Punk Friction Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro

What lead to building your new studio?

Claire: Having the luxury of being able to ponder, rather than have a concept in mind or making the work for a particular site. To have an object within a space to crash your big toe into or fall over; just go towards something with a gut feeling rather than the brain. There were many little things we had to consider or hadn’t heard of. With the help of YouTube, we navigated our way around making this studio.

Sean: Yeah, most of our work has been about demolition and inquiries into architecture. So, it’s fitting to actually build a studio to understand what goes into making a building.

I read your first project together was in a Greek Orthodox Church.

S: The hall attached to the Church…

C: We had an opportunity to use Kudos Gallery for Location to Die For (2001).

S: I was living at Imperial Slacks at a time when the whole of Sydney was in pre-Olympics renovation phase.

C:… Like a warzone.

A lot of old-school people that lived around Paddington and Redfern were moving out and new people were moving in. It sounded like war, and the movement of people was like war. We decided that we wanted to make a