Louise Doyle, Director, National Portrait Gallery, officially opened the Centre's current exhibitions, Emerging Contemporaries, The Experience of Beauty - Brook Morgan and Elements: leather - Colin Lee and Judy Parker on Thursday 5 April 2012.
Emerging Contemporaries showcases award winning graduating students and selected national emerging craft practitioners and designer makers, The Experience of Beauty presents a body of fibre work incorporating natural materials which resonate with the characteristics of beauty, and Colin Lee and Judy Parker exhibit in the Elements series finale, Elements: leather.
Robyn Archer AO, Creative Director of the Centenary of Canberra officially announced
the 5 winners of the Centenary of Canberra - a legacy of good design competition on
Canberra Day, Monday 12 March 2012, at Canberra's 99th birthday celebrations.
Read about the winners
Expression of Interest now open for conference papers, showcase presentations, workshops, demonstrations and market day. Selling Yarns 3: weaving the nation's story will bring to the fore contemporary issues and modes of practice that have emerged to symbolise and captivate expressions of Indigenous life and culture.
Book now to join resident artist Marian Hosking
and a Ranger of Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve for the Nil Desperandum Homestead open day on Saturday 2 June 2012. Explore the Talking water: artists-in-residence project, talk to the artist and find out more about the historic homestead.
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