Kirsha Kaechele and Material Institute

GOOD NATURED: design art architecture celebrates creative projects by designers, artists and architects working to design a better future. These practitioners are focussed on creating outcomes that are both beautiful and good for the planet.

About Kirsha Kaechele and Material Institute

Kirsha Kaechele is a contemporary art curator, artist, and practitioner of sustainable building design based in Hobart/nipaluna. She is founder of KKProjects, Life is Art Foundation. The Life is Art Foundation was founded on an appreciation for ecological systems and natural order. The application of systems-based thinking to life and art was its core mission, as expressed through projects that married art with architecture, ecology, agriculture and human social order.

Connect with Kirsha and Material Institute: @kirshakaechele @24carrot_tasmania @materialinstitute_tasmania mona.net.au/museum/kirsha-s-portal

Kirsha's Project

The Material Institute (home of 24 Carrot Gardens) is a not for profit charitable organisation empowering children, young people and their families in low income communities to be healthy, resilient and achieve their full potential. We provide educational programs in growing and sharing healthy food, and a suite of social enterprise initiatives focused on gardening, cooking, ceramics, textiles, and natural beauty products. All of this is integrated into our community and school garden hubs, sites of inspiring, artful architecture and design, through an annual program of hosted events.

The ceramic objects on display in the exhibition are products of an ongoing collaboration between the children in our school programs, local artisans, educators and The Material Institute founder and artist/designer, Kirsha Kachele. They are an expression of pure creativity, with young energetic minds working side by side with Tasmanian master potters. The ceramic tableware features regularly in our community feasts, holding nourishing food that is grown, prepared and eaten with a philosophy of agency and connection, from earth to table.

Kirsha's Good Natured Action

Visitors to the exhibition at Australian Design Centre can participate by drawing plans for their own speculative design of the vacant land across the road on the opposite corner of William and Palmer Streets. How could it be a better place for the community and the environment?