Congratulations to Simone LeAmon for winning the 2009 Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award which opened at the National Gallery of Victoria last night. Her Lepidoptera chair continues the creative use of recycled materials that she had forged in her classic Bowling Arm bracelets.
Other entrants included Adam Cornish, Lambie Chan, Lucas Chirnside, Matthew [...]
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Time to take a front seat
Rich and poor, Australian and Aotearoa
If you’re around the north island…
Rich Craft, Poor Craft – Thursday 2 October
Writers Kevin Murray and Damian Skinner will present two illustrated talks about Murray’s concept of ‘rich and poor craft’ in contemporary jewellery from Australia and New Zealand.
Baroque ‘n’ Roll: the forest versus the street in contemporary Australian jewellery. In this talk Kevin Murray [...]
The German forest comes to Namibia
Hentie van der Merwe Messenger 2007 Polyurethane Mask 68 x 46 x 23cm Stand 150cm
A recent exhibition in South Africa provides an interesting comparison to Melbourne’s ‘jewellery of the forest’. Hentie van der Merwe has been studying the German archive of folktales [...]
Deeper into the forest
Since the Forest or the bush? paper for the JMGA conference, I’ve come across some more expressions of the enchanted woods in the local craft & design scene.
Casey Payne and Sassie Napolitano in their Northcote store In the Woods which contains a herd of bears, deer, foxes and other creatures of today’s handmade culture. [...]
