Catherine Roden + Stephen Brameld

FINALIST

‘Flag 2’

Within its jurisdiction, the sun visits three horizons. Migrating beacons alight the land. This image is a query of permanent architecture and mobility of place - an imagining of Australia's nationhood.

A flag's denotation is often specific, often interpretive. It is the messenger and the message. Heralding a moment of indelible change, the flag holds and withholds. 

This flag is designed to project both internally and externally, commanding the architecture and signalling control of Phoenix Central Park for as long as the tapestry hangs. The intersecting circular windows are integral agents of the design.

This design endeavours to document the synthesis of painting, into digital and back to the physical tapestry. Celebrating what is gained and lost in each translation of form. Tapestry and the brickwork at Phoenix Central Park share a textural woven quality. By positioning the design against the oculus window, we are framing this comparison. It is envisioned that the tapestry will carry the horizontal rhythm of the brickwork across the plane.

Catherine Roden holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design, University of Western Australia, and graduated with a Master of Architecture from the University of Melbourne in 2020. She currently works for TCL Landscape Architecture + Urban Design and teaches at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. Stephen Brameld is an artist living and working in Perth, Australia. A self-taught painter, he often collaborates with other painters, sculptors, textile artists and sound artists.