Dalton Stewart and Annie Paxton

Naarm/Melbourne
Berlin

Dalton Stewart’s interdisciplinary practice considers the interconnected roles of architecture, design, and visual art, examining how each informs and shapes the other. Designing furniture and objects, often using repurposed elements—his work seeks to layer and reveal stories, histories, archaeologies and material processes that are frequently overlooked, treating design as a critical form of enquiry.

He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Victorian College of the Arts (2016), where he received the John Vickery Scholarship, and a Master of Architecture from the Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne (2024), where he was awarded the MacDonald Scholarship. His work has been exhibited at institutions and gallerys across Australia and Europe, including the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (2015), Firstdraft (2018), Cool Change Contemporary (2019), Sarah Scout Presents (2022), Melbourne Design Fair (2023), Collectible Brussels (2025) and the National Gallery of Victoria (2025).

Annie Paxton is a multidisciplinary designer based between Naarm/Melbourne and Berlin. She works as an architect alongside her creative practice which navigates the juncture between architecture and furniture/object, with a keen interest in how design drives and is driven by the poetics of everyday life. With the tendency to imbue works with patina and the trace of the hand, the interrogation of time/process as a material is often a salient driver in her practice.