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Arts and Crafts Movement in Australia - Australia's Culture PortalThere was also a significant English influence on Australian arts and crafts, especially in architecture and furniture, from the late 1800s. Established in the 1940s, the Sturt School in Mittagong, New South Wales, helped revive individual studio craft p...
Internationally recognised Australian icons include buildings like the Sydney Opera House (architect Jørn Utzon) and the new Parliament House in Canberra (architect Romaldo Giurgola). Distinctive Australian architecture is also recognisable in the rural ...
Its first product, the F!NK & Co. Jug, designed by Robert Foster, has taken on an iconic status and is still the signature piece of the company. Damian McDonald, Robert Foster with F!NK & Co. Jug. Image courtesy of F!NK & Co. F!NK & Co. design by Robert ...
Craft practice shows us clear tangible evidence of cultural traditions as part of both the craft practice and also its context within Australian culture and design. Bevan Thompson, Norseman Salt Lakes, 2007, Stoneware, coil and throw method, Collection A...
Australian designers, by their very nature, look for simple and elegant solutions for challenges in often ordinary situations, balancing creativity with cost-effectiveness and innovative construction. Inspiration comes not only from historical and interna...
Image courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney. Fiona Hall, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2005. Fiona Hall, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, 2005....
Sculpture is part of many everyday Australian places including streets, public squares, buildings, parks and gardens. The influence of sculpture is obvious in the overall design of some notable Australian buildings such as Federation Square and The Austr...
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A New Museum for Australia (website Australiana Society )[Note: Volumes 1 to 10 (40 issues containing over 150 articles by some 70 authors according to Kevin Fahy ëLetter from the Presidentí in Australiana June 1989 Vol.11 No.2 p.64) are indexed in ëAustraliana. Book Notice [Heritage: The National Womenís Art ...
There was also a significant English influence on Australian arts and crafts, especially in architecture and furniture, from the late 1800s. Established in the 1940s, the Sturt School in Mittagong, New South Wales, helped revive individual studio craft p...
This paper looks to the future predicted by William Morris in News From Nowhere, in which the 21st century heralds with a revival of medieval craftsmanship. It nominates the Open Source movement (Linux operating system) as an emerging custodian of the re...
1 Title: Young children and the craft movement in Australia: revisiting old ideas for the present Abstract This paper discusses the ideas influencing the Australian Childrenís Library and Crafts Club, established in 1922, which became the Childrenís Libra...
Mary Rivett, her sister Elsie, along with Mary Matheson, formed the Children’s Library and Crafts Club in 1922. She disapproved of the increased formality of children’s programs as she was an adherent of encouraging the ‘play’ ins...
Harriet Edquist is Professor of Architectural History in the School of Architecture and Design at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. ~á Did you realise that the Leigh Scott Room where the Friends meet houses the private library of Sir Robert Me...
Contents of Australiana magazine volumes 8-26, 1986-2004 This covers 64 issues containing 538 items by 154 authors. Origins and types of medals, in Australia hand-engraved from 1788, die-struck from 1850s, with descriptions of 9 medals dated 1772-1940 il...
This year marks a significant milestone for the Australian Studio Craft Movement. The Australian Studio Craft Movement is typified by a conscious desire to bring crafting traditions back in to focus. Public art galleries throughout Australia have speci...
The Australian Studio Craft Movement is typified by a conscious desire to bring crafting traditions back in to focus. In this book Dr Cochrane describes the craft traditions in Australia prior to the 1970s that laid the foundation for the Australian Stud...
Wellington Park Management Trust THE SPRINGS INITIAL CONSERVATION POLICY INITIAL DRAFT Prepared by McConnell, A. November 2006 Wellington Park Management Trust, GPO Box 503, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001. Context & Approach______________________________________...
Eragny books do not resemble the books produced by other private presses of the period. Elements that set them apart include their beautiful flowered covers which Acquisitions Eragny Press books Jacinta Fleming combine English Arts and Crafts design wit...
A global examination of the Arts and Crafts movement. Lavishly illustrated, this is the first major global examination of the Arts and Crafts movement, including the US, Europe and - for the first time - Japan. Lavishly illustrated and extensively researc...
LOOKING CLOSELY AT WA Women Artists Flora Landells is one of Western Australiaís best known potters and china painters. Landells Studio Pottery In 1928, after only one lesson in throwing pottery, Flora and Reg Landells established their own pottery studi...
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