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The ten most visited pages in the Craft Australia Library over the last 30 days.
Examining the connections between architecture and jewellery [655 visits]
In this paper Melissa Cameron examines the connections between jewellery and architecture investigating commonalities of materials, design techniques, construction methods, aesthetics and roles. Deliveredat reSource: Prospects for Contemporary Jewellery and Object Making JMGA 2010 conference held in Perth April 2010.
Margie West, Strings Through the Heart: the proliferation of coiling across Australia [361 visits]
Artback NT Arts Trouring presents the major touring exhibition ReCoil: Change & Exchange in Coiled Fibre Art curated by Margie West. West's catalogue essay highlights the history of the coiling technique in Australia, its movement across Australia to the introduction of dyes and its revival in contemporary Indigenous craft practice.
Ah Xian, Ancient crafts, contemporary practice - a new language of art, interview [343 visits]
Ah Xian is a Chinese-Australian contemporary artist interested in the human body and how contemporary craft can make it meaningful. Ah Xian uses many different techniques and materials, based on ancient Chinese crafts skills, including porcelain, cloisonne, lacquer, jade, ox-bone inlay and bronze as well as concrete. His most recent work is a new body of bronze casts. Craft Australia asked Ah Xian about sustainability both in his contemporary art practice and for traditional Chinese craftsmanship as well as about the themes of urban displacement and cultural remembrance in his works.
Jimmy Pike and Desert Designs in Ningbo [282 visits]
'Desert Psychedelic': Jimmy Pike is a flamboyant exhibition of textiles and prints on paper celebrating the creative genius of Jimmy Pike. Curated by Gallery artisan in Brisbane, the exhibition, to be shown at the Ningbo Museum of Art, China, features works produced for Desert Designs which was launched in 1985 to showcase Jimmy's work. Jimmy Pike had an ability to capture the essence of the Australian desert and landscape through a particularly bold and striking use of colour that gained Pike worldwide recognition through the application of his art to textiles.
Julie Blyfield: Contemporary jewellery and objects [265 visits]
The current exhibition at FORM Gallery in Perth (and touring to the Jam Factory, Adelaide in 2011), Julie Blyfield: Contemporary Jewellery & Objects, 1990-2010 represents both a new series, Scintilla and also a retrospective that carefully charts 20 years of meticulous and careful ex
Networked Production [249 visits]
Academic, writer and artist Mitchell Whitelaw discusses recent international developments in production incorporating distributed digital fabrication services using techniques such laser cutting and 3D printing. He states that "Digital fabrication services have the potential to transform craft practice, both technically and commercially. But having used them, I am also struck by how this networked production changes the maker´s experience." This article has been commissioned by Craft Australia to celebrate 40 years of innovation in the Australian studio craft movement.
Jo Kellock, Textile and Fashion Industries of Australia, interview [221 visits]
Jo Kellock, CEO, Council of Textile and Fashion Industries of Australia (CTFIA), argues that the faster, cheaper, easier model of importing ninety percent of Australia's clothing items is not sustainable. This fast model has serious environmental and social consequences as well as serious consequences for the Australian textile and fashion industries. Customers want to know where their clothes and shoes come from and large companies are adapting to this. Jo Kellock suggests that the future is also about small: small local businesses, pop-up shops and nanotechnology fabrics.
New Things: Koskela lights made in Elcho Island [185 visits]
Indigenous weavers from the Galiwin'ku Elcho Island community and Mapuru Homeland collaborate with Australian design firm Koskela to create unique sculptural lighting pieces. Kevin Murray traces this series of connections and meetings to the Selling Yarns series of conferences.
Good design - Designing Tomorrow [185 visits]
Keynote address delivered by Professor Ted Snell to the Jewellers & Metalsmiths Group of Australia (JMGA) 2010 conference held in Perth April 2010. Snell looks at resourcefulness and the process of design in the creation of artefacts and how design thinking is influencing a new Future Framework and a Cultural Precinct at the University of Western Australia.
Patrick Snelling, Textiles sensorial loop - 1st Tamworth Textile Triennial [184 visits]
As curator of the first Tamworth Textile Triennial, Patrick Snelling showcases the changing ideas and professional craftsmanship associated with contemporary textile practice in Australia. Snelling's curatorial direction included a focus on pattern, image-making, process and intermeshing. His aim is to promote textile making, working with hands and related tools while also promoting textiles as a collaborative, contemporary practice, which is influencing other disciplines. The sensorial loop references the idea that 'the end of which is connected to the beginning'. It references the expressive and physical loop of know-how, ideas and memory and processes.
