Dr Trent Jansen

Since being named Australian design graduate of the year in 2004 by the New South Wales peak body for design - Object Gallery, now known as the Australian Design Centre (ADC), I have regularly produced non-traditional research outputs for the best public institutions and private companies in Australia. I have a long history exhibiting with the ADC, including Porosity Kabari in 2018, Object Therapy in 2017 and Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery exhibitions 2006-2008. In this final year I was awarded the Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award, the industry’s largest and most prestigious design award. In 2013 I began exhibiting non-traditional research outputs with the Victorian peak body for art and design, the National Gallery of Victoria, and have since been invited to exhibit a solo exhibition for Melbourne Design Weeks in 2017 and 2020, and a retrospective of the work of Broached Commissions at NGV Australia in 2018/19. Following these solo and retrospective exhibitions the NGV acquired three major research outputs, adding to the existing major work of mine already in their collection. In 2017 I was the only design practitioner to be named a finalist of the Ramsay Art Prize, with my non-traditional research outputs exhibited at the South Australian peak body for art and decorative arts, Art Gallery of South Australia. Lastly, my non-traditional research outputs were exhibited at one of Western Australian peak bodies for art, Fremantle Arts Centre, as part of the In Cahoots Exhibition 2018, to audiences of over 16,000 over a 62 day exhibition.

I work with the most prestigious producers and design galleries in Australia, having produced non-traditional research outputs with top-tier design brands Tait, who make high quality outdoor furniture and UAP, with offices in Brisbane, Shanghai and New York making site specific and production public furniture for the Australian, Asian and American architectural markets. I am a co-founder of Australia’s most highly regarded limited edition design house, Broached Commissions, producing limited edition and one-off pieces for the collectable design market and peak art and design institutions in Australia, Asia, America and Europe. I am also represented by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Australia’s most esteemed commercial limited edition and collectable design gallery.

My work with top tier international institutions began in 2009 when my research was named a finalist in London Design Museum’s ‘Designs of the Year’ list and exhibited at this peak body for design in Britain. In 2014 I was invited to exhibit my non-traditional research outputs as part of a Broached Commissions retrospective at top tier Chinese art institution - Ullen’s Centre for Contemporary Art. My work for Broached Commissions was again exhibited at the Italian key peak body for design, the Triennale di Milano as part of their 21st International Exhibition, a survey of time defining design produced internationally in that year.

An indicator of excellence in the design industry is representation at a number of key international  design fairs, including Design Miami in both Basel Switzerland and Miami USA, Salon Art+Design in NYC, Design Days Dubai and the Salone Internationale del Mobile in Milan Italy. Throughout 2017, 2018 and 2019 I have consistently exhibited non-traditional research outcomes with top tier international commercial galleries at these fairs, including: the Salone Internationale del Mobile with Galleria Rossana Orlandi, commonly regarded as one of the best design galleries in the world; and Design Miami, Salon Art+Design and Design Days Dubai with Gallery All, a highly regarded avant-garde gallery based in Beijing and Los Angeles. I also consistently consult to the best manufacturers of design in the world, including top tier international design brands Moooi and Edra, who sell through the best design galleries, retailers, design fairs and their own flag-ship stores in all major international markets. My relationship with Edra beginning when I was announced the winner of the prestigious Space+Edra Award, one of the most coveted design awards in Australia.

Works in Production

- 2020 - Saddle Collection - Editions of 5 - Trent Jansen Studio, Australia.

- 2020 - Ngumu Janka Warnti Collection - Editions of 5 - Trent Jansen Studio, Australia.

- 2019 - Shaker Family Home - Trent Jansen Studio, Australia.

- 2017 - 2018 - Pankalangu Collection - Editions of 3 - Broached Commissions, Australia.

- 2017 - Jangarra Armchair - Edition of 3 - Mangkaja Arts and Fremantle Arts Centre, Australia.

- 2017 - Collision Collection - One offs - Mangkaja Arts and Fremantle Arts Centre, Australia.

