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Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft Liz Williamson: Textiles The work and practice of internationally esteemed textile designer, Liz Williamson, is |
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Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award Exhibition 2008 The Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award Exhibition was open to the public 6 September and ran until 2 November 2008 at Object Gallery. It will tour to the Melbourne Museum in August 2009.
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How You Make It Eight leading Australian fashion designers will be showcased in How You Make It, an interactive and engaging exhibition at Object Gallery from 21 June until 24 August 2008. Even though many of the featured designers are well known and respected on international catwalks, they are not driven by the transient trends which we often see in the fashion world. These designers are unique in that they find their influence within the making process itself asking the question "how and why are things made?" This approach forces us, as consumers, to consider why we choose to adorn our bodies in the way we do. The result - fashion to think about! |
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Design Now! Do you ever wonder what the next big thing in design will be? What are the best emerging ideas and trends? Well, here is your chance to be one step ahead of the crowd. Young designer s from across the country have competed with fellow students to exhibit their work in Object's annual national graduate exhibition Design Now!, showing at Object Gallery from 5 April to 15 June 2008. The group of 18 finalists represent the best and freshest upcoming designers in Australia , selected from over 120 nominees from 21 universities.The exhibition provides a fantastic opportunity u to preview the very latest in design, and meet Australia 's next generation of iconic designers.
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Botanicals Botanicals showcases prominent Australian contemporary artists who are inspired by the natural environment. The unique exhibition experience will show at Object Gallery from 5 April to 15 June 2008. The fifteen featured artists represent a new generation of practitioners who have explored the abundant source of inspiration within Australia, shedding historical associations of kitsch, and looking beyond the repetitive trend of overseas influence.
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A Secret History of Blue and White: Contemporary Australian Ceramics From 19 January 2008, A Secret History of Blue and White: Contemporary Australian Ceramics showcases the ingenious work of five prominent Australian contemporary artists, Robin Best, Stephen Benwell, Bronwyn Kemp, Vipoo Srivilasa and Gerry Wedd. Whether it is a childhood memory of your grandmother’s precious porcelain cabinet or recollections of your travels to Asia, the Middle East or Europe, most of us have a connection to the blue and white ceramic tradition. A Secret History of Blue and White subverts our preconceived notions by applying a contemporary edge and taking this classic practice to a completely new place.
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Living Treasures series 2007/08/09 announcement Object is proud to announce that the next three artists in its annual Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft exhibition series are Liz Williamson (2008), Kevin Perkins (2009) and Robert Baines (2010).
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Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft Marian Hosking: Jewellery Marian Hosking: Jewellery is the third exhibition in Object’s widely applauded Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft exhibition series which celebrates the achievements of senior craft practitioners. With a career spanning almost 40 years, Hosking is one of Australia’s foremost contemporary jewellers and silversmiths.
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Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award Exhibition showcases 2007 finalists 8 September - 4 November 2007 Selected from over sixty of Australia 's finest contemporary designers, Object Gallery is proud to showcase the work of the Award's ten finalists for the second year in a row.
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Making and Meaning: Craft in the 21st Century 7 July - 2 September 2007 Making and Meaning: Craft in the 21st Century brings together nine artists from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Each of the artists blurs the boundaries that define the genres of craft and contemporary visual art by making work that defies easy categorisation. Making and Meaning will showcase their varied eclectic approaches and hybrid processes.
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new design 2007 19 May – 1 July 2007 To be a finalist in Object's annual new design exhibition is one of the most hotly sought-after goals of final-year design students across Australia . As in the past, the outstanding graduates in new design 2007 will be keenly watched by the industry, inspire the next generation of students and provide a new outlook for the public.
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new design 2007 winners The
winners of this year’s new design 2007 Object Award
for Design for Manufacture
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Cultivate8 Object is pleased to announce Cultivate8, its very first education program for students in years 3 to 6.
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Freestyle: new Australian design for living 10 March – 13 May 2007 Freestyle
presents Australia's best and freshest design for the home and the
body by 40 outstanding designers.
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Baubles, Bangles and Beads: Australian Contemporary Jewellery 13 January – 25 February 2007 The Bathurst Regional Art Gallery touring exhibition, Baubles, Bangles and Beads, features over 90 pieces of contemporary Australian jewellery borrowed from 15 private collections.
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Virginia Kaiser: River Stories 13 January – 25 February 2007 Project Space As one of Australia’s most renowned basket makers, Virginia Kaiser has been creating works for over 23 years – and in this, her first exhibition at Object Gallery’s Project Space she will showcase her most recent collection.
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Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft Klaus Moje: Glass 11 November – 7 January 2006 Klaus Moje has led the way in contemporary glass art in Australia. Known for his vividly coloured vessels and wall panels, and his mastery of technique, he is famed as the father of contemporary glass in Australia.
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Zoë Jay Veness: mathematical beauty 11 November – 7 January 2006 Project
Space Her exquisitely crafted paper and metal jewellery is so perfectly proportioned and delicately constructed it will have you wondering how it was made.
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Object Gallery Touring Exhibitions Object announces its biggest touring exhibition program to date. With the opening of Object’s landmark exhibition Freestyle: new Australian design for living at the Melbourne Museum in October, Object Gallery has a total of six exhibitions touring the country.
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Object Mentorship 2006 Object is pleased to announce the recipient of its 2006 Mentorship program! Daniel Weisz, a recent graduate from the University of New South Wales' College of Fine Arts and finalist in Object Gallery's new design 2005 exhibition, stood out from a field of outstanding applicants.
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Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award Exhibition presented by Object Gallery 2 September – 5 November 2006 Object Gallery This exhibition features ground-breaking new designs in lighting, furniture, accessories and homewares.
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Yuken Teruya and Atelier Bow-Wow 2 September – 5 November 2006 Project Space and Object Gallery Window As part of Rapt! 20 Contemporary Artists from Japan, a project organised by the Japan Foundation as part of the Australia-Japan Year of Exchange 2006, Object Gallery presents Yuken Teruya and Atelier Bow-Wow for the first time in Australia.
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St Margarets Design and Architecture Festival 2 – 24 September 2006 Object Gallery, St Margarets Complex, Project Space and Object Gallery Window The growing urban village of St Margarets hosts the inaugural 22-day design and architecture festival in the heart of the Surry Hills design district.
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Droog: A Human Touch 5 August – 1 October 2006 Sydney Opera House Exhibition Hall Renowned Amsterdam-based design phenomenon, Droog Design presently features over 180 designs by over 100 designers.
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Seamless: Three exhibitions of contemporary textiles 15 July – 27 August 2006 Object Gallery, Project Space and Object Gallery Window Seamless presents three interweaving exhibitions that focus on the possibilities of textile art – a matter of time: the 16th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial, Visible Darning by Liz Williamson and 8 Ounces by Ahn Wells.
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Janet Laurence: Birdsong 13 May – 9 July 2006 Birdsong is an immersive and engaging outcome of research into the ornithological collection of the Australia Museum by Janet Laurence with Ross Gibson.
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Nick Bastin: Asakusa Window 13 May – 9 July 2006 Object Gallery Window Nick Bastin presents the results from his 2005 Australia Council residency in Tokyo; a fun and unexpected connection between an ancient culture and the chaos of a plastic future.
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new design 2006 25 March – 7 May 2006 This popular annual graduate exhibition introduces the most outstanding design graduates in the country, working across product design, textiles, fashion, ceramics, glass and furniture.
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