'Island Welcome' explores contemporary jewellery as a gesture of welcome, bringing attention to asylum seeker issues and extending the dialogue beyond art and craft audiences....
Island Welcome
Tag Archives: Craft ACT
Speculation Nation: Making Utopia
Seven artists working across textiles, jewellery and timber explore issues that resonate with their own lived experience and illuminate a possible future....
Dr Julie Bartholomew and Mahala Hill: Beeing
Dr Julie Bartholomew and Mahala Hill encourage critical discourse around the significance of bees and threats to biodiversity....
Emerging Contemporaries
'Emerging Contemporaries' plays a pivotal role in supporting and transitioning artists into professional practice and placing Australian artists in view of the national cultural collecting institutions, industry and audience....
Janet DeBoos and Wendy Teakel: Intersections
Through ceramics, drawing, painting and sculpture, Janet DeBoos and Wendy Teakel, examine themes of change and transformation and explore the premise of ‘getting lost’ as an approach to creative practice....
Transference + A Common Thread | The power of collaboration and exchange
Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre present two new exhibitions online in which artists have openly exchanged knowledge of their respective materials and explored how these materials connect us as humans....
I thought I heard a bird
'I thought I heard a bird' considers our everyday interactions with urban birds using birdwatching (often called ‘twitching’) as an imaginative pivot....
Elizabeth Kelly: Macrocosmia
Elizabeth Kelly’s name in glass is synonymous with the tags of ‘architecture’ and ‘geometry’. For the past decade Kelly has investigated organic microscopic structures including viruses and cellular life forms. ‘Macrocosmia’ is a solo exhibition that features three larger than life sculptures that refer to microcosmic...