Bespoke Textiles Invigorate ACMI Offices
Design & Commissions
Melbourne, Victoria
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Artist Services
Design & Fabrication
Documentation
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Design & Commissions
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Mixed Cultural First Nations Artist Lisa Waup
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ACMI
BKK Architects
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WRAP
Custom textiles breathe new life into ACMI's offices
To mark the redevelopment of the national museum of screen culture, ACMI, textile works were commissioned for the institution's office interiors.
ACMI's redevelopment reveals a spacious, light-filled interior. Designed by Melbourne architectural firm BKK Architects, where emerging technologies and transformative architecture combine to create a globally connected museum of the future.
Our Role
WRAP was invited by artist Lisa Waup to support the development of a bespoke collection of textiles that weave together story, material, and place within the museum’s renewed interiors.
Working with small machetes and samples, WRAP translated intimate works into large-scale textiles through digitisation and traditional textile techniques.
The Result
Working with intimate test paintings on metal by the artist, WRAP scaled and digitised samples in collaboration with the artist to create large format block patterning that brought a boldness in kind with ACMI’s vision of being a cultural hub where creativity and technology intersect, translating artistic ideas into tactile forms that animate the public realm.
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Lisa Waup
Lisa Waup is a mixed-cultural First Nations artist and curator, born in Naarm (Melbourne), whose multidisciplinary practice encompasses a diverse range of media, including weaving, printmaking, photography, sculpture, fashion, and digital art. With a deep connection to the symbolic power of materials, her work reflects her personal experiences, family history, Country, and broader historical narratives.
Through her practice, Waup weaves together threads of lost history, ancestral relationships, motherhood, and the passage of time, culminating in contemporary expressions that speak to her past, present, and future. In her words, "As a multidisciplinary artist, I'm guided to utilize so many different mediums—they really talk to me—and in turn they're able to explain my story in different ways, they all connect with each other. Material diversity is a big part of what I do in my practice—I'm happy to move across various media and am always open to exploring new materials and approaches that connect to the work I am making at the time."
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