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MARCH 2010
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This month, Craft Almanac is all dressed up for the L'Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival! With three new exhibitions launching at Craft Victoria as part of the festival's Cultural Program, we are also delighted to host a special fashion forum on Saturday 13 March. Come along at 1.30pm to hear Clea Garrick and Nathan Price of Limedrop, as well as Susan Dimasi and Chantal Kirby of MATERIALBYPRODUCT speak about the role that craft technique plays in their fashion practices. The session will be chaired by Associate Professor Robyn Healy, Program Director (Fashion), RMIT University. And while you're in town, check out the fashion edition of Craft Hatch held further down Flinders Lane at the City Library.
Images above: work by Nicholas Jones and Warren Harrison |
GALLERY
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Adele Varcoe
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Kate James
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Nicholas Jones & Warren Harrison
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This season, fashion is being taken to a whole new level of fleshiness, as iFOLD takes the fashion world by storm. It's the skin we’re already wearing that’s making millions of people across the globe feel dressed.
iFOLD is a new mode of dressing, inviting individuals to make a garment for themselves using a technique called Skin Folding.
Last season iFOLD presented their 2011 spring/ summer collection during the Paris Fashion Festival. The show drove the Fash Pack into a frenzy and has been said to be one of the most controversial trends since Walter Van Bierendonck’s stick on Lumps and Bumps.
iFOLD is encouraging people to reconsider the concept of clothing, and may well be the next big thing to revolutionise what it means to feel dressed.
Part of the L'Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival cultural program.
Opening: Thursday 11 March, 6-8pm |
A common feature of anxiety is its incessant and ruminative quality whereby thoughts, images or actions are repeated over and over. This theme is reflected in Kate James’s work through the employment of craft processes relying upon intense, monotonous and repetitive movements: horsehair hitching, tapestry, hand spinning, knitting, hairwork and rope-making.
Stemming from her personal experience with anxiety and empathy for the anxious animal, James’s work aims to highlight the universality of anxiety, revealing it to be an experience common to human and animal alike. By exploring the various psychological, physiological and behavioural components of anxiety, James aims to share the private world of anxiety with the viewer.
Opening: Thursday 11 March, 6-8pm
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Without Bias presents a series of collaborative works from book sculptor Nicholas Jones (Bibliopath) and emerging fashion designer Warren Harrison (Made by Warren). For this new body of work, Jones and Harrison explore the technique of binding as a cross-over point in their respective practices.
Harrison has incorporated basic book-binding techniques to create simple, yet elegant garments with a distinctively bookish twist. Jones has created a series of sculptures made from books about textiles, garment construction and fashion design and which take their inspiration from the tools of the fashion trade (scissors, needles, thread). This exhibition aims to bring together two distinctive practices and to explore the processes behind the creation of art and fashion.
Part of the L'Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival cultural program.
Opening: Thursday 11 March, 6-8pm
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enCOUNTER [24/7 window]
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Limedrop Silver Lining Autumn/Winter collection 2010 |
Limedrop
Clea Garrick and Nathan Price of Melbourne fashion label Limedrop investigate the methodology and praxis common to fashion design and the handmade. The installation explores the surface decoration, garment construction and fabric manipulation featured in works from their AW10 collection Silver Lining, as well as showcasing limited edition and one-off works made especially for enCOUNTER.
Hear the designers speak at our Craft as Fashion forum
Part of the L'Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival cultural program.
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COUNTER
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 Chrysalis by Lightly $55 |
This month COUNTER is all about Fashion!
Dress up your walls with vintage ceramic swallows and butterflies from Lightly or Still Life tin miniatures by Anna Davern.
Dress up your table with new tableware by Kris Coad, wood-fired ceramics by Owen Rye or beautiful speckled porcelain by Jane Robertson.
Dress up the house with timber pieces by Tim Fleming and polypropylene works by Emma Davies, or the sideboard with ‘Pod’ lights by Stuart Williams and glass from Philip Stokes and Sophia Emmett.
Dress up the little people in appliqué and hand printed t-shirts by Maiike and Sunday Morning Designs, or their rooms with stuffed toys from Maiike and Hammer & Daisy.
And finally dress up yourself in new textiles by Nikki Gabriel and Barbara Rogers or fabulous jewellery by Limedrop, Tessa Blazey, Dani M Designs, Kirsten Perry, and Dick & Dora.
