Posts Tagged ‘artist book’

CRAFT HATCH @ MWF


Anita Cummins’ scarves


Brydie Dyson’s work


Nicholas Jones’ work


Wendy Junes’ work


Kearnsie brooches


PHILOS-o-FACE Brooches


Rebound Books’ work


Sneak Design cardie


Studio Hip work


Studio Sam’s Howard Mini
Screen


Vince card


Wah Wah Wears’ pendant

Dates: Sunday 23 August, 10am-4pm
Sunday 30 August, 10am-4pm
Venue: Federation Square Atrium, Melbourne

Craft Victoria is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Melbourne Writers Festival to present a special market series featuring handmade products with a literary theme.

 

The Craft Hatch: Melbourne Writers Festival stallholders will be:

Anita Cummins
This is a note to all those four-eyed, brogue-wearing bookworms and bibliophiles: Moth-eaten navy scarves used to be the real thing. Alas, times they are a-changing and all you informed and literary characters need something fresh, like a brand spanking new scarf with your initials embroidered on it. Emerging textile artist Anita Cummins does just that. Using soft wool and unusual colour combinations, Anita’s scarves are sure to keep you warm in the icy aisles of your local library.

Anita will be at the 30 August market.

 

Brydie Dyson
My work is a delicate, intricate and playful approach to one’s personal relationship with wearable art-objects.
Toying with the conflicting ideas of sustainability and deterioration, the wearable art-objects are constructed from cut and folded second-hand books.
The paper jewellery range challenges the social conventions of preserving art objects, suggesting that possessions can evolve over time, and can command their own form and aesthetics, becoming even more beautiful and well crafted by their own accord.
http://antelopeandcantaloup.blogspot.com

Brydie will be at the 30 August market.

 

Nicholas Jones
Nicholas Jones has been described as a ‘book artist, book dissector and book carver’. Based in Melbourne, Jones collects discarded books that no longer have a home. Folding, refolding, tearing, cutting and sewing their pages, he carefully and quite deliberately dissects the, creating delicate and exquisite sculptural installations. Constantly inspired by the material he works with, Jones is intrigued by the history these books tell, “as if they are explaining their lives as I slice into them”. Intrigued by their history and inspired by the idea of difference, his work is as much about process as it is about the form- “these books were conceived, born, loved, stored, discarded, found anew, studied, cut, folded and reborn”.
www.bibliopath.org

Nicholas will be at the 23 August market.

 

Wendy June
wendy june must have at least nine arms as all her products are currently individually made by just herself. Her drawings are detailed and quirky, simple and fresh, duck down and get some of the wendy june limited prints or simply pick up a card that has the look and feel of an original art work.
www.wendyjune.com.au

Wendy will be at the 23 August market.

 

Kearnsie (Lisa Kearns)
Kearnsie Manufacture and Design has been established for four years, supplying in Melbourne and interstate. Specialising in quirky, unique jewellery with a hint of comedy. Using materials ranging from precious metals to found objects, the design process is very playful. Remodelling knitting needles, sunglasses and souvenier spoons combined with memories, to produce pieces that have a story to tell.
www.kearnsie.com.au

Kearnsie will be at the 30 August market.

 

PHILOS-o-FACE (Prudence Rees-Lee)
Kant? Neitszche? Beckett? Sure they may be some of history’s most important writers, but could you recognize their mugs in a line up? PHILOS-o-FACE believes it’s about time to put a face to the name, with perfectly crafted, resin brooches. It’s not often that you get the chance to wax lyrical about your favorite philosopher outside the lecture hall, but when someone unwittingly asks ‘who is that weird looking dude on your jumper’, well…. let’s hope you did your reading.
www.philosoface.com

PHILOS-o-FACE will be at the 23 August market.

 

Rebound Books
At Rebound we make journals, sketchbooks, photo albums, diaries and bookmarks. We use unwanted, pre-loved hardcovers and fill them with blank 100% recycled paper. Our newest invention is the record cards, which are handmade greeting cards made from second hand record covers and envelopes made from second hand sheet music. Each card has a hand cut shape in the cover to write your greeting message in, and each card is packaged with an envelope in a biodegradable clear plastic bag. Each Rebound item is unique and handmade in Melbourne, Australia.
www.reboundbooks.net

Rebound Books will be at both the 23 and 30 August markets.

