Craft ACT reviews and essays

Reviews and essays

An index of all our published reviews and essays.

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Title: Master of His Craft by Valerie Kirk 7 December 2011
Category: Gallery exhibition
Subject: 2011 solo exhibition by Tim Gresham Read Master of His Craft

Phase is Melbourne artist Tim Gresham's latest solo exhibition of photography and woven tapestry. Held at the Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre gallery in Canberra, the show exudes a quiet confidence and accomplishment.

Title: Companion Planting by Sarah Gurich 6 December 2011
Category: Gallery exhibition
Subject: 2011 solo exhibition by Julie Ryder Read Companion Planting

Loaded with powerful symbolism, wry humour, and intelligent insight, Companion Planting is an intriguing exploration of the complex relationship between Donald Friend and Donald Murray, and a significant contribution to the body of work that Australian artists continue to create in response to Hill End.

Title: Elements: wood - Negotiations From Time Past by Rodney Hayward 5 December 2011
Category: Gallery exhibition
Subject: 2011 Elements exhibition series Read Elements: wood - Negotiations From Time Past

In responding to this exhibition, I sift through the archaeology of memory, the objects are layered with connections like Troy or Mycenae or Jericho. I am not neutral, I know each of the exhibitors and share coincidences that were, and are, of importance in the baffling and circuitous processes of being a craftsman.

Title: Garlands of string by Kirsty Darlaston 4 November 2011
Category: Gallery exhibition
Subject: 2011 solo exhibition by Kay Lawrence Read Garlands of string

Lawrence did not know what would emerge from both A Garland for a Friend and Your Hearts Desire, she simply asked questions and waited for stories and desires to emerge. Here, the artist is reframed in dialogue with her audience as she quietly makes another twist on her string. She reminds us that the world is filled with these hopes and that this is what ultimately connects us.

Title: Elements: fibre by Julie Ryder 3 November 2011
Category: Gallery exhibition
Subject: 2011 Elements exhibition series Read Elements: fibre

This exhibition is not just about cloth, it is about transforming years of skill, insight and experience into a tangible and tactile witness of life. These artists have carefully selected the materials and processes that best articulate their creative journeys they so generously share with us here, and which provide such an inspiration to us all.

Title: Elements: clay by Peter Haynes 2 November 2011
Category: Gallery exhibition
Subject: 2011 Elements exhibition series Read Elements: clay

Elements: clay is the third in a series of media-based exhibitions curated by Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre to celebrate that organisation's 40th birthday. Within the ostensibly limited number of artists represented we are nevertheless offered a diversity of imagery reflective of the range of formal and conceptual practice at play in the contemporary ceramics world.

Title: Elements: glass by Patsy Hely 3 August 2011
Category: Gallery exhibition
Subject: 2011 Elements exhibition series Read Elements: glass

This exhibition, the second in Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre's 40th anniversary Elements series, brings together a selection of artists working in glass. And such a solid group it is: Kirstie Rea, Richard Whiteley, Clare Belfrage, Judi Elliott, Itzell Tazzyman, Blanche Tilden, Klaus Moje and Helen Aitken-Kuhnen; a roll call of well-regarded Australian glass practitioners.

Title: Harvest by Diana Hare 1 August 2011
Category: Gallery exhibition
Subject: 2011 Harvest exhibition series Read Harvest

In a city that explodes with creative talent, Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre has selected a new crop of talented graduates for the Harvest series of emerging artist award exhibitions. The award highlights the talents of local emerging artists Marco Chan, Hannah Dalrymple, George Thompson, Kimberley Dixon, Dierdre Pearce, Annabelle Davidson, Elaine Bradley and Edward Collett.

Title: Uncontained by Anne Brennan 16 June 2011
Category: Gallery exhibition
Subject: 2011 Accredited Professional Member exhibition Read Uncontained

In these works, we are able to discern something that is sometimes forgotten in the rush to define and contain ideas about craft on the one hand, or to liberate and "un-contain" them from hampering and restricting definitions on the other. Craft has always been a flexible idea, shaping and reshaping itself according to the historical, material and intellectual conditions of the times in which it finds itself.

Title: Yield by Yolande Norris 14 April 2011
Category: Gallery exhibition
Subject: 2011 exhibitions by Cinnamon Lee and Christine Cholewa Read Yield

Despite a disparity in materials (metal and glass) Covert Jewels by Cinnamon Lee and Machine in the Garden by Christine Cholewa are each luscious and beckoning; heavy with promise and rich with reward. These are exercises in revelation. One is a reminder of the inherent fruitfulness of the earth, while the other is a look at what might lie hidden beneath the surface.

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