Dr Trent Jansen
- 2016 - 2018 - Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wollongong.
- 2000 - 2004 - Bachelor of Design, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales.
- 2002 - Industrial Design, University of Alberta, Canada.
Trent Jansen is a designer based in Thirroul, Australia, and Lecturer at the University of New South Wales Art & Design, Sydney Australia. Trent gained his PhD from the University of Wollongong under renowned Australian art historian Ian McLean, and his Bachelor of Design from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales in Sydney, spending a portion of his undergraduate degree in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.
After a period working under听听in Amsterdam, Trent returned to Australia to set up the听听in Sydney, before moving his practice to Thirroul on the New South Wales South Coast.听
Jansen applies his method of Design Anthropology to the design of limited edition and one-off pieces for clients including the听,听听补苍诲听. This approach is also applied to the design of products and furniture for manufacturers听,听听补苍诲听.听 Jansen was one of the co-founders of听听and is represented by Broached Commissions for Broached in-house commissions.
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Trent Jansen is represented by听听in the USA and China, and听听in Europe.
Jansen鈥檚 work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including: National Gallery of Victoria 2022, 2020, 2019, 2017 and 2013; ART021, Shanghai 2021; JingArt, Beijing 2021; Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Australia 2020 and 2019; Galleria Rossana Orlandi, Milan 2019; Design Miami, Miami and Basel 2018 and 2015; Salon Art+Design, New York City 2017; Art Gallery of South Australia 2017; XX1T - the 21st听International Exhibition at the Triennale Di Milano 2016; Design Days Dubai 2015; The Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing 2014; Broached Colonial, Sydney and Melbourne 2011; London Design Museum 2009 and Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Italy 2008.
Jansen鈥檚 awards include: Australia Council for the Arts 鈥楶roject Funding鈥 Award 2021, 2019 and 2017, the Design Files & Laminex Design Awards with Johnny Nargoodsh 2021, the Space+Edra Design Residency with Massimo Morozzi 2010, the Bombay Sapphire 鈥楧esign Discovery鈥 Award 2008, the Spiral 鈥楻endez-vous鈥 Japanese Manufacturing Residency 2006, the Australia Council for the Arts 鈥楴ew Work鈥 Award 2005 and the Object 鈥楴ew Design鈥 National Graduate Award 2004.听
Jansen鈥檚 work has been published in Dezeen (UK), Yellow Trace (Australia), Up Cycle! 鈥 Ginkgo Press听(Singapore), Surface Asia (Singapore), the Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), Vogue Living (Australia), Frame听(Holland), Ish (Singapore), Harper鈥檚 Bazaar (Singapore), I.D. (USA), The Australian (Australia), Habitus听(Australia), The Straight Times (Singapore), & Fork - Phaidon Press (UK), Monument (Australia), Habitus听(Australia), Belle (Australia), Prestige (Singapore), The Age (Australia), Financial Review (Australia) and Tokyo听Metropolis (Japan) and many more.
Trent Jansen鈥檚 work is in production with听,听听补苍诲听听in Australia,听听in Japan and听听in The Netherlands and,听听补苍诲听听in Italy.
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- 2022 - Australia Council for the Arts Project Funding grant for a collaboration with Tanya Singer and Errol Evans for the National Gallery of Victoria's Melbourne Design Week.
- 2020 -听ARC Linkage entitled听Designing for sustainability using a transformative repair model, aiming听to contribute to a sustainable design economy in Australia with partners Australian Design Centre; Jamfactory Contemporary Craft & Design Incorporated; and Design Tasmania Limited.
- 2018 - Australia Council for the Arts Project Funding grant for a collaboration with Johnny Nargoodah for the National Gallery of Victoria's Melbourne Design Week.
- 2017 - Australia Council for the Arts Project Funding grant for Fremantle Art Centre's听In Cahoots Project.
- 2013 - Australian Postgraduate Award for Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wollongong.
- 2005 - New Work grant - Australia Council for the Arts.
- 2022 - Winner - Venice Design Biennial Residency.
- 2021 - Winner - Design Files & Laminex Design Awards with Johnny Nargoodah.
- 2017 - Finalist - Ramsay Art Prize - Art Gallery of South Australia.
- 2010 - Winner - Space+Edra Design Residency with Massimo Morozzi.
- 2009 - Finalist - Brit Insurance Designs of the Year Award - London Design Museum.
- 2008 - Winner - Australia Council for the Arts Milan Studio Residency.
- 2008 - Winner - Emerging Designer - [inside] Magazine Idea Award.
- 2008 - Winner - Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award.
- 2008 - Winner - Kobe G8 Environment Minister鈥檚 Furoshiki Award - Design 21.
- 2006 - Winner -听Spiral Rendez-vous - Japanese Manufacturing Residency.
- 2004 - Winner - New Design, National Graduate Award - Object Gallery.
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 and abroad. 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鈥檚 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 solo exhibitions for Melbourne Design Weeks in听2017, 2020 and 2023, and a retrospective of the work of Broached Commissions at NGV Australia in 2018/19. Following these solo and听retrospective exhibitions the NGV acquired three听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 and Kurunpa Kunpu | Strong Spirit in 2023.
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