Trent Jansen Furniture
Australian
Designer Trent Jansen is at the forefront of design anthropology, a furniture and interior design movement in which designers and anthropologists work closely to produce products informed by the symbolism and visual principles of other cultures.
Each piece he designs has a rough, primal energy derived from a variety of techniques, whether incorporating scales into the surface of a side table or suggesting a spider’s shape through the form of a bench. Jansen holds immense respect for heritage, reverently and conscientiously embedding cultural identity and history in his pieces.
Jansen grew up in the small town of Kiama on the southeast Australian coast. He began his studies at the Industrial Design School of the University of Alberta in Canada and then transferred to the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales, where he received his bachelor’s degree in design. He later earned a PhD from the University of Wollongong.
He then worked under Dutch designer Marcel Wanders in Amsterdam. In 2004, Jansen returned to Australia and opened his design studio in Sydney. Eventually, he relocated to Thirroul on the southern coast of Australia’s New South Wales.
Jansen has exhibited his work in solo and group shows worldwide, including at the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, and venues in Singapore, Beijing and Milan. His awards include the 2008 Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award, the Australia Council for the Arts “Project Funding” Award in 2019 and 2017 and a 2021 Design Files + Laminex Design Award.
Today, Jansen continues to design new pieces and create outstanding works of furniture out of his studio in Thirroul.
On 1stDibs, find an intriguing array of Trent Jansen seating, tables, storage pieces and more.
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Creator: Trent Jansen
Mand Pilti Credenza / Dry Sand by Tanya Singer + Trent Jansen
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Edition of 3 + 2 Artist Proofs.
Lead time 9 months.
Manta Pilti Dry Sand by Tanya Singer + Trent Jansen
American hard maple, American walnut, American cherry
Manta Pilti (Dry Sand...
Category
2010s Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Cherry, Maple, Walnut
Kutitji | Shield Chair by Errol Evans + Trent Jansen
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Edition of 8 + 4 Artist Proofs.
Lead time 4 months.
Kutitji | Shield Chair by Errol Evans + Trent Jansen
American cherry and American walnut
Kutitji Chair (Shield), designed by Er...
Category
2010s Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Cherry, Maple, Walnut
Manta Pilti Cabinet / Dry Sand by Tanya Singer + Trent Jansen
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Edition of 3 + 2 Artist Proofs.
Lead time 9 months.
Manta Pilti Dry Sand by Tanya Singer + Trent Jansen
American hard maple, American walnut, American cherry
Manta Pilti (Dry Sand...
Category
2010s Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Cherry, Maple, Walnut
Mand Pilti Low Chair / Dry Sand by Tanya Singer + Trent Jansen
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Edition of 8 + 4 Artist Proofs.
Lead time 4 months.
Manta Pilti Dry Sand by Tanya Singer + Trent Jansen
American hard maple, American walnut, American cherry
Manta Pilti (Dry Sand...
Category
2010s Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Cherry, Maple, Walnut
Mand Pilti Chair / Dry Sand by Tanya Singer + Trent Jansen
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Edition of 20 + 4 Artist Proofs.
Lead time 4 months.
Manta Pilti Dry Sand by Tanya Singer + Trent Jansen
American hard maple, American walnut, American cherry
Manta Pilti (Dry San...
Category
2010s Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Cherry, Maple, Walnut
Pregnant chair by Trent Jansen and Marcel Wanders for Moooi, 2008
By Moooi, Trent Jansen, MARCEL WANDERS
Located in Steenwijk, NL
This is a very special, fun and playful chair. The so called 'Pregnant Chair' was designed by Trent Jansen in cooperation with Marcel Wanders for Moooi....
Category
Early 2000s Dutch Post-Modern Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Wood
'Partu' Italian Leather Coffee Table by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
‘Partu’ (2020) is the Walmajarri word for ‘skin’ and is Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen's latest collaborative project experimenting with this combination of disparate sensibilitie...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
'Partu' Ngumu Janka Warnti Chair 'Black' by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
‘Partu’ (2020) is the Walmajarri word for ‘skin’ and is Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen's latest collaborative project experimenting with this combination of disparate sensibilities. Found materials and leather are used to create awareness about Material Culture and recycling.
