Lost Tablet Ismailia, limited edition framed print Print

Jan is an artist and architect based in Melbourne. He is the director of MvS Architects, a researcher and senior lecturer at RMIT Architecture & Urban Design, the founder of +Concepts, designer of Lost Tablets, and a creative sector consultant at Future Tense. Arising from an interest in the complex relationship between human beings and their environments, Jan’s work explores the cultural and societal elements of architecture, and then expresses intuitive spatial discoveries in the coded geometric and spatial languages of the built environment.. His artworks, and his designs of prototypical public and private buildings have received numerous awards, and been published in Australia and internationally. Jan is the founder of +Concepts, a presentation and performance series exploring the insights practitioners have into their own creative and cultural practices. It has hosted over 120 performances from Australian and international practitioners in metropolitan and regional venues in Victoria, NSW, Queensland, Western Australia, and the ACT. Jan’s Lost Tablets project is a series of art works which explore the mysteries of human existence by exploiting tensions between a universally recognisable children’s toy and the grammar of architectural symbols. The works have received honorable mentions for art and architecture awards and featured in the inaugural Quarantine Art Fair in January, and Melbourne Design Week, and in 2021 and 2023 were displayed in the virtual Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture.