WONA BAE & CHARLIE LAWLER
(Looseleaf)
TASMANIA, Australia
Artists Wona Bae (South Korea) and Charlie Lawler (Australia) are a collaborative duo based in Melbourne, known internationally for their installations and sculptures that navigate the visceral and symbiotic connections between people and nature. Seeking balance and harmony in an era of polarisation, inequality, inaction and apathy. Their work combines installation, sculpture, relief, sound, and photographs documenting ephemeral interventions.
Wona Bae and Charlie Lawler, specialise in experiential and concept-driven installations using natural materials. Their work explores themes of life and death, impermanence, material temporality and the restorative power of nature.
Their practice is driven by the desire to observe, study and explore natural materials, celebrating their beauty in all phases and forms and creating lasting human connections to nature. Loose Leaf’s design approach is a line of botanical enquiry that draws conceptually from the structure, patterns and systems in the natural world.
Loose Leaf’s commissions include a number of notable arts, cultural and business brands and organisations such as Heide Museum of Modern Art, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Arts Centre Melbourne, Rolex, COS, Google, Emirates, DENFAIR, Australian Open and Tourism Victoria. Their work has appeared on ABC's Gardening Australia, in The Age Spectrum, T Magazine - New York Times, Cereal, Monocle, Condé Nast Traveler, Icon Design (Italy), ELLE Décor (Spain), The Telegraph (UK), The Sunday Times (UK) and Grand Designs Australia.
Their book ‘Loose Leaf’ was published in 2016.
