That’s a WRAP:
Melbourne Design Week Recap
14 May - 24 May 2026
Image Courtesy of the Artist — Claire Ellis
WRAP developed a series of events for Melbourne Design Week, in partnership with Est. to showcase the incredible quality of art and design in Australia, and the modes of making that explore circularity, storytelling, and ecosystems of experimentation. It was a vibrant and busy two weeks, with opening night of exhibition Taking Shape; three sold-out kids workhops; two nights of exclusive zero-waste dining within the exhibition space, and a speed networking session for artists looking to level up their practice into public art.
Thanks to all our partners and collaborators: Est., Sora, IKEA, Patris, Peter Hood, Australian Tapestry Workshop, LiFE architecture and NGV.
View the image gallery below for opening night photographs taken by Laura May Grogan.
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WRAG
About WRAG
Situated beneath the WRAP headquarters, WRAG offers artists an opportunity to showcase works in a highly visible, street-level exhibition space at the bustling intersection of Nicholson Street and Brunswick Road.
The WRAG 2026 exhibition program kicked off by welcoming Narrm/Melbourne-based artist Jeremy Blincoe, with more incredible artists programmed.
A selection of works from the Melbourne Design Week exhibition Taking Shape have been chosen to continue a capsule exhibition at WRAG.
Visit WRAG
23 Nicholson Street, Brunswick East VIC 3057
Open by appointment
wrap@westonrumboldartprojects.com
03 9484 7323
WRAG is a a highly visible, street-level exhibition space — all artworks on display can be viewed through the WRAG windows on the corner of Nicholson Street and Brunswick Road, Brunswick East.
Jeremy Blincoe
Speculative Futures
06 Feb - 1 May
Artist Statement
A porous body floating amidst a sea of relations, shapeshifting one little death at a time; Speculative Futures contemplates what life might become in future or parallel worlds, both human and non-human, terrestrial and alien.
Jeremy Blincoe graduated from a Masters of Contemporary Art at the VCA in 2020. Since 2006 he has held fifteen solo exhibitions in Australia, Korea, Switzerland, and New Zealand. He has won prestigious prizes including the Fiona Myer Award at VCA (2020), Brisbane Art Prize (2017), Fisher Ghost Arts Prize (2017), Kaipara Wallace Arts Trust Award (2016), and has work in the collection of Gippsland Art Gallery & Pah Homestead.
This body of work represents the bodily form in flux in all its wonderful and monstrous fragility. The past, present and a speculative future are crumpled together through autopoietic works that slowly build by accretion so that they may morph and self-create, generating their own meaning.
Drawing on the strange and the eerie, the work seeks to imagine bodies that rupture our familiar taxonomies. The chimeric form, poised between insect and ribcage, glints with mirror-polished stainless steel, reflecting its environment as if absorbing and refracting new possibilities of being.
Devoid of flesh yet suggestive of life, the skeletal structure rests on slender walnut legs, balancing between collapse and motion. It is both relic and prophecy, a speculative anatomy gesturing toward the evolving thresholds of material, body and consciousness.