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Glass artist Amanda Dziedzic is one half of Melbourne glass studio . Her brilliantly coloured Yumemiru glass sculptures are an ode to her travels in Japan and her love of working with glass.

"I like the physicality of working with glass. I like how much it demands of me as a maker, it needs my head and hands to communicate succinctly but the real magic is when the two connect almost seamlessly and as it they are on auto pilot... When I get the privilege of blowing glass with my skilled team, I get to settle in and let the glass take over. " – Amanda Dziedzic

Explore our collection of Yumemiru glass sculptures online and in the gallery.

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All that glitters... Kate Durham's exhibition continues in the Vitrine.

"My work, made of non-valuable materials, explores jewellery with an eye to femininity, desirability and history, with an aesthetic and cheekiness which is I think my own. My materials are lightweight, I make laminates, I use plastics, shell, fabrics and all manner of refuse as extravagantly as I can." –

All that glitters... is showing in the Vitrine Gallery until Saturday 24 August.

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Please join us this Thursday with the artists to celebrate the opening of our exhibitions, 6 – 8pm at Craft.

Luminosity
Anastasia La Fey, Jenna Lee, Liam Fleming and Simone Tops
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Echoes in Colour
Dean Norton


Dust, Smoke, Ash and Bone
Vanessa Lucas and Emma Jimson


Find out more about the exhibitions at the link in bio.

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Image: Simone Tops, Soloist Fibreglass Form, 2024. Photo:

Closing tomorrow! Expressions of Interest for the Craft x City of Casey Creative Professional Development Program close Sunday.

Do you have a connection to the City of Casey? Craft is partnering with to deliver a free Creative Professional Development program designed to support makers in the region to develop sustainable creative careers.

The program is targeted to makers, artists and creative practitioners with a connection to the City of Casey, who want to gain professional skills in a visual arts, craft and design context. The program will take place across a series of individual sessions and workshops, from August-November.

Tap the link in bio to find out more.

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Image by Henry Trumble at the Australian Tapestry Workshop, 2023.

Luminosity opens in the gallery this Saturday!

Perceived through its interactions with objects and space, light is inherently relational. In Luminosity, four artists explore this quality through material practice.

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Please join us with the artists to celebrate the opening of the exhibition this Thursday 15 August, 6–8pm.

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📷 Anastasia La Fey, Light trap 03, 2024. Image:

A limited collection of ceramic sculptures by Belinda Wiltshire is available in store.

Each unique piece is made using wheel throwing and hand building techniques, formed with natural clay and black iron oxide markings.

Shop the collection online via the link in bio 🔗



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Just over a week to go! Apply now to exhibit in the Vitrine Gallery in 2025. Applications close on Sunday 18 August.

Located at the entry to Craft, the Vitrine Gallery is an unmissable exhibition space offered to Craft's members to showcase innovative and experimental works. The Vitrine is open to makers at all career stages, and we strongly encourage experimental and conceptual approaches that actively engage with the constraints of the space.

Find out more and apply now via the link in bio 🔗

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📷 Ellie Tessa Godworth's Vitrine exhibition, Maritime Ode: JJ Search & The Possible Port, 2023. Images:

Working on an application? The third round of Craft Crits is focused is on application reviews – register now for a friendly one-on-one session that's tailored just for you!

Whether you're applying for a residency, grant or other project, Craft's team is here to support you. The session is designed as a chance for makers and artists to 'call a professional' for external feedback and advice for an application they are working on.

Register now to secure your place – either in person or online.

Craft Crits #3
30 minutes sessions running between 9 – 13 September.
$50 per session / Craft Members get their first session free and priority bookings, and $25 per subsequent session.

Find out more and register via the link in bio 🔗

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Image: Brigitte Owers-Buccianti

Now open in the Atrium, ceramic artists Vanessa Lucas and Emma Jimson exhibit the outcomes of an extensive creative collaboration with chef Annie Smithers of duFermier restaurant in Trentham, Victoria.

With a firm focus on function, the artists present finely executed porcelain servingware and sculptural objects, honouring dishes served at du Fermier.

Explore the special collection online via the link in bio! 🔗

Open today! In the Project Space, Dean Norton presents a new collection of mirrored glass works expanding on his recent series, Looking Glass.

