Dr Urs Bette

The grain of timber, leather, paper, cloth, wheat, barley and rice. Of common sense and truth. There are 20 grains in a scruple, 60 in a dram and 480 in an ounce. It's the smallest possible quantity; hint, suspicion, tinge, iota, smidgen. It's essential for whisky, photography, bread, urban planning, archery, dashboard decoration, raising chickens and feeding North Korean Zombies. We will bring you grist to the Mill, against the grain and all with a grain of salt.

The seventh in a series of exhibitions that explore the digressions and tangents of a single-word elemental theme, GRAIN comes to you from inside the Packing Shed at Hart’s Mill.

The exhibition is in part of the Mill buildings that had been inaccessible for decades (we first opened it up last year with our exhibition GRIT), providing a very appropriate setting for this year’s theme of ‘grain’.

Never predictable, often accidental, sometimes unruly and provocative, always pretty wonderful.

Tony Kearney, curator
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Published in Design South Australia
Integrated Design Commission, Wakefield Press
South Australia 2012

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The result is an internally defined ´spatial sculpture´ with a range of different possibilities within its interior. It sets out a way of living and working together in which the opportunity to choose and personal freedom play an important role. The occupants can decide between different atmospheres, paths and spatial situations which determine the degree of interaction with the other or the intensity of thought over work. There are areas where the space flows and moves and others that are stable, interweaving various purposes and creating different awarenesses. Distance and openness interact with narrow ravine-like gaps, extroverted zones with sheltered niches and closed units. The whole house is a dance around ´open shelter´.

The existing landscape remains present throughout the whole project, the terrain being ´echoed´ in the different levels which flow through the interior of the house. The two structures form a pair whose deliberate independence, in a topographical and cultural context, is the result of the intense consideration of the brief and the qualities of the location itself. They create an exterior space that gives an unexpectedly urbane quality to the area between them and divides the block into private and open areas.
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Record created at source: 1 February 2016