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MARCH 2008
Image: MATERIALBYPRODUCT, 2007. Creative Direction: 3 Deep Design. Photography: Susan Grdnac.
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The best dressed show in town
Once again the L'Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival is upon us, and this year's Cultural Program showcases a diverse, exciting range of local and international craft and design shows. Craft Victoria is proud to present a number of exhibitions and events as part of the Festival, including How You Make It , curated by Kate Rhodes;Melbourne: Bond from the Inside Out , by Chilean jewellers WALKA, developed in conjunction with the South Project; and Envelope, a Sustainable Design Process Workshop presented by Anthea van Kopplen.
We made a mistake
Those of you familiar with Lucy Hearn's work will have already noticed our error in this month's Craft Almanac. We apologise for the incorrect spelling of her name, and look forward to her enCOUNTER exhibition from March 25th to April 13th.
Easter Holiday close
The Craft Victoria staff are taking a break over Easter. The shop and gallery will be closed from Friday 21st March, reopening Tuesday 25th March.
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How You Make It explores artisanal fashion design practices that draw on traditional tailoring techniques to form contemporary collections.
Existing garments are deconstructed: unpicked, reconfigured and reworked, using fine tailoring and conceptual templates in order to create a new style of clothes. These conceptual Australian fashion designers open a dialogue between craft and design that places the focus back on how and why objects are made.
The designers in the exhibition create not only new garment forms and new ways of wearing clothes, they develop new design systems.
Exhibition open to the public: 6th March - 12th April 2008
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How You Make It will be accompanied by an exhibition catalogue, to be launced on the opening night. The catalogue includes essays
by:
Kate Rhodes,
Curator at the National Design Centre Melbourne, and Cultural Program Manager at the L'Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival 2007-08. Formerly Curator at Craft Victoria (2006-2008).
Danielle Whitfield,
Curator, Australian Fashion and Textiles at the National Gallery of Victoria.
Interviews with
Kate Rhodes and:
Susan Cohn, as a client of S!X
Robyn Healy, as a haute couture client
Ertuğrul Günay, as a tailor
AUD$5.00
Opening night and catalogue launch: Friday 14th March 6-8pm
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Envelope Sustainable Design Process Workshops
with Anthea van Kopplen
Work with exhibitor Anthea on creating your own Envelope piece using the interactive pattern featured in How You Make It.
When: Saturday 15th and 29th March, 1-4pm
Cost: $30 members/$35 non-members (GST inc.)
Limited to 5 participants per workshop.
Bookings: (03) 9650 7775
Artist Talk
FORMALLYKNOWNAS
With Toby Whittington
Saturday 15th March, 2pm
Cost: Free
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Image: MATERIALBYPRODUCT, 2007. Creative Direction: 3 Deep Design. Photography: Susan Grdnac. |
Image: Ess.Laboratory, Madame Edwarda 2008. |
Image, above and header:
Anthea van Kopplen, The Envelope, 2008 and detail.
Models: Taka and Crystal. Photography: Tomas Frimil. |
enCOUNTER [in the window]
 Image: WALKA, I am Not a Plastic Bag, 2008.
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WALKA - Melbourne: Bond from the Inside Out - March 03 - 24
“A humble – while simplistically bold – reflection of cultural icons within Melbourne's local life, a project and consequence of an intercontinental bridge across the Southern Hemisphere. Latin America's WALKA conceptualizes Melbourne's daily journeys of life via contemporary jewellery, an intimate game between the local self-looking glass and 21st Century fashion. Project developed along with The South Project.”
Claudia Betancourt, Ricardo 'Nano' Pulgar.
This exhibition is part of the L'Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival Cultural Program
Lucy Hearn - March 25 - April 13
Fresh! 2006 exhibitor Lucy Hearn showcases a new collection of jewellery and objects made from silver, enamel and plastic.
COMING UP: April 14 – May 04 Bridget Bodenham new porcelain domesticware. |
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Things are hotting up here at COUNTER. We are delighted to welcome a new group of designer/makers: ceramicists Honor Freeman and Simone Braund, Jewellers Lucy Hearn (pictured top, detail) and Nadine Triester, and accessory designer Sam McKean.
We also have great new works from COUNTER favourites: Mattt bags, jewellery from Pip Keane, Caracus, Liana Kabel, Katrina Weber, Jasmina Krupic, Sunday Morning Designs, Chinnychinchin, Klei and Dani M Design, textiles from Jane Burns, Blink! Design, and the new range of tea-towels and pillow cases by Third Drawer Down. Plus glass by Mel Fraser and Sophia Emmett, and ceramics from Sophie Milne.
We'd also like to let you know that COUNTER is now stocking a great collection of craft and design books, including: Freestyle, Marian Hosking Jewellery, Twenty-First Century Design, The Worldwide History of Dress, Textiles Today, Green Design, New Vintage Type, The Street-art Sketchbook, Badge Button Pin, Concrete 2 Canvas, The Ceramics Design Course and Chicks on Speed: it's a project (pictured bottom).
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OUR UPCOMING EVENTS
A Month About Making
A new Craft Victoria public event
Craft Victoria's annual Scarf Festival has evolved into a month-long exploration of the making process.
A Month About Making will include public events, workshops, makers-in-residence and a Craft Victoria members' exhibition.
To be held in August 2008, a full program of events will be available in April. |
Marian Hosking: Jewellery
An Object touring show Marian Hosking: Jewellery is the third exhibition in Object's widely applauded Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft exhibition series, celebrating the achievements of senior craft practitioners. Craft Victoria is honoured to be the only Victorian venue featuring the work of
one of Australia's foremost contemporary jewellers and silversmiths.
Marian Hosking: Jewellery will be at Craft Victoria from the 3rd July until the 3rd August 2008.
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OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS
A Lifelong Love Affair With Textiles
Zandra Rhodes
As part of the L'Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival Cultural Program, RMIT Gallery features the work of the fabulous British textile and fashion designer.
Zandra Rhodes runs until the 22nd March 2008 |
Contemporary Wearables
A Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery Touring Exhibition
The peak jewellery competition across Australia and New Zealand, featuring works by makers from both countries.
Contemporary Wearables is showing at Maroondah Art Gallery until the 29th March 2008 |
Skin & Bones
Curated by Patrick O'Brien
Group exhibition about costume and adornment, featuring Fresh! 2007 participant Karla Way, future Craft Victoria exhibitor Dylan Martorell and previous South Project Resident Artist, Nathan Gray.
Previously at Bus Gallery, the show is at the temporary fashion venue, Penthouse Mouse until the 19th March 2008
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Second Thoughts
Susan Cohn
Past president of the Craft Victoria board and internationally-regarded jeweller, Susan Cohn has a solo show at Anna Schwarz Gallery, Melbourne.
Second Thoughts runs from the 7th March until the 5th April 2008 |
CRAFT VICTORIA STAFF
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Since your last Craft Almanac, the Craft Victoria team has changed. In December we sadly said goodbye to Director Kevin Murray, and then in January we farewelled Curator Kate Rhodes (pictured), who is now Curator at the National Design Centre.
Thankfully, we're also saying hello to Lauren Brown, previously from NAVA, who is our new Communications
Co-ordinator. Nella Themelios, a regular member of the Craft Victoria team, has taken on the role of Curatorial Officer until mid-2008. Carmel McKie is now Retail Officer, while Rebecca Jobson's role as Retail Manager has evolved into Retail and Sector Development Manager in order to facilitate Craft Victoria's Sector Development Program.
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