Space Furniture store, Melbourne, Australia

Twenty five teenagers participated in a stencil making workshop and barbeque lunch hosted by SVDP youth charity. A number of 'found object' stencils relating to the theme of 'home' were used to create the artwork. These included lace cloth, kitchen spatulas, colanders, cutlery trays, microwave oven containers etc.

Federation Square, Melbourne Australia

Attended by 500 people, guests were encouraged to construct their own Zaishus, creating impromptu gathering spaces for eating, drinking and conversation.

Tokyo Designer’s Block & Seoul Design Festival

The RMIT School of Architecture and Design Furniture Laboratory in association with the Australia Council for the Arts have assembled a group of Australian Designers who exhibited works at Tokyo Designers Block and Seoul Design Festival. The Tyranny of Distance exhibition invited designers to submit recent works to address both Australia's distance from International markets and the needs of modern urban lifestyles through the design of furniture, objects, clothing and appliances which reinvent the way we may inhabit domestic, urban and global space.

Container World Exhibition

Using the raw interior of a shipping container a large collage of images visually documented the first Zaishu Project was exhibited, keeping in with the original bare texture and smell of the container the artwork was in context with the way stencil art is presented in it's urban environment.

Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia

Design & production: Matthew Butler
Art curator: Andy Mac for Citylights. Artists: Amac, Blead, David Campbell, Dens, Dlux, E3, Micheal Fikaris, Tom Gerrard, HaHa, Ash Keating, LTMP, Kieran Mangan, Monkey, Aaron O'Donnell, Pandarosa, Phibs, Prism, Reach, Reks, Rone, SRX, Vexta. Directors: Christopher Kaltenbach & Erin O'Callaghan. Prototyping: Jenny Ford & Kate Jackson.