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APRIL 2010
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Craft Cubed festival
Craft Victoria's annual festival Craft Cubed is fast approaching and we want your content for a number of festival components relating to the 2010 theme of Childhood...
WHITEBOX is an experimental online portal showcasing projects, conjecture and commentary on craft and design from Australia and around the world. Expressions of Interest are sought from practitioners who use online and new media resources as a component of their craft and design practice, particularly those working within the realm of stop motion animation. Read more here
Images above: Love Letters by Victoria Mason, who will have a stall at April's Craft Hatch market |
GALLERY
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Adele Varcoe
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Kate James
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Nicholas Jones & Warren Harrison
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This season, fashion is being taken to a whole new level of fleshiness, as iFOLD takes the fashion world by storm. It's the skin we’re already wearing that’s making millions of people across the globe feel dressed.
iFOLD is a new mode of dressing, inviting individuals to make a garment for themselves using a technique called Skin Folding.
Last season iFOLD presented their 2011 spring/ summer collection during the Paris Fashion Festival. The show drove the Fash Pack into a frenzy and has been said to be one of the most controversial trends since Walter Van Bierendonck’s stick on Lumps and Bumps.
iFOLD is encouraging people to reconsider the concept of clothing, and may well be the next big thing to revolutionise what it means to feel dressed.
Artist Adele Varcoe will be guiding visitors through the installation from 11am - 3pm on the following dates:
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A common feature of anxiety is its incessant and ruminative quality whereby thoughts, images or actions are repeated over and over. This theme is reflected in Kate James’s work through the employment of craft processes relying upon intense, monotonous and repetitive movements: horsehair hitching, tapestry, hand spinning, knitting, hairwork and rope-making.
Stemming from her personal experience with anxiety and empathy for the anxious animal, James’s work aims to highlight the universality of anxiety, revealing it to be an experience common to human and animal alike. By exploring the various psychological, physiological and behavioural components of anxiety, James aims to share the private world of anxiety with the viewer.
Join artist Kate James as she speaks about her exhibition and her practice more generally.
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Without Bias presents a series of collaborative works from book sculptor Nicholas Jones (Bibliopath) and emerging fashion designer Warren Harrison (Made by Warren). For this new body of work, Jones and Harrison explore the technique of binding as a cross-over point in their respective practices.
Harrison has incorporated basic book-binding techniques to create simple, yet elegant garments with a distinctively bookish twist. Jones has created a series of sculptures made from books about textiles, garment construction and fashion design and which take their inspiration from the tools of the fashion trade (scissors, needles, thread). This exhibition aims to bring together two distinctive practices and to explore the processes behind the creation of art and fashion.
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enCOUNTER [24/7 window]
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Vikki Kassioras, Concrete Pearls. Concrete, silver, silk |
Vikki Kassioras
Vikki Kassioras fuses modern technologies and materials such as concrete with ancient motifs and traditional materials like silver into beautifully challenging yet wearable outcomes. This exhibition will showcase a selection of jewellery ‘offerings’ that explore new connections between classical mythology and the modern world.
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Mainichi Design
Mainichi recycles leather, felt, wood, fabric, bamboo, rubber, plastic and many more everyday and interesting materials into wearable pieces of art. Mainichi is handmade in Melbourne, Australia.
"My forefathers were skilled labourers, crafting items for consumption with their hands, aware of the value of materials, mindful of their origins and end use. Frugal, ingenious and appreciative of what little they might have had; to re-appropriate, recycle and reuse was an everyday practice for them. This body of work celebrates their skills and their appreciation of the value of materials; and it asks – in our modern world how often do we consider the labour that is embodied in the products we consume, and wonder at the origin and end-use of the materials that surround us?” |
COUNTER
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 Kate James, horsehair neckpiece |
A new season sees a new look in COUNTER. Teapots, beakers, bowls and plates from Claystone Pottery, hand drawn bottles by Sophie Milne, etched porcelain by Rosalyn Sachsse and a great collection of earthy stoneware plates and platters by Kathleen Wratten. New stationery and cards from Elly Oak, Peeps, Helen Nicholson and Words and Pictures. Trans-seasonal textiles to keep out the morning chill include beautiful hand knits from Primoeza, recycled circle knit scarves from Bodyparts, hand-woven pieces from Plush! Luxury Fabrics and Design, and the new range of fingerless gloves by Penelope Durston. For the home, we have a range of new glass works from Holly Grace, porcelain lamps by Catherine Reid and Betty Jo Designs recycled lino wall clocks. Also instore, new jewellery ranges from Meredith Turnbull, Katheryn Leopoldseder, Joanne McMahon, Tara Lofhelm, Emma Sher and Kirsten Perry. And, for a limited time only, striking one-off silver and horsehair neckpieces by Melbourne artist Kate James, to coincide with her current exhibition at Craft Victoria, The Work of Worry is Never Done.
