Design the World You Want

The NGV's Melbourne Design Week opens this week and this year explores the theme of 'Design the World You Want'. As part of Design Week, we're hosting Ellen McKenna's Feeling Colours Exhibition , which looks at the role colour plays in our homes and moods. With this curation, we're looking to how Bluethumb's broader community of artists are envisioning the future they wish to see.

Curated by Megan George

Four men (members of Parliament) are discussing Environmental problems. They are listening to the speaker disinterested and bored because this topic has been discussed year after year. Looks like an ordinary Parliament meeting except one thing.... The meeting room is slowly filling with water. It is actually not a room, it is an ocean with water level rising because of climate warming. We can see little icebergs floating around the table and also lots of papers on the water (climate change documents).  But members of Parliament don't see it yet, don't feel water under their feet. Still discussing. One of them is trying to reach a piece of paper floating away.

Climate Change Summit

ByTetyana Khytko

91cm (W) x 61cm (H)

Oil
A$1,800
(CreativeWork) Solidarity by Sumei chew. Drawing. Shop online at Bluethumb.

Solidarity

BySumei chew

80cm (W) x 80cm (H)

Drawing
A$280
(CreativeWork) Respecting All Colours by Ilze Cant. Acrylic. Shop online at Bluethumb.

Respecting All Colours

ByIlze Cant

122cm (W) x 76cm (H)

Acrylic
A$2,800
(CreativeWork) Handsome by Kim Leutwyler. Other Media. Shop online at Bluethumb.

Handsome

ByKim Leutwyler

600cm (W) x 200cm (H)

Other Media
A$7,640
(CreativeWork) Dreams by Katerina Apale. Acrylic. Shop online at Bluethumb.
Sold

Dreams

ByKaterina Apale

101cm (W) x 101cm (H)

Acrylic
A$1,710
(CreativeWork) Eyes to the Mountains by Alyce Goddard. Mixed Media. Shop online at Bluethumb.

Eyes to the Mountains

ByAlyce Goddard

63.2cm (W) x 93cm (H)

Mixed Media
A$1,450

Count to Three II

ByEllen McKenna

78cm (W) x 52cm (H)

Acrylic
A$500
house

Overgrown

ByRalph Ross

25cm (W) x 25cm (H)

Mixed Media
A$260
A burning pair of flame-proof children's pyjamas.
Sold

Untitled #1

ByTom Christophersen

21cm (W) x 29.7cm (H)

Mixed Media
A$150
Floating in clouds three level dimensionality of river reflections and mountains.

Natures Joys

ByBarbara Suttie

90cm (W) x 62cm (H)

Oil
A$2,800

About the Curator

Megan George

Megan is the Content & Creative Manager at Bluethumb, working across our social media, digital marketing and creative production.
Melbourne born and bred, her days at Bluethumb are filled with many coffees, cuddles from the resident canine companions and of course, constantly adding to her burgeoning art collection.

Recent Curations

Surrealist Wall Art

Monochromatic Moments: Greyscale Wall Art

Modern Nostalgia