Jaxon Stickler
Designer/Artist


Focusing on experi­mental processes, generating enchantment, and collaborations that lead to visually + conceptually charged projects, my work seeks to create deep visions of alternative systems and new futures through building core artefacts.


Open to collaborative projects & commisions as well as design/art research services.

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Email: jaxonstickler@gmail.com
Instagram: @jaxonstickler

CURE 2024
Sculpture

Wood, motorcycle crash armour, deadstock puffer jackets, bitumen membrane,electric motor, wool fabric, kangaroo spine, mattress, stone, oyster mushrooms, fish tank, water, potatoes, dimensions variable

What does it truly feel like to invite other beings into our proximity? To let the sheer terror of ecological reality permeate our anesthetized spaces? Creating open networks, where contagion can flow between our technologies, bodies, and objects, may offer relief from the emerging modern issues of loneliness and alienation that characterize contemporary life. However, if we allow the complete integration of ecological entanglement into our intimate encounters and personal experiences, are we prepared for the depths of the uncanny that may unfold?

For Radiant Pavilion, Closer Agencies Exhibition.

Paper Daggers 1-3 2024
Sculpture

Washi paper, bleached beeswax, pigment, dimensions variable.

A series of daggers, crafted from fine layers of washi and saturated with bleached beeswax, serving as an exploration of the affordances and potentialities embedded within the objects, tools, and artifacts we create. Weapons that are designed to be destroyed in their use, their inherent fragility introduces a built-in limitation that may guide the actions of those who interact with them.

For Radiant Pavilion, Closer Agencies Exhibition.

Nu Artefact Form Research 2024
OSA CENTRE
Research + Production

3D Form Research and Production for a series of jewelry pieces. Highly digital processes resulting in entites of splintered earth. Orthographic 3D Technical models laser-etched onto 300gsm grey-dyed cotton paper.

01. Micro Rupture Form
02. Macro-Rupture Form
03. Shattered Hoop Form
04. Starburst Forms (Model A, B & C)
05. Nerve-Erupt Form
06. Collosal Nerve-Erupt Form

Lightshrine 1-6 2024
Object


A system for building low-light ritual behaviour.

Switching a light on once the sun goes down is a habit engrained into modern life. This object aims to grab this focus and redirect it towards cultivating new protocols of interdependence. These practices can range from simple acts of attention and observation to more complex forms of ceremony and performance.


Crafted from Japanese washi, each delicate sheet is lasercut and soaked in beeswax. The form is meticulously stitched and tensioned into the semblance of a bulb and bound together by folds of oxidised metal. Mount on a vertical surface, preferably above a position where offerings can be made. Electrical soldering and wall mount system by Designer Haoqi Hong.

A burnished construct.

USBKill Charm 1-3  2024Object

An imbued weapon for enacting violence against biosphere harming infrastructure & technology. This jewelry piece destroys the circuitry of the equipment it is plugged into.

Comprised of hundreds of intricately modeled platelets forged from laser-sintered aluminum. Embedded within these plates lies a USB killswitch device. Developed by Russian computer researcher Dark Purple it draws power into its capacitors and repeatedly sends a high-powered voltage surge back into the datalines of the device it is connected to.

Dyneema Sk87 Bio-based HMPE Fibres are handwoven into Nejiri Gumi Kumihimo by artist/designer Celina Samarakoon, forming the cord that connects this artifact to its wielder.

A machine amulet.

Protection Pocket Bag 1-3 2024
Object

A soft artifice concerning the creation of sacred time for rest & play by blocking phone signals.

A mobile communication device placed within the bag will be rendered obselete as military grade copper coated fabric provides full electro-signal blocking capabilities. The pocket can be used to impede signals, disrupting the flow of information, a shield against the brutal onslaught of data aimed at deafening our attention span.

The outer surface of the bag bears witness to the passage of time, its mineral hues evolving. Three custom made buckles designed in collaboration with Eli Kemp and Joey Tussler line the edges.

A shielding device.

BigChicken 2024
Sculpture
(Sticks, Deadstock Wool Fabric, Deadstock Puffer Vests. Motorcycle Crash Armour)

As the globe’s most abundant vertebrate, the broiler chicken is exclusively sourced from two corporate entities. Various breeds are distinguished by names like Cob 500 or Ross 308. These avians are but shadows of their ancestors, their once-proud lineage warped and contorted. Their frames, swollen to grotesque proportions, buckle under their own weight, rendering them unable to walk without aid in most circumstances. Studies have found that the greatest factor impacting a chicken’s welfare is its breed—a bodily prison and curse etched into its being at the genetic level.



What might it look like for genetic agency to be restored to a species whose lineage has endured two mass extinctions? What tales would they tell, what songs would they sing, and what vengeance might they exact if given the chance to reclaim their birthright?

GUIDING WYRM CORE SIGNALS 2024
Exhibition

Experiments in Sculpture, Design, Film & Sound for Non-Human Realms by Chloe Newberry, Jaxon Stickler, Raphael Lindzhendao & Indi Jennings

Funded by The City of Melbourne

Group Statement:
Our combined efforts explore mythic forms, ruined space, creaturely bodies and earthly constructs.

Non-human revenge narratives catalyze to dismantle entrenched hierarchies that mold the world.

Post-humanist tendencies emerge.

Eroded metal plates pulse with vibrations of regional terrain they map.

Methods & outcomes intercept invisible signals, raw intuition drives padded shapes and electro signal-blocking fabric turns to stone. 

Our drones hover within the crust of the earth.

Dark Ecology 2022
Capsule Collection

Dark Ecology is about finding new ways of being in the earthly realm through studying patterns of creation. Dissolving binary notions and barriers between technology, nature, culture and spirit, and developing clothing that is functional for movement, play and experimentation through landscapes.

Dark deadstock nylons receive precise computer-generated cuts, organic textures being revealed underneath. Reclaimed Mohair blankets are puffed up and bestowed with a nameless symbol. A primordial relatedness to the more than human worlds lurks just beneath our modern systems.

A heavily overdyed T-shirt dress, digitally printed with complex instructions, a map of human interactions with a glacial boulder. Single threads hanging from marked locations, a snapshot in deep time.

A dark hulking form emerges from intuitive draping and instructions gathered from field study within cold temperate rainforests. A Hyper-Organic spectral being.

Micro-Capsule 2022
Clothing

The scale we live at is so far removed from geological agency that it is hard for us to relate to rocks as anything other than scenery. I wanted to combat this separation from the complex natural systems we are embedded within by developing a material language for new ways of being in the earthly realm - clothing that is functional for movement and experimentation through landscapes & garments that honour the mineral crust that birthed us.