From Hong Kong to Paris to New Zealand: Art duo Batten and Kamp explore how their nomadic lifestyle shapes their creative practice, relationships, and definition of home through conceptual furniture and sculpture.
New Zealand-born artists Alexandra Batten and Daniel Kamp share intimate insights into their nomadic journey across three continents. Through their acclaimed conceptual furniture and sculptural works, they discuss how constant movement between Hong Kong, Paris, and their homeland has influenced their artistic evolution, collaborative process, and understanding of belonging. Their conversation reveals how impermanence has become both a challenge and a catalyst for their internationally recognized designs, from their Steel and Stone series to their recent Echo exhibition at Carpenters Workshop Gallery.
About the speaker
Batten and Kamp is the collaborative practice of Alexandra Batten and Daniel Kamp, an Aotearoa-born duo creating conceptual furniture and sculpture. Their work explores the tension between nature, comfort, and progress. Recognized by Design Anthology as leading emerging designers in Asia Pacific (2023), their signature Steel and Stone series (2020) is held in collections worldwide. Other notable works include Elsewhere (2021), Sex Tape (2023), and Echo (2025), a series of sculptural lights debuted in their solo show From a Distance at Carpenters Workshop Gallery. Based between Hong Kong and Paris, the duo has produced solo shows with Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Art Central, Novalis, and Design Art Tokyo, and completed commissions for the Palace Museum and OMM Museum.
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2/F Dorset House Taikoo Place, 979 King's Rd, Quarry Bay
Hong Kong, Hong Kong Hong Kong
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