Patrick Hall's Cabinets of Everyday Curiosities

For Hughes, Patrick Halls cabinets recall the great elaborately decorated cabinets of the 17th century. Rather than mere decoration, Halls cabinets express a poetry of the everyday that is neither a condescending celebration nor a critical analysis but a deeply personal response to his materiel.

Published March 2005

Christian de Vietri: The Nature of Things

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

Published March 2005

Getting Off Your Face With a Destructive Character

Christian Capurros Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette documents the act of erasure over a period of five years, with the artist asking family, friends, artists and others to each erase a page from the male fashion rag Vogue Hommes. Each rubber was asked to record how long it took them to rub out their page, the results were then tallied.

Published March 2005

Vivienne Westwood

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
12 November 2004 - 30 January 2005

Published March 2005

Ian Chandler 1942 - 2004

Ian Chandler
1942  2004

Published March 2005

Artrave

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

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

I Came to Japan Because of the Chopstick

Timms account of a personal journey through Japan and South Korea and the traditional history of fine pottery crafts that accounts for a large degree of Eastern culture. He here explores the distinctions and connections between Eastern and Western material culture as exemplified through the life and role of the chopstick.

Published March 2005

Mary Scott - Skirted

Criterion Gallery, Hobart
28 October - 23 November 2004

Published March 2005

Batik and Kris: Duality of the Javanese Cosmos

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
10 September - 7 November 2004

Published March 2005

The Return of Labour?

Published March 2005