HOMEWARES: Craft ACT Retail E-Catalogue
Welcome HOME: Everyday Beautiful There is uncertainty all around us but some things seem clearer than ever. We need to take more care: of each other, of our community, of creativity and our world. The care taken in contemporary craft and design is extraordinary. Craft ACT members, featured on every page of this catalogue, spend years learning their craft, and then invest a lifetime to hone it. With care, it is possible to bring beauty into our everyday experience. A handcrafted cup, platter, serving spoons or jug will help to surround you with beautiful and original design, every day. Your purchase will support local makers, contemporary craftspeople and designers including contemporary jewellers, furniture-makers, and ceramic, glass and textiles artists. Meet some of the makers behind the designs: from F!NK + Co’s iconic jugs and vases, Alison Jackson’s minimalist tableware, Girl Nomad’s earthy ceramics, Chelsea Lemon’s wooden parquetry trays and many more. I personally own many of these items and enjoy them with my family – they transform even the simplest of meals into something special, and caring. In this time of social distancing, it's more important than ever to care. Help us to create and sustain a vibrant, creative and caring community, and celebrate the beauty in the everyday. I hope you enjoy Craft ACT’s new and beautiful HOME: Everyday Beautiful catalogue. Rachael Coghlan CEO+Artistic Director
Welcome HOME:
Everyday Beautiful
There is uncertainty all around us but some things seem clearer than ever.
We need to take more care: of each other, of our community, of creativity and our world.
The care taken in contemporary craft and design is extraordinary. Craft ACT members, featured on every page of this catalogue, spend years learning their craft, and then invest a lifetime to hone it.
With care, it is possible to bring beauty into our everyday experience. A handcrafted cup, platter, serving spoons or jug will help to surround you with beautiful and original design, every day.
Your purchase will support local makers, contemporary craftspeople and designers including contemporary jewellers, furniture-makers, and ceramic, glass and textiles artists.
Meet some of the makers behind the designs: from F!NK + Co’s iconic jugs and vases, Alison Jackson’s minimalist tableware, Girl Nomad’s earthy ceramics, Chelsea Lemon’s wooden parquetry trays and many more. I personally own many of these items and enjoy them with my family – they transform even the simplest of meals into something special, and caring.
In this time of social distancing, it's more important than ever to care. Help us to create and sustain a vibrant, creative and caring community, and celebrate the beauty in the everyday. I hope you enjoy Craft ACT’s new and beautiful HOME: Everyday Beautiful catalogue.
Rachael Coghlan
CEO+Artistic Director
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F!NK challenges the notions that functional is<br />
boring, and that useful and visually exciting are<br />
mutually exclusive. Simultaneously supremely<br />
functional and totally elegant, no two F!NK<br />
pieces are exactly the same. Each article is<br />
created in small batches of 20 to 100 units and<br />
individually hand-finished in the Queanbeyan<br />
studio/workshop.<br />
When commissioned to create a jug by a<br />
prominent Canberra restaurant in the 1990s,<br />
Robert took aluminium tubing, an everyday<br />
sustainable material, and fashioned it into a<br />
sleek economically viable product. The Water<br />
Jug was the first F!NK product and is still the<br />
mainstay of the company. It is a striking practical<br />
object and encapsulates the qualities of F!NK +<br />
Co.: distinctive design, function and technical<br />
innovation.<br />
In 2010, Canberra electricity, gas and water<br />
supplier, <strong>ACT</strong>EWAGL, commissioned a major<br />
installation work from F!NK: ‘The Journey’, a<br />
dynamic lighting sculpture that covers 300<br />
square metres in a city centre building foyer. 37<br />
ossolites range in height from 1m to 3m; LEDs<br />
inside the plexiglas forms change colour with<br />
preprogramed sequences and interact to<br />
viewer’s movement using five motion sensors. It<br />
is stunningly beautiful and mesmerising work of<br />
art - a fitting tribute to F!NK artistry.<br />
Tragically, Robert Foster was killed in a car<br />
accident in July 2016. Today, F!NK + Co. is<br />
spearheaded by his partner Gretel Harrison. The<br />
company has continued to go from strength to<br />
strength as Gretel and the F!NK staff build on<br />
the legacy of Robert Foster. //<br />