 

Sneak Design (Anika Cook)
Sneak Design is a teeny design company run by Melbourne girl Anika Cook. Its screenprinted clothing, accessories and artworks go a long way towards satisfying Anika’s urge to draw animals having strange adventures and men in top hats called Neville.
www.sneakdesign.com.au

Sneak Design will be at the 23 August market.

 

Studio Hip (Damien Hipwell & Jacqueline Cuijpers)
Studio Hip is a creator of contmeporary timber furniture and homewares, designing and making pieces for everyday living. All pieces are built using sustainable materials and eco-friendly finishes.
www.studiohip.com

Studio Hip will be at the 30 August market.

 

Studio Sam
Samantha Parsons established her design practice Studio Sam (formerly I am Samantha) in 2004, following national and international recognition for her product design and ten years working as a landscape architect and interior designer. The multidisciplinary design studio works across traditional boundaries of design to create whole environments and is currently working on a range of built environments (residential, corporate, retail, built settings, hospitality and event spaces) and the development of a diverse range of new lifestyle products (under the name Family of Sam).
www.studiosam.com.au

Studio Sam will be at both the 23 and 30 August markets.

 

Vince Letterpress (Meaghan Barbuto)
Created in 2008 by Meaghan Barbuto, Vince fuses traditional methods of antique letterpress coupled with modern technology and design to create unique, handcrafted cards, stationery, invitations and spectacular paper creations to house life’s most memorable moments.
http://vinceletterpress.blogspot.com/

Vince Letterpress will be at the 30 August market.

 

Wah Wah Wears (Zoe Churchill)
Wah-Wah Wears her thoughts out loud. Each piece is hand crafted in Melbourne from Porcelain or Sterling Silver and combines quirky quotes and comments, and kooky images. You are bound to be left with one eyebrow raised and a half smirk half smile. Bumping into someone wearing the same thing as you sucks, so Wah-Wah Wears limited editions only.

Wah Wah will be at the 23 August market.

 

 

NICHOLAS JONES : Heritage Overlay

Carved book

Commissioner Thomas Fogarty was a long term councillor and Mayor of the City of North Melbourne. This work is made from his MMBW minutes book of 1893-94. It addresses the theme of city, by introducing geometric shapes carved through the book which refer to trends in modern Melbourne architecture.

When I first acquired this book, I was living in North Carlton, near the cemetery and studying at Melbourne University. Each day I would walk to and from Uni through the cemetery, examining the headstones. One day, I discovered a beautiful, ornate, late Victorian mausoleum style grave. I walked up the steps to the headstone and was shocked to discover it was Thomas Fogarty’s grave. This was a wonderful moment of serendipity — knowing that I had a collection of his books in the parlour of my McIlwraith Street home, not 200 metres from his grave.

SATELLITE EXHIBITIONS: Castlemaine


Cascade Print Workshop


Printing at the Cascade Print Workshop


Vintage Rings by Gretchen Hillhouse

BETWEEN THE PAGES
by Rhyll Plant, David Frazer, Jeff Gardner, Jane Rusden, Lydia Poljak, Diana Orinda Burns, and John Pollard.
Dates: Saturday 1 August – Saturday 17 October
Times: Fri-Sat 10am-6pm and by appointment
Venue: Cascade Print Workshop, 482 Bendigo Road, Porcupine Flat/Maldon
Workshop bookings: 03 5475 1085

This is a rare opportunity to see the mechanics of a print studio come to life with the artists at work. In the making there will be limited edition Artists Books and prints in production by Jane Rusden and Jeff Gardner. Rhyll Plant will be working with students creating Ex Libris bookplates and wood engraved bookmarks. There will be other Artist made books, prints and bookplates on display including the plates and wood blocks.

Cascade Print Workshop special events:
MEET THE ARTISTS AND PRINTMAKING DEMONSTRATION
Date: Saturday 1 August, 2-5pm
A souvenir CPW wood engraving will be designed by Rhyll Plant and printed and given away free on the day.
Cost: Free

BEGINNERS PRINT WORKSHOP: DRY POINT/ETCHING
with Jeff Gardner
Date: Wednesday 5 August
Cost: $140 materials included

TWO COLOUR PLATE PRINT WORKSHOP: DRY POINT/ETCHING
with Jeff Gardner
Dates: Saturday 8 – Sunday 9 August
Cost: $280 materials included

EX LIBRIS – AN INTRODUCTION TO RELIEF PRINTMAKING TECHNIQUES
with Rhyll Plant
Dates: Thursday 13 August or Saturday 15 August
Cost: $140 material included

 

THE DRESSMAKER’S QUILT
by Georgina Duckett
Dates: Saturday 1 August – Sunday 30 August
Times: Wed-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10.30am-4pm
Venue: 74 Mostyn Street, Castlemaine

Contemporary art works which refashion the craft of the quilt and the tradition of dressmaking.

