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Broached Commissions is a narrative driven applied arts production house. The studio launched in 2011 with the Broached Colonial show. Six designers all created works based on a rigorous investigation of the applied arts and material language of the colonial period. The research and development period was led by renowned applied arts and Australian visual art curator John McPhee.
The resulting Broached Colonial contained works that very directly referenced design from the time to others that reflected more on the personal, emotional situation people – such as convicts or Indigenous Tasmanians …