When Dutch designer Ruben de la Rive Field and Australian designer Golnar Roshan first met, they have been residing in Amsterdam and of their early careers after graduating, Ruben from the College of the Arts Utrecht within the Netherlands and Golnar from the College of Expertise Sydney. A yr later, they each moved to London and labored at totally different high-profile design studios earlier than deciding to start out their very own apply collectively – Rive Roshan.
“We simply had this need to determine what our imaginative and prescient can be, if we have been to create one thing [on our own],” explains Golnar.
So, what’s that imaginative and prescient? Rive Roshan makes artwork and design objects that mirror mild in fascinating methods, utilizing color and materials to play with mild. The intention is to shift views, encouraging the viewer to see issues in new methods.
“Though our work could be very summary and it’s not political or social design in any approach, we really feel that via artwork and design, you will have the flexibility to vary individuals’s approach of seeing and shift individuals’s views,” says Golnar. The works usually comprise geometric shapes and have repeating traces or graduated colors, creating moiré results or reflections that add visible curiosity.
In an effort to create the precise results that they need, Golnar and Ruben work with industrial processes and producers, which will be notably troublesome to attain as a result of such corporations are used to engaged on a bigger scale. “What we attempt to obtain is to take one thing that’s fairly excessive tech or very massive scale, however then discover a approach so as to add poetry in that materials,” Golnar says.
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The studio is represented in Australia by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, which helps practical artwork. A 2024 exhibition on the gallery entitled Inner Reflection confirmed works that had by no means been seen earlier than, together with the Radiance tables and bench; three-dimensional glass variations of the Radiance panel collection; and Color Shift lights, that are three-dimensional variations of panels within the Color Shift collection. It was the studio’s first solo present in Australia, and the fruits of three years of labor, made potential by an in depth collaboration with the gallery. Different items explored the capabilities of 3D-printed sand.
“We discovered a option to play with the feel of the glass and the color in between, in order that it has this virtually lenticular impact,” says Golnar. “What’s superb about working with Sally is that she actually pushed us to make one thing that’s additionally practical.”
Recognition from main establishments contains the Powerhouse Museum, which commissioned the studio to create a piece for the Hybrid: Objects For Future Houses exhibition. Time to Mirror is a collection of glass domes, handled with mica and mirrored coatings that mirror ethereal mild patterns. The Color Dial Desk, Dawn Mild can also be now within the everlasting assortment of the NGV.
In December 2024, a collection of Rive Roshan’s work from its solo exhibition shall be proven in Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert’s debut presentation at Design Miami. The duo are additionally busy translating their concepts, at the moment expressed as objects, to a bigger scale and into set up and efficiency contexts. With roots within the Netherlands and Australia, Ruben and Golnar have carved a formidable area of interest for themselves and their studio is now really world, bringing the pair’s progressive eye to exhibitions and artworks in design centres all over the world.
Rive Roshan is represented solely in Australia and New Zealand by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert.
