For that special handmade object
Images: (Left to Right) Cloth New Natives Range - Furnishing Fabrics for the Interior;
Beaver Galleries, David Pottinger Neriage porcelain
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Read the latest issue Issue#33 August 2008
This issue focuses on the vital contribution mentorships play in exchanging skills, experience and knowledge within the craft and design sector.
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Selling Yarns: Innovation for sustainability
Artist: Robyn Djunginy
Ramingining NT
Title: Bottles, 2006
Materials: Pandanus, natural dyes, coiling techinque
Exhibition: ReCoil, Change & Exchange in Coiled Fibre Art
Selling Yarns 2: Innovation for sustainability is a conference that addresses contemporary Indigenous craft and design practice. It draws on the outcomes of the first Selling Yarns conference held in Darwin in 2006 that looked specifically at contemporary Indigenous textile practice.
Selling Yarns 2: Innovation for sustainability website
A selection of conference papers from the 2006 Darwin conference have been published through the Craft Australia Research Centre.
Living Treasures: Masters of Australian craft
Marian Hosking: Jewellery is the third exhibition in Object's widely applauded Living Treasures: Masters of Australian craft exhibition series which celebrates the achievements of senior craft practitioners. With a career spanning almost 40 years, Hosking is one of Australia 's foremost contemporary jewellers and silversmiths.
Working almost exclusively with silver, Hosking has developed a distinctive vocabulary of techniques including casting, drilling and saw-piercing. She translates specific elements of the natural world into the language of silver, creating jewellery and objects of astonishing beauty.
Living Treasures series
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National Craft Mapping Project report
The National Craft Mapping Project report was produced by Craft Australia in 2006. The project scopes the breadth of services available, reviews services offered by organisations and how they are used by craft artists and designer/makers, identifies service needs not currently met and makes recommendations for the future.
The National Craft Mapping Project: Service provision for professional craft artists and designer/makers report in hard copy is a free publication and is available from Craft Australia. A $5.00 fee is being charged to cover postage and handling for a hard-copy.
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Craft Australia is supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian Government and all state and territory governments.