This collection was developed in Thirroul on the New South Wales Coal Coast. Johnny and Trent came together four times over a period of 18 months, developing new methods for collaboration that could shape their incongruent knowledge, methods, and skills in designing and making into co-authored outcomes. These methods include: ‘Sketching exchange’, a process of back-and-forth sketch iteration, allowing an idea to evolve with equal input from both creators; and ‘designing by making’, a method of working with materials at full scale, to design an object as it is being made. In this approach the prototype is the sketch and both collaborators work together to carve, construct and/or manipulate material, giving the object three-dimensional form as they design and make simultaneously.
Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
Partu (Skin) Collection
Ngumu Janka...
Category
2010s New Zealand Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
'Partu' Italian Leather Cabinet by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
‘Partu’ is the Walmajarri word for ‘skin’ and is Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen's latest collaborative project experimenting with this combination ...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
'Partu' Ngumu Janka Warnti High Chair 'Brown' by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
‘Partu’ (2020) is the Walmajarri word for ‘skin’ and is Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen's latest collaborative project experimenting with this combination of disparate sensibilities. Found materials and leather are used to create awareness about Material Culture and recycling.
This collection was developed in Thirroul on the New South Wales Coal Coast. Johnny and Trent came together four times over a period of 18 months, developing new methods for collaboration that could shape their incongruent knowledge, methods, and skills in designing and making into co-authored outcomes. These methods include: ‘Sketching exchange’, a process of back-and-forth sketch iteration, allowing an idea to evolve with equal input from both creators; and ‘designing by making’, a method of working with materials at full scale, to design an object as it is being made. In this approach the prototype is the sketch and both collaborators work together to carve, construct and/or manipulate material, giving the object three-dimensional form as they design and make simultaneously.
Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
Partu (Skin) Collection
Ngumu Janka...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Scandinavian Leather Saddle Bench by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen have been collaborating in the design and crafting of collectable furniture since they met in Johnny’s home town of ...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Stainless Steel
'Partu' Italian Leather Coffee Table by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
‘Partu’ is the Walmajarri word for ‘skin’ and is Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen's latest collaborative project experimenting with this combination of disparate sensibilities. Foun...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
'Partu' Italian Leather Side Table by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
‘Partu’ is the Walmajarri word for ‘skin’ and is Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen's latest collaborative project experimenting with this combination of disparate sensibilities. Foun...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
'Partu' Italian Leather Medium Vessel by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
‘Partu’ is the Walmajarri word for ‘skin’ and is Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen's latest collaborative project experimenting with this combination of disparate sensibilities. Foun...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
'Partu' New Zealand Leather Small Vessel by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
‘Partu’ (2020) is the Walmajarri word for ‘skin’ and is Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen's latest collaborative project experimenting with this combination of disparate sensibilitie...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
'Partu' Ngumu Janka Warnti Chair 'Brown' by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
‘Partu’ is the Walmajarri word for ‘skin’ and is Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen's latest collaborative project experimenting with this combination of disparate sensibilities. Found materials and leather are used to create awareness about Material Culture and recycling.
This collection was developed in Thirroul on the New South Wales Coal Coast. Johnny and Trent came together four times over a period of 18 months, developing new methods for collaboration that could shape their incongruent knowledge, methods, and skills in designing and making into co-authored outcomes. These methods include: ‘Sketching exchange’, a process of back-and-forth sketch iteration, allowing an idea to evolve with equal input from both creators; and ‘designing by making’, a method of working with materials at full scale, to design an object as it is being made. In this approach the prototype is the sketch and both collaborators work together to carve, construct and/or manipulate material, giving the object three-dimensional form as they design and make simultaneously.
Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
Partu (Skin) Collection
Ngumu Janka...
Category
2010s New Zealand Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
'Partu' Ngumu Janka Warnti High Chair 'Black' by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
‘Partu’ (2020) is the Walmajarri word for ‘skin’ and is Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen's latest collaborative project experimenting with this combination of disparate sensibilities. Found materials and leather are used to create awareness about Material Culture and recycling.
This collection was developed in Thirroul on the New South Wales Coal Coast. Johnny and Trent came together four times over a period of 18 months, developing new methods for collaboration that could shape their incongruent knowledge, methods, and skills in designing and making into co-authored outcomes. These methods include: ‘Sketching exchange’, a process of back-and-forth sketch iteration, allowing an idea to evolve with equal input from both creators; and ‘designing by making’, a method of working with materials at full scale, to design an object as it is being made. In this approach the prototype is the sketch and both collaborators work together to carve, construct and/or manipulate material, giving the object three-dimensional form as they design and make simultaneously.
Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
Partu (Skin) Collection
Ngumu Janka Warnti...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Scandinavian Leather Saddle Armchair by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen have been collaborating in the design and crafting of collectable furniture since they met in Johnny’s home town of ...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Brass, Stainless Steel
'Partu' New Zealand leather Large Vessel by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
‘Partu’ (2020) is the Walmajarri word for ‘skin’ and is Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen's latest collaborative project experimenting with this combination of disparate sensibilitie...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Scandinavian Leather Saddle Vessel Long by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen have been collaborating in the design and crafting of collectable furniture since they met in Johnny’s home town of ...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Brass
'Partu' New Zealand leather Medium Vessel by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
‘Partu’ (2020) is the Walmajarri word for ‘skin’ and is Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen's latest collaborative project experimenting with this combination of disparate sensibilitie...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
'Partu' Ngumu Janka Warnti Low Chair 'Brown' by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
‘Partu’ (2020) is the Walmajarri word for ‘skin’ and is Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen's latest collaborative project experimenting with this combination of disparate sensibilities. Found materials and leather are used to create awareness about Material Culture and recycling.
This collection was developed in Thirroul on the New South Wales Coal Coast. Johnny and Trent came together four times over a period of 18 months, developing new methods for collaboration that could shape their incongruent knowledge, methods, and skills in designing and making into co-authored outcomes. These methods include: ‘Sketching exchange’, a process of back-and-forth sketch iteration, allowing an idea to evolve with equal input from both creators; and ‘designing by making’, a method of working with materials at full scale, to design an object as it is being made. In this approach the prototype is the sketch and both collaborators work together to carve, construct and/or manipulate material, giving the object three-dimensional form as they design and make simultaneously.
Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
Partu (Skin) Collection
Ngumu Janka...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
'Partu' Italian Leather Side Table by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
‘Partu’ (2020) is the Walmajarri word for ‘skin’ and is Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen's latest collaborative project experimenting with this combination of disparate sensibilitie...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Scandinavian Leather Saddle Vessel Tall by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen have been collaborating in the design and crafting of collectable furniture since they met in Johnny’s home town of Fitzroy Crossing, as part of Fremantle Art Centre’s ‘In Cahoots’ project in 2016.
This collection - Saddle (2020) gains its name from the first sketch that Johnny made for this collection, an elongated saddle that led to experiments in stretching supple Scandinavian upholstery leather between geometric timber and steel forms to generate new, complex transitioning forms. Sketch exchanges over an 18-month period eventually yielded an entire collection built on this beautiful capability of leather to stretch between forms and give shape to the space in-between objects.
Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
Partu (Skin) Collection
Saddle Vessel Tall...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Brass
'Partu' Italian Leather Small Vessel by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
‘Partu’ is the Walmajarri word for ‘skin’ and is Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen's latest collaborative project experimenting with this combination of disparate sensibilities. Foun...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
'Partu' Ngumu Janka Warnti Leather Bench by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
‘Partu’ (2020) is the Walmajarri word for ‘skin’ and is Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen's latest collaborative project experimenting with this combination of disparate sensibilitie...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
'Partu' Ngumu Janka Warnti Low Chair 'Black' by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
‘Partu’ (2020) is the Walmajarri word for ‘skin’ and is Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen's latest collaborative project experimenting with this combination of disparate sensibilities. Found materials and leather are used to create awareness about Material Culture and recycling.
This collection was developed in Thirroul on the New South Wales Coal Coast. Johnny and Trent came together four times over a period of 18 months, developing new methods for collaboration that could shape their incongruent knowledge, methods, and skills in designing and making into co-authored outcomes. These methods include: ‘Sketching exchange’, a process of back-and-forth sketch iteration, allowing an idea to evolve with equal input from both creators; and ‘designing by making’, a method of working with materials at full scale, to design an object as it is being made. In this approach the prototype is the sketch and both collaborators work together to carve, construct and/or manipulate material, giving the object three-dimensional form as they design and make simultaneously.
Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
Partu (Skin) Collection
Ngumu Janka...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
'Partu' Italian Leather Large Vessel by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
‘Partu’ is the Walmajarri word for ‘skin’ and is Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen's latest collaborative project experimenting with this combination of disparate sensibilities. Foun...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
'Partu' New Zealand Leather Cabinet by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
‘Partu’ (2020) is the Walmajarri word for ‘skin’ and is Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen's latest collaborative project experimenting with this combination of disparate sensibilitie...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Aluminum, Stainless Steel
Hairy Wild Man from Botany Bay Bowl Black by Trent Jansen
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Broached Monsters by Trent Jansen
The vast majority of mainstream Australian mythology commonly used as a
foundation for Australian identity is culturally exclusive. Both Indigenou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Pankalangu Bowl
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Broached monsters by Trent Jansen
The vast majority of mainstream Australian mythology commonly used as a
foundation for Australian identity is culturally exclusive. Both Indigenou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Pankalangu Bowl
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Broached monsters by Trent Jansen
The vast majority of mainstream Australian mythology commonly used as a
foundation for Australian identity is culturally exclusive. Both Indigenous myths, including post-colonial myths and precolonial dreaming stories, and non-indigenous Australian myths, including the bush legend, ANZAC tradition and convict legend, focus on the historical role that the race of authorship has played in building the nation. However, a contemporary understanding of Australian history acknowledges the contribution of both Indigenous and non-indigenous Australians in forging the nation, and the national identity which accompanies it. Instead of perpetuating the same exclusive national myths, perhaps Australians should adopt a national mythology that acknowledges this inclusive understanding of Australian history, a mythology that unites Australians of many backgrounds under a shared Australian identity.
In his book on Australia’s Folklore of Fear, Robert Holden explores pre-colonial ideas of Australia as a Great Southern Land – an imaginary landmass conjured up to counterbalance the continents in the northern hemisphere, as far removed as possible from Britain, the center of the Christian world (Holden, 2001). Holden speaks of Australia as an imaginary world, occupied by unimaginable creatures and monsters.
Holden is commenting in part on the mythical creatures that originated in both British and Aboriginal Australian folklore and were shared by the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal inhabitants of Sydney during the early years of colonisation. Stories of the yahoo, a creature that resembled a slender man, with long white straight hair, extraordinarily long arms and great talons (Unknown 1842), captured the imaginations of the new British settlers, and soon a fear of the yahoo became a common ground between Aboriginal people and British settlers. is fear of a gruesome and vicious creature gained its potency from the folkloric tales that were used to substantiate its existence. These tales were suitably vague, their lack of detail
attributed to the fierce nature of these creatures and the assumption that no one had survived an encounter (Holden, Thomas et al. 2001).
The yahoo “became one of the very few Aboriginal legends to be embraced by the Europeans” (Holden, Thomas et al. 2001, p16), providing a catalyst for conversation between individuals from these two culturally disparate societies and forming some personal links between these communities. Could creature myths like the yahoo once again form the foundation of a united national...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
50% Deposit for Pankalangu Side Table, Custom Stained & Lacquered Matte Finish
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This listing is to collect the 50% deposit ($12,000 = $24,000/2) for a customized edition of Pankalangu Side Table with the stained (black) and lacquered (matte) finish. The work mea...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Brass, Copper
Ngumu Janka Warnti High Back Chair, Black, by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen have been collaborating in the design and crafting of collectible furniture since they met in Johnny’s hometown of Fitzroy Crossing, as part of Frem...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Stainless Steel
Ngumu Janka Warnti High Back Chair, Brown, by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen have been collaborating in the design and crafting of collectible furniture since they met in Johnny’s hometown of Fitzroy Crossing, as part of Frem...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Stainless Steel
Ngumu Janka Warnti Chair, Black, by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen have been collaborating in the design and crafting of collectible furniture since they met in Johnny’s hometown of Fitzroy Crossing, as part of Frem...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Stainless Steel
Pankalangu Wardrobe by Trent Jansen from the Broached Monster Collection
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Broached monsters by Trent Jansen.
The vast majority of mainstream Australian mythology commonly used as a
foundation for Australian identity is culturally exclusive. Both Indigenous myths, including post-colonial myths and precolonial dreaming stories, and non-indigenous Australian myths, including the bush legend, ANZAC tradition and convict legend, focus on the historical role that the race of authorship has played in building the nation. However, a contemporary understanding of Australian history...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Brass, Copper
Pankalangu Credenza by Trent Jansen from the Broached Monster Collection
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Broached monsters by Trent Jansen.
