Ceramics: Mud and the divine

The June issue of ca enews has a contemporary ceramics focus. Craft Australia visits the issue of sustainaibility for ceramics in an interview with Prue Vanables, Creative Director of the JamFactory Ceramics Studio. Prue Venables discusses the challenges of managing the Studio, how hand-made ceramics fit into the market and shares her earlier experience in designing a dinner set for hotel ware, made from recycled porcelain, for the Japanese Green Life 21 project, read more at ca enews # 65 June 2011

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Featured Articles 

• Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, pottery and presence, interview read more
• Prue Venables, ceramics - sustainability, movement and possibility, interview  read more 

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Gwyn Hanssen Piggott, white on white, wood-fired translucent porcelain, 2011, Sophie Gannon Gallery 
Prue Venables, Rosary, Porcelain, cast, pierced, linen and felt, 2010

Craft Australia attends the launch of CAPITheticAL

CAPITheticAL

CAPITheticAL and Craft: Canberra in a hundred years  

Embassy of the United States, Canberra

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• Detail of Charles Coulter cyclorama 1911 at Capithetical launch Centenery of Canberra May 2011
• Detail of Charles Coulter cyclorama 1911 at Capithetical launch Centenery of Canberra May 2011
• His Excellency Michael Bryce at the launch of CAPIThetical
• The American Ambassador to Australia, Jeffrey L. Bleich

Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft

Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft , a set on Flickr.

* 2005: Les Blakebrough

* 2006: Klaus Moje

* 2007: Marian Hosking

* 2008: Liz Williamson

* 2009: Jeff Mincham

* 2010: Robert Baines

About the series

Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft celebrates the achievements of Australia's iconic and influential crafts practitioners and promotes the work of Australian artists whose exemplary craft skills have been recognised by their peers.

Stay turned for the announcement of the 2012-2015 Living Treasure recipients in late July 2011.

Read more about the series on the link below.

 Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft

Craft Australia's Top 10 Library Articles June 2011

 The ten most visited pages in the Craft Australia Library over the last 30 days.

• CAPITheticAL and Craft: Canberra in a hundred years
• Jo Kellock, Textile and Fashion Industries of Australia, interview
• Sweet success 
• Good design - Designing Tomorrow 
• Jamie Perrow, Crafting public art, interview 
• Strings Through the Heart: the proliferation of coiling across Australia 
• New Things: Koskela lights made in Elcho Island 
• Queensland - a place for public art - art+place 
• Examining the connections between architecture and jewellery 
• Jimmy Pike and Desert Designs in Ningbo    

Read more articles in the Craft Australia Library 

Image:  Jimmy Pike and Desert Designs