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Sunday Morning Designs, Mushroom print kids t-shirt $39 |
Online shop
As a special Easter present, COUNTER is offering a 10% discount on all online sales for the month of April! Simply quote the discount code APRIL. Take advantage of this offer to buy some of the new products instore: hand printed kids t-shirts by Sunday Morning Designs and hand-knitted horsey toys by Loope. Back on the book shelves, just in time to make the most of the post Fashion Festival excitement are My Wonderful World of Fashion, Patterns: new Surface Design and the ultimate DIY textile manual Printing by Hand. |
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CRAFT HATCH
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 Work by Dawn Tan |
This month Craft Hatch returns to doing what we do best – showcasing the very freshest of emerging talent by some of Melbourne’s yet-to-be-discovered design geniuses! Featuring several designers familiar to Craft Hatch all laden with brand spanking new work, we can’t wait to share their goodies with you!
Featuring: Adelle Frittitta & Lisa Wang, Belinda Crossley, Dawn Tan, Gemma Johnson, Kylie Bickerdike, Little Harvest, Mae Finlayson, students from NMIT’s Gold & Silversmithing course, Okt-ober dee (Lauren Ferry), Sharon Russell and Victoria Mason.
Date: Saturday 10 April, 11am-4pm
Call for stallholders
The Craft Hatch market is held on the second Saturday of every month at the City Library. It’s an excellent opportunity to make your first step into the design world. The registration deadline for the May, June and July markets has been extended to Monday 12 April. Click here to register
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CRAFTBASE
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 Madeleine Stamer, Bird Cluster Mobile |
Craftbase, our online imagebank, continues to attract new Professional Members. Last month's new designer/makers are:
Shabana Jacobson, Jewellery
Craft Victoria encourages all Professional Members to get involved and showcase their work to an international craft and design audience. For more details, download the Craftbase Userguide or contact Craft Victoria.
View Craftbase online |
CRAFT VICTORIA NEWS
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Craft to Consumer
Repeated due to popular demand! This information session outlines the basics of selling your work at a market, through a retailer and online. Speakers include Carmel McKie, Retail Manager, Craft Victoria; Kim Brockett, Market Coordinator, Craft Hatch, and Pip Carroll, Market Development Coordinator, Craft Victoria.
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Craft Word
Craft Word is a commissioned series of four essays celebrating Craft Victoria's 40th anniversary. The first essayist, Anthea van Kopplen launched the project in February with 010110: The End of an Age of Excess? Anthea selected recent RMIT Fashion graduate Crystal Dunn as the second writer for Craft Word. Crystal, who was a 2008 Fresh! exhibitor, currently works at Melbourne fashion label MATERIALBYPRODUCT. Craft as Gesture is her contribution to the project.
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Craft Culture reborn!
The Craft Culture database of critical writing is once again available on Craft Victoria's fabulous new website, designed by Anika Cook. Recent articles include Finding Words for Poitiers by Penny Webb, along with a treasure trove of over 250 essays on contemporary craft. Articles may be may submitted at any time to Joe Pascoe, CEO & Artistic Director.
email: jpascoe@craftvic.org.au
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Seeking alcohol partner
Craft Victoria is currently seeking out a partnership with a boutique winery or brewer for the supply of alcohol to our events in exchange for promotion throughout the year. Benefits include logo recognition on all event materials, distribution of collateral from Craft Victoria, VIP invitation to events, acknowledgement during speeches and other cross promotional activities. For more information, contact Pip Carroll, Market Development Coordinator.
email: pcarroll@craftvic.org.au
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OTHER EVENTS
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Fashioning the Mana
Samoan artist and Craft Victoria Member Maryann Talia Pau presents an installation of contemporary Pacific adornment, the first by a Pacific woman at the National Gallery of Victoria. Also on display is Samoan artist Rosanna Raymond's H'nard K'nore G'nang G'near outfit. Both works look at shifting identities, purpose and location for Pacific people living in Australia today.
Dates: until 5 April
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JamFactory
David Neale uses techniques from graphics, painting, collage and line-work to make signs for the body and to tell wearable stories. These jewellery works reveal a considered play of opposites such as flat vs. deep, austere vs. ostentatious, rough vs. refined, precious vs. poor, shiny vs. sfumato, gravel vs. gold and some vs. none.
Dates: 10 April – 16 May
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2010 marks the 20th year of agIdeas. This design industry event is a series of professional development activities for designers who are seeking inspiration, for designers emerging in the industry to explore the possibilities of international careers in design and for companies looking to embrace design as an economic driver.
Dates: 26 – 29 April
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National Wool Museum
The 2010 Scarf Festival will be held at the National Wool Museum, Geelong, from 18 June – 25 July. This year's theme is Reflections. Scarf-makers are encouraged to delve into their roots and inspirations to create a scarf that reflects their heritage and identity. The registration kit is now available online. Closing date: Monday 24 May
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