The vast majority of mainstream Australian mythology commonly used as a foundation for Australian identity is culturally exclusive. Both Indigenous myths, including post-colonial myths and precolonial dreaming stories, and non-indigenous Australian...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Copper, Brass
Ngumu Janka Warnti Bench by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen have been collaborating in the design and crafting of collectible furniture since they met in Johnny’s hometown of F...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Stainless Steel
Saddle Armchair by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen have been collaborating in the design and crafting of collectible furniture since they met in Johnny’s hometown of F...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Brass, Stainless Steel
Pankalangu Armchair by Trent Jansen form the Broached Monster Collection
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Broached monsters by Trent Jansen
The vast majority of mainstream Australian mythology commonly used as a
foundation for Australian identity is culturally exclusive. Both Indigenous myths, including post-colonial myths and precolonial dreaming stories, and non-indigenous Australian...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Copper, Stainless Steel
Saddle Bench by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen have been collaborating in the design and crafting of collectible furniture since they met in Johnny’s hometown of F...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Stainless Steel
Pankalangu Side Table by Trent Jansen from Broached Monsters Collection
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Broached monsters by Trent Jansen
The vast majority of mainstream Australian mythology commonly used as a
foundation for Australian identity is culturally exclusive. Both Indigenous myths, including post-colonial myths and precolonial dreaming stories, and non-indigenous Australian myths, including the bush legend, ANZAC tradition and convict legend, focus on the historical role that the race of authorship has played in building the nation. However, a contemporary understanding of Australian history...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Brass, Copper
Ngumu Janka Warnti Low Chair with Low Back by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen have been collaborating in the design and crafting of collectible furniture since they met in Johnny’s hometown of Fitzroy Crossing, as part of Frem...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Stainless Steel
Ngumu Janka Warnti Chair, Brown, by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen have been collaborating in the design and crafting of collectible furniture since they met in Johnny’s hometown of Fitzroy Crossing, as part of Frem...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Stainless Steel
Saddle Vessel Wide by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen have been collaborating in the design and crafting of collectible furniture since they met in Johnny’s hometown of F...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Brass
Saddle Vessel Tall by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen have been collaborating in the design and crafting of collectible furniture since they met in Johnny’s hometown of F...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Brass
Ngumu Janka Warnti Low Chair with Medium Back by Trent Jansen & Johnny Nargoodah
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen have been collaborating in the design and crafting of collectible furniture since they met in Johnny’s hometown of Fitzroy Crossing, as part of Frem...
Category
2010s Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Stainless Steel
Hairy Wild Man from Botany Bay Bowl Grey by Trent Jansen
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Broached monsters by Trent Jansen
The vast majority of mainstream Australian mythology commonly used as a
foundation for Australian identity is culturally exclusive. Both Indigenous myths, including post-colonial myths and precolonial dreaming stories, and non-indigenous Australian myths, including the bush legend, ANZAC tradition and convict legend, focus on the historical role that the race of authorship has played in building the nation. However, a contemporary understanding of Australian history...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Hairy Wild Man from Botany Bay Bowl White by Trent Jansen
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Broached Monsters by Trent Jansen
The vast majority of mainstream Australian mythology commonly used as a
foundation for Australian identity is culturally exclusive. Both Indigenous myths, including post-colonial myths and precolonial dreaming stories, and non-indigenous Australian myths, including the bush legend, ANZAC tradition and convict legend, focus on the historical role that the race of authorship has played in building the nation. However, a contemporary understanding of Australian history...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Pankalangu Wardrobe by Trent Jansen from the Broached Monster Collection
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Broached monsters by Trent Jansen.
The vast majority of mainstream Australian mythology commonly used as a
foundation for Australian identity is culturally exclusive. Both Indigeno...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Brass, Copper
Hairy Wild Man from Botany Bay Bowl Grey by Trent Jansen
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Broached monsters by Trent Jansen
The vast majority of mainstream Australian mythology commonly used as a
foundation for Australian identity is culturally exclusive. Both Indigenous myths, including post-colonial myths and precolonial dreaming stories, and non-indigenous Australian myths, including the bush legend, ANZAC tradition and convict legend, focus on the historical role that the race of authorship has played in building the nation. However, a contemporary understanding of Australian history acknowledges the contribution of both Indigenous and non-indigenous Australians in forging the nation, and the national identity which accompanies it. Instead of perpetuating the same exclusive national myths, perhaps Australians should adopt a national mythology that acknowledges this inclusive understanding of Australian history, a mythology that unites Australians of many backgrounds under a shared Australian identity.
In his book on Australia’s Folklore of Fear, Robert Holden explores pre-colonial ideas of Australia as a Great Southern Land – an imaginary landmass conjured up to counterbalance the continents in the northern hemisphere, as far removed as possible from Britain, the center of the Christian world (Holden, 2001). Holden speaks of Australia as an imaginary world, occupied by unimaginable creatures and monsters.
