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Coming Soon: Pieces of Eight x Foolscap Open House Melbourne Event

Jul 15, 20261 min read

Coming Soon: Pieces of Eight x Foolscap Open House Melbourne Event

Join us for the upcoming Open House Melbourne program. Responding to this year's theme, Generous City, the gallery will become the setting for a special installation celebrating collaboration, craft and the beauty of materials reimagined.

We invite you to experience a special installation of eight limited-edition hand-blown glass vases, created by glass artist Hamish Donaldson in collaboration with Adele Winteridge of Foolscap, the interior architect behind our Russell Place gallery. The display offers a close look at how reclaimed glass offcuts are transformed into abstract, sculptural vessels, each piece defined by its own composition of clear and vividly coloured fragments.

Bringing together architecture, craft and sustainability, each piece is formed from clear glass embedded with reclaimed coloured offcuts—fragments that would otherwise be discarded. Suspended within each vessel, these raw, jagged inclusions evoke fractured stained-glass windows, ensuring every vase is entirely unique.

This installation highlights the potential of reuse as both a design driver and a narrative device. It speaks to a broader ethos of generosity, not only in the sharing of ideas and collaboration between disciplines, but in the reconsideration of materials typically overlooked.

Join us for the Open House Event:
Friday 24 July
5 - 8 pm

Pieces of Eight Gallery
28 Russell Place, Melbourne

Learn more about this event, and others on during the Open House weekend, via the Open House Melbourne website.

Featured below are a series of images from our visit to Hamish Donaldson's studio on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, as he creates the vessels for this show.

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