
Craft Victoria — $18,000
(40% commission)

Without Commission / framing within price
Artists share — $12,550

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Three, Two, One, 2023
Glass beads, thread
610mm x 385mm (beading unframed, 91,000 seed beads)
650 x 895mm (framed with anti-glare art glass)

Exhibited at Spring1883 with Caves Gallery.

‘Three, Two, One’ is about the process of starting a family. The writing within the work are the genetic recessive carrier results that my partner, myself and our donor received whilst I was beading this artwork. It is a meditation on the trust and love required between three people, for two people to create one child. 

Translated Tone Code within the beading — CFTR, USH2A, SACS, GBE1, HBB, Negative.



Price breakdown

Framing
FINI Frames — $1130

Historical Price
Spring1883 with Caves Gallery — $11,000
Craft Victoria — $11,000
(40% commission)

Without Commission / framing within price
Artists share — $7,730

Intervals - Diatonic, 2023
Glass beads, thread
87mm x 450mm (unframed)
640mm x 450 mm 420 (framed with anti-glare art glass)

Exhibited at Melbourne Design Fair with Craft Victoria.

Intervals is a series of long script-like beadings, embedded with various musical scales. For Craft Victoria, Laddawan has transcribed three scales used in Thai, Greek and Western music. Scales are the structures for the way we understand the organisation of sound and its affects. Each noted scale constitutes a different kind of musical language, producing a diverse combination of sounds and unique feelings. This series continues Laddawan's investigation of language and how it is constructed and communicated.

Price breakdown

Framing
Frame Of Mind — $420

Historical Price
Melbourne Design Fair with Craft Victoria— $2,850
(40% commission)

Without Commission / framing within price
Artists share — $2,130