Rigg Design Prize exhibition highlights the achievements of Australian designers under the age of 35 working across ceramics, glass, furniture, woodwork, metalwork, textiles, lighting, and contemporary jewellery. With participants debuting new and ambitious works, the exhibition offers a window into the ideas, creative processes, and motivations of young designers, and presents a compelling survey of the most accomplished design being produced in Australia today.
The winner of the $40,000 prize, Australia’s most prestigious accolade for contemporary design, is Adelaide based Aranda artist, Alfred Lowe. His ambitious ceramic vessels, You and me, us never part, 2025, were unanimously selected by the Prize Jury. The work comprises two large-scale figurative ceramics combining rigid and roughly textured clay with soft raffia adornments, exploring beauty, community and Country. The ceramics stand side by side, each over one metre tall, and speak to the contradictions of love and hate, pain and joy through the friction of these materials.
Event Details:
Dates: 19 Sep 25 – 1 Feb 26
Times: Open daily 10am–5pm
Location: The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square - Level 3