Fred Ward: A Life in Design

30 May 2013 - 27 Jul 2013

Fred Ward was one of Australia's earliest industrial designers to establish and maintain a professional design practice, creating elegant, practical, modern furniture that is regarded as among the best Australian design of the twentieth century. The exhibition is the first in a series of yearly retrospectives that the GAD plans to undertake devoted to the most significant figures in Australian design history. It is produced to coincide with a major new biography of Fred Ward by Canberra resident Derek Wrigley, who himself is a significant designer and was a long-time collaborator and assistant to Ward.

Major sponsors

This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of Mr John Hindmarsh, AM & Cre8ive

Exhibition partners

Architecture Media, Jim Murphy Cellars, Schobers

Image Credits

Patterncraft chair, c.1947, private collection

Wastepaper basket, c.1964, National Library of Australia, Canberra

Drawers, c.1931, private collection

Blueprint chair, c.1931, private collection

Photographs: Ben Wrigley