Tag Archives: Africa

Note on an exhibition of the sculptors work in fabrics as an expression of his Socialist belief in public projects as a way of bringing people together. […]

Article about craftworker Damien Wright's commission to make a table for the Koori Court in Gippsland […]

Restoration of minbar of Saladin, a symbol of Islamic triumph, a priceless masterpiece and a pinnacle of Islamic art. Designs had to be recreated from sacred geometry by Minwer al-Meheid. […]

Talk in New Zealand about the comedy of rich and poor in Australian craft […]

Damian Skinner response to rich/poor dialogue from New Zealand perspective […]

A fascinating account of a particularly rich material culture. Is this the future of a slow world? […]

Description of work by Nigerian ceramicist critiquing the country's political situation […]

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Surviving against the Odds, a book based on Dunham’s research over a period of fourteen years among the rural metalworkers of Java, the island home to nearly half Indonesia’s population. Surviving against the Odds reflects Dunham’s commitment to helping small-scale village industries survive; her pragmatic, non-ideological approach to research and problem so […]

Ceramicists, jewelers, painters, graffiti artists,toymakers,musicians, textile designers, sculptors, bootmakers, and illustrators all give new insight into their practice, their passion and their craft. […]

The story behind the scenes. […]

Outside the Ordinary focuses on the role, development, and perspective of the private collector within the context of the ever–evolving contemporary craft movement. […]

The economic, financial, social and cultural significance of basket-making by women in the region and how designs have changed over the years, with particular focus on Namibia […]

Book by Damian Skinner about a key New Zealand jeweller. Alan Preston was among the vanguard of contemporary jewellers who, in the early 1980s, took a gentle, under-the-radar craft and elevated it into the realm of art. As one of the founders of the pioneering jewellery collective Fingers, he made jewellery that adapted Pacific materials and motifs, capturin […]

A broad selection of work in conceptual crafts, from Chew Your Own Brooch by Ted Noten and the narrative-style Vaetwerk by Maaike Roozenburg to the fairy-tale table Godoga, crafted in Indonesia by Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe. […]

Examines Heidegger's thinking about objects as foundational to his metaphysics […]