UP THERE is proud to present FOUND, a Clubhouse event as part of Melbourne Design Week 2026 in partnership with FOUND GOLF and the NGV.
Running from 14–24 May at the UP THERE store on 69 Flinders Lane, FOUND brings together a curated group of artists, designers, and creatives under one roof for ten days of culture, conversation, and collaboration.
Featuring work from Adam Lynch, Alessandro Calderwood, Andrew Hustwaite, Bonhula Yunupingu, Briony Wright (Crushes Flowers), Cody Weightman, Danielle Brustman, Damien Wright, Darcy Vescio, Ed Linacre, Gabriel Cole, Karabo Tlokotsi, Jack Del Rennie, Jackson Morgan, Jake Rollins, Locki Humphrey, Objects for Thought, Safa El Samad, Shaun Daniel Allen, Simone LeAmon, and XYX Lab.
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Artists featured:
Adam Lynch
Adam Lynch is a designer-maker and co-founder of Australian furniture brand Dowel Jones. His practice reduces furniture to its essentials without compromising character or aesthetic presence. The Pila locker stores the small but necessary clubhouse possessions; discarded shoes, folded polos and soon to be lost Pro V1s. Made instinctively from leftover workshop materials and deep green Geelong cowhide the piece was created less like a designed object and more like a personal Saturday therapy session – a bit like playing golf.
Andrew Hustwaite
Andrew Hustwaite is a Melbourne-based visual artist and sculptor whose professional practice is characterized by a rigorous exploration of structure and material integrity. His primary medium is metal. These sculptural dumbbells balance utility and absurdity. Precision-machined from solid brass, they evoke both a sense of opulence and an almost theatrical seriousness. Positioned as both objects of strength and symbols of aesthetic excess, they inhabit a playful tension between the gym and the gallery.
Briony Wright – Crushes Flowers
Briony is a writer, editor and creative producer. In 2024, she cut the ribbon on her conceptual flower studio, Crushes Flowers, and now makes work across different mediums. Briony’s two-part installation combines floristry with spatial design as she draws reference from sports fields. The sand cast aluminium cone vases are replicase of the ubiquitous cone that we all ran, hopped, skipped and jumped over through childhood sport lessons. Accompanying the installation is a custom designed scent evocative of freshly cut grass.
Cody Weightman & Alessandro Calderwood
Western Bulldogs player and artist Cody Weightman collaborated with master boat builder Alessandro Calderwood to create this surfboard as an exploration of sport and identity. Reflection is constructed from highly polished stainless steel, with its mirror-like finish achieved through hand-worked surface treatments. The work transforms a functional object into a sculptural form, inviting viewers to see themselves within it. Referencing surf culture and sporting clubrooms, Reflection suggests that sport is not only physical, but also a space for creativity, introspection and personal growth.
Danielle Brustman
Known for her sophisticated use of colour and geometric references Danielle Brustman's studio practice encompasses interiors, furniture and lighting design, exhibition and installation. Her work has been collected by NGV. Danielle’s dartboard has no bullseye. You can’t win. The work draws on her memories of playing darts. The hot/not dartboard proposes two options. One of inclusion and one of exclusion. The dartboard is her irreverent take on the polarising aspects of clubhouses and what it means to belong.
Damien Wright and Bonhula Yunupingu
Bonhula and Damien are long-time collaborators whose practices bridge distinct cultural worlds. Damien is a balanda (white man), while Bonhula is Yolŋu from the Gumatj clan of North East Arnhem Land, part of the world’s oldest continuous culture. Drawing on both ancient and contemporary materials, the pair’s riff on a coin reflects on the rise of symbolic capitalism across contemporary life, particularly within sport. The pair have been exhibited internationally and collected by Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
Darcy Vescio and Locki Humphrey
Darcy is a celebrated AFL player and creative. Their artistic practice is characterised by a sharp sense of humour and vibrant use of colour. Locki a furniture designer / maker approaches object design with a focus on minimal intervention, craft and sustainability. Their process is driven by exploration of material, colour, texture. Collaborating for the first time this courtside bench captures a moment on the precipice – a moment when the call could go either way, a moment when you really just need a fucking break. Edward
Linacre Edward
Linacre is an industrial designer, artist and circular material developer based in Naarm. Working across light-based artworks, installations and products, his practice explores material reuse and transformation. The Annette Linacre, a quad skull rowing boat damaged beyond repair, was later recovered by Edward and Fergus Linacre. Originally named in honour of their mother and the rowing program she championed, the vessel’s legacy continues through the repurposing of its components into a sculptural floor lamp.
