Newsletters - Archive

716 craft·design
Issue 033   August 2008
This issue focuses on the vital contribution mentorships play in exchanging skills, experience and knowledge within the craft and design sector.

• Feature articles
• A Mentoring/Networking Ecology   by Elisha Buttler
• Learning the ropes   by Barbara McConchie
• Trades   by Niki Vouis

716 craft·design
Issue 032   July 2008

• Feature articles
• The Ecological is Political   by Peter Hughes
• Smart works   by Grace Cochrane
• TAPESTRY 2008   by Valerie Kirk

716 craft·design
Issue 031   June 2008

• Feature articles
• A more assured maturity   by John Freeland
• Welcome address Sturt Woodfire   by Janet Mansfield
• Sturt Woodfire 2008   by Megan Patey
• A day at Sturt   by Avi Amesbury

716 craft·design
Issue 030   May 2008

• Feature articles
• Arafura Craft Exchange   by Sudjud Dartanto
• New Living Treasure named   Object Gallery
• Two steps forward, one step backwards   by Catrina Vignando

716 craft·design
Issue 029   April 2008

• Feature articles
• Studio Furniture   by Stan d'Argeavel
• Inside Out   by Amy Worth

716 craft·design
Issue 028   March 2008

• Feature articles
• Australia Council Emeritus Awards   by Ted Snell
• Craft Australia AGM   Robyn Daw, President's report
• Change is in the air   by Catrina Vignando

716 craft·design
Issue 027   December 2007

• Feature articles
• Object design, a business approach to the creative process   by Lou Weis
• Inside Out   by Amy Worth
• Lyn Carter: A review   by Michael Griffiths
• Selling Yarns: Australian Indigenous textiles and good business in the 21st century
      Talking and talking back   by Kay Lawrence and Nici Cumpston
      Patterns of practice   by Lindy Allen
      Raising the profile of Indigenous artists   by Lola Greeno
      Long way home   by Daphne Nash
• At years end   by Catrina Vignando

716 craft·design
Issue 026   November 2007
Focus - Living Treasures: Masters of Australian craft

• Feature articles
• Living Treasures - their time has come   by Steven Pozel
• On our selection   by Alex Selenitsch
• Making meaning - Living Treasures series   by Catrina Vignando

716 craft·design
Issue 025   October 2007
This issue focuses on the vital contribution the commercial gallery and retail sector make to the cultural industry.

• Feature articles
• Representation: The artist gallery relationalship   by Anna Grigson
• Working with retail   by Jenny Deves
• Contemporary Jewellery Online   by Alice Whish
• Playing shop   by High Tea With Mrs Woo

716 craft·design
Issue 024   September 2007

• Feature articles
• Crafting Canberra - busting capital myths   by Barbara McConchie
• FORM's Creative Capital program   by Elisha Buttler
• WearNow Symposium
  Cyber-Jewels and Techno-Gadgets by Susan Cohn
  hipDisk - an interactive sonic system inspired by core-body gesture by Danielle Wilde
  reSkinning the Body by Alexandra Gillespie and Cinnamon Lee

716 craft·design
Issue 023   August 2007
Focus - Australian Indigenous craft and design

• Feature articles
• Cross Country   by Elisha Buttler
• Queensland's Indigenous art and craft   by Eliza Tee
• Object Gallery and Indigenous craft and design   by Brian Parkes
• Artsource and its Regional + Indigenous Program
• Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair   by Apolline Kohen
• Jigalong   by Nalda Searles

716 craft·design
Issue 022   July 2007

• Feature articles
• Labour by singing light   by Gaida Macs
• Going pro   by Jenny Deves
• Designing Now - Fringe Furniture Alumni   by Marisia Lukaszewski
• Cutting Cloth: Contemporary approaches to independent production   by R.T. Hines

716 craft·design
Issue 021   June 2007

• Feature articles
• Smart works   Extract from publication by Grace Cochrane
• The grandest of openings
• Craft Australia Youth@craft·design award recipients announced

716 craft·design
Issue 020   May 2007

• Feature articles
• Canberra Glassworks   Jeny Deves
• Craft·design and the creative industries   Catrina Vignando
• Living Treasures 2008-2010

716 craft·design
Issue 019   April 2007

• Feature articles
• Inside SAM's Place   Roy Ananda
• Design Art & New Craft: Who's zooming who?   Katherine Moline
• Distribution - craft and speckled computing   Sarah Kettley
• Under the Skin   Leah Heiss

716 craft·design
Issue 018   March 2007

• Feature articles
• Native Weaving: Enduring Traditions of Life and Commerce   W. Richard West, Jr.
• It's all Art, but still we have a 'Fibre Problem'   Tim Acker and Jon Altman
• Buying with Insight: the value of research   Louise Hamby
• How Maningrida artists market their work   Apolline Kohen
• 2007 Year of Design   Catrina Vignando

716 craft·design
Issue 017   February 2007

• Feature articles
• reSkin   Catrina Vignando
• Looking 4Ward   Catrina Vignando