THE ENLIGHTENMENT NEVER HAPPENED
by Kerry Cannon, Noah Grosz and Craig McDonald
Dates: Saturday 1 August – Sunday 30 August
Times: Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, weekends 12-5pm
Venue: Castlemaine Art Gallery, 14 Lyttleton Street, Castlemaine.
Cost: $4 / $3 Concession

Draws on ideas from the Age of Reason and asks, “What happened to…” Featuring bronze sculpture with some drawings and paintings.

Special event: Garage Art Foundry tour with Craig McDonald
Date: Saturday 8 August, 1-2pm
Venue: 7 Wright Street, Elphinstone

An artisan’s view on the alchemy of metal casting. See inside a Central Victorian foundry that specialises in casting and fabricating Bronze sculpture.

LISTEN WITH YOUR EYES
by Ashley Mariani
Dates: Wednesday 5 – Wednesday 26 August
Times: Mon-Wed 10-6pm, Thu 10-7pm, Fri 10-6pm, Sat 9.30am-12.30pm
Venue: Phee Broadway Theatre Foyer, Mechanics Lane, Castlemaine

A series of cross stitches exploring music and memory.

A SENSE OF PLACE
Dates: Monday 3 August – Sunday 30 August
Times: Daily 9am-5pm, with ‘Artists @ Work’ each weekend
Venue: Market Building, Mostyn Street, Castlemaine

Dates: Weekends 15 – 16 August and 22 – 23 August
Times: Sat-Sun 10am-4pm
Venue: Lot 19 Gallery, Langslow Street, Castlemaine 

Held across two venues, this group exhibition is by practitioners whose sense of place within Central Victoria is an important element in their work.

SOPHISTRY
by Gretchen Hillhouse
Dates: Wednesday 12 August – Saturday 12 September
Times: Wed-Sat 12-5pm, Sun 10-5pm
Venue: Buda Historic Home and Garden, 42 Hunter Street, Castlemaine

Sophistry: the art of clever and subtle but misleading reasoning is teasingly explored in this new body of contemporary jewellery featuring finely crafted porcelain, the signature material of this award-winning design practice. Playing with concepts of scale, illusion and artifice the work continues an investigation into representations of the contemporary feminine in all its guises and examines the subtle interplay of the urban and the organic.

 

OPEN STUDIOS: Nicholas Building


Emma Grace in her studio


Tai Snaith’s studio


Peter O’Connor, Osaka satchel

Dates: Thursday 27 and Friday 28 August, 4-9pm
Venue: Various studios, Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston Street, Melbourne

Visit some of Melbourne’s emerging and established practitioners working in jewellery, leather, millinery, fashion design and more!

Participants include:
Helen Bowman jewellery
Emily Drummond jewellery
Emma Grace wearable art
Samantha Horstman jewellery
Kimono House Japanese textiles
Vikki Kassioras contemporary jewellery
Serena Lindeman milliner
Dan McGill jewellery
Amina McPhee jewellery
Elvira McSwain artist books & graphic design
Natalia Milosz-Piekarska jewellery
Priya Namana fashion designer
Peter O’Connor leather satchels
Julie Parker jewellery
Jason Patterson jewellery
pigment GALLERY early career artists
Narinda Reeders photo media artist
Rhiannon Smith jewellery
Karla Way jewellery
Clare Whitney painting & printmaking

CRAFT HATCH MARKETS


CatRabbit’s stall at Craft Hatch

CRAFT HATCH @ CITY LIBRARY
Date: Saturday 8 August, 11am-4pm
Venue: City Library, Level 1, 253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

Showcasing products from the best and brightest emerging designers, the August market features works with the theme CITY|COUNTRY.

See the Craft Hatch: City Library stallholders here

Special event: Brittany Veitch and Ben Landau, exhibitors of Bio-Accessories will present an artists talk in the City Library Seminar Room at 2pm.

