Art That Absorbs Sound: Ben Goss’ Acoustic Collection for Woven Image.

At the heart of the collection by Ben Goss for Woven Image is EchoPanel® Kookaburra, an original artwork reimagined at scale, derived from the piece Where the Kookaburra Sits.

EchoPanel® Dapple.

EchoPanel® Sprig.

Left: EchoPanel® Canopy. Above: EchoPanel® Starview.

There’s a built-in tension in printing art onto an acoustic panel. The panel wants to recede—to do its quiet work absorbing sound while the room gets on with things. The artwork wants the opposite. Woven Image’s new collection with Australian artist Ben Goss is interesting precisely because it doesn’t pretend that tension away.

The collaboration, available only in Australia, starts with a single painting. Where the Kookaburra Sits is an original Goss work—dark and richly coloured, botanically inclined, with brushwork carrying the physical evidence of its own making. Scanned and digitally printed onto EchoPanel®, it has been translated to mural scale across three panels, 3.5m long by 2.7m high. At that size, the canvas weave and the build-up of pigment survive the jump from linen to PET, which is the whole trick.

Four further designs are drawn out of the source painting rather than designed alongside it. Sprig is the most graphic of them, bold and rhythmic, pitched towards landscape-inspired colour. Dapple groups soft dots into botanical marks — sun-diffused, airy, content not to compete. Canopy goes denser and deeper, organic forms held in check by structure, suited to anchoring larger volumes while keeping some softness. Starview is the quietest, pulling from brushstroke markings and the window-frame geometries in the original to suggest depth without raising its voice. Each range comes in curated colourways, with the hero painting’s dark tones and splashes of pink and white setting the parameters for all of them.

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The name is doing deliberate work. Kookaburra positions the collection as a piece of Australian art-making rather than a decorative motif borrowed from nature, and Goss reads botanical form through a contemporary lens rather than a nostalgic one.

Goss’ paintings have been exhibited in New York, Singapore, Sydney and Melbourne. As an artist, his career has spanned over 20 years. Goss’ work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, and Taschen Books, and he has collaborated with renowned brands such as Qantas and Herman Miller. Goss has been awarded by D&AD (U.K), Communication Arts (U.S) and Visuelt (Norwegian Design Award).

Underneath the imagery, the performance case holds. Built on Woven Image’s EchoPanel®, made from post-consumer recycled PET and Climate Active certified carbon neutral, the collection meets Australian acoustic and fire standards. It’s art that absorbs sound, specified without apology on either front.

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Ben Goss with his entire collection for Woven Image, derived from a mural-scale centrepiece.

[Images courtesy of Woven Image.]