Featherweight acknowledges the
Traditional Owners of the lands
where we live and work across
Australia, and we pay our respects
to the First Nations Elders
past, present and emerging.
We are grateful for their continuing care
and custodianship of the
land, sea, community and culture.
Featherweight is a creative studio specialising in the creation and delivery of installations, 3D spaces and experiences for museums, exhibitions, brand installations and interpretative displays.
Storytelling is the heart of our practice.
About
The human need for connection, meaning and reflection informs Featherweight’s practice. Our approach to storytelling embraces the entire experience space – emotional, physical and digital – as an expanded canvas to unite content and audience in inventive ways.
Strong relationships with major Australian museums, next-generation multimedia experts, artists and fabricators underpin Featherweight’s work. With a deep practice in creative production and communication, we make informative, entertaining and eye-catching installations for our clients.
Services
Detailed content research
Curatorial development
Image and film research
Exhibition design + implementation
Design and documentation
Writing + editing
Graphic design
Projects
Assembly of Trees, Museum of Discovery, Adelaide
'The Assembly of Trees’ exhibition is designed as a dynamic space for engagement and polling. It features an expansive interactive display that visualises real-time polling data, complemented by a greenhouse laboratory that hosts a living tree - a nod to the potential future of tree voting.
Australian Opal Centre, Interpretive Plan + Content Brief,
Lightning Ridge.
Image: opalised fossil mussel shell (bivalve mollusc). © Robert A. Smith / Australian Opal Centre.
Set against the starkly beautiful landscape of Yuwaalaraay country at Lightning Ridge, the new AOC is poised to become a premier cultural and scientific institution. This nationally-significant museum facility, designed by acclaimed architect Wendy Lewin in association with Dunn + Hillam architects, based on an initial concept by Wendy Lewin and Glenn Murcutt, will be an energy-efficient, partly underground building, filled with glittering treasures and stories of the people who found them.
Image © DarcStudio / Wendy Lewin with Dunn + Hillam.
Julia Child: A Recipe for Life, Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, USA
Oral history and photography, Bhutanese Refugee Project, LibraryMuseum, Albury
Content development and image research, The Spit Stories Project,
Gold Coast, 2023
Exhibition design, OceanXperience, Liberty Science Centre,
New Jersey, USA
National Parks and Wildlife Service, Cockel Creek film + interpretation project
Through these films, we experience the timeless stories of nature, life, death and renewal that are deeply embedded within First Nations culture and the land itself. The films honour the living history of the land, and we give deep thanks to the team of First Nations people who generously shared their knowledge and wisdom with us in the making of these wondrous stories.
In the film featured here, connect with Country along the Gibberagong Track and witness Uncle Dean Kelly acknowledge Aboriginal people as the traditional custodians of the extraordinary landforms and waterways of Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park.
Cultural Masterplan, State Library of Western Australia,
Perth WA
Interactive early learners space, National Maritime Museum of Australia, Sydney
Design and content development, Jericho Disruptive Innovation exhibition, Royal Australian Air Force
Interpretation plan and content outline, Italian Museum,
Griffith
Exhibition design and construct, Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, Rooty Hill NSW
Exhibition design, Luke Sciberras, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst.
Georgina Hawke and Lindsay Toussaint bring over twenty years of collective exhibition design experience to their work with museums, corporations and cultural institutions.
Georgina Hawke
Georgina works across both curatorial and design disciplines to create engaging unique exhibitions and experiences. Her broad experience in the museum and cultural heritage sector has included a wide range of themes and museum collections, from aviation museums, maritime collections, religious institutions, First Nations collections and content, science and natural history collections and libraries.
Film, artefacts, imagery, sound, space are all tools to create experiences and exhibitions to engage the visitor. By using rigorous research and ideation methodologies, bold exhibition concepts are developed where traditional and rigid thematic boundaries are blurred to allow for unique non-linear links between technologies, stories & artefacts. These concepts underpin and strengthen the remaining design process and outcomes.
Formally trained in interior architecture, Georgina brings a refined and sophisticated sense of form and a deep understanding of space, light, materiality and acoustics and how those elements affect visitor behaviours. Georginas knowledge and extensive experience of museum projects includes managing budgets, schedules, conservation requirements, and documentation packs to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.
