Gray Matters

The story of one of the twentieth century's oft forgotten design pioneers, Eileen Gray, has its Australian premiere season from 9 October at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), co-presented with MPavilion. Gray Matters (2014) will screen alongside an encore season of Eames: The Architect and The Painter (2011).

Free spirited, fiercely independent and strides ahead of her time, Eileen Gray was a pioneer of Art Deco and Modernist design with an artistic output spanning furniture, architecture and textiles. Her original and daring designs were game changers and now reside in some of the world's most prestigious private and public art collections. In 1968, her astounding body of work was unearthed in Domus magazine by critic Joseph Rykwert and institutions such as the Centre Pompidou, V&A Museum and MoMA began collecting her work for their permanent collections.