CRAFT HATCH @ MWF: Where Stories Meet Craft
Dates: Sundays 23 and 30 August, 10am-4pm
Venue: Federation Square Atrium, Melbourne

Craft Victoria is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Melbourne Writers Festival to present a special market series featuring handmade products with a literary theme.

See the Craft Hatch: Melbourne Writers Festival stallholders here

 

CRAFT HATCH @ CITY LIBRARY


Jennie Barnes’ tram cushions


Alexandra Bletsas’ work


Kate Brereton’s creatures


Sarah Hinds’ elephants


Cat McInnes’ badges


Matt Nicholls’ pendant


Gemma Patford’s Hot Dog
Necklace


Work by Charles Wyatt from RMIT


Chloe Vallance’s work

Date: Saturday 8 August, 11am-4pm
Venue: City Library, Level 1, 253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

Craft Victoria is pleased to be partnering with the City of Melbourne’s, City Library to hold Craft Hatch – an incubator market that showcases the work of student and emerging designers. Craft Hatch is a rare opportunity for you to purchase the freshest, hand-made products direct from the designer; including homewares, jewellery, clothing, accessories, stationery and more.

Showcasing products from the best and brightest emerging designers, the August market features works with the theme CITY|COUNTRY.

There will also be a special event: Brittany Veitch and Ben Landau, exhibitors of Bio-Accessories will present
an artists talk in the City Library Seminar Room at 2pm.

 

 

August’s Craft Hatch stallholders will be:

Jennie Barnes
Trams are a shorthand symbol for life in Melbourne, and the W Class is a design classic. W Class Cushions are a recollection of who we used to be, capturing Melburnians’ nostalgia for the days of conductors, hole-punched tickets and state-owned public transport. A W Class Cushion is a statement of urban pride for your couch; a memento of home for an expatriate; and a local history lesson for a child.

Alexandra Bletsas
Influenced by industrial objects, street culture and natural objects, Alex has used geometric shapes for my work and have also used cicada wing designs in her work to reflect the theme CITY|COUNTRY.

Kate Brereton & Charlotte Tizzard
Charlotte Tizzard of Cserpent Art and Kate Brereton of Betty and Hamish will each take an element of the festival theme CITY|COUNTRY and make it their own. To address the CITY, Charlotte will display her brooches in a dolls house, complete with the trappings of city life. To complement this, the Betty and Hamish display will address COUNTRY with a collection of animals set amongst grass, trees and fluffy clouds.

Sarah Hinds
The theme behind the project was the city of Melbourne and exploring the idea of Melbourne’s meeting places, for example local icons like the steps at Flinders Street Station or the Arts Centre spire. The prints feature Melways maps of places Sarah has lived, illustrations of Flinders Street station, trams and the Arts Centre spire. In terms of the theme of CITY|COUNTRY, Sarah’s work relates to the idea of appreciating the city you live, in its vibrancy and dullness. Because its home.

Cat MacInnes
Cat has dissected the theme to present two complementary sets of products – a CITY range and a COUNTRY range. Ranging from rubber stamps, mobiles, badges and posters, the COUNTRY products will see a return to nature with the recurring motif of animals chasing each other, whereas the CITY products will take to this theme the streets and see this motif replaced by vehicles like scooters, bikes and cars.

Matt Nicholls
To address the theme CITY|COUNTRY, Matt Nicholls will be developing themes from his previous work that deal with the way that nature fits into an urban environment. These take the form of representations of miniature gardens – in particular the idea of changing the scale of the garden to make it something miniature and personal.

Gemma Patford
Gemma Patford and her label NotToday launch into winter with a new range of Victorian Style Aprons, home made felt jams and other tasty creations. Inspired by Craft Hatch’s CITY|COUNTRY theme, Gemma mixes ye olde country and Victorian patterns with loud and colourful 1980s fabrics.

RMIT Gold & Silversmithing
University is a concentrated microcosm of ideas, born of a vast collection of sensibilities.
The works explore the visceral encounters of an ever-changing set of geographic conditions. Ideas are displaced calibrated and appropriated to reveal new directions and truths from seemingly opposite forces.

Chloe Vallance
The idea of sequencing imagery to suggest an underlying notion of narration is a recurring theme in Chloe’s art making. This project, A Moment at a Time, is a consideration of the tension between figures and their environmental context. The ideas for Chloe’s images stem from observations of people, close friends and family. The artist is interested in the placement of small scale figures, together and alone, within diverse landscapes to convey ideas about certain environments.