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Receive a regular dose of art without leaving your chair. Not restricted to the gallery walls, Artbytes is art in your ear - conversations from artists and curators exhibiting with Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre, and recordings from the Centre's stimulating program of events.
David Broker, Robyn Archer AO, Susan Conroy and Ann Cleary examine the creation and existence of art precincts and hubs in Canberra in Talking art precincts. Listen as they discuss the role of government and the private sector in the development and nourishment of these creative spaces.
Innovators and creative thinkers speak at Session 1 of City of design talkfest on the role of craft and design in Canberra in building creative capital and ways forward for the 21st century, giving insights into their development of high-level design and creative thinking programs.
City of design talkfest: Session 2, Designing a Capital: Crafting a City 2011 - Listen to the invited panel members at Session 2 of City of design talkfest throw open discussions around the role of craft and design in urban planning and cultural development from a trans-disciplinary perspective. Hear the conversation about the capacity of craft and design to influence, and be influenced by, the city and urban landscape in Canberra.
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Blue Australian - Listen to the ANU Artforum seminar, as Andrew Nicholls discusses the colonial narrative of blue and white china in his exhibition Blue Australian.
An Insider's Perspective of unravel - Curator Patsy Hely reflects upon the curatorial process and the outcome of close exchange with the artists during the development of unravel.
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Custom Made: Venturing into the territory of large scale crafted objects, five gleaming handbuilt Harley Davidson motorbikes were presented in the 'gallery come showroom'. Curator Jas Hugonnet chats with the owners of these head turning street machines.
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Poems to Hold or Let Go: Curator and artist Caren Florance with exhibiting artists Linda Newbown and Genevieve Swift discuss their works in the exhibition Books to Hold or Let Go. Prominent Canberra based poets Geoff Page and Alan Gould bring to life the work of one of Australia's most celebrated poets - Rosemary Dobson - in a special reading from the pages of Poems to Hold or Let Go.
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Touch Me Gertrude Stein: Jay Kochel shares his exploration of object making with an emphasis on tactility and interaction, focusing on the body of work in the exhibition Touch Me Gertrude Stein where he explores ideas of skin, surface and the notion of an interior.
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F!NK Fostering Design: Robert Foster, maker designer and craftsman, revisits
his twenty one years of practice and the collaborations undertaken with F!NK.
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Placement: Accomplished ceramicists, Sarit Cohen and Kaye Pemberton, explore
the rituals of domestic settings and the symbolic meanings associated with objects in the
context of their individual tableware installations.
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The Interview: Recipients of the 2007 Australia Council Mentorship Grant,
emerging fashion designer Jaimi Kark and mentor Susan Taylor proprietor of local women's
boutique Department of the Exterior, share their experience of the mentorship process and the
resulting exhibition.
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ANU Art Forum: New Zealand based curator and historian Dr Damien Skinner
discusses the politics of identity in the work of four leading jewellers from Aotearoa;
Warwick Freeman, Peter McKay, Lisa Walker and Jason Hall.
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1839 Exchanges: Jewellery by Jason Hall New Zealand curator and historian Dr
Damien Skinner shares a curators perspective of the work created by Jason Hall and the
theoretical undercurrents of the exhibition
1839 Exchanges: Jewellery by Jason Hall.
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