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Craft Almanac – February 2012 | ||
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NEW BLOG / NEW TALKS / NEW WORSHOPS / NEW PARTNERSHIPS
Craft Victoria is fast out of the block this year with some major new initiatives.
Our new Craft Blog, launched a week or so ago, is up and running, our first trio of exhibitions is on now and we will host our first workshop in just over a week. And our Craft Hatch call out closes Monday. AND we are about to launch some new New Craft projects. Who said 2012 was going to be a quiet one?
Full details about all these projects and events are below, and we look forward to seeing you in 2012.
IMAGE Lukasz Wierzbowski. |
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HEADLINE NEWS |
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BLOG
Craft Victoria is excited to announce the launch of our new blog, The Craft Blog. Each day we will post news, images, and announcements to our new, revitalised blog. It aims to inspire, inform and delight anyone interested in contemporary craft and design.
Jump across to find interviews, studio visits, business resources to help you to grow, events, workshops, markets and everything imaginable in between. We are also keen to feature your news and announcements, so please send us an email.
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BLOG NEWS
New items of note on the Craft Blog this month is an interview with Abby Seymour and Katherine Wheeler, aka Golden Ink who are currently featured in our Window Space. (There is also a GIVEAWAY.)
We also have details about the Vimeo Awards, Stephen Banham's book Characters, a Better Homes and Garden garden craft competition, and Bus Projects' forthcoming food/art project Play With Your Food II.
The Craft Blog is updated daily.
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MARKET
Craft Victoria is now looking for stall holders for our next Craft Hatch market, at 1000 £ Bend on Sat 17 March.
Craft Hatch is Melbourne's best incubator market for craft and design, showcasing the work of student and emerging designers. It is a unique opportunity for anyone to purchase the freshest, hand-made products direct from the designer, including home wares, jewellry, clothing, accessories, stationery and more.
Applications close 5pm this Monday 6 February 2012.
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ABOUT US Staff changes
After four years as Coordinating Curator Nella Themelios finished up her tenure here at Craft Victoria last week. Nella's enthusiasm and professionalism at Craft Victoria, not to mention her tireless work in developing a rich contemporary art exhibition program, will be missed, and we wish her all the best in her new role with the RMIT Design Hub.
Debbie Pryor joins us this week as our new Coordinating Curator. Debbie to comes to us with much experience and talent across the art, craft and design world and we are excited to have her on board.
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EXHIBITIONS |
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GALLERY ONE
For his latest exhibition, Garry Bish has created a number of clay vessels featuring architectural drawings.
Bish's work explores the nature of perspective and creates an effect that warps the viewer's sensation of space. When devices employed by painters for the creation of pictorial depth are applied to the wall of a three dimensional ceramic object an ambiguous dimension arises. The Vessel: A Space Oddity explores this strange space through a series of architectural images with enhanced perspectives.
On now until 3 Mar 2012.
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GALLERY TWO
Jacob Ogden Smith's archetypal pottery forms such as ancient Greek amphorae, Chinese celadon and Japanese tea bowls, sit alongside a series of videos that depict actions associated with pottery production.
Jacob Ogden Smith is a Perth-based artist whose practice explores the representation of pottery within contemporary mediums such as film, television and the Internet.
On now until 3 Mar 2012.
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GALLERY THREE
Working across a variety of media including wood and ceramics, Kirsten Perry's new body of work explores the emotional qualities of architectural space.
Kirsten Perry is a Melbourne-based artist whose practice engages with the concept of anthropomorphism. Perry's exhibition features a series of building forms imbued with human characteristics, subtly interrogating the void between emotional states and the material forms used to represent them.
On now until 3 Mar 2012.
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PUBLIC PROGRAM
Craft Victoria's FREE Artist Talks are a great way to understand more about the exhibiting artists' work and some of the ideas behind their exhibitions.
Our next Artist Talks session, this time with exhibiting artists Garry Bish, Jacob Ogden Smith and Kirsten Perry, will happen in Craft Victoria's Gallery space, 31 Flinders Lane Melbourne, at 2pm Sat 3 Mar 2012.
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SHOP |
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WINDOW SPACE
Small. Smaller. Smallest is an exploration of reclaimed timber uses with the off-cuts of one project leading on to the next. jewellry hanger off-cuts become flower vessels. Flower vessel off-cuts become necklace beads and so forth.
