Craft ACT reviews and essays

Reviews and essays

An index of all our published reviews and essays.

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Title: Hidden Treasures by Annika Harding 5 April 2011
Category: Gallery exhibition
Subject: 2011 exhibition by Michelle Kelly Read Hidden Treasures

Is there a place for art, craft and design in the consideration of environmental issues? Absolutely. Kellys work asserts that if we look to nature, we can usually find what we seek - whether thats beauty, contemplation, functionality, inspiration; perhaps even the answers to some of the biggest challenges we face.

Title: Elements: metal by David Williams 5 April 2011
Category: Gallery exhibition
Subject: 2011 group exhibition curated by the Centre Read Elements: metal

Elements: metal showcases the outstanding work of artists Eugene Keefer Bell, Sean Booth, Robert Foster, Johannes Kuhnen, Rohan Nichol, Sabine Pagan, Gilbert Riedelbauch and Oliver Smith. The selection of the artists for the exhibition has been guided by their active involvement and the various roles they continue to play with Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre.

Title: F!NK at Dodeka, Seoul, Republic of Korea by Merryn Gates 10 December 2010
Category: Touring exhibition
Subject: 2010 touring exhibition Read F!NK at Dodeka, Seoul, Republic of Korea

The Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre touring exhibition F!NK: Fostering Design enjoyed great success at the Australian Embassy in Washington and select venues in Australia. In 2009 the Centre was successful in receiving funding from the Australia-Korea Foundation to take this exceptional exhibition to Seoul.

Title: Tree Museum international exchange by Amy Kerr 10 December 2010
Category: Project
Subject: International exchange project Read Tree Museum international exchange

Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre has developed an international exchange project with the Tree Museum in Canada. The project has been established to foster links between Australia and Canada, offering a unique encounter of each countries landscape, environment and place, and to promote the diversity of artistic practice in an international context.

Title: Liz Williamson: Textiles by Gary Sangster 30 November 2010
Category: Gallery exhibition
Subject: 2010 Object gallery touring exhibition celebrating Liz Williamson as part of the Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft series Read Liz Williamson: Textiles

Liz Williamson's work, accomplished and beautiful as it is, operates in a field of inquiry that is far more powerful and intriguing than an exquisite adornment of the body, or the inflections of innovative fabric-making, or the re-conceptualization of art mediated through textiles and design.

Title: Changing trends by Avi Amesbury 18 November 2010
Category: ACDC event
Subject: 2010 ACDC national industry forum Read Changing trends

The network of Australian Craft and Design Centres (ACDC) hosted a national industry forum at the recent international event, Unlimited: Designing for the Asia Pacific, held in Brisbane. This forum, ACDC Design Catalyst Forum, was aimed at visioning a future with greater understanding of, and recognition for, design.

Title: Weathering by Diana Hare 24 October 2010
Category: Gallery exhibition
Subject: 2010 exhibition by Catherine Reid Read Weathering

This is a title appropriate for an exhibition of works inspired by the Australian landscape. In Weathering Catherine Reid invites us to witness her exploration of this landscape, one she describes as "both persistent and fragile, subject to the ravages of fire and drought, destruction and renewal, yet consistently suffused with subtle beauty".

Title: Crystallography by Alison Alder 24 October 2010
Category: Gallery exhibition
Subject: 2010 exhibition by Al Munro Read Crystallography

Munro mines the depth of the human response to rock (a sexier description would be quartz, topaz, diamond), the cool linear expression of diagrammatic representations, the coding of the elements and the desire to understand pre-history in order to predict future outcomes for the planet.

Title: Conjunction by Diana Hare 12 August 2010
Category: Gallery exhibition
Subject: 2010 Gallery exhibition by Debra Boyd-Goggin and Chris Harman Read Conjunction

Conjunction is a fitting title for this exhibition of ceramics by Debra Boyd-Goggin and Chris Harman as it is an intersection of two individuals with separate practices and working methods who share the common thread of interpretation of place and environment through memory.

Title: Reflection by Yolande Norris 12 August 2010
Category: Gallery exhibition
Subject: 2010 exhibition by Simon Maberly Read Reflection

Over the last decade Simon Maberley's work has focused on figurative sculptures in glass, with occasional forays into more cerebral aspects of his practice. His latest work warrants the experimental moniker but this is perhaps a hasty label. While he appears to have taken a bold direction that may come as a surprise to some, Maberley is clear that he remains on much the same path as ever, divergent yet in happy parallel to his practice as an object maker.

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