Artists

Lara Chapman is a writer, editor and curator based in Sydney on Gadigal, Bidjugal and Birrabirragal land.

Her work covers design, architecture, art, technology and exhibitions, often exploring how these areas intersect with the climate crisis. Her writing has been published in The Saturday Paper, The Guardian Australia, The Architectural Review, Disegno, DAMN, UNION, Art Monthly and Real Life, amongst others. Recently, she published her first work of fiction in an anthology about pottery sherds.

Lara was based in London and Eindhoven from 2012-2024. She was assistant editor of Disegno Journal and assistant curator and associate touring curator at the Design Museum. While completing her MA at Design Academy Eindhoven, Lara was web editor of TLMag.
Lara’s independent curatorial projects have been shown at the V&A, Dutch Design Week and the Embassy of Internet and other spaces. She teaches design history, research and theory at UNSW. 

In Residence at Bundanon

There is a fictional story lurking in the watery outer edges of my mind that I find myself thinking about more and more, sometimes as I walk down the street, sometimes in the shower, often when I am floating in the sea. It is a story about what it means to create at a time of climate crisis; a story that grapples with the dilemmas of being a designer in a world that is overflowing with stuff; a story about a love of building objects – a longing to create – which is in constant conflict with the feeling of wanting to be responsible for the world we live in.