Object Magazine

(2009)
Feature: Seven 21st Century Ceramicists gather for a photo at the National Art School ceramics studio.
Profile: Crafts Mastermind: Jane Burns: Grace Cochrane profiles one of Australia's most vocal crafts movement supporters.
Profile: Marina Murdilnga: Read about the woven sculptures of this Arnhem Land-based Indigenous fibre artist.
Key topics: ceramics; pottery; Jane Burns; weaving; Indigenous design; fibre; textiles

(2009)
Feature: Wood: A social commentary explores how contemporary designers work with wood.
Profile: Kevin Perkins Furniture explores the work of this Tasmanian artisan, written by Australian writer Richard Flanaghan.
Profile: Jon Goulder speaks about his furniture practice on his move to Perth.
Key topics: wood; timber; furniture; making; craft; artisan; design

(2008)
Feature: The Canning Stock Route Project, celebrating the lives and stories of Western Desert Indigenous people.
Feature: Gatherings, Urban Art Projects engages Indigenous artists from remote communities.
Feature: Pottery that defies convention, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ceramics.
Key topics: Indigenous and Torres Strait makers and artists; FORM, Perth; Urban Art Projects; foundry; public art

(2008)
Feature: The Slow Prototype Design, Brian Parkes writes about rapid prototyping and the work of Australian designers Adam Goodrum, Stefan Lie and Gilbert Riedelbauch.
Profile: Sandra Backlund Knitwear, The lavishly sculptural knitwear of Sandra Backlund.
Key topics: rapid prototyping; design education; product design; furniture; Adam Goodrum; Stefan Lie; Gilbert Riedelbauch; Sandra Backlund; fashion; knitwear; textiles

(2008)
Studios: US-based glass maker Marc Petrovic is interviewed by Shannon Sharpe.
Studios: Adelia Borges invites us into the studio of Brazilian ceramicist Sara Carone.
Studios: Brian Parkes explores the work of New Zealand jeweller Alan Preston.
Key topics: glass; USA; ceramics; Brazil; pottery; jewellery; New Zealand

(2007-2008)
Cover Story: 'An Enduring Relationship', Patricia Anderson writes about six contemporary Australian Jewellers.
Feature: Heidi Dokulil introduces Australian furniture, lighting and object designers Kelly Freeman and Rina Bernabei.
Feature: 'What Museums Do With Objects', Jonathan Sweet champions the value of decorative arts collections in Australian museums.
Key topics: jewellery; Rina Bernabei, Kelly Freeman, furniture; lighting; object design; designers; decorative arts; collections; museums

(2007)
Cover Story: Relationship Counselling, The Current State Of The Union Between Contemporary Art And Craft, written by Robert Cook.
Regulars: Make/Me Everyday Stories, Merryn Gates talks to Anne Brennan about her collection of ceramics by Rebecca Dowling.
Key topics: contemporary art; craft; ceramics; Rebecca Dowling

(2007)
Cover Story: 'Starting A New Sentence About Australian Design', Anne Brennan on the exhibition Freestyle: New Australian Design for Living.
Feature article: Grace Cochrane: Smart Works, Jenny Deves interviews Grace Cochrane about Smart works: design and the handmade.
Feature article: 'Traditional, Or Is It?', Christine Clarke looks at the contemporary reworking of traditional craft forms in the Queensland Art Gallery's fifth Asia-Pacific Triennial.
Key topics: design; handmade; craft; Asia-Pacific Triennial

(2006 - 2007)
Cover Story: Team Glass, The studio glass community's culture of sharing.
Feature: A Touch of Wool, The design and science of wool merged a long time ago within the Western Australian wool industry.
Profile: Charles Wilson, The 2006 winner of the Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award is profiled by Rachael Bernstone.
Key topics: glass; studio glass; wool; textile arts; Charles Wilson; design; furniture; lighting

(2006)
Cover Story: Stitches In Time, In weaving, printing and stitching, today's textile artists and designers use astonishing range of old and new technologies in their work.
Feature: Damian Barton, Andrew Nicholls profiles Western Australian furniture designer Damien Barton.
Feature: Dialogue: Exploring Opportunities In Textiles, Weavers Liz Williamson and Kelly Thompson discuss their work.
Key topics: weaving; printing; stitching; textile arts; design; technology; furniture design; Damien Barton; Liz Williamson, Kelly Thompson

