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12 August to 25 September 2010

Opening 6pm Thursday 12 August and continuing until Saturday 25 September 2010.

You and your guests are invited to join Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre at the opening of the exhibitions by guest speaker Peter Haynes, Director, ACT Museums and Galleries.

Peter Haynes is Director of ACT Museums and Galleries and Adjunct Associate Professor, Museology and Cultural Heritage at the Donald Horne Centre for Cultural Heritage, University of Canberra.

His previous appointments include Director, Canberra Museum and Gallery and the Nolan Gallery; and Curator, Parliament House Art Collection.

He has over 200 publications (nationally and internationally) on historic and contemporary visual arts practice, principally in Australia, and curated over 220 national and international exhibitions of historic and contemporary Australian art. He has sat on numerous boards and committees and was the founding Chair of the Canberra Contemporary Art Space.

 

Gallery:   Conjunction - Debra Boyd-Goggin and Chris Harman

Conjunction is an exhibition of new work by ceramicists Debra Boyd-Goggin and Chris Harman. Harman focuses on the formation of structure through the repeated element, and Boyd-Goggin explores the multiple layering of glazes and defined carving. The exhibition showcases the collaborative practice of the artists, while highlighting their distinct and individual styles.

Gallery:   Reflection - Simon Maberley

Maberley presents an installation of glass and mixed media incorporating mechanised components, video projection and moving elements. Sensors are engaged as the viewer enters the space resulting in activation of the sculpture and projection of the viewers image onto glass. The sculpture brings into play the material qualities of glass and its synonymy with mechanisation and industrialisation.

 

Crucible Showcase:   Call of the Small

Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre's Curatorial Intern, Anna-Maria Sviatko, employs her passion of small things to curate an exhibition in miniature in the Crucible Showcases. Sviatko, a consummate miniaturist herself with an extraordinary collection of modernist doll houses, has called on artists to shrink to the challenge and create a work for this exhibition. Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre acknowledges blogger Call of the Small for permission to use the name.

 

Image credits (top to bottom)

  • Debra Boyd-Goggin and Chris Harman, Stack range, 2010, stoneware, hand built, multi glazed. Photo: Stuart Hay
  • Simon Maberley, study (reflection), 2010, digital image. Photo: courtesy of the artist.
  • Miniature bowl. Photo: Anna-Maria Sviatko.
 

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7 October to 6 November 2010

Opening 6pm Thursday 7 October and continuing until Saturday 6 November 2010.

Gallery:   Weathering - Catherine Reid

Highlighting an innovative direction for her practice, Reid presents new hand built ceramic forms. A series of wall and vessel works, magnify subtle qualities of the Canberra landscape through repetition of pattern, form and texture. The works are a narrative of the exploration of landscape, evoking earth drilled core samples, the movement of wind across water or grass, boulders and seed pods.

Gallery:   Crystallography - Al Munro

Munro translates scientific representations of crystal forms through a series of needlepoint textiles. Taking visual source from 18th and 19th Century scientific illustrations the works highlight creative interpretation within the framework of science. The veneer of absolute truth in the diagrams is altered by their rendering in needlepoint and decorative additions, techniques that emphasizes the hand-made and the personal.

Al Munro is currently a candidate for PhD at the Australian National University School of Art (Textiles Workshop).

 

Image credits (top to bottom)

  • Catherine Reid, Wallpiece #3, 2009, pit fired ceramic ware, plywood backing. Photo: Peter Firth.
  • Al Munro, Chrystallography series, 2009-2010, needlepoint on Aida cloth. Photo: courtesy of the artist.
 

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18 November to 18 December 2010

Opening 6pm Thursday 18 November and continuing until Saturday 18 December 2010.

Gallery:   Liz Williamson: Textiles

The work and practice of internationally esteemed textile designer, Liz Williamson, is celebrated in this exhibition as part of Object gallery's Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft series. The touring exhibition Liz Williamson: Textiles features a majority of new work including scarves, wraps and Jacquard woven works, and provides an insight into Williamson's practice of research and making spanning over 30 years.

 

Image credits (top to bottom)