It's that time of year again!
The time for GRAD SHOWS!
As we've done for the past two years, CLOG is proud to present our annual compilation of graduate exhibitions.* The first one (Box Hill TAFE - textiles) opens on Wed 3 Nov so get ready!
For further details, make sure you check out the respective websites as some of them (like RMIT) make it very easy for you to find what you're looking for.
*Please note that this is not a totally comprehensive list and if you have a grad show that you'd like to add to the list, just leave a comment with its details and we'll update the list! Alternatively you can also email us - details are on the sidebar.
Wed 3 Nov
Box Hill TAFE – Textiles
Manningham Gallery, 699 Doncaster Road, Doncaster
Opening Wed 3 Nov, 6-8pm
Exhibition runs till Sat 13 Nov
Fri 5 Nov
RMIT – Gold & Silversmithing
1000 Pound Bend, 361 Lt Lonsdale St, Melbourne
Opening Fri 5 Nov, 6-9pm
Exhibition runs till Fri 12 Nov
Brighton Bay – Art, Design & Photography
Elwood Beach Community Centre, 63A Ormond Esplanade, Elwood
Opening Fri 5 Nov, 6-8pm
Exhibition runs till Sun 7 Nov
Tue 9 Nov
RMIT – Sculpture
RMIT Building 37, 411 Swanston Street, Melbourne (enter via A’Beckett Street)
Opening Tue 9 Nov, 5.30-8pm
Exhibition runs till Sat 20 Nov
RMIT – Photography (Honours)
RMIT School of Art Gallery, Building 2, Level 2, Bowen Street, Melbourne
Opening Tue 9 Nov, 5.30-7pm
Exhibition runs till Fri 19 Nov
Wed 10 Nov
RMIT – Photography
RMIT Building 5, Level 3, Room2, Melbourne
Opening Wed 10 Nov, 5.30-7pm
One night only
Thu 11 Nov
NMIT – Jewellery
Northcote Town Hall, Studio 1, Rear 189 High Street, Northcote
Opening Thu 11 Nov, 6pm
Exhibition runs till Sun 21 Nov
Fri 12 Nov
University of Melbourne – Architecture
Concourse, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
Opening Fri 12 Nov, 6pm
Exhibition runs till Fri 19 Nov
RMIT – Interior Design
64 Sutton Street, North Melbourne
Opening Fri 12 Nov, 6.30pm
Exhibition runs till Wed 17 Nov
Sun 14 Nov
Holmesglen TAFE – Ceramics
Stonehouse Gallery, 103 Yarra Street, Warrandyte
Opening Sun 14 Nov, 3-5pm
Exhibition runs till Sun 28 Nov
Mon 15 Nov
La Trobe University (Bendigo campus) – Ceramics
Phyllis Palmer Gallery, Visual Arts Building, Edwards Road, Bendigo
Opening Fri 19 Nov, 7pm
Exhibition runs till Mon 29 Nov
Tue 16 Nov
Box Hill TAFE – Jewellery
Guildford Lane Gallery, 20-24 Guildford Lane, Melbourne
Opening Thu 18 Nov, 6-9pm
Exhibition runs till Sun 21 Nov
Fri 19 Nov
Monash University – Jewellery
Buildings D&E, Monash Caulfield Campus, 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East
Opening Fri 19 Nov, 7pm
Exhibition runs till Thu 2 Dec
Monash University – Fine Art/Visual Art (Honours)
Buildings D, E & F, Monash Caulfield Campus, 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East
Opening Fri 19 Nov, 7pm
Exhibition runs till Thu 2 Dec
Monash University – Fine Art/Visual Art
Building E2, Monash Caulfield Campus, 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield
Opening Fri 19 Nov, 6pm
Exhibition runs till Tue 30 Nov
Monash University – Industrial Design
G2.35/36 Art & Design Building
Monash Caulfield Campus, 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East
Opening Fri 19 Nov, 6pm
Exhibition runs till Tue 30 Nov
University of Ballarat – Fine Arts
Ballarat Morning Exhcnage, Lydiard Street, Ballarat
Opening Fri 19 Nov, 6-8pm
Exhibition runs till 28 Nov
Mon 22 Nov
Victorian College of the Arts – School of Art
VCA, 40 Dodds Street, Melbourne
Opening Mon 22 Nov, 6pm
Exhibition runs till Fri 27 Nov
Tue 23 Nov
RMIT – Footwear
Moonee Valley Racecourse, Moonee Valley
Exhibition runs till Wed 24 Nov
RMIT – Ceramics
Carbon Black Gallery, 188 High Street, Prahran
Opening Tue 23 Nov, 6pm
Exhibition runs till Sun 5 Dec
Wed 24 Nov
RMIT – Drawing
The Drawing Studio, RMIT Building 4, Bowen Lane, Melbourne
Opening Wed 24 Nov, 6-8pm
Exhibition runs till Thu 9 Dec
RMIT – Fashion & Textiles
Octagonal Room, Moonee Valley Racing Club, McPherson Street, Moonee Valley
Open to the public for one day only, 9am-3pm
Thu 25 Nov
RMIT – Fine Art
Visual Art Studios, Level 6, RMIT Building 94, 23-27 Cardigan Street, Carlton
Opening Thu 25 Nov, 6-8pm
Exhibition runs till Fri 10 Dec
Tue 30 Nov
RMIT – Textile Design
fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Opening Tue 30 Nov, 5-7pm
Exhibition runs till Sat 4 Dec
Put your best sock forward
People of the Sock is a community project initiated by writer and Craft Vic pal Narelle Hanratty in association with Morris & Sons. By bringing together experienced and novice sock knitters in a sock knitting workshop, the results will be distributed to Big Issue vendors as Christmas presents.
