The National Gallery of Victoria has announced Adam Goodrum as the winner of the 2015 Rigg Design Prize, the most prestigious accolade for contemporary furniture and object design in Australia. Goodrum was awarded the $30,000 prize for his work “Unfolding” which comprises a series of translucent folding house structures that reflect a luminous array of colourful images across the gallery walls.Goodrum has established himself as a rapidly rising star of the Australian and international design scenes with his inventive products and furniture. The Sydney-based designer work has been exhibited at a number of prestigious institutions including the Design Museum, London; Milan Triennale; Design Museum, Belgium; Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA; and Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, Italy.Established in 1994, this year the triennial invitational prize expanded beyond Victoria for the first time to include designers from across Australia. The Rigg Design Prize 2015 invited seven designers to exhibit bodies of work that communicated their practice and ideas. Gijs Bakker (Co-Founder, Droog Design) and Wava Carpenter (Former Curator, Design Miami) judged the Rigg Design Prize for 2015.The judges commented, “Adam’s work proves that design has the potential for the unexpected and the new. Unfolding is very exciting, pushing the boundaries of what design can be with its dreamy, hazy and poetic atmosphere. We hope that the public will be as surprised and delighted by Adam’s work as we were.”The exhibition of all seven designers’ works as at the NGV from September 18 until February 7, 2016. Separate, immersive spaces will highlight the exceptional practice of each designer: Adam Goodrum (NSW); Brodie Neill (TAS); Daniel Emma (SA); Kate Rohde (VIC); Khai Liew (SA); Korban Flaubert (NSW); Koskela (NSW) in collaboration with the weavers of Elcho Island Arts (NT).
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