After the Art/Craft debate: Critical Writing into the 1990s

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Writing through the archive: the art writing marathon
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Jacqueline Millner
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Ethics and aesthetics: D Harding, Luciano Benetton and Terra Incognita: inclusiveness is a good way
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Ian McLean

Published 30 March 2022
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In conversation: Sebastian Goldspink and Una Rey
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Sebastian Goldspink and Una Rey

Published 30 March 2022
Artshub
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The museum fell silent
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Elspeth Pitt

Published 30 March 2022
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Kings of wishful thinking: internet irony and its illusionary critics
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Olivia Bennett

Published 30 March 2022
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Damper is a language word for art
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Dominique Chen

Published 30 March 2022
Samstag Museum
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Someone has to be innocent: a reflection on the post-2020 art critic
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John Mateer

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A case for writing contemporary art history
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Aneta Trajkoski

Published 30 March 2022

Most writers and researchers in the visual arts and crafts would now consider the debate about the difference between art and craft to be an old chestnut whose day has well and truly gone. Refers to the debates between David Bromfield and Anne Brennan.

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Design Visions: International Exchange: Time for a Stocktake
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Dorothy Erickson

Design Visions; The second Australian International Crafts Triennial on show at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in August September 1992 provided a chance for local viewers, historians, critics, artists, designers and 'craftspeople' to discuss and possibly take stock of our place in the international arena.

Published June 1992
Touching Things Lightly: The Furniture of Kevin Perkins
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Glenda King

Kevin Perkins and the Parish Church of St Thomas Acquinas, Charnwood ACT. A model for collaborative design. Consummate technical skills, the continuance of long-established traditions which focus on excellence and a fundamental reverence for the qualities of the materials are discussion points that are, at times, given minimal attention when the products of today's craftspeople and designer/makers are discussed.

Published June 1992
Why Craftwork Does Not Compute
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Alan Roberts

Will the computers, mobile or immobile, take over craft work in the near or medium future? Are craftspeople doomed to the fate of the Indian hand loom weavers of the last century-- will their bones bleach the plains? The answer is........

Published June 1992
Jill Smith: Artist/ Designer in Industry
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Jenny Armstrong

Looks at the ceramic practice of Jill Smith. It often happens when people with different views and areas of expertise are brought together to solve a problem that something new emerges.

Published June 1992
Marketing from the Top End
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Felicity Wright

Representatives from seven screenprint workshops in remote and indigenous Australia came together in March 1992 to attend a textile marketing forum in Darwin organised by Steve Anderson, co-ordinator of ANCAA (Association of Northern and Central Australian Aboriginal Artists).

Published June 1992
Tim Burns - Paintings and Drawings
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Peter Hill

Exhibition review Cape Bruny Winter 1990 - 1991
Paintings and Drawings by Tim Burns
Dick Bett Gallery Hobart Tasmania
7 - 26 May 1992

Published June 1992
Making a Living: The Jam Factory
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Stephanie Radok

In May 1992, Stephanie Radok spoke to Frank McBride, Peter Tysoe, Stephen Bowers, David Adderton and Greg Healey about recent developments at the Jam Factory Craft and Design Centre in Adelaide, South Australia.

Published June 1992
Futurology...Crafts...
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Margaret Kirkwood

Margaret Kirkwood, craft practitioner from NSW and active in the Craft Council within her State, writes her prediction for the future of crafts in Australia.

Published June 1992
NSW Tafe: A Different Approach to Ceramics
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Christine Lewis

It turned out that 95% of the symposiasts were blissfully unaware that, starting with the TAFEs, they are already in the era of funding allocation on the basis of conceptually incoherent doctrines of an 'arts industry' with about as much relevance to their interests as atonal music has to the board of BHP.

Published June 1992
4 Jewellery Co-operatives: On Staying in the Black: Fingers
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Stephanie Britton

Looks at the Jewellery Co-operative Fingers formed in 1976 in Auckland New Zealand. Fingers sells the work of 30 New Zealand jewellers with a managment partnership of 6 to 8 practising jewellers. The rest sell on consignment basis.

Published June 1992
Parables of Criticism
Feature
Sue Rowley

Looks at the current issues in the art versus craft debate and the impact of post modern theories.

Published June 1992
The Crafts Come of Age
Book Review
Sylvia Kleinert

Book review The Crafts Movement in Australia: a history University of NSW Press $79.95

Published June 1992