(2006)
Cover: Fostering Talent, Merryn Gates writes about Robert Foster's Canberra business FINK & Co.
Feature: Living In A Material World, the Victoriana-influenced work of New Zealand jeweller Octavia Cook.
Feature: Craft By Design, Paivi Ernkvist and Zandra Ahl on the first years of the Swedish organisation Craft in Dialogue.
Key topics: production; process; metal; design; Robert Foster; Canberra; jewellery; gold; silver; New Zealand; Sweden; craft; art; design

(2005-2006)
Feature: Whiter Than White, Janet DeBoos analyses whiteness in ceramics and how Les Blakeborough came to develop his 'Southern Ice' clay bodies.
Feature: Verbally Adept Furniture, Grant Thompson investigates Tim Larkin's relational furniture
Feature: Lost And Won, Architect Brit Andresen on the jewellery of Barbara Heath.
Key topics: Janet DeBoos; Les Blakeborough; ceramics; clay; Tim Larkin; furniture; jewellery; Barbara Heath

(2005)
Cover Story: The Basket Economy, Kevin Murray discusses the making and collecting of woven forms from the Western Desert to South Africa.
Feature: Woolly World, A knitting fad is taking a lively hold in New Zealand, and Gina Irish investigates.
Key topics: baskets; weaving; fibre arts; craft; global; knitting; textile arts; wool; New Zealand

(2005)
Feature: A Sustainable Design, Ecology and economy are mutually achievable, says architect Caroline Pidcock.
Feature: Extracts from the new monograph on artist Fiona Hall by Julie Ewington.
Feature: Cloaked In Time, Penelope Aiken on Thai artist Montri Toemsombat.
Key topics: sustainable design; ecology; architecture; Caroline Pidcock; artist; Fiona Hall; Thai; Montri Toemsombat

(2004)
Article: Four Sisters exhibition, fibre art from West Arnhem Land
Article: In the Pacific rim, Ian Were speaks to several artists about their international residencies
Article: Sofia Tekela-Smith, contemporary jewellery
Key topics: fibre art; Indigenous; weaving; art; residency; international; jewellery; art

(2004)
Article: Handmade at the Heart of things, Grace Cochrane takes an in-depth look at crafts over the last four decades.
Article: Talent is not enough, Design historian Michael Bogle looks at 40 years of design activity and education.
Article: The gentle wash of memory, Wendy Walker on jeweller Leslie Mathews.
Key topics: crafts; history; design; education; jewellery; memory

(2003)
Article: Copper red, tea dust and temmoku, Wendy Walker writes about Kirsten Coelho's ceramics
Article: Artisans + artist colonies, the fabrics and frocks of fashion brand Easton Pearson.
Article: Syaw, Peppimenarti artist Regina Wilson
Key topics: ceramics; glaze; pottery; Kirsten Coelho; fashion; fabric; textiles; Easton Pearson; art; Regina Wilson; weaving; painting; Indigenous art

(2003)
Article: Magic Carpets from Ernabella, Central Australian Indigenous artists and the State Library of South Australia Rugs Project.
Article: Translucent Light, ceramics and lighting combine in a collaboration between Angela Mellor and Mondo Lucé.
Article: Seductive Evidence, The work of multi-media artist Patricia Harper.
Key topics: Ernabella; Indigenous art; rugs; weaving; ceramics; lighting; multi-media art

(2003)
Feature: Wild Nature, curator Margot Osborne writes about the exhibition 'Wild Nature in Contemporary Australian Art and Craft'.
Feature: Beyond the City Limits, the wild beauty of Shirley Macnamara's fibre vessels
Feature: Like a Lizard Drinking, an Australian pottery idiom, when animals were kings of the ceramic jungle
Key topics: nature; making; art; Indigenous art; fibre art; vessels; weaving; spinifex; ceramics; animals; Australian

(2002)
Feature: 21st Century Chairs, Brisbane City Gallery's exhibition of 28 chairs
Feature: The Cast, recent New Zealand glass
FeatureFeature: All that glitters..., Sheridan Kennedy's exotic jewellery
Key topics: furniture; chairs; design; glass; New Zealand; ceramics; Cheryl Lucas; jewellery; Sheridan Kennedy

(2002)
Article:Eau Sauvage: It's crystal clear that artist, Timothy Horn's career is on an upwards curve.
Feature:Glass works: Canberra Glass artist Giles Bettison, mastering material and techniques
Feature:Lost in Space: Designing Futures is a global forum featuring contemporary fine wood and furniture design
Key topics: Timothy Horn; glass; Giles Bettison; furniture design; sustainable design