Echoes in Glass showcases a sculptural infinity light alongside a series of wall works that invite the viewer to engage with self reflection through colour and dynamic composition. Experience it in person for yourself!

Echoes in Glass is showing in the Project Space until 14 September. Find out more at the link in bio.



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Images: and Luc Marlowe.

Get the inside scoop on strategic marketing from the best in the business at our upcoming Advice Clinic presented by Neil Hugh Kenna, founder and director of .

Craft Members have the chance to hear directly from Neil as he outlines holistic approaches to strategic marketing tailored to artists, makers and creatives. Neil will cover a range of topics including social media, website and other marketing tools to best promote and support your creative practice.

Not a member? Join today to attend this not-to-be missed session. Sign up at craft.org.au/membership

August Advice Clinic: Strategic Approaches to Holistic Marketing
Craft Member Program
Tuesday 20 August
6–7pm – Live online webinar

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UP NEXT: Luminosity

Anastasia La Fey, Jenna Lee, Liam Fleming and Simone Tops

Perceived through its interactions with objects and space, light is inherently relational. In Luminosity, four artists explore this quality through material practice. Drawing from a specialist understanding of their craft and deep material knowledge, each artist creates works that anticipate the behaviour of light, manipulating its unique properties and spectral effects. Works play with transmittance, refraction and reflection, capturing the emotive and sensory possibilities of light.

Luminosity is open in the gallery from Saturday 10 August.

Subscribe to Collect to receive the exhibition collection to your inbox. Sign up now via the link in bio 🔗

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Image: Simone Tops, Soloist, 2024 and Chrysalis 02, 2024. Photo:

New in from ✨

The Lunar collection explores texture and tactility with hammered and formed silver cups, featuring delicate gold beads and diamonds.

Come and try on in store today.

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Kate Durham's exhibition All that glitters... is now showing in the Vitrine Gallery.
presents a collection of new work exploring jewellery as an eye to femininity, desirability and history, featuring her trademark maximalist aesthetic.

Please join us in the gallery this Saturday 27 July to celebrate the exhibition. Plus, catch the last day of Nanja and Manta – Earth, and the final week of Moombarra in the main gallery. Come and visit for a complimentary glass of bubbles from 1–3pm 🥂

📷 Kate Durham in her studio.

"In Moombarra, Blak humour serves as a vital unifying thread. It allows us to share our stories and perspectives, either overtly or subversively. By weaving humour throughout, we challenge stereotypes, question societal norms, and celebrate our culture. It creates a space where our voices can be heard and appreciated." –

Kait James is a proud Wadawurrung artist and the curator of the 2024 First Peoples-Led exhibition at Craft. We had the pleasure of visiting Kait in her studio prior to the opening of her exhibition, Moombarra.

"When people visit Moombarra, I want them to reflect on how the works challenge colonial narratives, and critically engage with culture in a post-colonial world. Additionally, I hope they appreciate the resilience of the artists as they explore the complexities of Indigenous identity."

Read the full interview at the link in bio. Moombarra is showing in the gallery until Saturday 3 August.

Exhibiting artists
Amina Briggs (Boonwurrung, Erub) .briggs
Eleanor Franks (Gubbi Gubbi/Kabi Kabi)
Keemon Williams (Koa, Kuku Yalanji, South Sea Islander, Meriam Mir)
Matthew Harris (Koorie)
Peter Waples-Crowe (Ngarigo)
Tammy Gilson (Wadawurrung) .gilson.52

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Escape the cold and see Nanja in its final week! The exhibition showcases some of the Wilfred sisters' most significant ghost net works to date. Joy, Jocelyn, Megan and Virginia Wilfred seamlessly marry traditional handwoven bark string with introduced materials, reflecting their creativity, ingenuity, resourcefulness and mastery of their medium.

See Nanja in the Project Space until Saturday 27 July.

Presented in partnership with Numburundi Arts. See more via the link in bio 🔗

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Are you a local in the City of Casey? Craft is partnering with to deliver a free Creative Professional Development program designed to support makers in the region to develop sustainable creative careers.

