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25 May to 7 July 2012

Guest speaker Richard Whiteley, Head of Glass, School of Art, The Australian National University will
officially open the exhibitions at 6.00pm Thursday 24 May 2012. Continuing until Saturday 7 July 2012.

Gallery:   Embracing Innovation Volume 2

Building on the success of the inaugural 2011 group exhibition, and growing the conversations around practice-led research, design thinking and the use of digital technology Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre presents Embracing Innovation Volume 2. The exhibition is held in association with the Designing a Capital: Crafting a City program.

Artists: Stephen Barrass, Greg Daly, Leah Heiss, Brendan Murphy, Lan Nguyen-hoan, Dr Rajiv Padhye, Peter Schumacher.

Gallery:   alphabet

Inspired by a love of word games, glass artist and independent curator Mel George invited 26 Australian glass artists to develop a work each based on one letter of the alphabet. The result is a showcase of the skills of the artists and the diversity of the medium of glass. alphabet is an innovative and inspiring exhibition for children and adults alike aimed at making contemporary craft and design, and the gallery space accessible and lively.

Artists: Giles Bettison, Annette Blair, Jessica Casha, Alexandra Chambers,
Scott Chaseling, Mel Douglas, Ben Edols and Kathy Elliott, Tim Edwards,
Mark Eliott, Jacqueline Gropp, Jeremy Lepisto, Simon Maberley, Nadia Mercuri, Klaus Moje, Tom Moore, Ruth Oliphant, Kirstie Rea, Trish Roan, Tom Rowney, Luna Ryan, Harriet Schwarzock, Brendan Scott French, Bridget Thomas,
Richard Whiteley, Maureen Williams, Nick Wirdnam.

Crucible Showcase:   Sanctum - Inga Svendsen

Inga Svendsen imbues clay with colour and pattern, creating works that reflect her personal interactions with nature, and exploring the theme of idealised memories and their transformation from the nostalgic to a position of present truth. Saturating the clay with different colours, Svendsen creates vessels inspired by the concept of the natural environment of being inextricably and beautifully entwined with our own lives.

 
 

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20 July to 25 August 2012

Opening 6.00pm Thursday 19 July 2012. Continuing until Saturday 25 August 2012.

Gallery:   Signature

The careers of many local internationally renowned craft artists and designer makers form a rich vein of Canberra's cultural identity. Signature showcases the strong, vibrant and highly skilled community of craft practitioners and designer makers that represent the Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre Accredited Professional Membership. The exhibition focuses on the individual maker, presenting a signature work from each artist.

Gallery:   Foodjects: Design and the New Cuisine in Spain

The interesting and creative relationship that has been established in Spain among chefs, designers and companies and a careful selection of more than one hundred objects have resulted in this novel exhibition materialising the vision of the new Spanish cuisine as an emotional and intellectual experience perceived with the senses but relished in thought. Curated by designer Martín Ruiz de Azúa, the exhibition reflects the creative wealth and dynamism of various regions of Spain in the specific field of design.

Foodjects: Design and the New Cuisine in Spain is a touring exhibition from the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, supported by the Embassy of Spain in Canberra.

Crucible Showcase:   Canberra Bells and Ginninderra Peppercress
- Cathy Franzi

Canberra as a designed garden city, with planned areas of natural bush land, is the basis of new work by ceramicist and Accredited Professional Member
Cathy Franzi. Franzi draws attention to the endangered plant species threatened by urban development, juxtaposing imagery of endangered species such as the Ginninderra Peppercress, with commercial cultivars. The body of work is Franzi's interpretation of the significance of the environment to the identity of Canberra.

 
 

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7 September to 20 October 2012

Opening 6.00pm Thursday 6 September 2012. Continuing until Saturday 20 October 2012.

