Craft Pop Up Shop 2015

I recently visited the Craft pop up shop in the Melbourne Town Hall (90-120 Swanston St, Melbourne VIC 3000), 'featuring the works of Australia's leading craftspeople and emerging talent'. Craft Victoria is the hub for contemporary craft and design. I really liked the creativity and quirkiness the craftspeople put into their work and it is always wonderful to suport other local creatives.

The pop up shop includes over 70 local makers; ceramics, jewellery, textiles, timber, paper, glass, mixed media, installations and demonstrations. Here are just some of the makers featured in the space; Melbourne ceramicists Andrei Davidoff, Sophie Moran, Alterfact and Vanessa Lucas, Melbourne jeweller Abby Seymour, leather worker Emma Greenwood, textile illustrators Sandra Eterovic and Georgina Cue, installations by makers Kim Jaeger (Pot Heads) and John Brooks, furniture designers Dale Hardiman, Coco FlipRedfox and Wilcox and Tide Design.

Dates: 21 October – 21 November, 2015.
Opening Hours: Monday-Sunday 11am-6pm, open until 7pm on Fridays.

Vanessa Lucas ceramics Craft 2015

Vanessa Lucas ceramics, 2015

Alterfact one of a kind 3D printed vase 2015

Alterfact, One of a Kind 3D printed vase, 2015, Southern Ice Porcelain

Georgina Cue Mania Craft 2014

Georgina Cue, Manina, 2014, 52cm x 48cm, Acyrylic yarn on fly-screen, framed

Sofie Moran Quarry Collection Cup Craft 2015

Sofie Moran, Quarry Collection Cups, high fired stoneware with flecked, matte glaze

John Brooks Blobjects Craft 2015

John Brooks, Blobjects, 2015, Fuax fur, jersey, synthetic metallics, wood and paper plup

Kim Jaeger Basnarica II Stoneware clay Craft 2015

Kim Jaeger (Pot Heads) , Basnarica II, 2015, Stoneware clay and glaze, ceramic paint

 

Stanislava Pinchuk (Miso): Surface To Air

She has done it again, Stanislava Pinchuk (Miso) new sellout exhibition 'Surface To Air' at Karen Woodbury Gallery (Level 1/167 Flinders Lane, Melbourne) is just beautiful. The very stunningly subtle pin holes on paper have a very poignant message.

"Surface To Air is a mapping of the Ukrainian civil war across landscape topographies & sonic scores. While a nod to the S.T.A missiles used in the conflict, the title also hints at the experience of war from a private perspective, coming up for air in resilience."

Go and see the show as it is even better in person. Enjoy the images…

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STANISLAVA PINCHUK, Air {Sonic Notation: Car Bomb, Kharkov}  2015, pin holes on paper, 86.0 x 66.8 cm (framed)

(Image courtesy the artist and Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne)

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STANISLAVA PINCHUK, Air {Sonic Notation: Bomb Reverberating, Maidan},  2015, pin holes on paper, 86.0 x 66.8 cm (framed)
(Image courtesy the artist and Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne)

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STANISLAVA PINCHUK, Air {Sonic Notation: Bomb Reverberation, Mariupol} , 2015, pin holes on paper, 86.0 x 66.8 cm (framed)

(Image courtesy the artist and Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne)

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STANISLAVA PINCHUK, Scroll: Fireworks to Bombs {Maidan} Firework I, 2015, pin holes on paper, 31.5 x 22.7 cm (framed)

(Image courtesy the artist and Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne)

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STANISLAVA PINCHUK, Scroll: Fireworks to Bombs {Maidan} Firework II, 2015, pin holes on paper, 31.5 x 22.7 cm (framed)

(Image courtesy the artist and Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne)

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STANISLAVA PINCHUK, Scroll: Fireworks to Bombs {Maidan} Firework III, 2015, pin holes on paper, 31.5 x 22.7 cm (framed)

(Image courtesy the artist and Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne)

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STANISLAVA PINCHUK, Scroll: Fireworks to Bombs {Maidan} Firework V, 2015, pin holes on paper, 31.5 x 22.7 cm (framed)

(Image courtesy the artist and Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne)

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STANISLAVA PINCHUK, Surface {Textile, Odessa}, 2015, pin holes on paper, 165.0 x 113.5 cm (framed)

(Image courtesy the artist and Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne)

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STANISLAVA PINCHUK, Surface {Textile, Kharkov}, 2015, pin holes on paper, 165.0 x 113.5 cm (framed)

(Image courtesy the artist and Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne)Pinchuk_surface_6_2015_1STANISLAVA PINCHUK, Surface {Textile, Donetsk} ii , 2015, pin holes on paper, 165.0 x 113.5 cm (framed)

(Image courtesy the artist and Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne)

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STANISLAVA PINCHUK, Bedsheet Topography II , 2015, pin holes on paper, 19.8 x 12.7 cm (framed)

(Image courtesy the artist and Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne)

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STANISLAVA PINCHUK, Bedsheet Topography IV, 2015, pin holes on paper, 19.8 x 12.7 cm (framed)

(Image courtesy the artist and Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne)

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Stanislava Pinchuk (Miso) , 'Surface To Air' at Karen Woodbury Gallery

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Stanislava Pinchuk (Miso) , 'Surface To Air' at Karen Woodbury Gallery

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Stanislava Pinchuk (Miso) , 'Surface To Air' at Karen Woodbury Gallery

2012 National Works on Paper winner

Congratulations to Laith McGregor, winner of the $15000. The exhibition runs from 19 August – 7 October 2012 the at the Mornington Peninsula Regional GalleryAlso you can click here to vote for the Peoples Choice Award. (As I'm in the show I hope you vote for me but of course you don't have to). Below is the winning work The Astronomer. 


Also a nice video ABC did on him, he is actually working on The Astronomer drawing…

Images via Laith McGregor's blog