The program is targeted to makers, artists and creative practitioners with a connection to the City of Casey, who want to gain professional skills in a visual arts, craft and design context. The program will take place across a series of individual sessions and workshops, from August-November.

Expressions of interest are open until 12 August.

Want to know more? Come along to our online information session at 6pm on Wednesday 24 July – follow the the link in ’s bio for more information.

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Image by Henry Trumble at the Australian Tapestry Workshop, 2023.

CALL OUT / Craft is seeking expressions of interest to curate the 2025 First Peoples-led exhibition. The exhibition series is an initiative established by Craft in 2020 to platform First Nations curatorial practice within craft and design. The annual program engages a guest curator, collective or practicing artist of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent to develop and curate an exhibition within Craft's main gallery.

The successful recipient will be provided with a curator’s fee and will be supported by Craft’s Curatorial and Exhibitions Manager in the development of the exhibition.

The selected curator is chosen through consultation with an advisory panel of First Nations artists and/or industry professionals to ensure the program is First Nations-led and is representative of cultural practices and protocols. The exhibition coincides annually with NAIDOC Week.

The 2024 exhibition, Moombarra, was curated by Wadawurrung artist Kait James (). Moombarra is current in the gallery until Saturday 3 August.

Applications close Friday 31 August. Learn more and find out what's included via the link in bio 🔗

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📷: Eleanor Franks (Gubbi Gubbi/Kabi Kabi), Self adornment study, 2023, on display in Moombarra. Image:
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Yaritji Heffernan's vessels feature circular markings that represent rock holes, where water collects after the rains and an important water source during the dry season. In the desert, water is an essential element and knowledge of rock hole sites is revered and passed from generation to generation by all Pitjantjatjara people.

Yaritji Heffernan was born to Pitjantjatjara parents at Mulga Park station near Pukatja/Ernabella. She moved to Adelaide in 2010 and has been practicing at the APY Adelaide Studio since it opened in 2019, where she is an important leader and teacher to the younger artists in their emerging practice.

See Manta – Earth in the Atrium until Saturday 27 July.

View available works online at the link in bio 🔗

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Tammy Gilson's Beenyak Murrun (Living Basket) has been meticulously handwoven to replicate a basket which is currently held in a museum collection off Country. The original basket was woven by a Wadawurrung matriarch, dated to the 1850s.

Woven from flax lily, the piece showcases a tangible example of lived experience. The woven pattern is a stylised form of basketry, and holds the transfer of knowledge for the next generations.
gilson.52 is a Wadawurrung woman and award-winning master weaver, living on Wadawurrung Country.

Now showing in Moombarra, curated by Wadawurrung artist .
Until 3 August.

Applications are open for the 2025 First Peoples-led Exhibition Curator – find out more via the link in bio.

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The ghost net dillybags on display in 'Nanja' are all together useable, wearable and works of art. Each is handwoven by the four Wagilak sisters – Joy, Jocelyn, Virginia and Megan Wilfred, who learned to weave from their grandmothers at around 13 years of age.

In Numbulwar in South East Arnhem Land on the Gulf of Carpentaria, marine debris that washes up on the pristine shores continues to be a problem. The artists of Numbulwar elegantly repurpose the nylon netting into contemporary vessels, echoing their ancestors and incorporating designs and colours that speak to clan identity.

Nanja is on display in the Project Space until 27 July, presented in partnership with Numburundi Arts. See more via the link in bio 🔗

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Off the back of her sell-out exhibition 'Lionish' in 2023, we're delighted to share a new collection of sculptures by ceramic artist Georgia Harvey.

The collection continues Georgia's fascination with animal forms – and an eclectic mix of cats, horses, camels and fish – alongside references to ancient artefacts.

A limited number of works available, view the collection online and in the gallery.



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📣 CALL OUT 📣 Exhibit in the Vitrine Gallery in 2025!

We are now accepting applications for the 2025 Vitrine Exhibition Program. Located at the entry to Craft, the Vitrine Gallery is an unmissable exhibition space offered to Craft's members to showcase innovative and experimental works.

The Vitrine is open to makers at all career stages, and we strongly encourage experimental and conceptual approaches that actively engage with the constraints of the space.

