EM FRANK

2026

Useful Objects
Soft
Process
Light on the Bedroom Wall
Fragmentary State
Broken Lines
Synthesis

2025

DONE/UNDONE
Mud
Three Makers

2024

Modular
Earthbound
Jaded But Joyful  
Terrametal
Scribbles

2023

Plating
Clay on Country
Car Mugs
Painted Clay
Mutukaka Ngurra
Mutants
Scribbles

2022

Mutuka Rikina
Mugs on Mugs
Language Resources

2021

Tangki
Mechanicals
The Bilbies

POT MIX
INFO

 
SOFT









2026

ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Curated by Andy TT and Calum Hurley, soft is presented at AGSA as part of Adelaide Design Week 2026, bringing together Australian designers and makers in an evolving exhibition that explores materiality, tactility, and the everyday. Returning to Adelaide for its second year, soft continues to create intimate, sensory environments that invite visitors to slow down, look closer and experience design differently.

Through artworks, objects and encounters, soft seeks to invite new connections and ways of seeing, while considering the small gestures of care and meaning that shape our relationship with the things we live alongside.

Softies


AMALGAME studio, Bel Williams + Claire Markwick-Smith, Bindi Nimmo, Dean Toepfer, Drew Abrahamson, Em Franklin + Miles Dunne, Indigo Tolhurst, Janice Cui, Jay Jermyn, Jesse Wakenshaw, Lotte Schwerdtfeger, Marlo Lyda, New Instance, Penny Fisher, Phillip Nielsen, Riley Stone, Studio Tops, Tom Graham and Tom Summers.


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