Gabriel Cole & Jack Del-Rennie (Beige Surfboards)
Gabriel Cole is an artist and designer working across painting, print, sculpture, sound and graphic systems. He is an ex-Paralympian and current art director of Melbourne skateboard brands HODDLE and ASAU. Cole collaborated with Jack Dell-Rennie of BEIGE SURFBOARDS on this hand-built board. The board is emblazoned with ‘1967’ drawn from the title of Paul Witzig’s 1967 surf film, a cultural marker of the Australian longboard era. The functional artwork references a moment of flux; the work uses the ocean as a metaphor for freedom complicated by societal expectations and cultural commodification.
Jackson Morgan
Jackson Morgan is a publican and multidisciplinary designer creating sculptural works in Naarm/Melbourne for over a decade. His practice combines playful aesthetics with critical environmental commentary, focusing on the widespread use of disposable materials. Transforming ubiquitous items such as single-use sauce packets - commonly found in clubhouse canteens and corner stores - Morgan repurposes everyday waste into permanent furniture objects that question consumption, value and permanence.
Jake Rollins
Jake Rollins is a designer and maker whose practice explores overlooked materials and inventive production methods. Known for his work with discarded golf balls, Rollins transforms a difficult-to-recycle waste product into functional design objects. Made from plastic and rubber, the golf balls’ uniform form allows them to operate as modular units within a geometric surface. For this stool, each ball is drilled into a bead and woven together with tensioned cord to create a durable, functional structure.
Karabo Tlokotsi
Karabo is a Melbourne-based photographer whose work explores the intersection of sport, culture and live events. For over seven years, she has developed a visual language shaped by movement, atmosphere and fleeting moments. In 2025, she shot her first global campaign and had a photograph featured in Times Square. She has worked with Nike, Jordan Brand, ASICS and Foot Locker. Her path began documenting Summer Jam, a basketball tournament central to her artistic identity. The Silver Screen reproduces one of her photographs on an aluminium basketball backboard, celebrating the personal ways we experience sport.
Objects for Thought
Objects for Thought is a Melbourne lighting studio founded by Jay Jermyn and CJ Anderson. Driven by instinct and material precision, the pair create lighting unconcerned with convention. This custom edition of Sequence lamps incorporates blue and brown team colours from the designer’s ice hockey and surf lifesaving clubs respectively. The plinth sequence light is used to display childhood trophies. Their lighting, in stark contrast to the kitsch trophy designs, draw attention to the way design is codified through sporting ritual.
Safa El Samad
Safa El Samad is a second-generation Lebanese settler living and working on Wurundjeri land. Her practice sits between fashion and architecture, focusing on repair, material care and the afterlives of garments and spaces. Men Not Allowed is a site-specific work designed to be viewed from above, reimagining the floor of the Up There store as grass and the vitrine as a platform. Through distorted running tracks and layered Arabic and English text - including “ممنوع” (“prohibited”) and “men not allowed” - the work questions access, exclusion and the gendered politics of sporting space.
Soof Flash x Found Golf
Soof Flash, founded by Safa El Samad, riffs on the language of flash tattoos, offering garments renewed through embroidered interventions. Collaborating with Ellen Keillar and Lance Peach of Found Golf, the team produced a series of custom garments combining Soof’s Good Sport Bad Sport 2025 flash collection with golf-specific motifs. Through humour, text and imagery, the works explore sport and golf as spaces of play, identity and performance.
Shaun Daniel Allen
Shaun Daniel Allen (Shal) a Yugambeh-born Bundjalung man, is known for bold, lyrical paintings that bridge cultural worlds through influences drawn from punk, tattooing and surfing. GQ artist of the 2025, Shal has collaborated with brands including Louis Vuitton, Hermès, Apple Music and Nike. His practice explores movement, memory and place. Between Lands – L5, traces water, land and life through layered colour and gesture. Compressing past, present and future into a single visual field, the work also reminds viewers that sport in Australia takes place on First Nations land.
Simone LeAmon
Simone LeAmon is one of Australia’s leading voices in design, with a career spanning the NGV, academia, professional practice and advocacy, she is now CEO of the Design Institute of Australia. Her project Bowling Arm transformed discarded leather waste from Australian cricket ball manufacturing into wearable bangles, reframing industrial by-product as a valuable resource. First released in 1999, the work became an international design phenomenon, worn by the likes of Heath Ledger. The series has diverted nearly one tonne of leather waste from landfill.
XYX Lab
Monash University’s XYX Lab is an interdisciplinary team of researchers exploring gender-sensitive design at the intersection of identity, urban space and advocacy. Keep Running was commissioned by Australian Centre for Contemporary Art for Who’s Afraid of Public Space? Drawing on submissions from XYX Lab’s YourGround mapping project, the poster series reflects shared experiences of women and gender-diverse people navigating public space in Victoria, combining personal accounts with data-inspired geometric forms and custom typography derived from statistical visualisation.
