Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Nets Exhibition at Strathnairn Gallery

Anita McIntyre and Dr Christopher Bourke

Anita McIntyre and Dr Christopher Bourke

Dr Christopher Bourke and Nancy Tingey

Dr Christopher Bourke, Gabriella  and Nancy Tingey



Rosina






Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Nets exhibition ANU Foyer Gallery

























Images from Top
Images 1-6 Wendy Dodd
Images 7-9 Bev Thomas
Images 10- 14 Nancy Tingey
Images 15-20 Helen Martin
Images 21-24 Mog Bremner

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Vol 3 (2011) Sustainability in Craft and Design


The Craft Australia Research Centre announces the publication of the third volume of craft + design enquiry, its open access, peer-reviewed, online journal, interrogating discourses surrounding craft and design practice.

Edited by Dr Kevin Murray, Sustainability in Craft and Design explores how craft and design responds to the challenge of global warming by facilitating social change.  The six papers published in this issue by Rod Bamford, Matthew Kiem, Peter Hughes, Mary Loveday Edwards, Sharmila Wood, Emilia Ferraro, Rehema White, Eoin Cox , Jan Bebbington and  Sandra Wilson examine issues of sustainability in relation to aspects of craft and design practice in Australia, the United Kingdom and India


Volume 3 online
 

craft + design enquiry
Call for Papers Volume 5: website

Image: Simone Le Amon,  Lepidoptera chair 2008, stainless steel, polyurethane, polyester, 110 x 85 x 70 cm  Collection of the artist, Melbourne  © Simone Le Amon

Networks Meeting 13 August 2011


Village Hall Strathnairn, 10am till 12 noon

Lynne, Ola, Marli, Nancy, Mog, Barbara and Helen met to talk about Nets then all except Barbara and Helen adjourned for a convivial lunch at the Homestead.

Work for the Casting the Net exhibition by Mog and Barbara was stored in Nancy’s Strathnairn studio.

Discussion centred about textile seminars, sources of inspiration and how the Nets project evolved.

Lynne offered to take over the job of distributing the Nets photographs taken in Sharon’s studio last year by copying images onto separate CDs for each artist. The photography copyright name is Leise Knowles.

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Nets Exhibition at Barometer Gallery 30 July to 14th August 2011


Barometer Gallery website

Exhibition meeting at Strathnairn 13th August 2011

The final meeting before our Casting the Net exhibition will be held at Strathnairn on Saturday 13th August from 10 til 12. Afterwards anyone who would like to, can join us for lunch at the Strathnairn Homestead Cafe.

There are a few final details (such as the roster for minding the exhibition) and some finished work to be presented, so we hope you will come along.