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

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Melanie Jame Wolf's Pop-Cultural Drag: The Chronopolitics of Labour, Libido and Image
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Daniel Mudie Cunningham

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Apprehending the Multiverse: A Costumed Allegory for Four Percussionists Michaela Gleave's Cosmic Time
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Ann Finegan

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Michaela Stark: On Control and Beauty
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Alison Kubler

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Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair
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Cigdem Ayedemir
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Sumaiya Muyeen

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On art, fashion, purpose and more: Peggy Griffiths-Madij and Jan Griffiths in conversation with Alana Hunt
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From the clothes rack to the body of the wearer: Circumnavigate Kandos in our clothes
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Ann Finegan

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Australian Dance Theatre
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Sarah Rodigari: Redressing the vernacular
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Abigail Moncrieff

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The Mangkaja x Gorman Collection: A new wave of Indigenous art and fashion collaboration
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Belinda Cook

Published April 2021

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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Yurundiali - Reasons for Optimism
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Janelle Boyd

The predominant group in Moree (outback New South Wales) are the Gomilleroi people who are considered the most cohesive moiety group in Australia. Looks at the indigenous artists co-operative Yurundiali which is marketing its screen print designs.

Published June 1992
Futurology...Crafts...
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David Walker

David Walker, craft practitioner from Western Australia and active in the Craft Council within his State, writes his prediction for the future of crafts in Australia.

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The Hermannsburg Potters
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Beverly Knight

The Arrernte people from Hermannsburg a former Lutheran mission about 130 km west of Alice Springs in Central Australia are generally known for their Namatjira style watercolour paintings. Now they are making ceramics.

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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
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.

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Semiotically Speaking: A Craftperson's View
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Jenni Dudley

One need not restrict this semiotic approach to an analysis of the objects of fashion given that the major role adopted by craftspeople in contemporary times is that of drawing attention to otherwise ordinary objects and processes by remaking them in a mode other than mass production.

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Anne Newmarch - Superimpositions
Review
John Neylon

Exhibition review Superimposition
Ann Newmarch
Prospect Gallery Adelaide South Australia
23 February - 22 March 1992

Published June 1992
The Problem of Orthodoxy in Contemporary Glass
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Geoffrey Edwards

In her introductory notes to the exhibition 'Glass: Material in the service of meaning' the artist Ginny Ruffner comments on the current field of glass art as "being awash in objects, some beautiful, some ugly, most about glass itself - material as content."

Published June 1992
Craft, Science and the Natural: An Introduction
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Jim Falk

There seems to be a consensus that craft is in a state of crisis. But consensus or not, the observation of this alleged crisis is sterile if we do not place it against its background. Is this crisis unique to craft, or is it a manifestation of a more general crisis which extends across other cognate areas? If it is more general, does it nevertheless have special implications for craft?

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
Futurology...Crafts...
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Helmut Lueckenhausen

Helmut Lueckenhausen, craft practitioner from NSW and active in the Craft Council within his State, writes his prediction for the future of crafts in Australia.

Published June 1992
Parables of Criticism
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Sue Rowley

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

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