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This monthly update provides news of recent and upcoming events at Craft
Victoria
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CLEARING ends 17 February
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LOOM 22 February - 17 March
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JOIN THE DOTS 22 March
CIRCLING THE SQUARE 23 March - 12 April
CRAFT PUBLICATIONS IN TRAIN
EXHIBIT AT CRAFT VICTORIA
JEWELLERY POSITION
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GUILD UNLIMITED
DARKROOM
SOUTH
CRAFT LINKS
CRAFTSPEAK
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CLEARING ends 17 February
The recent Ausglass conference was blessed with some wonderful venues, such
as the St Kilda Pier and the Yarra Rowing Club. Attendees certainly lived up
to their reputation as the merrymakers of the craft world. And there were
some serious moments. In his review of the Clearing exhibition, Robert
Nelson (The Age 31/1/01) chose to contrast its conceptualism difference from
the more aesthetic glass art. He wrote about the 'mineral ding' of Elaine
Miles' bowls, the elasticity of nylon, millet or hog's hair' in Bethany
Wheeler's glass bristles, and how Emily McIntosh's vessels resist the
'dictatorship of glass.'
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LOOM 22 February - 17 March
Loom features digital prints based on the Game of Life by Brisbane artist
Paul Brown, double-cloth weavings using computerised loom by Jennifer
Robertson, virtual loom weaving language by Dave Sag, woven narratives on
CD-ROM by Ricky Subritzky and weaving with moves from last game between
Garry Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue computer by Gwen Zierdt. Loom will be
opened by Jon McCormack, electronic media artist and lecturer in Computer
Science Monash University, on Thursday 22 March at 6pm. It will be preceded
at 5:30 by a floor talk by Kevin Murray. For more information and images,
please see www.craftvic.asn.au/loom
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JOIN THE DOTS 22 March
Until recently, patterns seemed to be on the road to extinction. Everyday
wear was layered, tabbed and cast in holographic colours. We now see a
resurgence of patterns in fashion, design and architecture. Is this a
conservative reaction against techno-rave culture or the development of a
new eloquent style of its own? A panel of experts consider the return of the
repeat. Speakers include pattern forecaster David Shah, architect Neil
Masterson, visual artist Vera Möller and decorative arts historian Anthony
Knight. Thurs 22 March 2001 6:30pm; Lecture Theatre, Level 1, RMIT Storey
Hall, 342 Swanston Street, Melbourne; $5.50 (GST inclusive); RSVP &
information, call Brendan 9925 1716. Hosted with RMIT and the Melbourne
Fashion Festival.
CIRCLING THE SQUARE 23 March - 12 April
For the Melbourne Fashion Festival, Craft Victoria will be hosting an
exhibition of work from Adelaide's legendary Gray Street Gallery, featuring
jewellery and art work by Sue Lorraine, Julie Blyfield, Lesley Matthews and
Catherine Truman. The exhibition will be opened by Susan Cohn and preceded
by a floor talk from the artists.
PUBLICATION ON TEXTILES
Craft Bulletin is due in the first week of March. Meanwhile, the next Craft
Magazine on textiles is being developed, with a focus on the virtue, or
vice, of 'patience'. How important is repetitive labour to a textile art
practice? Should we be able to 'print out' textile designs with as much ease
as we can print out a document?
This question will be developed further in the Annual Craft Victoria
Lecture, to be given this year on 25 July by Louise Lemieux-Bérubé, Director
of the Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles, who will be in Australia
for an exhibition and conference 'e-textiles' featuring new technologies in
weaving on the Jacquard loom.
EXHIBIT AT CRAFT VICTORIA
Craft Victoria welcomes applications to exhibit in its gallery space. The
next round is due to close on 1 March 2001 and potential applicants are
encouraged strongly to make contact and discuss their proposal beforehand.
You can find relevant documents and advice at
www.craftvic.asn.au/exhibit/showhere.htm
JEWELLERY POSITION
The School of Art at Otago Polytechnic is seeking the contributions of a
proportional Lecturer to teach to within the Diploma, Degree and
Postgraduate Studio Jewellery Programmes. For job description, please email
David McLeod, Jewellery Co-ordinator on [log in to unmask] Applications
close 12 February.
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GUILD UNLIMITED
We are currently exploring ways of involving the online gaming community in
the Guild Unlimited exhibition. If you look at the burgeoning Ultima Online
(www.ua.com) you will find a virtual medieval community for whom guild
membership is an essential component of their status. Perhaps there's a way
of turning some of these virtual blacksmiths, tailors, carpenters, builders
and alchemists into real craftspersons in metal, fibre, wood, clay and
glass.
DARKROOM
Recent additions to the darkroom site include Jo Scicluna's entropic
photographic vessels, documentation from Damon Moon's Westspace show, and
image and text from Edwina Kearney. See www.craftvic.asn.au/darkroom.
SOUTH
While out of the headlines, South African culture seems at a critical point
as different races work out where they fit into the new nation. In the Cape,
whites and coloureds have joined to support the Democratic Alliance, which
recently won seats from the ANC. Meanwhile, the traditional coloured
festival known as 'Coon Carnival', which includes 'blackface' musicians, is
being heavily promoted as rivalling Rio's carnival. (see
http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/host/ccrss/cp/cp3/cp3-__171___.html for an
analysis of the event). Meanwhile, the South Africa Guardian features some
interesting recent art
(http://www.mg.co.za/mg/art/fineart/0011/001110-langa.html).
And on the other side of Australia, there were many New Zealanders at the
recent Ausglass conference. One remarked that the Maori term for white
person 'pakiha' has become a derogatory term now, being replaced by 'to iwi'
(without tribe). Can there be an 'iwi' of those who are 'to iwi'?
CRAFT LINKS
# Recent additions to our database of craft links include:
Worldwide Art gallery http://www.theartgallery.com.au/directory
Art gallery exhibiting world and Australian art for sale online.
Pottery in Australia http://www.potteryinaustralia.com/
Ceramics magazine
Charles Smith Gallery http://www.charlessmithgallery.com.au
Collingwood gallery representing contemporary craft
Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles
http://www.textiles-mtl.com/ang/index.htm
Innovative centre for use of digital processes in textile art
John Elder Gallery http://www.johnelder.com
New York gallery that showcases museum-quality contemporary decorative
art -- works that combine artistic vision with the artisan's joy of making
Tea Pots http://www.teapots.net/
Quite informative site about the production of tea pots, their use and
cultural significance.
Slow Food http://www.slowfood.com/
International movement for the appreciation of local produce and regional
foods, against the homogenised offerings of global food chains.
# If you have a link that you would like to contribute, please go to
http://www.craftvic.asn.au/info/addlink.htm
CRAFTSPEAK
# Note the attention to 'photographic craft' in displaying new uses for the
older techniques of image reproduction. Also, check the use of craft as a
category for the smaller breweries re-emerging today.
"What I like about books is that they are substantial works of art and
craft, collaborative in every respect, yet small enough and economical
enough that you can get them made without too much compromise." Pluto Press
(McKenzie Wark)
"And now coming to the stage we have Al Pacino, the craftsman." Golden Globe
Awards
"The Crafted Image: 19th-Century Techniques In Contemporary Photography
(Boston University Art Gallery Boston). This exhibition will present a wide
range of contemporary daguerreotypes, gum prints, tintypes, wet collodion
prints, photograms..." http://www.bu.edu/ART/crafted.html
"Mountain Goat: Craft-brewed Australian Beers." http://www.goatbeer.com.au
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