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SATELLITE EXHIBITIONS: Melbourne


Anita Cummins’ Pompoms


Bio-accessory by Brittany Veitch and Ben Landau

PANTONE POMPOM
by Anita Cummins
Dates: Tuesday 30 June – Saturday 22 August
Venue: Mailbox 141, Entrance 141-143 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

Explores the relationship between colour, landscape and urban topography.

Anita Cummins is a Melbourne based textile artist. She graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma of Creative Arts. Having exhibited in a number of group shows, Anita is making her debut as an independent artist with her installation Pantone PomPom. Anita is an obsessive knitter and maker of pom-poms and has recently launched a commercial range of handmade scarves under her own name.

 

BIO-ACCESSORIES
by Brittany Veitch and Ben Landau
Dates: Sunday 2 – Sunday 30 August
Artist talk: Saturday 8 August, 2pm @ City Library Seminar Room
Venue: City Library Niches, 253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

Living in the city isolates us from the natural world. Built environments are barriers to greenery, fresh air, sea breezes and sunlight. Skyscrapers soar above us instead of trees, while laneway stench emanates from the city grid. Bio-accessories is a series of wearable couture pieces which mask the unpleasant sights, sounds and scents of the city in an attempt to bring some of the natural world back into civil living.

Each work in Bio-accessories incorporates a living organism to accompany the wearer throughout their day, creating a symbiotic relationship. The human tends to the animal or plant, which reciprocates by bringing fresh air, light, greenery, privacy or birdsong to the wearer. The pieces are representative of mobile natural environments, framed within a fashionable alternative the couture accessory. With a trend towards boutique individuality, Bio-accessories provide an unusual take on the wearable garment.

Bio-accessories is an experimental speculation of responsive, functional, fashionable and emotional craft within a city living context.

Ben Landau recently graduated from Industrial Design at RMIT, where his focus was on interactive, exhibition, experience and theatre design. He is currently a freelance designer, working at Melbourne Museums MV studios and tutoring at RMIT. Bens interests stem from speculative and experimental designs which examine the way people interact with each other and their environment. Ben hopes to travel, learn every day, design valuable experiences for users/audiences and continue to work with creative companies of various disciplines, in Australia and abroad.

Brittany Veitch is a Melbourne based felt and soft sculpture artist. In late 2007, Brittany created The Vibrant City to incubate ideas and give a home to an ever-increasing collection of hand-sewn curios. Brittany makes designer hand-sewn toys and soft sculpture, influenced by macabre and kooky humour using handmade felt and vintage fabrics. A self-taught textile enthusiast, Brittanys interest in working with natural fibres stems from her family’s Alpaca farm. As a trained Industrial Designer (BA Design, Industrial Design, RMIT University, 2007), Brittany is a Toymaker at heart, with a love for all things fabric, the tragically cute and Cribbage.

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.

 

MAKE IT, DESIGN IT, FUND IT

Date: Monday 10 August, 6-7.30pm
Venue: Craft Victoria library, 31 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

Bookings: 03 9650 7775
Cost: $10 / Craft Victoria Members free

An information session discussing how to apply for an exhibition, how to prepare a funding proposal and why exhibition design is so important.

Speakers include:
Anita Budai independent exhibition designer, Parallel Studios, in association with ACMI
Christabel Harvey Program Manager, Arts Development, Arts Victoria
Nella Themelios Coordinating Curator, Craft Victoria

 

I’LL SHOW YOU MY CRAFT IF YOU SHOW ME YOURS

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Dylan Martorell and Sunday Morning Designs

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Ellie Mücke and John Hall

Acollaborative series of projects designed to bring together people from different crafts to share processes, materials, and ideas.

Dates: Monday 27 July – Saturday 22 August
Venue: Craft Victoria, enCOUNTER and Gallery 3, 31 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

A prototype of a multipurpose portable shelter made in response to Melbourne’s housing shortages and skyrocketing rents.

Plans for the shelter include; an exhibition/performance space, a children’s playhouse and a pop-up shop. Artist Dylan Martorell will build a sonic garden inside the shelter consisting of fungi, water plants and field recordings. Sunday Morning Designs have created a multipurpose waterproof textile that will function as a canopy for the structure. The textile, made up of patchworked re-used market bags and tarpaulins, will also be used to create different domestic products inside the space such as lamps and cushions, providing a further sense of comfort and protection from the outside elements.

Dates: Monday 24 August – Saturday 12 September
Venue: Craft Victoria, enCOUNTER and Gallery 3, 31 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

Objects, garments and accessories made exclusively of things gleaned from the kitchen’s mouldy corners and dusty fourth drawer.

Clothing designer Ellie Mücke creates with a focus on more inclusive systems, whose highly considered approach often results in outcomes that stimulate discussion and encourage creative thinking. Metalsmith John Hall’s formal training in jewellery and years working in the manual crafts, whilst maintaining his own creative pursuits, have given him a vast multidisciplinary technical understanding. Together, these two makers with contrasting material knowledge have found common ground in the kitchen, exploring ways to transform the everyday object.