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JULY 2009 |
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Better than Christmas in July! At Craft Victoria, we are gearing up for our new festival, Craft Cubed! The program has a huge range of opportunities and events and is now available online. To be launched on Friday 31 July, festival highlights include Craft and Design as a Career, a must-attend seminar for emerging craft practitioners and designers with presentations from leading industry professionals; Open Studios across metropolitan Melbourne and Castlemaine which will offer a unique insight into the making process, and a special series of Craft Hatch markets held at Federation Square in collaboration with the Melbourne Writers Festival, Craft Hatch @ MWF: Where Stories Meet Craft. If that wasn't enough to fill your diary, the State of Design festival kicks off mid-month with interactive events, exhibitions and workshops based around the theme Sampling the Future. Banner image: Fabric from Orchis Morio, who will be at the Craft Hatch market this Saturday 11 July. |
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GALLERY |
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 Curated by Kevin Murray The World of Small Things: An Exhibition of Craft Diplomacy 19 June – 25 July 2009 Gallery 1 |
 Emma Davies Morphed 19 June – 25 July 2009 Gallery 2 |
 Alana Clifton-Cunningham Visible Markings: New Knitting 19 June – 25 July 2009 Gallery 3 |
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Finely crafted objects from places we dare not venture. New possibilities emerge from the increasing creative traffic between rich and poor countries. Ethics become aesthetics. Beneath the razor wire is a free flow of precious things, including objects from Australia, Palestinian refugee camps in Southern Lebanon, the Kashmir, Iran, China, India, Philippines, Mexico, East Timor, Rwanda and Papua New Guinea. The World of Small Things is part of the 2009 State of Design Festival’s public and cultural program, Design for Everyone. |
A new body of figurative work inspired by the 2007 South Project Johannesburg Gathering. Using her signature materials, polypropylene netting and packaging, renowned artist and designer Emma Davies presents new works reflecting on her experience. Davies’ foray into figuration poses a new world where the natural and unnatural fuse, and the mysterious and the bizarre become common. Morphed is part of the 2009 State of Design Festival’s public and cultural program, Design for Everyone. |
Alana Clifton-Cunningham utilises traditional and contemporary knitting techniques to explore the knitted form as a kind of 'second skin'. In this new body of work, Clifton-Cunningham focuses on the traditional practice of body scarification, adopting it as a form of symbolism to explore concepts of gender, protection and identity. | ||
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Images: Swamp (papyrus) grass jewellery, 2009. Made in collaboration between German jeweller Martina Dempf and Rwandan artisans Dafan Mukantabashwa, Virginie Uwizeyimana, Pelagie Nyirahabineza, Alphonsine Urayeneza and Valentine Nyirakimonyo. Photography: Sebastian Ahlers; Emma Davies, Morphed, 2009. Photography: Augusta Benevento; Alana Clifton-Cunningham, Arm Sling, 2009. Image courtesy of the artist. |
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 Tim Fleming, 2009 |
Tim Fleming, Erik North, Studio Hip and Studio Sam A selection of designers have made work responding to the notion of interior and domestic space. Drawing from the methodologies of both design and the handmade, the exhibition showcases work by some of Australia's most eminent emerging and established designers: Tim Fleming, Erik North, Studio Hip (Damien Hipwell and Jacqueline Cuijpers) and Studio Sam (Samantha Parsons). The installation will explore the strategy of 'sampling' as both a basis for design and a new critique of the interior. Fully Furnished is part of the 2009 State of Design Festival’s public and cultural program, Design for Everyone. |
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 Sunday Morning Designs, cushions and bags, 2009 |
Dylan Martorell and Sunday Morning Designs A prototype of a multipurpose portable shelter made in response to Melbourne’s housing shortages and skyrocketing rents. Plans for the shelter include; an exhibition/performance space, a children's playhouse and a pop-up shop. Artist Dylan Martorell will build a sonic garden inside the shelter consisting of fungi, water plants and field recordings. Sunday Morning Designs have created a multipurpose waterproof textile that will function as a canopy for the structure. The textile, made up of patchworked re-used market bags and tarpaulins, will also be used to create different domestic products inside the space such as lamps and cushions, providing a further sense of comfort and protection from the outside elements. I'll Show You My Craft If You Show Me Yours is a collaborative series of projects designed to bring together people from different crafts to share processes, materials, and ideas. Presented in enCOUNTER and Gallery 3 as part of the Craft Cubed festival. |
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COUNTER |
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 Elly Oak cards, $5.50 each  Scotatto, Bird Brooch, $27.50 |
COUNTER welcomes Melbourne designer Prudence Rees-Lee with a delivery of accessories under her label Prudence and Horatio; beautiful bird swap card and resin brooches. Also new this month is Pippijoe with a gorgeous selection of printed sling bags. We have also added designer Kate Richmond to the mix, the genius behind the hand printed Elly Oak cards. Just arrived are textile accessories by Ellie Mücke and irresistible leather works by Sarah Russell of Scotatto including fried egg and painted leather bird brooches. New fine silver and pearl jewellery by Katheryn Leopoldseder. Silver flower studs and pins with coloured enamel highlights by Claire Faulmann. In addition we have new coloured perspex rings and necklaces by Melinda Young. Liven up your home with Lightly perspex bowls and ceramic butterflies, as well as a fresh colour filled range of glass line bowls by South Australian Mel Fraser. And why not keep all your personal effects safe in a leather Peter O’Connor bag! |
