Fringe Furniture Winners Announced

Craft Victoria recently selected Elizabeth Bowtell's work, a seat titled Tri, the winner of this year's Fringe Furniture Emerging Designer Award.

Dale Hardiman and Andre Hnatojko's AIR won the award in the Sustainable and Waste-Wise Design category, and Sally Mill's Spring Collection III took out both the Lighting Design Award and the award for Best Design Addressing the 2011 Fringe Furniture Theme, which this was Dancing in the Dark.

Arts Hub recently said Fringe Furniture has become an 'accurate and relevant barometer for emerging talent, trends and ideas in interior design and architecture.' We couldn't agree more and were once again thrilled to be involved in judging the Emerging Designer category.

We love Elizabeth's work and I'm sure you will too; an exhibition of the 45 entries is on now at the Abbotsford Convent, 1 St Heliers Street, until 8 October 2011 (open Thursdays to Sundays, 11am to 5pm).

UPDATE: Photographer KatieHarmsworth was at the opening of the Fringe Furniture at the Abbotsford Convent, and took a number of photos of the work, including these:

Exhibition: Pam Stadus

Il Cimento by Pam Stadus, on now at Craft Victoria until the 15th of October, is a new video-based work exploring the effects of steam, fog, condensation and thermal shock on glass.

Read more about Il Cimento over at the Craft Victoria website.

All photos by Lily Feng.

Exhibition: Debbie Symons & Jasmine Targett

Making Sense, on now at Craft Victoria until the 15th of October, presents Debbie Symons and Jasmine Targett's innovative views of nature and the science of environmental change.

Read more about Making Sense over at the Craft Victoria website.

All photos by Lily Feng.

 

Exhibition: Katherine Bowman

Katherine Bowman's new exhibition titled Locutions (the loved object) is on now at Craft Victoria until the 15th of October.

Katherine's new work examines the way we imbue objects and artefacts with meaning. Through a series of small box like vessels, themes of containment, secrecy, talismanic power and personal mythology come together to create a collection of mysterious and quiet pieces that draw the viewer in like a small poem.

Read more about Locutions over at the Craft Victoria website.

All photos by Lily Feng.

More Regal Savage

Maryann and Emma are chugging away at their collaborative effort over in Gallery 3 as part of I'll Show You My Craft If You Show Me Yours. In case you haven't heard, Maryann and Emma are combining their collective skills of weaving, crocheting and shoemaking to create a full outfit (dress, cape, shoes) for a fictional British Queen visiting Samoa during the colonial times.

Check out their latest progress here, or better yet drop by tomorrow for Maryann and Emma's artist talk! It's all happening at 2pm at Craft Vic tomorrow.

 

Click here to view images from their first week of collaboration!

At the risk of sounding like broken record, Maryann and Emma will be presenting an artist talk at Craft Victoria tomorrow (Saturday) at 2pm. You might never come across two more passionate and articulate ladies, so do schedule it in as something to do!

Photography: Kim Brockett

Craft Cubed satellite exhibition: Jasmine Targett, 'Bubbling Up'

Using highly innovative materials such as NASA's dichroic glass, Bubbling Up examines the fragility of the Earth's atmosphere and ecosystems that appear like a bubble, on the constant verge of collapse. Sometimes fickle and ever elusive, Bubbling Up highlights the ongoing need to quantify ecological concerns. Every day there are thousands of toxic gases bubbling up in the atmosphere. In the age of heightened ecological awareness Bubbling Up poses the question, is it possible to view a beautiful sunset and not wonder if the sky is set ablaze with such unique colours because of the toxic pollutants in the air reacting with the atmosphere? In the space that surrounds us, what is bubbling up?

If you haven't seen Jasmine Targett's exhibition Bubbling Up and Dianne Tanzer Gallery on Gertrude Street, we highly encourage you to! It's part of the Craft Cubed satellite exhibitions program and Jasmine has very nicely provided some beautiful images of her exhibition and the opening.

Bubbling Up is on at Dianne Tanzer Gallery, 108-110 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy until Saturday 10 September.

PS, Jasmine also has an upcoming exhibition entitled Making Sense with Debbie Symons which opens at Craft Victoria next Thursday from 6-8pm!


All images courtesy of Jasmine Targett.