PACKING MATERIALS — Alyson Fox
Packing Materials is a book by Alyson Fox, bringing together twelve years of assemblages, photographs, and notes gathered from daily life. Working across mediums, Fox treats making as both documentation and discovery—an ongoing way of noticing change through the materials at hand.
Part journal, part visual map, Packing Materials unfolds as an intimate record of time passing. Images and texts move in a language of repetition and return, tracing a practice grounded in reflection, memory, and the quiet act of arranging. Ordinary objects—collected, discarded, or remade—become signposts, marking shifts in thinking, feeling, and living.
Alyson Fox’s work blurs the boundaries between art, design, craft and object. Moving across media—drawing, photography, weaving, printing, collecting, interviewing and recording—she explores the human dimensions of stories, collections, memories and materials that carry the marks of lived time.
Published by: Dossier Industries
Pages: 268pp
Size: w50cm x h21cm
Cover: soft cover, exposed spine
edition of 250
ISBN: 978-0-6489790-3-6
Martino Gamper: Endgrained
Renowned for creating objects that celebrate the joy and beauty of everyday things, Italian designer Martino Gamper reimagined Objectspace in Ta¯maki Makaurau Auckland as a social space for encounter and interaction in Endgrained. Across a new body of furniture focused on chairs and tables, visitors to the gallery were invited to use the space to dwell, meet or play.
Accompanying Endgrained was Wood from the trees, a collaborative research project by Gamper, Objectspace and designers James Goggin and Shan James of Practise, an ephemeral archive of timber histories in Aotearoa, drawn from a rich range of sources including journals, magazines, photographic collections and timber museums.
Captured in this publication and accompanied by an essay by Kim Paton and an interview between Martino Gamper and Nova Paul, Gamper’s projects for Objectspace express his enduring love of timber and honour the decades he has spent working with this material that is as old as time.
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This publication was produced following the Objectspace exhibition Martino Gamper: Endgrained, 27 March – 31 May 2026 at Objectspace, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 92
Size: w21cm x h29.7cm
ISBN: 978-1-06704-785-6
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