Yvette King and Scott Mitchell - The Repair Workshops 'Pair of the Week'!

This week we introduce artist Yvette King and techie Scott Mitchell...

Yvette King and Scott Mitchell. Photo by Jo Duck

Yvette King is a Melbourne artist working currently in areas involving sculpture, installation and things that move. Her practice addresses familiar sources and their dislocation; in purpose, material and intent. This often has hilarious results. 

“I like low-fi adjustments on found objects, and material interventions. I like things that move and squeak. I like ordinary things that become interesting when you change them a bit, and I like how you find them again. Unexpected things; things that suddenly get to be a whole lot more than they were before; I like these things.”

King graduated with Honours in Sculpture from Monash University in 2006, in which she also received the Baldessin Foundation Travelling Fellowship. King has exhibited widely around Melbourne in group and curated exhibitions and is currently on the board of Kings Artist Run Initiative.

Scott Mitchell graduated with Honours in Sculpture from RMIT in 2000 and recently completed a PhD in Industrial Design. For the past 6 years Scott has investigated practices of hacking and modding within contemporary consumer culture. This research has led to projects such as the iPod Social Outreach Program which aim to enhance consumer agency and challenge the notion of passive consumption.

iPod Mash, Scott Mitchell 2007

Scott teaches within RMIT School of Architecture and Design and VCA Sculpture and Spatial Practice. He has exhibited widely as both an individual artist and as part of the collaborative group OSW (Open Spatial Workshop). Details of Scott's art, research and teaching practice can be found at www.openobject.org

parabolic lamp/microphone, Scott Mitchell 2005

Now you've read all about them, come and meet them in person at Donkey Wheel House.

Affectionately known as 'The Red Team', they'll be the ones working to the theme 'Hybridisation'. So register that broken iPod you've been meaning to fix, and look forward to Yvette and Scott giving it a new lease on life; perhaps as an MP3 player that toasts the perfect crumpet and curls your hair as well - all in the time it takes to listen to your favourite Beyonce song!?