Craft Hatch gets a makeover + market madness!

June marks our 20th Craft Hatch market since our launch in November 2008 and to celebrate this, we’re debuting our fabulous fresh new look by designer Adam Cruickshank! Yay thanks Adam! It’s bright and bold, just like our 12 talented designers and collectives featured this month.

The June market will be held on Saturday 12 June at our usual spot in the City Library Gallery, so make sure you come check it out. Click here for more information including a stallholder gallery!

Meanwhile, applications are now open for the next round of markets in August, September and October. In August, Craft Hatch revisits the wonder years with a special 'childhood' themed market programmed to coincide with our annual Craft Cubed festival. This extra-special market will be held on Sunday 8 August at the Atrium in Federation Square. To match our one-off location, it'll also be extra-big one with around 30-35 emerging designers participating! It's an excellent opportunity to enjoy the beautiful surrounds and the deadline for applications is Monday 28 June.

In September we will be reprising our annual fundraising edition for graduating students. Stay tuned for more updates as we are currently in the process of gathering up the next wave of talent for your viewing and buying pleasure... September also sees Craft Hatch returning to the Fed Square Atrium with Craft Hatch @ Melbourne Writers Festival. More details to be released soon!

After all the excitement, it's good to be able to put up our feet for a wee rest in October when the market resumes normal programming. When we say 'wee', we really mean 'wee'... in late October Craft Hatch pairs with the ever lovely folk from the State Library of Victoria for one last hurrah to celebrate the end of 'Til You Drop: Shopping - A Melbourne History'. Stallholder applications will be opening very soon!

So to recap, applications to participate in the August Craft Cubed special at Fed Square, the September Graduate market and the October market are now open. Click here to fill in the online registration form. Applications close Monday 28 June.

We've also got some more exciting collaborations up our sleeves, but we can't give it all away so soon. Make sure you're subscribed to the Craft Almanac, our free monthly e-newsletter (sign up is on the main website), or keep reading CLOG for more updates!


PS. did you know stallholder rates are the same for the August market at Federation Square? That's $15 for Craft Victoria members, $30 for non-members and $50 for groups of five or more. There's no excuse not to apply and emerging designers, you'd be craaazy not to take advantage of this!

Craft Hatch @ MWF (part two)

On Sunday, Craft Hatch was once again the esteemed guest of the Melbourne Writers Festival. Featuring eight emerging and established makers like Studio Sam, Studio Hip, Rebound Books, Kearnsie, Vince Letterpress, Brydie Dyson, Anita Cummins and Michael Pham, it was great to be part of such an incredible festival. Thank you for having us MWF!

Here are some pictures from the day...

Brydie Dyson

Brydie brought along three of her typewriters on the day and invited visitors to sit down and play wordsmith for a while as they typed out a bit of prose, which she then transformed into one of her delicate sculptural paper works. As expected, there was a constant hubbub of people surround Brydie which just goes to show, everyone loves interactive art!

Studio Hip (featuring the most beautiful rocking chair in the world, pictured right)

More scarves and pom poms by CVHQ darling Anita Cummins

Witty badges by Michael Pham (special MWF edition!)

Studio Sam was back again...

...as was Rebound Books.

And of course, the effervescent Meaghan Barbuto of Vince Letterpress

To view more images of the event, click here.

The next Craft Hatch market will take place in two weeks' time on Saturday 12 September at our usual location in the City Library gallery. Featuring 7 graduating courses, it'll be a super special edition of Craft Hatch. No rest for the wicked, really!

Craft Hatch @ MWF (part one)

Check out these photos from the first Craft Hatch market that took place at the Atrium in Federation Square as part of the Melbourne Writers' Festival... it was a great day and thank you to all who came!

Sam Parsons of Studio Sam

Natalie Mason from Rebound Books

Anika Cook of Sneak Design

Prue from PHILOS-o-FACE


Zoe Churchill of Wah Wah Wears

Nicholas Jones, book surgeon and nice guy


Wendy McLean of Wendy June

We'll upload the rest of the photos along with photos from last Sunday's market on Facebook and CLOG soon!



Photography by Richard Brockett

Craft Hatch @ Melbourne Writers Festival

Studio Sam, 23 & 30 August

This Sunday, Craft Hatch and the Melbourne Writers Festival a proud to present a special series of two boutique markets to take place at the Atrium in Federation Square.

Featuring seven emerging and established artists at each market, each of whom produce work that have a literary or text theme, Craft Hatch @ Melbourne Writers Festival: Where Stories Meet Craft is something that we're really looking forward to. Hey, writing is as much a craft as any other craft skill! And what better way than to celebrate this with Craft Hatch @ MWF.

The market will be held this Sunday 23 August and the next on 30 August from 10am to 4pm. Situated at the Atrium in Federation Square, Craft Hatch @ MWF will share the space with the MWF Box Office, MWF Writer-in-Residence of the day Cyril Wong, ExpressMedia, the Australian Poetry Centre, PEN Melbourne, the Victorian Writers Centre, the Society of Editors and of course, Craft Victoria.

For a full list of other MWF events ongoing on Sunday 23 August, click here.

Here's a peek at what's to come:

Nicholas Jones

PHILOS-o-FACE

Wendy June

Wah Wah Wears

Sneak Design

Rebound Books

To recap, Craft Hatch @ MWF is on this Sunday from 10am to 4pm at the Fed Square Atrium.

See you there!