Designer, Mary Featherston speaking at the National Portrait Gallery during the Canberra Design Festival, shows how the great Australian architects and designers of the 20th century created house designs and furniture that were innovative and uniquely adapted to our climate, lifestyle, availability of resources and incomes. It is little wonder that this sense of “Australianness” that found its way into our daily lives culminating in the Republic referendum in 1999 before being obliterated by globalism. She also reminded us of the great extent to which these well known trends and patterns found their way into many Australian homes, offices, schools and designs for the Australian pavilions at successive Expos. Grant and Mary Featherston were also invited to conceive the original interiors for the National Gallery of Victoria designed by noted British architect, Roy Grounds. For more information, click on the link below.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