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CRAFT HATCH |
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 Deirdre Hoban, Necklace |
July market and call for stallholders Craft Hatch is an incubator market held on the second Saturday of the month at the City Library, 253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, 11am-4pm. Upcoming Craft Hatch diary dates are Saturdays 11 July and 8 August. July stallholders include Deirdre Hoban, Jasmine Targett, Does Not Equal (Charisse Black), Cserpent (Charlotte Tizzard), students from Box Hill TAFE and NMIT Product Design, Betty and Hamish (Kate Brereton), Paola Delgado, Fontok (Myf Kemp), Moose and Me (Kim McGeachin), Orchis Morio (Lisa Engelhardt), Studio Hip and Rebecca Wadge. In September, Craft Victoria will be hosting a special Craft Hatch market for graduate students to assist in fundraising for their end-of-year exhibitions. Potential stallholders must be in the final year of their course and are encouraged to apply as a group. Registrations for markets in September and October are currently open. The deadline for registrations is Thursday 30 July. For further information on Craft Hatch click here and to register click here. |
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CRAFTBASE |
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 Julia deVille, Trophy Mouse, 2007, photography: Terence Bogue |
New makers on Craftbase Craftbase, our online imagebank, continues to attract new Professional Members. Last month's new designer/makers are: Peter Cummings, Glass Craft Victoria encourages all Professional Members to get involved and showcase their work to an international craft and design audience. For more information, download the Craftbase Userguide or contact Craft Victoria. View Craftbase online. |
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FRESH! |
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 Amanda McKenzie, Untitled, 2009, photography: Andrew Barcham from Screaming Pixel |
Fresh! profile: Amanda McKenzie Glass artist Amanda McKenzie was awarded the 2008 Screaming Pixel Professional Photography Portfolio Award in Craft Victoria's most recent Fresh! exhibition, which showcases innovative craft and design works by graduating students. The prize has enabled Amanda to have new work photographed professionally by Andrew Barcham from Screaming Pixel. Amanda's piece Untitled reflects her personal experience of tensions between two differing cultures. To see more images of Amanda's work (photographed by Screaming Pixel), and to read her artist statement click here. |
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CRAFT VICTORIA NEWS |
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New CAE partnership Craft Victoria is excited to partner with the CAE as part of Craft Cubed, presenting an exciting line up of workshops with some of Melbourne’s most creative practitioners. See the full details here. Hibernating in winter is out of the question if you live in Melbourne. The CAE's NEW course guide will keep you occupied indoors throughout the brisk winter months! |
Sofitel commission Carmel McKie, Craft Victoria's Retail and Sector Development Manager, recently liaised with the Sofitel on Collins to commission craft objects for the hotel's new restaurant No35. COUNTER stockist Holly Grace was selected to produce nine intricate glass works from her Bonsai series, which will be on permanent display in the restaurant. |
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Do you want to be Fresh!? Craft Victoria is seeking sponsorship for the annual Fresh! exhibition. Fresh! showcases cutting-edge craft and design works made by graduating students across the state. The exhibition is one of the most respected forecasters of emerging craft and design talent within Australia. If your brand is about youth and innovation, we want to hear from you! Contact Amy Brand, Craft Victoria's Market Development Coordinator abrand@craftvic.asn.au |
Functions at Craft Victoria Craft Victoria’s gallery spaces will give your next function a creative edge! Your guests will enjoy this unique location in the heart of the city and be inspired by the exhibition program featuring work by renowned, contemporary craft and design practitioners. With a capacity of up to 100 people, Craft Victoria is the perfect venue for launches, cocktail parties, work functions, fashion shows and special events! For more information, download the Venue Hire PDF. |
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OTHER EVENTS |
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c3 contemporary art space Craft Victoria member Jasmine Targett and Debbie Symons present glass works exploring perceptual shifts that occur when our awareness of reality through observation is deconstructed. Spheres and bubbles with their infinite and sensitive boundaries mark out fragile positive and negative spaces. Dates: until 12 July 2009 |
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Tayenebe is a Tasmanian Aboriginal word meaning ‘exchange’. Through this contemporary art project, Tasmanian Aboriginal women are reviving traditional fibre skills as part of a larger process of reclaiming culture. Integral to Tayenebe is sharing between people and across time. Dates: until 25 November 2009 |
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Gasworks Art Park Combining text, traditional textile skills – with a subversive twist – found objects and non-precious materials, this exhibition charts the journey taken from living as a heterosexual married couple, to one of the first legally married same-sex couples in Australia. Dates: 7 – 26 July 2009 |
Studio Hacienda General Assembly is an ongoing jewellery project by Craft Victoria members Blanche Tilden and Phoebe Porter (Studio Hacienda), which received a 2008 Premier's Design Mark. As part of the State of Design festival, you are invited to create your own souvenir brooch from pre-fabricated parts. Dates: 16 – 17 July 2009 |
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| Craft Victoria is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria, and through the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Government; and the City of Melbourne. |