F!NK<br />
Water Jug<br />
Anodised aluminium with a cast steel handle<br />
$375 - $395
.<br />
‘My studio is bursting at the seams with stacks of<br />
clay and pots and giant buckets of glaze, test tiles<br />
and ideas teetering on high shelves, with ferns<br />
nestled in between,’ she says. ‘It’s organised chaos;<br />
some days more organised, some days more<br />
chaos!’<br />
Creating a sense of home and place is important to<br />
Richilde. She is interested in making meaningful<br />
homewares that give a sense of tradition and ritual<br />
in the user’s life and bring focus and beauty to the<br />
act of eating and cooking.<br />
‘Most of my work is thrown on the potter’s wheel<br />
using stoneware clay and is gas fired. I’m starting<br />
to incorporate hand building processes such as<br />
slab building. This adds a sense of play and I find it<br />
enjoyable to have a diverse range of techniques in<br />
my practice,’ she says. //<br />
Girl Nomad Ceramics<br />
Bowl<br />
Ceramic<br />
From $44<br />
Chris Harford<br />
Ironstone Plate<br />
Ceramic<br />
$99<br />
Alison Jackson<br />
Cheese tools<br />
Handcrafted stainless steel<br />
$250<br />
Agnieszka Berger<br />
Beaker<br />
Ceramics<br />
From $44
.<br />
‘I am lucky to have grown as a designer within the<br />
Canberra region. There is a strong sense of<br />
community within the design field. We support<br />
each other and work together on projects,’ she<br />
says.<br />
Highlights of Chelsea’s recent career have been<br />
her Granger table - a meticulously hand-crafted<br />
plane made up of geometric splices of wood - and<br />
her Wave and Curl Serving dishes, showcasing a<br />
variety of timbers in striking statement piece table<br />
bowls.<br />
Chelsea was the designer in residence for the 2018<br />
Design Canberra Festival. She graduated in 2015<br />
from the ANU with Honours in a Bachelor of Visual<br />
Arts, majoring in Furniture Design. She received the<br />
2014 Designcraft: <strong>Craft</strong> + Design People’s Choice<br />
Award for her Triangulation Chair as well as the<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> <strong>ACT</strong> Exhibition Award to showcase her chair<br />
in the 2015 ‘Emerging Contemporaries’ exhibition.<br />
//<br />
Chelsea Lemon<br />
Curl Serving Tray<br />
Walnut<br />
$350<br />
Jeremy Brown<br />
Serving Board<br />
Tasmania Oak<br />
$120<br />
Twig to Table<br />
Scoop<br />
Australian Blackwood<br />
$40
Alison’s work is held in numerous public and<br />
private collections, including a large acquisition<br />
by the Canberra Museum and Gallery. A<br />
recipient of numerous awards and grants such<br />
as the Australia Council for the Arts and<br />
arts<strong>ACT</strong> project grants, Alison’s work has been<br />
exhibited widely within Australia and<br />
internationally, including at Inhorgenta<br />
(Germany) and Milan Design Week (Italy). She<br />
is currently working on a new exhibition at <strong>Craft</strong><br />
<strong>ACT</strong> titled Making: A Way of Life. //<br />
Alison Jackson<br />
Little Spoons (set of 2)<br />
Stainless steel<br />
$110<br />
Alison Jackson<br />
Alison Jackson<br />
Cheese tools<br />
Stainless steel<br />
$250<br />
Alison Jackson<br />
Big Spoons<br />
Stainless steel<br />
$165<br />
F!NK<br />
Water Jug, Four Seasons Vase<br />
and Beaker<br />
From $110
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All images photographed and styled by Lean Timms @leantimms, unless otherwise credited.<br />
Meet the Maker stories by Pam Saunders. With thanks to Big Ink, Her Canberra Future Magazine, Vogue<br />
Living, Allhomes, Make Designed Objects, Top 3, Buy Australian Made, Architecture AU, ANU, The Finders<br />
Keepers and Lauren L Sutton for the maker interviews.<br />
Page 1: Girl Nomad Ceramics, Bowl; Katie-Ann Houghton, Whiskey glass<br />
Page 3: Katie-Ann Houghton, Best Squeeze Carafe and Whiskey glasses; Girl Nomad Ceramics, Serving bowl; Chris Harford, Ironstone plate; Alison Jackson, Cheese tools<br />
Page 12. <strong>Craft</strong> <strong>ACT</strong> tableware, featuring: Abbey Jamieson, Comfort cup with heat pack; FRATTEMPO, Cup, Saucer, and Vase; F!NK, Beaker; Jeremy Brown, Serving Board; Chelsea Lemon, Curl Serving Tray; Chris Harford, Ironstone Plate; Girl Nomad Ceramics, Bowls, butter dish and milk jug; Peter<br />
Minson, Teapot; Alison Jackson, Little Spoons; Agnieszka Berger, Beaker; Daniel Venables, Growth Pods; Daniel Leone, Spoons; Anna Gianakis, Thermal bowl and bud vases; Twig to Table, Scoop; and Yukie Wathelet, Dish.
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