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The Craft Australia Image Bank is a unique image archive of the Australian Studio Craft Movement from the 1960s to the present day. The Image Bank is part of the Craft Australia national historical collection and includes over 25,000 35mm slides of original artwork across the disciplines of gold and silversmithing, textiles, ceramics, glass and wood. This includes extremely rare material from the 1960s and 1970s that predates the establishment of most of Australia's tertiary training programs in craft and design and their associated libraries and research collections.
The slide collection is the most comprehensive collection of original artworks by Australian craft practitioners and designers practicing in Australia in the mid to late twentieth century.
If you were a craft artist during this time or you visited craft exhibitions during this period, it is likely that the image you remember will be in this collection.
Visit our flickr site to see Craft Australia images from its national historical collection.