According to Narelle, she was was inspired to start the project after meeting a spry and youthful 80-year-old woman knitting socks outside a hospital while her husband was parking the car.
"The woman was knitting socks for a Sydney organisation that distributes them to people who are homeless. Socks are particularly valued, she said, because they’re warm and easily portable. And when not wearing the socks, a person who is homeless can stuff them in their pocket for the day, unlike the gift of a blanket which the person has to carry around for the day or hide somewhere."
It's an excellent cause and if you're interested in participating (whether it is as a teacher or workshop participant, or if you'd like to donate materials etc!), then make sure you attend the People of the Sock planning meeting at Morris & Sons (Level 1, 234 Collins Street, Melbourne) on Wed 3 Nov at 5pm - that's the day after tomorrow!
For more information, click here or email Narelle at peopleofthesock@gmail.com
They also have a Twitter account which you can follow!
Mega Craft Hatch = MEGA AWESOME!
Last Saturday was a momentous day for Craft Hatch as our market almost tripled in size to see 25 makers taking over Experimedia at the State Library of Victoria. The day started out quite wet and gloomy (lucky we were indoors), but it soon brightened up. Yay!
Thanks to all of our lovely stallholders and to everyone who came... the next market will be back at the City Library on Flinders Lane and will be happening on Sat 13 November. Make sure you have it in your diary!
Here are some pics from the day (warning: may cause a mild craft-induced seizure)
Thanks to all of our lovely stallholders and to everyone who came... the next market will be back at the City Library on Flinders Lane and will be happening on Sat 13 November. Make sure you have it in your diary!
Here are some pics from the day (warning: may cause a mild craft-induced seizure)
Heat-treated metal jewellery by Jill Hermans, a recent Monash graduate
Jewellery by Femi Coppi, also a recent Monash graduate!
Knitted blankets and throws by Dee & Bee Creations
L-R: Photographic collages, embroideries and other treats by Liesl Pfeffer, jewellery, tote bags and more treats from Minnt
Be a November Member and WIN!
Another month ticks over and we have another member promotion delivering free goodies! The first twenty people to take out a membership in November will receive a FREE copy of The Paper Garden: Mrs Delany begins her life's work at 72
It’s a rollicking good read and tells the Mary Granville Pendarves Delany (1700–1788) who picked up the scissors and ran with it at the at the ripe old age of 72 to create a whole new artform of mixed media collage.
Here's our exclusive interview with the author of The Paper Garden, Molly Peacock.
How did you come across the story of Mary Granville Pendarves Delany?
It's a long journey. I first saw her work in 1986 at the Morgan Library in New York City, and I swooned over it, but I couldn't afford the pricey imported book that came with it (I was a seventh grade teacher at a private Quaker school in New York), so I went off into my life. Then, in 2003, I saw them again. My husband and I had just been guest lecturers at Oxford, and we came into London briefly on our way back to North America, stopping at the British Museum. My husband had to make a phone call, so I wandered into the gift shop. It was a Looooooong phone call, so I made my way through the whole shop, and on the last table at the very end was the book I couldn't afford seventeen years earlier. Now I could afford it! I bought it and we left and got on a plane. As I read it and looked at the amazing images I reconnected. The book was by Mrs. Delany's great-great-great-great-great-great niece, Ruth Hayden. I didn't realize at the time that Delany's collages were right there in the Museum. It was only when I went back to London the following year that I saw them in person.
In what ways did she create a template for contemporary craft practices?
Mrs. Delany was ALWAYS busy with her hands. She believed with her whole heart that keeping occupied with the hands soothes the mind. She played the harpsichord, she designed embroidery patterns and sewed, she did shellwork (collecting shells and plastering them into patterns on ceilings, lintels, frames and mirrors), she did japanning (shellacking boxes to imitate Asian lacquerware), she designed her own clothes, and she famously, at 72, began her miraculous cut-paper floral collages on dramatic black backgrounds. Mrs. Delany believing in attempting, in plunging in, even when the goal was overwhelming. She also did all of these crafts WITH HER FRIENDS. This wasn't a solo activity for her. It was communal. This sets the template for us, for attempting crafts even without experience, and for doing it in company. For her it was fun. And it can be fun for us, too.
If you were going to take this book on a holiday where would you go?
I'd go from North America to Australia and New Zealand, of course! I'd take it anywhere there was a garden or a flower to look at.
For your chance to win a copy, make sure you take out a membership!
Good shows galore!
Grad show season is upon us and prime ourselves, here are three fantastic exhibitions that are whetting our appetites.
First up we'll be attending the Crafticise exhibition opening. Crafticise (full title Crafticise: make something that means something) is the title of an RMIT Industrial Design Elective that explores conceptual and experimental design through craft and handmaking techniques. Yay for craft and design, together forever!
Crafticise is led by Ben Landau and Brittany Veitch, both of whom are some of Craft Vic's favourite people. You may remember their collaborative exhibition Bio-Accessories at the City Library last year (shown as part of Craft Cubed), and Brittany was one of Craft Hatch's first guinea pigs! Ahem we mean Hatchlings.
Anyhow, back to Crafticise... to round off the semester there will be one-night+weekend only exhibition at RMIT and it is happening TONIGHT!
Here are the details:
Time: 5-7pm
Where: Level 5, RMIT Building 88, 440 Elizabeth Street
There are plenty of gems including Georgia Hutchinson's Mutual Growth (pictured below) which explores the relationship between object and owner, as well as Michelle Vanspall's Tradie Cushion (pictured above) that gives tradies the comfort they deserve.
So go on, have a crack!
First up we'll be attending the Crafticise exhibition opening. Crafticise (full title Crafticise: make something that means something) is the title of an RMIT Industrial Design Elective that explores conceptual and experimental design through craft and handmaking techniques. Yay for craft and design, together forever!
Crafticise is led by Ben Landau and Brittany Veitch, both of whom are some of Craft Vic's favourite people. You may remember their collaborative exhibition Bio-Accessories at the City Library last year (shown as part of Craft Cubed), and Brittany was one of Craft Hatch's first guinea pigs! Ahem we mean Hatchlings.
Anyhow, back to Crafticise... to round off the semester there will be one-night+weekend only exhibition at RMIT and it is happening TONIGHT!
Here are the details:
Time: 5-7pm
Where: Level 5, RMIT Building 88, 440 Elizabeth Street
There are plenty of gems including Georgia Hutchinson's Mutual Growth (pictured below) which explores the relationship between object and owner, as well as Michelle Vanspall's Tradie Cushion (pictured above) that gives tradies the comfort they deserve.
So go on, have a crack!
Currently on is Lisa Engelhardt's FORME - Building upon her long-standing interest in botanical themes and printing, Lisa is another Craft Hatch pal and we're excited to see more work from this lovely lady!
FORME is currently on at C3 at Abbotsford Convent till 14 November.
FORME is currently on at C3 at Abbotsford Convent till 14 November.
And finally currently on is Got a nice ring to it, the RMIT 1st and 2nd year gold & silversmithing exhibition at First Site.
Clearing the table
Table Manners at Pan Gallery came to a close yesterday - we hope you managed to catch it before it was over!
Either way, here's a peek at the exhibition. More images can be viewed here.
Vanessa Lucas
Robyn Hosking
From front to back: Jane Walton, Naoko Coghlan, Zoe Baker
2010 winner Nutz Luk Mei Fei's work
Zoe Baker
Jo Quirk
Thank you to Ray, Paul and Sophie at Pan for allowing us this opportunity!
Photography: Kim Brockett
Project Patchwork raffle: what a blast!
Craft Vic would like to yell a big 'hip hip HOORAY!' for Project Patchwork and the $3,000 raised! Holy moly that's quite a few zero's...
We're so happy to have been able to contribute to this fine project and a big thank you to Liz Wilson and her mum for putting together such an excellent initative. The grand finale of Project Patchwork - the raffle - took place last Monday at Craft Vic and featured a sumptuous feast styled by Sweetness and Light, which we enjoyed with beer from Black Betty. Yay for cake + beer!
1st prize: the 'crafty ladies and gents' quilt
We're so happy to have been able to contribute to this fine project and a big thank you to Liz Wilson and her mum for putting together such an excellent initative. The grand finale of Project Patchwork - the raffle - took place last Monday at Craft Vic and featured a sumptuous feast styled by Sweetness and Light, which we enjoyed with beer from Black Betty. Yay for cake + beer!
1st prize: the 'crafty ladies and gents' quilt
2nd prize: the 'triangle' quilt
3rd prize: the 'heart' quilt
Here's a peek at the gorgeous table setting by Sweetness & Light:
OMG YUM!
Hi Evie!
Hi Phuong! (and see you at the Craft HatchxBikefest market on Sun 28 Nov)
Thank you again and congratulations Lizzy!!
You can view more photos from the night by visiting Project Patchwork's Facebook album.
All photographs courtesy of Liz Wilson
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