- 2017 - Hairy Wild Man from Botany Bay Collection - Editions of 3 - Broached Commissions, Australia.

- 2016 - Dropping a Kumbhar Wala Matka - Trent Jansen Studio, Australia.

- 2016 - Jugaad with Car Parts - Trent Jansen Studio, Australia.

- 2016 - Jugaad with Pottery - Trent Jansen Studio, Australia.

- 2016 - Tidal Collection - Tait, Australia.

- 2015 - Nuptial Collection - DesignByThem, Australia.

- 2015 - Make Do - UAP, Australia.

- 2014 - Council of Nicea - Broached Commissions, Australia.

- 2014 - Diaspora - Broached Commissions, Australia.

- 2013 - Chinaman’s File Rocking Chair - Edition of 12 - Broached Commissions, Australia.

- 2011 - Briggs Family Tea Service - Edition of 5 - Broached Commissions, Australia.

- 2008 - 3d Stencil - Trent Jansen Studio, Australia.

- 2008 - Japanese Environment Minister’s Furoshiki - Felissimo, Japan.

- 2008 - Pregnant Chair - Moooi, The Netherlands.

- 2004 - Sign Stool Limited Edition - Edition of 50 - Trent Jansen Studio, Australia.

Works Held in Public Collections

- 2020 - National Gallery of Victoria - Ngumu Janka Warnti High Back Chair.

- 2019 - National Gallery of Victoria - Jangarra Armchair.

- 2019 - National Gallery of Victoria - Briggs Family Tea Service.

- 2016 - National Gallery of Victoria - Chinaman’s File Rocking Chair.

- 2016 - University of Wollongong - Make Do Bench.

- 2016 - University of Wollongong - Solstice Bench.

- 2015 - University of New South Wales - UNSW Galleries - Make Do Seat, Bench and Coffee Table.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

- 2020 - Partu (Skin) - Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert and Arc One Gallery for the National Gallery of Victoria's Melbourne Design Week, Melbourne, Australia.

- 2017 - Broached Monsters - Criteria for the National Gallery of Victoria's Melbourne Design Week, Melbourne, Australia.

- 2010 - 3d Stencil Melbourne - State of Design and Format Furniture, for the National Gallery of Victoria's Melbourne Design Week, Melbourne, Australia.

- 2009 - 3d Stencil Singapore - Substation Gallery, Singapore.

- 2005 - Tokyo Sign Project - Tokyo Design Tide, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan.

- 2005 - Sydney Sign Project - Making It, Space Furniture, Sydney, Australia.

Selected Group Exhibitions

- 2019 - Galleria Rossana Orlandi – Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy.

- 2018 - Design Storytellers : Broached Commissions - National Gallery of Victoria, Australia.

- 2017 - In Cahoots : Artists Collaborate Across Country - Fremantle Arts Centre, Australia.

- 2017 - Salon Art+Design - Gallery All, New York City, USA.

- 2017 - Ramsay Art Prize Exhibition – Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.

- 2017 - Creating the Contemporary Chair - National Gallery of Victoria, Australia.

- 2016 - XX1T – 21st International Exhibition – Triennale Di Milano, Italy.

- 2016 - Porosity Kabari - Studio X, Columbia University, Mumbai, India.

- 2015 - Gallery All - Design Miami, USA.

- 2014 - Broached Retreat - Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China.

- 2013 - Melbourne Now - National Gallery of Victoria, Australia.

- 2013 - Broached East - Sydney and Melbourne, Australia.

- 2011 - Broached Colonial - Sydney and Melbourne, Australia.

- 2010 - Matilda - London Design Festival, London, England.

- 2009 - Brit Insurance Designs of the Year Exhibition - London Design Museum, England.

- 2008 - Design Tide, Tokyo, Japan.

- 2008 - Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery - Object Gallery, Sydney, Australia.

- 2008 - Moooi, Super Studio, Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milano, Italy.