(2002)
Article:Marc Newson: Is currently working on the design for a new airline. And perhaps a space-station, Anne Watson reports.
Article:The Lure of Metal: Two significant New Zealand jewellers, Rainer Beneke and Ann Culy
Feature:Rare Earth: Glass artists Scott Chaseling and Kristie Rea
Key topics: Marc Newson; design works; Jewellery; New Zealand; Glass, Canberra Glass

(2001)
Article: Jeweller Niki Hastings-McFall tackles environmental concerns and speaks about her experience living in the urban Pacific region.
Article: The processes and inspiration behind Jeweller Marian Hosking's work is discussed by Alex Selenitsch
Review: Recycling in Contemporary Craft is a national touring exhibition with a curatorial theme of creative re-use
Feature: Glass Maker Jun Kaneko's monumental glass reported by Isabella Reich
Key topics: jewellery; New Zealand; Pacific; recycling; sustainability; glass; Marian Hosking

(2001)
Interiors Feature: De Ma: Amanda Greeves reports on the success of a new collaboration between designers and manufactures to produce interior products
Review: iSaloni 2001: International furniture fair
Review: Lace: Contemporary Perspectivies a review of the CRAFTWEST Gallery exhibition
Key topics: furniture design; manufacturing; Queensland design; Lace; textiles; CraftWest Gallery

(2001)
Article: Dyson's Philosophy - British designer James Dyson has succeeded
Article: Textile artist Kelly Thompson embraces the local and the international
Feature: New Design 2001 - Graduate exhibition and award
Key topics: design; new technology; textiles; object award; Australian graduates

(2000)
Article: Making & placing the object - A case study of the Ngarrindjeri people of South Australia
Korea — Australia Feature: No Apologies - Korean artist Ium
Korea — Australia Feature: Korean metal jewellery
Key topics: Ngarrindjeri; Indigenous; basketry; media objects; fashion; photography; Korea; jewellery

(2000)
Short: Objects between Cultures — Necklaces from Arnhem Land
Feature: Design for Everybody — Swedish design for the active life
Key topics: Indigenous; jewellery; craft; accessible design

(2000)
Article: Whither jewellery — focusing on Ilse-Marie Erl and Octavia Cook
Article: Handheld gardens — Toni Warburton's ceramic objects
Feature: Interactive metal — Korean tradition & innovation at Object studios
Feature: Ah Xian's China – Facsimile & the impossibility of perfection
Key topics: Jewellery; ceramics; metal

(2000)
Short: No Picnic — Porcelain by Nicole Lister
Short: Discrete and Gregarious — Sally Marslands Jewellery and objects
Short: Wide (true) Blue Yonder — Recent jewellery of Margaret West
Key Topics: Ceramics; Jewellery

(1999)
Review: Never enough — new work by Gwyn Hanssen Pigott
Short: Earth, Wings and Wire — the work of Vicky Shukuroglou
Feature: Weaving through other eyes —the west in the east
Key topics: Ceramics; jewellery; textiles; weaving

(1999)
What’s New In Museums: Australian design at the Powerhouse
short: Designs on the Future — JamFactory metal
Feature: Collard — Deborah Crowe’s woven metal wearables
Key topics: contemporary design, metal design, jewellery, textiles, wearable

(1999)

Review: Time and Tide — questioning the practice, craft and cultural practice
Short: Hardware — Contemporary Objects explores metalwork by Adelaide makers
Feature: The Magic of Indigo — the colour of love or sorrow?
Feature: Tableware through meditation — Martha Sung-won Lee
Key topics: Contemporary craft; metalwork; jewellery; indigo; tableware

(1999)
Review: The Ceramic Still Life — exhibition review
Short: New Jewellery from Australia exhibited at Galerie Ra Amsterdam
Feature: Snow blind — Glass by Helen Aitken-Kuhen
Feature: Thread-bare textiles — reinvigorating contemporary textile practice
Key topics: ceramics; still life; jewellery; glass; textiles

(1998)
Review: Nature as Object — Third International Crafts Triennial
Review: Sit Up! — 100 Masterpieces of chair design
Short: Black histories — explores regional cultural traditions, identities and jewels
Key topics: furniture design; product design; cultural tradition; craft; jewellery

(1998)
Review: Pieces of Heaven — Tivaeve, ceremonial quilts from the Cook Islands
Feature: A culture of the tropics? — North Queensland craft practitioners
Feature: Wither Olde Europe? — Thoughts on cultural transference
Key topics: textiles; culture; pacific island; craft; tradition

