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Arts and Crafts Movement in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

In England, furniture, jewellery, household items, ceramics, hand-decorated wallpapers and textiles, gardens and even entire houses were produced in the Arts and Crafts style. The Arts and Crafts movement spread internationally. Australian designers lea...

Australian design - Australia's Culture Portal

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...

Fiona Hall - Australia's Culture Portal

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....

Australian sculpture - Australia's Culture Portal

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 ...

Arts and Crafts Movement in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal   (website Culture Portal )

In England, furniture, jewellery, household items, ceramics, hand-decorated wallpapers and textiles, gardens and even entire houses were produced in the Arts and Crafts style. The Arts and Crafts movement spread internationally. Australian designers lea...

Back to Nowhere   (website(s) Kitezh    Articles on Craft, New Media and Cultural issues by Kevin Murray )

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...

Microsoft Word - The paper Tuesday 28.doc   (website Craft Victoria )

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...

Craft Victoria : Young children and the craft movement in Australia   (website Craft Victoria )

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...

Cultural Collections: Friends of the Baillieu Library 2008   (website Cultural Collections of the University of Melbourne )

Harriet Edquist is Professor of Architectural History in the School of Architecture and Design at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Kylie Mirmohamadi is an historian who writes on Australian garden history, and Australian history and culture. ...

Index: Volumes 11 to   (website Australiana Society )

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...

draft Springs ICP Nov2006.pdf   (website Hobart City Council )

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______________________________________...

Collections_No2_2008:UniMelb   (website Cultural Collections of the University of Melbourne )

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...

Flora Landells.qxd   (website Art Gallery of Western Australia )

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...

International Arts & Crafts   (website Allen and Unwin )

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...

No Title   (website Craft Australia )

Craft Australia Library series: Reviews Women in the crafts Meredith Hinchliffe27 October 2006 Abstract: The period of the mid 1960s to the mid 1980s was one of considerable social change in Australia. Meredith Hinchliffe responds to the exhibition, The ...

Women in the crafts   (website Craft Australia )

Meredith Hinchliffe responds to the exhibition, The Crafted Objects 1960s - 80s, and writes about the studio craft movement in Australia during this time. Australian women were instrumental in establishing the national craft organisation that became the C...

Craft Victoria : Craft Victoria: a History   (website Craft Victoria )

Craft Victoria was established as the Craft Association of Victoria in 1970. A national crafts network started in Australia with the establishment of the Craft Association of Australia (New South Wales Branch), in 1964, following the first WCC conference...

Microsoft Word - Craft Victoria History.doc   (website Craft Victoria )

Craft Victoria: a historyGrace Cochrane An international context: the 1960s Craft Victoria was established as the Craft Association of Victoria in 1970. The crafts movement in Australia: A national crafts network started in Australia with the establishme...

Craft Victoria : History   (website Craft Victoria )

Craft Victoria was established as the Craft Association of Victoria in 1970. A national crafts network started in Australia with the establishment of the Craft Association of Australia (New South Wales Branch), in 1964, following the first WCC conference...