Abi Crompton (Issue 7) is currently part of a fantastic exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Sydney. The exhibition is called Multiplicity and runs from 12 October 2006 – 25 March 2007 (so you’ve got a while left to catch it).
The exhibition shows prints and multiples from the MCA’s collection and that of the University of Wollongong… including several of Third Drawer Down’s limited edition art prints on linen (pictured above left). Abi is the ever-so-wonderfully wonky genius behind Third Drawer Down. Has anyone been to the exhibition yet? If you have or do, would love to know what you thought of it.

Previous posts about Abi : (7 December 2006) Abi’s new gallery

Abi Crompton : Issue Seven : Introduction

We had seen and admired Abi Crompton’s Third Drawer Down products for a long time and so, when a trip to Melbourne was in the offing, we thought we’d drop her a line saying it’d be great to say hello. Next thing we know Abi’s invited us to stay and the more we’ve gotten to know her, the more we admire her ‘doability’, imagination, integrity and glorious sense of humour. Abi is the creative and practical genius behind two great, but very different brands. Third Drawer Down came first. The concept is simple, Abi commissions artists around the world to create works for her that she then prints (in limited edition) onto tea towels, lapkins, table runners and the like. Except people don’t seem to want to use them to dry their dishes or keep them in their drawers (let alone the third down). Instead they’re treasured as works of art in their own right, worthy of a place over the mantlepiece. Enter Abi’s other business/project, Magnart. ‘What could that be?’ You ask. We say, ‘Read on’ … Df

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