(1998)
Review: Material Evidence: 100 Headless Woman — exhibition review
Review: Wood Dreaming — contemporary Australian woodturning
Feature: Hanchi — traditional Korean paper rediscovered
Feature: Bat Trang's — traditional 'blue' ceramics
Key topics: textiles; craft; woodturning; object; design; Hanachi paper; ceramics

(1998)
Review: Spaces of containment — Fibre works from the anthropology collection of the University of Queensland
Feature: Shona Wilson — mixed media work and ceramic vessels
Feature: A Virtual Craft Conspiracy — Can craft interface with computer technology?
Key topics: Fibre works; Aboriginal; craft; ceramics; Shona Wilson; computer technology; virtual craft

(1997)
Feature: Emerging artists — a view from art and design schools
Feature: Nicola Cerini's bold new range of fabric design
Article: Similarity and difference — craftspeople and visual artists
Key topics: textiles; fabric design; craft vs art

(1997)
Editorial: What's new in Museums — Yiribana at AGNSW
Review: Jewellery by Rowena Gough
Feature: Contemporary Pacific art, culture and definitions
Key topics: Yiribana; Aboriginal; Torres Strait Islander; art; craft; weaving; jewellery; Pacific Art

(1997)
Review: Else King's exhibition Fragile Objects uses the medium of textiles as a metaphor for both land and body
Feature: Shanghai Style — Exhibiting Australian Fine Metalwork in Shanghai's new Museum
Key topics: craft; textiles; shibori; Shanghai Museum; object; metalwork

(1997)
Special Feature: Robert Baines discusses Donna Brennan's remarkable gold, enamel and crystal jewellery
Review: Fire in the Heart, Australian Enamel at Craftspace gallery
Key topics: jewellery; glass enamel; metal enamel; craft

(1996)
Review: Questioning the practice — Diana Klaosen on a craft curator's program in Tasmania
Special Feature: Glass Prize and corporate support — Pamile Berg looks at the RFC Glass Prize and its potential
Special Feature: Below the surface —  Kevin Murray delves into this recent. substantial textiles show and conference
Key topics: curating; residence; Glass; textiles

(1996)
Special Feature: SOFA, So Good! — The world's only exposition of Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art is on again
Special Feature: Glass Artist's Gallery off-shore — Ivana Jirasek explains the gallery's involvement in SOFA and similar events
Review: Offerings — Helen Schamroth on David Trubridge's new wood works
Review: Head first — Ted Snell discusses a national award exhibition of jewellery
Key topics: wood; jewellery; furniture; object; design

(1996)
Special Feature: The Language of Weaving from Maningrida — successful re-contextualisation of weaving as iconic or sculptural pieces
Special Feature: Aboriginal and folk art, and "puerile" contemporary art
Key topics: Weaving; Aboriginal; art; context

(1996)
Feature: Col Levy's intimate connection between work and the process of nature within ceramics
Review: Lascivious opposition — Ceramicists Stephen Benwell and David Pottinger
Article: Turning culture into an economic product — Helen Ross discusses Australia's cultural exchange relations with Asia and the Pacific Region
Key topics: craft; ceramics; material culture; text and meaning

(1995)
Article: HiTech Waste —  A new range of composite recycled materials
Article: Miyake clothing and fashion design for the Powerhouse
Article: At the Clinton's house — What is it really like to visit a craft exhibition on the Net?
Arctile: Where worlds converge —  Engaging with issues of ecodesign and new technologies
Article: Kevin Murray asks, will the role of craft be immaterial?
Article: John Thackara looks at how we are synthesize the cultural impact of technology
Key topics: waste; sustainability; recycle; design; fashion; virtual exhibition; ecodesign; new technology

(1995)
Article: Oz Ceramics at Faenza — historical and contemporary ceramics
Article: Ether, net, dust mound, or red mountain — 'Peter King speculates on the ties, nodes and bonds between craft, art, cyberspace and ethics'
Article: Craft Ecology — 'Peter Hughes proposes that the crafts could have new significance in a world addicted to technology'
Key topics: ceramics; craft; cyberspace; future

(1995)
Feature: Occupied Territory — Museum of Sydney its merchandising initiatives and Friona Hall
Feature: Geta.new@address.ok? — How are artists, designers and theorists using the Internet
Key topics: art; craft; internet; future; design