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.