Gallery:   Urban Forest - Dianne Firth

Urban Forest is an installation of thirty textile works that evoke the feel of Canberra's urban forest by Accredited Professional Member Dianne Firth. The works echo the form and texture of the tree trunks in abstract form, emphasising the perspective distortion as perceived from the view of the street. Firth comments on the impact of street trees in forming Canberra's urban character through the creation of spaces and places.

Gallery:   Landscapes and Place - Anne O'Callaghan, E.J. Lightman,
Penelope Stewart, Jeannie Thib, Bev Hogg, Trish Roan

In 2009 Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre developed an international
exchange project with the Tree Museum in Canada. The project enabled four artists from Canada, Anne O'Callaghan, E.J. Lightman, Penelope Stewart, Jeannie Thib, and two artists from Australia, Bev Hogg and Trish Roan to travel on a reciprocal exchange program. The artists experienced first-hand the distinct environments of each country and developed a series of work in response to their experiences. Landscapes and Place presents the work by the artists two years on from the project.

Crucible Showcase:   Canberra Potters' Society Award Exhibition
- Moraig McKenna

Each year the guest judge of the Canberra Potters' Society Members' exhibition awards a Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre Crucible Showcase exhibition. The 2011 award showcases new work by Moraig McKenna.

 
 

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2 November to 15 December 2012

Opening 6.00pm Thursday 1 November 2012. Continuing until Saturday 15 December 2012.

Gallery:   Domestic Renewal

Jeweller, silversmith and independent curator Rohan Nichol invited craft practitioners and designer makers, architects and industrial designers to interpret, transform, and augment an existing piece of tableware. This collaborative exercise has its roots in Nichol's concerns with processes of urban renewal. Successful urban renewal is generally a highly collaborative exercise. Its success is an outcome of the dynamic potential and richness brought to task by multiple perspectives. Domestic Renewal examines this notion in an exhibition of works produced for a collaborative table setting.

Artists: Richard Blackwell, Ann Cleary, Nic Folland, Gini Lee, Rohan Nichol, Sabine Pagan, Mel Robson, Blanche Tilden, Jason Wade, Henry Wilson and
Guy Keuleman.

Gallery:   Margaret Brown

Accredited Professional Member Margaret Brown is a skilled ceramicist specialising in porcelain objects. Brown is drawn to porcelain for its pureness and translucency creating work with strong connection to early domestic forms. Brown presents new porcelain forms created in the neriage technique. Neriage is a time consuming and creative process of combining coloured porcelain log slices and joining them together to form a unique piece. On completion, this technique displays a purposefully coloured design on both the interior and exterior of the form.

 
 
 

Images (top to bottom):

  1. Banner image:
    Elizabeth Delfs, Infinity Revolution II, 2010, tulle, spraypaint. Photographer: Eva Fernandez
  2. Brendan Murphy, Gathered to Mourn, 2011, mild steel, selenium oxide, carnauba wax. Photograph: courtesy of the artist
  3. Simon Maberley, Q, 2011, glass and cork. Photographer: Art Atelier Photography
  4. Inga Svendsen, Twilight (detail), 2009
  5. Alison Jackson, Pots and Rocks (detail), 2010, hand raised 999 silver. Photographer: Andrew Sikorski
  6. Antoni Arola (design), Bowls Eggs, 2006, stainless steel with matt painted exterior. Producer: Faces – Design Mix Collection / Ferran Adria (2007)
  7. Cathy Franzi, Watering can for a dry climate - Grevillea, 2009, wheel thrown, sgraffito, earthenware.
    Photographer: Stuart Hay
  8. Dianne Firth, Rain (detail), 2009, stitched felt and net. Photograph: courtesy of the artist
  9. Bev Hogg, View Finder - Gateway, 2010. Photograph: courtesy of the Tree Museum
  10. Rohan Nichol, Liquid Assets, Two-part and Money-Trap (wallets), 2005-06, aluminium and delrin.
    Image: courtesy of the artist
  11. Margaret Brown, Neriage Bowl, 2009. Photograph: courtesy of the artist