VOLIM 02 explores the current mindset and works of collaborative duo Tia Tokic and Lauren Jane Salt who work together under the multidisciplinary label VOLIM. Despite their different backgrounds, the duo synchronize their philosophies of form and method by creating a continuous dialogue within their materials.

Twelve months of textile waste accumulated from small-scale manufacturing are presented by Tokic; her scraps reconstructed into wearable items to create a “zero waste” cycle. These garments ignore rules about grain-line and finishing, creating a unique silhouette that disguises the body and can be easily modified or repaired.

Lauren Jane Salt’s relationships with natural forms are shared in the gestures and impressions imbedded in her clayworks and botanical illustrations. Continuously inspired by plants, Salt wishes to bring the small intimate details within nature to an artificial environment respectfully. Taking only key elements of form to exhibit in each piece; whether it be the texture of the Morel Fungi replicated in her ceramics or a still of a leaf half ravaged by a caterpillar.

Lauren Jane Salt is a multidisciplinary artist based in Perth, Western Australia. In 2013 Salt completed her Floristry studies at Flowers Design School and TAFE; moving on to study Flower design in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany with Gregor Lersch. In 2016 Lauren won the Florist of The Future title for Western Australia in the National Interflora competition. Since then Salt has taken an interest in the form and texture of ceramics, completing an Advanced Ceramics degree at North Metropolitan TAFE in 2016.

Tia Tokic is a fashion designer based in Perth, Western Australia. In 2014 Tia graduated with Bachelor of Fashion Design from Curtin University, for which she was awarded the Innovation and Academic awards. Tia established Volim as a clothing label in 2008, and has since developed designs and methods to enforce her own ethics.

Tokic and Salt met in 2014 and joined to make VOLIM a collaborative label, which explores the many facets of form and sustainability. Since then they have exhibited in multiple group exhibitions and one solo exhibition VOLIM 01 at Beyond Skate Gallery. In 2018 VOLIM co-directed and designed a play entitled Bacterium which featured in A night of at The Blue Room Theatre for Fringe World Festival.