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CRAFT HATCH
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 Work by Belinda Crossley |
As part of the L'Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival cultural program, Craft Hatch features some of Melbourne’s best up and coming fashion and textile designers. Followers of fashion with an interest in the handmade simply must not miss this special edition of the market.
Featuring stalls by: Belinda Crossley, Felicity Dendle, Katie-Louise Ford, Kylie Dorotic, Lola and Bailey, Michelle Boyde, Milly Sleeping, OK OK, Okt-ober dee, Redressd, and TastyPixel.
Date: Saturday 13 March, 11am-4pm Call for stallholders Craft Hatch showcases the work of student and emerging designers. The incubator market is held on the second Saturday of every month at the City Library. Registrations for the May, June and July markets are now open. For more information including registration details, visit the Craft Hatch website. The registration deadline is Monday 5 April.
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CRAFTBASE
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 Skapa Bilda, Colour quilt |
Craftbase, our online imagebank, continues to attract new Professional Members. Last month's new designer/makers are: Sarah Deed, Art objects/Metal
Craft Victoria encourages all Professional Members to get involved and showcase their work to an international craft and design audience. For more details, download the Craftbase Userguide or contact Craft Victoria.
View Craftbase online |
CRAFT VICTORIA NEWS
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Position Vacant: Business Development Manager
Craft Victoria is currently seeking a part time Business Development Manager to implement New Craft Made in Victoria. This program aims to create craft and design products for retail, engaging professional practitioners who will work to commercial briefs devised by the project partners. Applications must contain a cover letter addressing the selection criteria and a resume that includes the contact details of two referees.
Closing Date: Friday 12 March email: rjobson@craftvic.asn.au
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Craft Cubed update
The annual Craft Cubed festival takes place 5 August to 4 September 2010. Thanks to all who submitted Expressions of Interest in the festival satellite program. A formal online application process for satellite events will open in late March. All those who registered interest will receive application guidelines shortly.
Expressions of Interest relating to the festival theme of Childhood are currently sought for one of the festival components, WHITEBOX. We want to hear from practitioners who use online and new media resources as a component of their craft and design practice, particularly those working within the realm of stop motion animation. Read more here
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Ever wanted to fix a rip in your workwear or add an extra pocket? Next Wave artists HIGH VIS are running bloke friendly DIY sewing workshops at Craft Victoria. Participants will learn how to adapt, repair and construct clothing by making a high visibility vest. Materials and equipment supplied.
Workshop 1: Saturday 27 March, 11am-5pm
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Call for 2011 exhibition proposals
Craft Victoria is now accepting exhibition proposals for the first half of 2011. Individuals and groups are welcome to apply. Proposals are examined by an advisory panel with diverse expertise. Applicants are encouraged to discuss exhibition ideas with Nella Themelios, Coordinating Curator, prior to submission.
Closing Date: Wednesday 31 March
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LMFF EVENTS
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RMIT Gallery
This exhibition celebrates the virtuosity and future directions of machine knitting which is changing the way fashion is designed and made. Featuring work by 10 international and Australian designers, including Nikki Gabriel, Issey Miyake and Sandra Backlund. Curated by Craft Victoria's Chair Robyn Healy and Ricarda Bigolin.
Dates: until 21 March
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Two vending machines containing fashion objects by over 60 Melbourne-based practitioners will be placed at various venues around the CBD for the month of March. Insert a $2 coin to purchase a limited edition artwork. Curated by Craft Victoria's Nella Themelios and Kim Brockett.
Dates: 1– 31 March
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State Library of Victoria
Join a panel of fashion leaders, as they reflect on past and current fashion shopping trends in Melbourne. Featuring fashion luminary Robert Buckingham, The Age fashion editor Janice Breen-Burns, Debra Mar of Industrial Glam and blacklisted, Sener Besim of Scanlan & Theodore, and JC Lloyd-Southwell d’Anvers of Madam Virtue & Co.
Date: Thursday 4 March, 6pm
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e.g.etal
Drawing on personal memories of a treasured fable or myth, Craft Victoria members Katherine Bowman, Michaela Bruton, Anna Davern, Natalia Milosz-Piekarska, Jessica Morrison, Karla Way and Katherine Wheeler have been invited to produce new works that reference these rich narratives through colour, materiality and form. Curated by Fleur Watson.
Dates: 16 March – 10 April
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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. |