Applications close 18 August 2024.

Eligible applicants must be current Craft members – join now and find out more via the link in bio 🔗

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📷 Ash Allen's Vitrine exhibition, Bags, baskets and briefcases, 2023-24. Image:

"I’m very drawn to the creation of surfaces on my pieces. This love of texture and pattern began as a child in being exposed to African art and craft both in our house and in books and museums. It also stems from a lifelong love of Japanese art and antiques."

For Lauren Joffe, mark making on her ceramic surfaces is an incredibly meditative process, while her inspiration stems from her childhood spent in South Africa. Her hand painted surfaces express the duality of traditional Japanese aesthetics and the idea of restraint and spontaneity.

"I prefer to make simple forms and use a limited colour palette in order to explore form through pattern (dots or lines), tone, and texture. The surfaces of my pieces are all hand painted and I build the surfaces up with multiple layers of pigments or slips which are coloured clays. It’s an extremely slow process, with fluid marks applied in varying depths to create shifts in the surface from gloss to matte."

Explore our collection of hand built vessels by Lauren Joffe, online and in the gallery.

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In the Vitrine / presents Liquid Mass

SATURDAY YARD WORK by Nathan Martin presents cast aluminium objects that are a blatant reminder of the material's former molten state, and the forms that can be achieved from a fluid consistency. Restrained within the Vitrine, the pieces present a literal take on how the fluidity of metal can take on its own shape and form to its surroundings.

See Liquid Mass in the Vitrine until 20 July.

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Join us this evening from 6–8pm for the opening celebration for Moombarra, curated by Wadawurrung artist .

Alongside the main gallery we're pleased to open our exhibitions in the Project Space, Atrium and Vitrine.

Nanja
In partnership with Numburindi Arts

Manta – Earth
In partnership with

Liquid Mass


Please join us from 6–8pm in the gallery.
The evening will commence with a Welcome to Country.

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Applying for a grant or residency? Learn the art of mastering applications in this month's Advice Clinic, presented by Jessie French.

Whether grants, residencies or exhibitions, applications are a regular part of most creative's lives. Hear artist and designer talk through her key tips and tricks for nailing applications – with a focus on best practice across communicating ideas, support materials and more, the session is designed to provide advice applicable across a range of application contexts.

Artist and designer Jessie French navigates the intersection of art, ecology and technology amidst the climate crisis. Pioneering in the realm of sustainable plastics, she explores consumption, symbiosis and sustainability. Through her material design studio, , she fosters wider application of new, sustainable materials.

July Advice Clinic: Nailing Applications
Tuesday 23 July
6-7pm
Online - Zoom Webinar
Register now via the link in bio.

Craft Advice Clinics are presented as professional development sessions, led by industry experts and provided as an exclusive offering to Craft Members. Join today to access the program! Sign up via Craft’s link in bio 🔗

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Discover exquisite ceramic vessels in Manta – Earth, our Atrium exhibition featuring some of the most dynamic artists from the APY Lands.

In partnership with , we're thrilled to present a collection of works from five artists: Beverly Burton, Frank Young, George Cooley, Yartitji Heffernan and Alfred Lowe.

See Manta – Earth on display until 27 July.

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Moombarra is now showing in the gallery, curated by Wadawurrung artist .

In the Wadawurrung language, ‘moombarra’ translates to ‘stick it up your arse’ – an irreverent phrase that encapsulates a profound commentary on the complexities of Indigenous identity, and the ongoing struggles against racism and tokenism.

The exhibition delves into the depths of Blak humour, confronting issues of cultural appropriation, stereotyping and the pervasive impact of colonialism on Indigenous communities.

Please join us for the opening celebration in the gallery this Thursday, 6–8pm.

Artists
Amina Briggs (Boonwurrung, Erub)
Eleanor Franks (Gubbi Gubbi/Kabi Kabi)
Keemon Williams (Koa, Kuku Yalanji, South Sea Islander, Meriam Mir)
Matthew Harris (Koorie)
Peter Waples-Crowe (Ngarigo)
Tammy Gilson (Wadawurrung) .gilson.52

Read more about the exhibition at the link in bio.

Presented as part of .

📷: Kait James in her studio, photographer: