A brand new platform named Aware Craft is about to amplify the voices of Australian designers who’re growing thought-about and accountable designs, with the aim to encourage a brand new wave of practitioners to observe go well with.
Initiated by Craft Victoria, the platform will launch in Could 2024 with the target to shine a highlight on tangible examples of sustainable innovation, moral supplies and accountable technique of manufacturing.
4 Aware Craft exhibitions might be held between Could and June 2024, showcasing the works of fifteen makers and creators who’re prioritising sustainability as they pursue creative expression.
Joanne Odisho, Lume (element), 2024 for the exhibition By Product, 2 Could – 15 Jun 2024.
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Pictures by Sarah Forgie, courtesy Craft Victoria
The primary exhibition,By Product, will showcase the works of Australian designers Marlo Lyda, Sarah Nedovic and Joanne Odisho who’ve every been given the problem to repurpose discarded supplies into handmade luxurious items. Materials Provenance, offered by Clay Issues, will have fun the launch of a gobal open-source materials analysis undertaking. Following these exhibitions, Aluminium will discover the complexities of working with the fabric in up to date observe. Cercare/Trovare will then current wearable ornamental aims crafted from melted down glass and reclaimed waste leather-based by silversmith and jewelry designer Bobby Corica.
Highlights from the Aware Craft program embrace Alexander Brown’s transformation of an aluminium can right into a wall-mounted paintings, a sculptural cupboard created from discarded aluminium by Annie Paxton and a lamp impressed by nineteenth century paper observatory domes created by Joanne Odisho from shredded paper and wooden shavings.
Annie Paxton within the studio.
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Pictures by Sarah Forgie, courtesy Craft Victoria
Government director of Craft Victoria, Nicole Durling, stated the brand new platform may have profound, constructive impacts on the how makers strategy the conceptualisation of their designs.
“Past the gallery partitions, we consider that creativity can affect the world round us. Craft is impressed by the rise of artists who’re difficult their manufacturing strategies, and interrogating each aspect that makes up the ultimate piece. In Aware Craft, the components are certainly as nice because the sum of the entire,” Durling stated.
By Product and Materials Provenance might be held between 2 Could and 15 June; Aluminium between 11 Could and 22 June; and Cercare/Trovare from 14 Could till 15 June.
Along with the exhibitions, public applications embrace:
‘Materials Provenance & Complexities of Clay’: Wed 15 Could, 6–7pm, with audio system Amelia Black (Clay Issues), David Walker (Walker Ceramics) and John Wardle (Wardle Studio).
‘Studio Go to & Speaking Inventive Commissions with Thomas Lentini’: Sat 25 Could, 2–3.30pm
To seek out out extra concerning the Aware Craft exhbitions, go to the Craft Victoria web site.
