About this Event
Scar Illuminated Opening Night - Melbourne Design Week
Join us for the opening night of Scar Illuminated, an exhibition of handcrafted porcelain lighting by fine artist and designer , exploring fragility, rupture and renewal through light.
Presented at , this after-dark exhibition draws on the Japanese philosophy of Sakabashira, where perfection invites decline, embracing fracture as a generative force rather than a flaw.
Using her signature technique of porcelain slip poured onto plaster, Tracton creates delicate translucent works that contract and crack unpredictably in the firing, each one uniquely shaped by fire, gravity and chance. Repaired with gold through Kintsugi, these fractures become luminous scars.
Scar Illuminated invites viewers to see beauty beyond perfection, where every scar becomes a source of light.
About VVREN
Activated as a singular experiential offering, open only after dark. Inverting the conventions of the white cube, the space privileges atmosphere over display, encounter over observation. Light, shadow and presence shape the space as much as the works themselves. With a multifaceted approach, VVREN operates as a commune rather than a static gallery, where emerging and established artists engage process in real time alongside the public, together testing ideas that resist easy articulation. Here, fracture becomes dialogue, uncertainty becomes method, and thinking does not resolve, it expands, unsettles, and continues.
About the Artist
Sarah Tracton is an award-winning Australian artist and lighting designer whose work pushes the boundaries of materiality, merging fine art, functional design and craft. Drawn to porcelain’s infinite possibilities, she is known for mastering an innovative technique of slip poured onto plaster to handcraft lighting that is luminous, experimental and ethereal. A two-time Good Design Award winner, she is internationally recognised for her sustainable, handcrafted approach to lighting and has exhibited in Australia, New York and at DesignArt Tokyo, Japan. A graduate of the National Art School (NAS) in Sydney with a Bachelor of Fine Art, she has mastered the niche technique of layering porcelain slip onto plaster slabs to achieve paper-thin, translucent surfaces. When pieces shatter in the kiln, she repairs them using the Japanese art of Kintsugi, transforming breakage into golden seams that celebrate imperfection, turning waste into beauty and reframing damage as resilience.
Melbourne Design Week is an initiative of the Victorian Government through Creative
Victoria.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
9 Lygon St, 9 Lygon Street, Carlton, Australia
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