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10 February to 24 March 2012

Julie Ryder, Textile designer, artist and educator, will officially open these exhibitions at 6.00pm Thursday 9 February 2012.
The exhibitions continue until Saturday 24 March 2012.

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Gallery:   Parallels - Barbara Rogers

The exhibition Parallels is an installation of contemporary textiles by Accredited Professional Member Barbara Rogers, exploring the diversity and language of the graphic stripe pattern. The stripe is a versatile communication tool, timeless, gender-neutral and has been used as social, political, cultural and religious signifiers. Rogers draws on her knowledge of shibori techniques combined with experimentation to build layers of colour and design and create unique effects on a single fabric layer.

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Gallery:   Space Dissolving - Melinda Willis

Melinda Willis' practice is concerned with architectural glass and its reflective qualities as a vehicle for the transience and impermanence of time and space. Sheet glass, predominant in the urban environment, has varying effects on our experience of the space around us. Through observation, exploration and photography, Willis has captured moments in time of the reflections on sheet glass in buildings in public city areas, translating these into layered structures of sheet glass, fused glass and mixed media.

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Crucible and Foyer Showcases:   Elements: leather - Penny Amberg and Linda Davy

Elements is a dynamic series of group exhibitions celebrating the Centre's 40th birthday. The sixth and final exhibition in the series, Elements: leather, highlights invited artists Penny Amberg, Accredited Professional Member
Linda Davy, Colin Lee and Judy Parker, and runs over two exhibition periods in the Crucible and Foyer Showcases. Elements: leather is curated by Meredith Hinchliffe.

Penny Amberg studied at the JamFactory Leather Workshop, completing her training under Italian leather master Pietro Salemne. Amberg went on to establish the Leather Workshop at the Australian National University School of Art.

Linda Davy draws on a variety of mediums to explore line, shadow, tone, structure, texture and tactility of the natural environment. Davy's early practice specialised in leatherwork, designing and making leather bags, sculpture and furniture with hand painted leather upholstery. Although Davy's contemporary practice focuses on clay and mixed media she will revisit leather for the exhibition.

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Parallels, Space Dissolving and Elements: leather are registered events in the 2012 Canberra Festival, presented by the ACT Government and sponsored by ACTTAB.

 
 

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6 April to 12 May 2012

Opening 6.00pm Thursday 5 April 2012. Continuing until Saturday 12 May 2012.

Gallery:   Emerging Contemporaries

A Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre curated exhibition of award winning graduating students and selected national emerging craft practitioners and designer makers that demonstrate exceptional talent in their chosen field. These emerging artists are representative of the next wave of professional artists who are exploring conceptually dynamic and innovative craft and design practice.

Gallery:   The Experience of Beauty - Brook Morgan

Working with naturally occurring materials and finding awe and inspiration within the natural environment has resonated through Brook Morgan's practice. Morgan's work addresses the intimate relationship between artist, material and technique. The characteristics of beauty are often received individually and uniquely but may provide a perceptual pleasure, meaning or satisfaction for the recipient. The exhibition does not attempt to navigate what beauty is; instead Morgan investigates the idea of beauty as being the rhetoric of the artwork.

Crucible and Foyer Showcases:   Elements: leather - Colin Lee and Judy Parker

Elements is a dynamic series of group exhibitions celebrating the Centre's 40th birthday. The sixth and final exhibition in the series, Elements: leather, highlights invited artists Penny Amberg, Accredited Professional Member Linda Davy, Colin Lee and Judy Parker, and runs over two exhibition periods in the Crucible and Foyer Showcases. Elements: leather is curated by Meredith Hinchliffe.

Colin Lee was a lecturer at the Australian National University School of Art Leather Workshop in 1982, and was President of Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre. Lee's interest in leather work started when taking a sculpture course with Col Portley in Brisbane.

Judy Parker was an active member of the Centre, then known as the Crafts Council of the A.C.T., working with leather and regularly exhibiting. Parker's practice incorporated silver jewellery with leather components.

 
 
 

Images (top to bottom):

  1. Banner image:
    Barbara Rogers, Scarf (detail), 2011, silk satin georgette, shibori, de-coloured, azoic dyes.
    Photograph: courtesy of the artist
  2. Barbara Rogers, Stripes(detail), 2011, silk organza, de-coloured, azoic dyes, various shibori techniques. Photograph: courtesy of the artist
  3. Melinda Willis, Liminal Space 1 (detail), 2010, screen printed, fused and cold-worked glass, UV cured inkjet print on glass, cold-worked mirror and float glass. Photograph: courtesy of the artist
  4. Linda Davy, Sharks egg bag, 1986, cowhide, guitar strings, pigskin lining. Photograph: courtesy of the artist
  5. Canberra Festival logo
  6. Tom Skeehan, Stools, 2011. Photograph: courtesy of the artist
  7. Brook Morgan, Untitled, 2009, woven, grass, horsehair, cotton thread. Photographer: Nady Stevens
  8. Colin Lee, Dily Bag (detail), 1988, kangaroo leather. Photographer: David Reid