716 craft·design
Issue 016   December 2006

• Feature articles
• The Distributed Studio   Janet DeBoos
• Generation NEXT   Mel Robson
• The value of the collective and the community   Carole Hanson Epp
• Valuing online communications   Avi Amesbury
• Ceramics without the ceramics   Jane Webb
• The uncertainty of objects   Gillian McCracken

716 craft·design
Issue 015   November 2006

• Feature articles
• Strange Attractors: charm between art and science   Julie Ryder
• Australians in Fuping   Janet DeBoos
• Women in the crafts - 1960s to 1980s and 2006   Meredith Hinchliffe
• In the World: head, hand, heart   Kay Lawrence

716 craft·design
Issue 014   October 2006
Special Edition

• Special edition feature
• Youth@craft·design

716 craft·design
Issue 013   October 2006

• Feature articles
• Interview with Les Blakebrough   Catrina Vignando
• Video - Les Blakebrough: Ceramics exhibition
• Selling Yarns conference   Catrina Vignando
• Engaging regional art communities   Linda Tillman

716 craft·design
Issue 012   September 2006

• Feature articles
• 2006 Regional Arts Summit   Ruth Smiles
• A regional arts project   Cath Fogarty
• ConVerge: Catalogue Essay   Grace Cochrane
• ConVerge: Curators Foreword   Geoff Crispin and Bob Connery

716 craft·design
Issue 011   August 2006

• Feature articles
• Creating and making a living in the arts today   Gaida Macs
• Cutting in: Comparing Sino-Australian paper-cutting practice   Pamela Mei-Leng See

716 craft·design
Issue 010   July 2006

• Feature articles
• Thanakupi: a gatherer's view
• Impact   Janet DeBoos

716 craft·design
Issue 009   June 2006

• Feature articles
• Selling Yarns: Australian Indigenous textiles and good business in the 21st century   Valerie Kirk and Louise Hamby
• Blurring the Boundaries: Fashion Design Innovation in Contemporary Knitting   Vishna Collins

716 craft·design
Issue 008   May 2006

• Feature articles
• Design Island   Briony Downes
• Cultures meet through craft   Wulan Dirgantoro
• National Mapping Project publication launch   Catrina Vignando

716 craft·design
Issue 007   April 2006

• Feature articles
• Salon South   Joanne Cys
• Crafted fashion   Raymond Thomas Hines
• VACS supporting growth in the arts

716 craft·design
Issue 006   March 2006

• Feature articles
• Locating meaning in contemporary jewellery and object exhibitions   Lyndel Wischer
• Cultural Strands/Woven Visions   Virginia Kaiser
• Mercury re: P Location   Margaret West
• Reading ceramics after Modernism   Tanya Harrod
• How to change the world without making too much noise   Kevin Murray
• Australian contemporary craft, an innovative player in the creative industries   Christina Ballinger
• Counterpose   Megan Botarri

716 craft·design
Issue 005   February 2006

• Feature articles
• Cultural Strands / Woven Visions   Carly Davenport Acker
• Fusions: From potters den to national network   Ian Were
• Unleashed 2006   Catrina Vignando

716 craft·design
Issue 004   December 2005

• Feature articles
• Inspirational   Diana Campbell
• VACS Bulletin for Contemporary Craft + Design
• Craft Australia goes surfing - end of year report from General Manager

716 craft·design
Issue 003   November 2005

• Feature articles
• The Cutting Edge: Cut and engraved glass   Geoffrey Edwards
• A Voice of the Soul: The furniture of Adrian Potter   Rodney C Hayward
• Craft Galleries Online   Catrina Vignando
• A festival of contemporary craft   Catrina Vignando

716 craft·design
Issue 002   October 2005

• Feature articles
• Tango the way to Craft   Catrina Vignando interviews Kevin Murray
• Memories in Place: Art in high country huts   Craft ACT
• on Location: making stories   JMGA conference
• Craft Australia in Finland and Sweden   Catrina Vignando
• The international language of craft   Catrina Vignando

716 craft·design
Issue 001   September 2005

• Feature articles
• Everyday objects and other narratives   Catrina Vignando
• VACS Bulletin for contemporary Craft+Design
• Craft Australia new look news
• HASS on the Hill
• The role of creativity in the innovation economy

    1 August 2005 - News Updates

• Feature articles
• Young Talent Time
• Undergrowth - Australian Arts UK

    1 July 2005 - News Updates

• Feature articles
• The Sojourners
• Art and the bryophyte
• Nobel tapestries commissioned

    1 June 2005 - News Updates

• Feature articles
• Gundaroo Woodfire 2005
• 25 Years Monash Glass
• Tom Rowney New Work

    1 May 2005 - News Updates

• Feature articles
• Seeds of Light   the Canberra look
• General Manager reports on export opportunities

    1 April 2005 - News Updates

• Feature articles
• 16 Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial
• Australian Woodfire Survey 2005

    1 March 2005 - News Updates

• Feature articles
• The HAT project - Here and There Australia/UK
• Craft ACT mentorship program

    1 February 2005 - News Updates

• Feature articles
• The Flower in the Wound: Situations & Reflections by Margaret West
• Vast Terrain - An uncommon partnership

    1 December 2004 - News Updates

• Feature articles
• Reflections from the Craft Australia Board
• Australian Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art