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The 'handmade' label is no longer enough – makers must tell new stories (opens the original)
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Hand dyeing Indigo textiles, Oaxaca, Mexico. Photo: Gina Fairley. This week, I submitted an application for an end-of-year market, as part of that Christmas season flurry which descends upon makers quicker than one would wish. Rolling out the usual line about creating bespoke, handmade pieces lovingly crafted over time in my studio (you know the spiel), this time the sector soundbite lacked the usually pep, and felt slightly disingenuous. Is it because we are leaning so heavily on the handmade l
'Dynamic and fresh': emerging makers unleashed on the Gold Coast (opens the original)
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Installation view, UNLEASHED+, HOTA Home of the Arts in partnership with Artisan. Photo: J Ruckli. When Artisan – Queensland’s peak organisation for craft and design – pivoted last December to move beyond a bricks and mortar model, the future of UNLEASHED, its flagship exhibition for emerging makers, was in question. The answer came in the way of partnership with HOTA Home of the Arts on the Gold Coast – a gallery with a long history of ceramics, but one that has faded with time. The pairing has
'We can all feel it': Australia’s craft sector says it's time for a national making agenda (opens the original)
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Alison McDonald leads an artist talk at Artisan’s MADE 2026 symposium. Photo: Jade Ferguson / Visual Poets Society. Australia’s craft and design sector is at a turning point. That was the message from the panel A Nation of Makers at Artisan’s inaugural MADE 2026 symposium in Brisbane on 10 September, where leaders from craft, design, glass and First Nations arts organisations considered what the next decade could hold for making in Australia. Australia’s craft and design sector needs to stop tal
Margaret Preston retrospective offers a rethink for our times (opens the original)
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Installation view, Margaret Preston, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne. Photo: Phoebe Powell. There is an immediate pleasure to viewing the latest retrospective on Margaret Preston’s work at the Nationgal Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. Soft peach walls set off her saturated palette, while thoughtful pairings place her work in conversation with artists who complicate, rather than simply reinforce, her place in Australian art history. This is not simply an exhibition simply about
Sydney Contemporary 2026: standout booths, artists in demand and the energy on the ground (opens the original)
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Billy Apple®, The Artist Has to Live Like Everybody Else, 1985/2009. Installation view, Sydney Contemporary 2026, Carriageworks. Photo: Gina Fairley. Courtesy: the artist and 1301SW STARKWHITE. As punters arrive at this year’s Sydney Contemporary art fair, the first artwork they encounter is a billboard-sized declaration across the industrial façade of Carriageworks: THE ARTIST HAS TO LIVE LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE. This year Sabbia continues its successful split-booth model, pairing two mini-exhibiti
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