Craft Cubed 2014
The Art of Handmade
1 to 31 August 2014
Craft’s annual festival across
Melbourne and regional Victoria. Visit
craft.org.au for full event descriptions,
location details, times and costs.
Craft Cubed 2014
Programme
Craft at Fed Square
Launch Celebrate with us the launch of Australia’s largest craft
focussed festival as well as the opening of exhibitions at Federation
Square and our Flinders Lane galleries. 2/8. The Atrium 8–9:30pm
RSVP [email protected]
Big Ceramics showcases leading potters and ceramicists pushing
conceptual and physical boundaries. The work of these artists employs
a ubiquitous material, clay, in ways that challenge our thinking about
the role of domestic and functional objects, our relationship to them,
and the reciprocity between this medium and the rest of contemporary
art. Curated by Craft CEO & Artistic Director Jane Scott, artists include:
Robert Baron, Kris Coad, David Ray, Andrei Davidoff, Janetta KerrGrant, Fiona Hiscock, Owen Rye, Vipoo Srivilasa, Mark Stoner, Jane
Sawyer and Jill Syme. Yarra Gallery. 10am–6pm 2–15/8
Installations Artists Hamish Munro and Georgia Perry alongside
Yarn Corner present three site specific installations featuring
yarnbombing, video, inflatables and graphic cut outs reflecting the Art
of the Handmade. The Atrium. All day
CRAFT TV Craft’s videos, interviews and specially programmed material
on the big screen all day in The Atrium. 3–8/8
The Atrium Table Top Program Craft has curated a dynamic
and engaging collection of community groups and artists in a six day
activation of The Atrium at Fed Square. Try a new craft, witness trade
masters at work, buy work from emerging makers, talk to artisans and
meet the makers. Groups include: Australian Tapestry Workshop, Lost
Trades Australia, Sisterworks, Guerrilla Kindness Project, Slow Clay,
Yarn Corner, The Embroiderers Guild, Old School New School Design
and Typography, Craft Cartel. 10am–6pm 3–8/8
Sunday 3/8 Lost Trades Day
Monday 4/8 Craftivist Day
Tuesday 5/8 Clay Market
Wednesday 6/8 Craft Hatch Market (10am-8pm)
Thursday 7/8 Trade Day
Friday 8/8 Workshops and Demo Day
Craft’s Keynote Event
Craft and Design as a Career is Craft’s annual conference for
makers and designers lead by inspiring artists and industry experts.
Speakers include: Irene Grishen–Selzer, Iggy & LouLou; Jane Laver,
Chapel Tattoo; Suzanne Boccalatte, Director, Boccalatte design
agency; Lisa & Glen Rundell, Lost Trades; Natalia Milosz–Piekarska,
award winning jeweller; Hilary Glow, Grand Grants and Alex and
Georgie Cleary, Creative Directors of Alpha60, plus more to be
announced. Deakin Edge, Fed Square 7/8. Craft members & groups of
10 or more $45. Non-members $90
Exhibitions at Craft
Transplantation, an exhibition of contemporary narrative,
explores the sense of place and cultural identity through the theme
of transplantation. Artists based in the UK and Australia explore their
own sense of place and individual cultural identity as a consequence
of their personal and family experiences of transplantation. Curated by
Professor Norman Cherry, artists include Jivan Astfalck, Anna Davern,
Norman Cherry, Rosanne Bartley, Jack Cunningham, Joung-Mee Do,
Laura Potter, Nick Bastin, Lin Cheung, Sheridan Kennedy, Jo Pond,
Bridie Lander. Craft. 11am–6pm. Monday–Saturday 1–30/8
Vito Bila Unseamly vessels In Unseamly vessels Vito Bila
continues his exploration of the vessel, in particular the production of
non-functional metal vessels. In making his work Bila engages with a
dynamic and unconventional combination of processes and materials in
which he exploits the traditional and non-traditional, often within the one
piece. Craft.11am–6pm. Monday–Saturday 1–30/8
Bin Dixon Ward Grids Grids are everywhere, in the layout of our
cities and towns, in land divisions for agriculture and housing, floor
plans and building facades; the urban grid has endless translations.
As a fundamental unit of our endeavours to manage and control our
environment, we use the grid to protect us, to navigate our way and
to mark and control our boundaries. Bin Dixon-Ward’s exhibition is an
exploration of the grid as it appears in the urban form. Craft. 11am–
6pm. Monday–Saturday 1–30/8
Sandra Eterovic Bed Strange Fellows Sandra Eterovic’s
distinctly acerbic brand of darkly confessional humour is painted,
printed, knitted and stitched into a domestic bedroom scene. Craft
Window Space. All day 31/7–2/9
Exhibitions
Brunswick Iconic Arbor Gallery, Brunswick. 14/8–14/9 Opening
6pm 14/8
Craft Cubed Geelong 2014 Boom Gallery. 8/8–30/8 Opening
5.30–8pm 8/8. Newtown Geelong
Catrine Berlatier and Chantal Stewart Unbearable Lightness.
21/7–10/8 Opening 6–8pm 23/7. Chapel off Chapel Gallery Prahran
Jess McCaughey Quite Bear. 18/8 31/8 Opening 6–8pm 19/8.
Gasworks Port Melbourne
Jill Symes Post, Past and Present. 11am–4pm 16, 17 & 22, 24/8.
Simms St. Sandringham
S.L. (LUCY) Brisbane Percy the Bravest Dragon. Art Gallery of
Ballarat. 31/8 11:30am–4pm
Fibre Fusion 9am–5pm 30/7, 19/10. Living Arts Space, Bendigo
Visitor Centre
The Melbourne Cufflink 5/8–23/8 Opening 5.30–7.30pm 5/8. Lord
Coconut, Melbourne
Emily Rayman Yong Continued. 2/8–31/8. Milly Sleeping, Carlton
Margaret-Anne Gooch Hidden Truth. 6/8–7/9. Bundoora
Homestead Art Centre, Bundoora
Monk House Design x Two Hills 1/8–31/8. Monk House Design, East
Brunswick
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Remnants 10am–4pm 30/8. Brunswick. $165
Valerie Restarick & Nectar Efkarpidis Adobe and Brick Houses.
16/8–16/9. North Carlton Ceramics
Old School New School Design and Typography
• Hand Crafted Letters and Typography. 10am–4pm 9/8 and 21/8.
Coburg $150
• Hand Paint your own Sign. 10am–4pm 16/8 and 30/8. Coburg
$190
Stavroula Mountzouris Living in the Plastic Age Collection–Frida Las
Vegas. 2/8–23/8. Outré Gallery, Melbourne
Slow Clay Centre Paperclay Constructions with Sue Robey.
10am–4.30pm 10/8. Slow Clay Centre, Collingwood $225
Embroidery Guild Wild Things. 10am–4pm. 9/8–24/8. Embroidery Guild
Malvern $7
Southside Owls August Craftarama. 7.30–10pm 14/8. West St.Kilda
No Vacancy Bower. 30/7–17/8 Fed Square, Melbourne
The Ownership Project Horn of Plenty. 8/8–24/8 Opening 6–8pm 8/8
Fitzroy
Craft Extras
New Craft @ Queen Victoria Market
Our curated monthly market featuring the best in local handmade as
well as special hands on activities, demonstrations and entertainment
at one of Australia’s most iconic trading venues. 9am–4pm 3/8. A Shed,
Queen Victoria Market, corner of Peel and Victoria streets.
Meet Me At Mike’s Pretty in Pink Film Night. 6:30–8:30pm 18/8
Westgarth Cinema $25
Thread Den CrafTram. Crochet: 6:30pm 14/8. Knitting: 28/8 6:30pm.
109 Tram from stop 16 via Thread Den $10
Domestic Frontier Collective pop-up event. 20/8–31/8 Opening
5–8pm 20/8. Brunswick East
Kirsty Macafee Craft Rally ‘14. 11–3pm 23/8. Craft and City venues
Cultural Threads A celebration of textile art and cultural diversity
including events, workshops, artists in residence, community
collaborations, public art and open studios. Artists include Kate Just,
Eddy Caroll, Michelle Hamer and Siri Hayes. Presented by City of
Dandenong. 31/07–31/08 greaterdandenong.com
Talks & Workshops
Abby Seymour and Nichola Prested Porcelain Button Woollen Wrap.
23/8 10am–2pm. 10am–4pm 30/8. Ink and Spindle Studio, Kensington $220
Studio 941 & Artisan Textiles Australia Learn to Sew: Make
Your Own Skirt. 11am–4pm 17/8. Melbourne $190
Third Drawer Down Draw Funnier with Oslo Davis. 11am–12.30pm
23/8. Prahran. $60
Thread Den
• Chunky Floor Crochet Rug. 6–9pm 20/8.Collingwood $60
• Patchwork Foot Pouf Project. 2–5pm 16/8. Collingwood $75
• Make Your Mini Me Muppets. 12–5pm 10/8. Collingwood $120
• Ami Ami Afternoon Crochet. 2–5pm 10/8. Collingwood $35
• Pom Pom and Pimms Cocktail Party. 2–5pm 31/5. Collingwood $25
Unleash Creative Four Mentors, Four Crafts and Food. 9am–5pm
2/8. Frankie and Swiss Studio. South Yarra. $239
Open Studios
Adriana Christianson Croyden.10am–4pm 16,17/8
Cone 11 + Design Studio Abbotsford Convent.10am–4pm 16,17/8
Diane Collins Ceramics St. Helena.10.30am–4.30pm 16, 17/8
Frankie and Swiss South Yarra. 2–5pm 23/8
Freudian Slip Designs Elwood. 10am–4pm 23, 24/8
Inside Outside Studio 2/8–31/8 Opening 3–5pm 3/8. Southbank
Joni Cornell Wrapt in Felt. 10–5pm 23, 24/8. Ferny Creek $10
North City 4 Open the Door. 11–3pm 24/8. Brunswick
ArtPlay When it doesn’t look like the one in the picture: craft with children
and the intersection of technique and aesthetics. Seminar presented by
Katie Evans. 4–6pm 14/8. ArtPlay, Birrarung Marr. $25
Northcote Pottery Open Day. 10am–3pm 23/10. Brunswick
Black Pearl Textiles Fleeced, Creased and Pieced. Exhibition and
Talk. 10am–4pm 23/08. Retreat Rd. Bendigo
SaJo Ceramics 10am–4pm 31,31/8. Kilsyth
Braidiance Braiding 101. Foolscap Studio Melbourne. 23/08 $30
Brown Owls August meet-up. Melbourne. 6.30–9.30pm 27/08
Carla Hackett presents Barbara Enright Brush Lettering. 2 x
two-day sessions. 9.30am–4.30pm 16, 17/8. 9.30am–4:30pm 23, 24/8. Little
Gold Studios, Brunswick $550
Owen Rye 11am–3pm 16,17 /8. Boolarra South
Sarah Schembri 9.30am–4pm 23/8. Northcote Pottery, Brunswick
Slow Clay Centre 11am–4pm 17/8. Collingwood
Studio 941 & Artisan Textiles Australia Meet the Australian
Artisan. 11am–6pm 23,24/8. Melbourne
Susan Jensen Glass Studio and Gallery. 11am–4pm 24/8. Werribee
Colour Box Studio
• Aacute Jewellery Making Workshop. 1–4pm 2/8. Aacute Studio,
Docklands $95
• DIY Terrarium and Macramé Hanger 10am–2:30pm 24/8. The Work
Room, Footscray $160
• Learn to Screen Print in a Day 11am–4pm 16/8. Melbourne
Polytechnic, Prahran $120
Thread Den 6–9pm 29/8. Collingwood
Do Re Mi / SO:ME Space
• Colour My World. South Melbourne Market. 8–4pm 13/8–17/8
• Planet Melway South Melbourne Market. 8am–4pm 13/8–17/8
• All Tied Up: Tassel Town. South Melbourne Market. 8am–4pm
20/8–24/8
• Pantone Pixel Art. South Melbourne Market. 8am–4pm 27/8 31/8
• All at Sea – Rope Vessels, with Candice Robinson. South Melbourne
Market. 1–3.30pm 31/8. $30
• Divine Hand-Painted Ceramics, with Karen Morton. South Melbourne
Market. 1.30–3.30pm 30/8. $30
• Stick it! Mixed Media Collage, with Madeleine Grummet. South
Melbourne Market. 1.30–3.30pm 24/8. $30
• Big Colour – Geo Art, with Candice Robinson. South Melbourne
Market. 1.30–3.30pm 23/4. $30
• Famous Flying Dim Sims, with Little Circus Design. South Melbourne
Market. 1.30–3.30pm 17/8. $15
• Like Wow Watercolour, with Marguerite Tierney. South Melbourne
Market. 1.30–3.30pm 10/8. $30
• Livewire – DIY Wall Hanging. South Melbourne Market. 1.30–3.30om
16/8. $30
• Pop Art – Life in Colour, with Marguerite Tierney. South Melbourne
Market. 1.30–3.30pm 9/8. $30
Craft Online
Handmaker’s FactorY
• Make Your Own Macramé Plant Hanger. 16/8 1-5pm. Ink and Spindle
Studio. Kensington. $90
• Learn To Knit 10am-1pm 16/8. Ink & Spindle Studio, Kensington $65
• Make Your Own Shibori Linen Cushions. 9/8 & 10/8 various times. Ink
& Spindle Studio, Kensington $200
Ilka White
• Braided Rugs. 9.30–4.30pm 9/8. Zeally and Cliff. Torquay $100
• Braided Rugs. 9.30am–4.30pm 13/8. University of the Front Room.
Northcote $100
• Braided Rugs. 9.30am–4.30pm 23/8. CERES Brunswick $100
• Darn it – The Art of Repair. 9.30am–4.30pm 2/8. CERES Brunswick
$80/$70
• Introduction to Natural Dyeing. 9.30am–4.30pm 20/8. CERES
Brunswick $100
• Introduction to Weaving (short course). 3–31 August. Hand-weavers
and Spinners Guild of Victoria. Carlton $420/$370
Victoria Mason & Jess McCaughey Studio launch. 11am–3pm
23/8. Nicholas Building, Melbourne
Ceramics Australia Annual Open Days.16, 17/8 Various venues.
australianceramics.com
Grandpas Shop Studio 23, 24/8. Manitoba, Canada. Open Studio
via Skype name ‘karlamceachern’. grandpasshopstudios.ca
Splinter Contemporary Artists The art of handmade blog
1/8–31/8 24/7. splintercontemporaryartists.blogspot.com.au
Oriel Glennen Unknown User. 18/8–25/8. Online via Instagram.
orielglennen.com.au
Cate Lawrence TBC. 11/8–15/8 nightly.
consumingcate.blogspot.com
The Homemade Exchange1/8–31/8 24/7.
thehomemadexchange.com
All events are FREE unless indicated.
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Laneway Learnings Crafty Classes. 6.15–7pm & 8–9:15pm 6/8–27/8.
Little Mule Café, Melbourne $12
Natural Dye Group Magical Indigo. 11am-2pm 6/8. Plant Craft Cottage,
Royal Botanic Gardens
North City 4
• Ring in a Day with Katherine Bowman. 10am–4pm 23/8. Brunswick.
$175
IMAGE Life-size fibreglass
rhinoceros Sydney-based artist
Georgia Perry designed as part of
Taronga Zoo’s Wild Rhino Trail.