Holden is commenting in part on the mythical creatures that originated in both British and Aboriginal Australian folklore and were shared by the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal inhabitants of Sydney during the early years of colonisation. Stories of the yahoo, a creature that resembled a slender man, with long white straight hair, extraordinarily long arms and great talons (Unknown 1842), captured the imaginations of the new British settlers, and soon a fear of the yahoo became a common ground between Aboriginal people and British settlers. is fear of a gruesome and vicious creature gained its potency from the folkloric tales that were used to substantiate its existence. These tales were suitably vague, their lack of detail
attributed to the fierce nature of these creatures and the assumption that no one had survived an encounter (Holden, Thomas et al. 2001).
The yahoo “became one of the very few Aboriginal legends to be embraced by the Europeans” (Holden, Thomas et al. 2001, p16), providing a catalyst for conversation between individuals from these two culturally disparate societies and forming some personal links between these communities. Could creature myths like the yahoo once again form the foundation of a united national...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Hairy Wild Man from Botany Bay Bowl Black by Trent Jansen
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Broached Monsters by Trent Jansen
The vast majority of mainstream Australian mythology commonly used as a
foundation for Australian identity is culturally exclusive. Both Indigenous myths, including post-colonial myths and precolonial dreaming stories, and non-indigenous Australian myths, including the bush legend, ANZAC tradition and convict legend, focus on the historical role that the race of authorship has played in building the nation. However, a contemporary understanding of Australian history acknowledges the contribution of both Indigenous and non-indigenous Australians in forging the nation, and the national identity which accompanies it. Instead of perpetuating the same exclusive national myths, perhaps Australians should adopt a national mythology that acknowledges this inclusive understanding of Australian history, a mythology that unites Australians of many backgrounds under a shared Australian identity.
In his book on Australia’s Folklore of Fear, Robert Holden explores pre-colonial ideas of Australia as a Great Southern Land – an imaginary landmass conjured up to counterbalance the continents in the northern hemisphere, as far removed as possible from Britain, the center of the Christian world (Holden, 2001). Holden speaks of Australia as an imaginary world, occupied by unimaginable creatures and monsters.
Holden is commenting in part on the mythical creatures that originated in both British and Aboriginal Australian folklore and were shared by the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal inhabitants of Sydney during the early years of colonization. Stories of the yahoo, a creature that resembled a slender man, with long white straight hair, extraordinarily long arms and great talons (Unknown 1842), captured the imaginations of the new British settlers, and soon a fear of the yahoo became a common ground between Aboriginal people and British settlers. is fear of a gruesome and vicious creature gained its potency from the folkloric tales that were used to substantiate its existence. These tales were suitably vague, their lack of detail
attributed to the fierce nature of these creatures and the assumption that no one had survived an encounter (Holden, Thomas et al. 2001).
The yahoo “became one of the very few Aboriginal legends to be embraced by the Europeans” (Holden, Thomas et al. 2001, p16), providing a catalyst for conversation between individuals from these two culturally disparate societies and forming some personal links between these communities. Could creature myths like the yahoo once again form the foundation of a united national...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Hairy Wild Man from Botany Bay Bowl White by Trent Jansen
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Broached Monsters by Trent Jansen
The vast majority of mainstream Australian mythology commonly used as a
foundation for Australian identity is culturally exclusive. Both Indigenou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Pankalangu Side Table by Trent Jansen from Broached Monsters Collection
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Broached monsters by Trent Jansen
The vast majority of mainstream Australian mythology commonly used as a
foundation for Australian identity is culturally exclusive. Both Indigen...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Brass, Copper
Pankalangu Armchair by Trent Jansen form the Broached Monster Collection
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Broached monsters by Trent Jansen
The vast majority of mainstream Australian mythology commonly used as a
foundation for Australian identity is culturally exclusive. Both Indigenous myths, including post-colonial myths and precolonial dreaming stories, and non-indigenous Australian...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Copper, Stainless Steel
Pankalangu Credenza by Trent Jansen from the Broached Monster Collection
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Broached monsters by Trent Jansen.
The vast majority of mainstream Australian mythology commonly used as a foundation for Australian identity is culturally exclusive. Both Indigenous myths, including post-colonial myths and precolonial dreaming stories, and non-indigenous Australian...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Australian Trent Jansen Furniture
Materials
Brass, Copper
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