Fluff Corp. Jia Jia Chen & Claire Lehmann

Established in 2017, Fluff Corp began curating immersive catering events and soon combined their expertise in an object based practice focussing on lighting design.

Our individual practises can be found here Jia Jia Chen and Claire Lehmann.

A link to our curricula vitae.
Here is some press about our work.

Two women standing outdoors in front of a building with a pile of snow behind them, one with Asian features and straight dark hair, the other with light skin and short hair wearing glasses.
Two women standing on a pile of dirt in front of a beige wall, wearing dark clothing and black shoes.
Stacked white bricks and white spherical objects on a table near a fireplace with white mantle and a wire basket in a room with white walls.

Fluff Corp.

Email: hellofluffcorp@gmail.com

Location:
Schoolhouse Studios
28 Victoria St, Coburg
Melbourne, Australia.

Workshop with multiple white textured pendant lampshades hanging from the ceiling, surrounded by art supplies, tools, and unfinished ceramic or plaster sculptures on shelves and the workspace surface.
Indoor construction site with piles of broken drywall, dust, and construction equipment in a warehouse-like setting.

Fluff Corp continues to grow, guided by a mutual interest in problem solving and experimentation. We are inspired by the connective and social potential of the medium and like to explore it’s intimacy and ubiquity in daily life and relationship to food and design culture.

A person arranging flat rocks and dried branches on a surface surrounded by various green foliage and orange flowers.
A group of people gathered outdoors for a meeting or event, standing around a table with food and drinks, in a park-like setting with trees and a cloudy sky.
A person's hand with a splash of white paint or plaster, wearing a black long-sleeve shirt and a blue sleeve underneath, extended outward against a splattered concrete floor.
A hand using a chisel to carve or break a large piece of stone or clay, surrounded by greenery and small bowls, with a focused, earthy setting.
A woman with black hair and bangs standing outdoors in front of a construction site with piles of white gravel and a beige brick wall.

Jia Jia Chen

Jia Jia works across art, design and food, her interdisciplinary approach is driven by an interest in exploring the diverse applications of the material through function, decoration and industry within the framework of creative production. Born in China and raised in Australia, her practise draws inspiration from both Eastern and Western aesthetics; merging and reinterpreting iconic symbols into new and personal expressions whilst alluding to the complex history of cultural and economic exchange. She engages with the process of making as a transposing of conscious and unconscious ideas, the internal to the external and the physical to the metaphysical. She frequently collaborates with creative practitioners from diverse fields in a desire to explore potentials of cross-industry artistic outcomes.

Chen graduated Master’s of Contemporary Art at VCA and was the recipient of the Art150 Fellowship. She has collaborated with Speak Percussion for Assembly Operation, Sophia Brous for Supersense ‘Festival of the Ecstatic’ and was commissioned by the City of Melbourne for a show at City Gallery called ‘Dream Machine’, the work from that show was acquired into their permanent collection.

https://www.jiajiajichen.com/

Woman standing outdoors in front of a beige brick wall and corrugated metal siding, wearing a black t-shirt and black pants, with piles of white material in front of her.

Claire Lehmann

Claire’s practise spans from bespoke lighting commissions to product design for commercial clients, curation and exhibition design. Claire has an Arts Degree from Melbourne University with an Art History major, she then studied Electronic Design and Interactive Media (EDIM) at Victoria University and then a Diploma of Ceramics at Holmesglen, TAFE.

Her practise has evolved alongside study, shifting from painting, drawing and digital media, to object design, sculpture, lighting design, exhibition design and an interest in relational arts practises. Claire’s ceramic lighting stems from an obsession with luminosity, shape, texture, process, weight and material tolerance. Taking cues from industrial design to create delicate domestic objects relates to an interest in challenging the boundaries and assumptions around materiality in object design.

After graduating from ceramics in 2017, she participated in the graduate Fresh Awards at Craft Victoria and was awarded a grant to attend a residency at the European Keramic Work Centre (EKWC) in The Netherlands.

http://studiolehmann.com.au/