Life is Very Long

Yarra Sculpture Space, Melbourne
28 August - 12 September 2004

Published March 2005

Artrave

Published March 2005

Batik and Kris: Duality of the Javanese Cosmos

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
10 September - 7 November 2004

Published March 2005

Hand to Mouse: Design and the Handmade

There have always been cycles in the making of what we describe as art, crafts and design, where surges of new ideas have been followed by revivals of earlier values or reform movements that challenge both. The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, is working on an exhibition for late 2006, on the interface between art, design, industry and the values of the handmade. Cochranes hope is that it will challenge audiences to look closely at some of the exciting working relationships that are possible.

Published March 2005

The Return of Labour?

Published March 2005

Ian Chandler 1942 - 2004

Ian Chandler
1942  2004

Published March 2005

The Hand in Making

The Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial began in 1975 and every two years a collection of contemporary fibre textile work tours nationally to metropolitan and regional audiences. For Attiwill, guest curator of the 16th Biennial, the spark for the exhibition A Matter of Time came from Sue Rowleys wisdom: it is useful to think of craft in terms of multiple temporalities, A Matter of Time is an exploration of this usefulness.

Published March 2005

Domestic Arts in the White Cube

There exists an increasing number of artists - mostly women - creating art using what have been known, somewhat disparagingly, as domestic arts: knitting, crochet, sewing, tatting, embroidery. For many of these artists the choice of method is integral to what the work is saying, the making - the journey - as important as the result, even if that journey is not immediately obvious to the viewer.

Published March 2005

Petrified Nature: Julia Robinson and Morgan Allender, Birds and Bees, Louise Flaherty

Downtown Art Space, Adelaide
28 October - 6 November 2004

The Project Space, CACSA, Adelaide
29 October - 5 December 2004

Published March 2005

Christian de Vietri: The Nature of Things

Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth
27 November - 18 December 2004

Published March 2005

Living Together is Easy

National Gallery of Victoria: Ian Potter Centre, Melbourne
27 August - 7 November 2004

Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower
Mito, Japan
24 January - 28 March 2004
Curated by Jason Smith and Eriko Osaka

Published March 2005

Calling all Anti-Capitalist Pashtivists, fluxus reincarnators and Crafty Billboard Operators: Documenting the Uncollectable

Published March 2005