Futurology...Crafts...

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Nagesh's recipe for Biryani
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Nagesh Seethiah

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Geological pit stops: Kate Hill and Isadora Vaughan
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Abbra Kotlarczyk

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Duchamp and Australia: In opposition
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Rex Butler and A.D.S. Donaldson

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The Brazilian moment: A picture gallery in transformation
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John Mateer

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Crafty prepping
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Sera Waters

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2019: The year of our cyberpunk future
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Darren Jorgensen

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Art in the time of the burning
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Ian Milliss

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Reading the entrails: Digesting posthuman entanglement
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Sasha Grbich

Published 01 December 2019

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.

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?

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The Crafts Come of Age
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Sylvia Kleinert

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

Published June 1992
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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After the Art/Craft debate: Critical Writing into the 1990s
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Noris Ioannou

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.

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
The Watch, the Pen and the Biro
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Pat Hoffie

To demonstrate the extent to which our relationship to the objects we possess has changed, Kevin Murray recently gave a short impromptu performance during a recent lecture, systematically removing a number of possessions and apparel from his person.

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.

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The Floating Web
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Dorothy Jones

For centuries now, textiles and the skills required in their creation - spinning, weaving, embroidery, sewing, quilting - have been considered women's work, occupying them indoors while men engaged in more serious activities like warfare.

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.

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Why Craftwork Does Not Compute
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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........

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Tim Burns - Paintings and Drawings
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Exhibition review Cape Bruny Winter 1990 - 1991
Paintings and Drawings by Tim Burns
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