Futurology...Crafts...

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We Don't Fabricate, We Weave: Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island) and Ngarrindjeri women’s resistance
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Dominic Guerrera

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Reclaiming the Rock in Project Banaba: Creativity, survival and agricultural colonialism in the Pacific
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Katerina Teaiwa

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Lipstick and Land Rights: A poetic response
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Lorna Munro

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Gallery Lane Cove
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Woven Selves, Entangled Countries: Weaving across borders
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Dameeli Coates

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Sovereign city, sovereign self and Warrior Woman Lane
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Timmah Ball

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Miyurr Mi:wi: Working from home in the spirit of Country
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Tracey Rigney

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Guildhouse
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My Sovereign Mind: A practice in two parts
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Hayley Millar Baker

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Sovereign Sight: Intersections of the historical archive and artistic practice—a curatorial perspective
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Kimberley Moulton

Published 15 December 2021

Marion Marshall,craft practitioner from Victoria, and active in the Craft Council within her State, writes her prediction for the future of crafts in Australia.

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...But Never by Chance..., Skin and From Women
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Jude Adams

Exhibition review ...but never by chance
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May 1 - 31 1992
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Exhibitors Maria Cruz, Michele Elliot, Nicole Page-Smith, Lucia Tancredi
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10 April - 23 May 1992

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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........

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4 Jewellery Co-operatives: Gray Street Workshop
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Sue Lorraine

Looks at the workshop Gray Street, Adelaide, South Australia.

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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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Screenprinting the Tiwi Way: An Element of Spontaneity
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James Bennett

It is not accidentatl that amongst the Tiwis of Bathurst and Melville Islands, fabric printing has become such a significant craft form. Of all indigenous Australian cultures the Tiwis historically have perhaps the richest tradition of body painting.

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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.

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Toward a Typology of Small Objects
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Robert Nelson

With increasing anxiety, we face searching questions of the viability, the integrity, the destiny of craft. In themselves, the questions are salutory and point to an intellectual vitality in craft culture, a vigour and toughness which have not existed since the Arts and Crafts Movement. Responses to the challenge vary from relish in the contradictions of craft practice to the old-fashioned despair for any debate whatsoever.

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
Contemporary Gipsland Artists
Review
Louise Dauth

Exhibition review Contemporary Gippsland Artists
A touring exhibition initiated by the LaTrobe Valley Arts Centre
Morwell Victoria
University of South Australia Art Museum
9 April - 8 May 1992

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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
The Crafts Come of Age
Book Review
Sylvia Kleinert

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

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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