Work by Golden Ink will feature in our Window Space for just two more days. Read an interview with them on our new Craft Blog.
View work by Stämpel in our Shop
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NEW ONLINE
Beci Orpin's new book is both playful and personal in equal measure.
Compendium of Me is Orpin’s debut book that traces the objects, spaces and foodstuffs that define her color-drenched creative and domestic life.
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NEW INSTORE
Craft Victoria is privileged to have instore new jewellry from the incredibly talented Natalia Milosz-Piekarska. Her Frond Series includes pendants and rings in a beautiful range of colours.
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FEATURED MAKER
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MEMBERS |
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CRAFT MAKER of the MONTH
Jenna is one of our newest Craft Victoria Members, and joins us in the middle of some great publicity about her work.
Jenna Hipgrave is an accomplished designer and award-winning letterpress printmaker. She started her letterpress studio The Hungry Workshop just over a year ago with her husband Simon and together they work on projects for a range of clients from large organisations to individuals. Jenna's collaboration with Beci Orpin recently featured on The Design Files.
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PUBLIC PROGRAM
Our popular 'how to get funded' workshop is on again, just in time for Arts Victoria's arts funding round, and our our exhibition call-out.
At Make It, Design It, Fund It we discuss how you can apply for an exhibition, how to prepare a funding proposal and why exhibition design is so important. Speakers include Anita Budai, Exhibition Designer and Director with Blackbird Geometrica, and Christabel Harvey, Program Manager, Arts Development, Arts Victoria, as well as Debbie Pryor, Craft Victoria's new Coordinating Curator.
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MEMBERS' NEWS
NORTHCITY 4 is a new, not-for-profit organisation encompassing a shared jewellry and object studio in a healthy and professional workspace/learning environment. The enterprise, set up by friends and Members of Craft Victoria, will launch their operations at an event titled Open the Door on Friday 2 March at 6pm at 61 Weston Street Brunswick (map). The event will double-bill as a fundraiser to help establish their studios, and will feature art and entertainment. Marcus Westbury and Natalia Milosz-Piekarska, will speak at the event, and series of linocuts by Katherine Bowman and small collectable pendants by Ali Limb will be available.
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MEMBER'S EXHIBITION
A new exhibition by Craft Victoria Members Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison opens this Saturday at the Latrobe Regional Gallery.
Titled By this unwinking night, the exhibition will feature works on paper, new and recent prints, collages, drawings, and small publications by the artists.
By this unwinking night is on at the Latrobe Regional Gallery, 138 Commercial Road, Morwell (map), from 4 Feb – 1 April 2012.
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OTHER NEWS |
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M.I.Y.O.
Anna Davern
Studios at NORTHCITY 4
Wonderland |
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LETTER from our CEO & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR |
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The year 1912 was a significant year in the crafts as it is the date that is generally accorded to Merric Boyd’s first exhibition.
Fast forward 100 years to 2012 and it is fitting then that The Lyceum Club, a well-known women’s club in Melbourne, has commissioned some ceramic pieces, as well as some jewellry, by Craft Victoria members (through our New Craft program) to celebrate its own centenary this year.
Ingrid Tufts is developing beautiful ceramic beakers; Chris Plumridge has made some fine bud vases and milk jugs, and Milly Flemming is designing a new line of jewellry. All destined to be classics, these exquisite craft works will, I am sure, give great pleasure to Lyceum Club members for many years to come.
Craft Victoria is proud to be working with the club on this special iteration of the New Craft project. As Jane Peck, President, says: “It has been wonderful working with Craft Victoria. Their use of a number of artists allows for designs to appeal to all tastes and the flexibility they offer in short runs and reordering was a deal breaker”.
Joe Pascoe |
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IMAGE CREDITS HEADLINE NEWS: The Craft Blog logo. Photo by Boopsie Daisy (Cuke Amber). Rings by Sarah Dingwall. Photo by Jorge de Araujo. EXHIBITIONS: Garry Bish, Vessel. Jacob Ogden Smith, video still. Kirsten Perry, Building, 2010. SHOP: Stämpel's vases. Beci Orpin's Compendium of Me. Natalia Milosz-Piekarska's necklaces. Tree Horn Design's bangles. MEMBERS: Jenna Hipgrave. Photo by Craft Victioria. NORTHCITY 4 logo. Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison, The unexplained, collage, 2011 (detail).
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