Craft ACT reviews and essays

Reviews and essays

An index of all our published reviews and essays.

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Title: F!NK Fostering Design by Barbara McConchie 10 September 2008
Category: Touring exhibition
Subject: F!NK & Co., the designers and artists Read F!NK Fostering Design

F!NK: Fostering Design, curated by Merryn Gates and showcasing eight entrepreneurial Australian designers, is travelling to dodeka in Seoul, Republic of Korea with the support of the Australia Korea Foundation. The exhibition will be officially opened by the Australian Ambassador on 2 September 2010, and will run to 8 October 2010.

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: Epidemic by Diana Hare 8 April 2010
Category: Gallery exhibition
Subject: 2010 exhibition by ANU School of Art graduates Read Epidemic

Focusing on the outbreak of talent emerging from The Australian National University School of Art, University of Canberra and Canberra Institute of Technology, Epidemic highlights Canberra as a breeding ground for artistic practice. Selected by Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre, this award exhibition of six graduates showcases the break out of young artists into the craft and design scene.

Title: Embracing Innovation Volume 2 by Mitchell Whitelaw 24 May 2012
Diffraction
Category: Gallery exhibition
Subject: Embracing Innovation Volume 2 Read Embracing Innovation Volume 2

Greg Daly's lustrous glazes owe their shimmer to the nano-scale phenomenon of diffraction. Layers of crystalline material within the glaze reflect and scatter light of different colours in different directions; when these reflections interact just so, they interfere. Light waves are reinforced or suppressed like ripples in a pond; they cancel out and intensify each other, creating patterns and forms that don't belong to the pot, the crystalline glaze, or the light, but to all three at once. Differences vibrate and interact with each other; dynamic new things arise. The same is true, in fact, of all the works here.

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: 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: 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: 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: Domestic Renewal by Rohan Nicol 1 November 2012
Category: Gallery exhibition
Subject: Gallery exhibition Read Domestic Renewal

The work created for Domestic Renewal is not intended to constitute a complete setting for your standard dinner party. Instead,the objective was to use the table setting as a location, starting point and metaphor for the testing of ideas that are important within and beyond the creative arts.

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