Journal
Welcome to the behind-the-scenes of Studio Van Low. This is where is keep track of things I’m eating, learning, making or contemplating (and there’s even some archival posts from my blog The Monday Issue RIP 2009-2019). Make yourself a cup of tea and enjoy browsing!
Rummaging Archives: State Library of NSW 1970s Fashion
One of my favourite things to do is browse museum, gallery and library archives - they’re great for design inspiration, local history, or simply feeding my curiosity.
‘The Essential Duchamp’ at the Art Gallery of NSW
The new exhibition The Essential Duchamp at the Art Gallery of NSW gives an overview of the artist’s entire career – from early landscape paintings through to his final artwork that he kept hidden for the last 20 years of his life.
Art Destination: irreverent & anti-establishment art mecca MONA
Since it opened in 2011, I haven’t stopped hearing about how I just had to go to the Museum of Old and New Art (aka MONA) in Tasmania, like it was the best thing since #bubbletea. I felt like I was the last person who hadn’t yet visited this art mecca and now that I’ve been, I get it.
Art Destination: Naoshima Island
Barely a speck on the map of Japan, Naoshima is an island town in the Seto Inland Sea. Quite the opposite of the vibrancy, speed and crowds of Japan’s more well-known cities such as Tokyo and Osaka, Naoshima is a quiet, somewhat remote destination.
Review Adman: Warhol Before Pop
In the 1950s, Andy Warhol’s formative years as a commercial illustrator resulted in a plethora of chic, witty and elegant illustrations, advertisements, fragrance displays and magazine covers.