Joost Bakker

Artist

1. Who are you and what do you do?

I am an artist who receives commissions to create anything from a chair to a vessel for cocktails. Currently, I am working on a new method of growing flowers and plants using 100% waste as the growing medium and combining it with worm castings. Tomorrow we are starting to build the Greenhouse in Perth.

2. What has been your greatest challenge?

Staying focused on one thing!

3. Tell us about a memorable moment.

It is 7pm on Thursday night, screw gun and hammer in hand, and we are following a Melbourne City Council building inspector around every corner of the Greenhouse (at Federation Square). There was a crowd waiting outside to come in and we had just worked straight through from 7am Tuesday morning. I don’t want to know what I looked like at that moment but I will never forget the relief I felt when he finally gave us the all clear. I only remember snippets of that night, but I remember every minute of the 14 days that it took us to build it.

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