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<strong>Craft</strong> ACT: <strong>Craft</strong> +<br />
Design Centre<br />
<strong>2022</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong>
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT: <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Centre<br />
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Research, writing and coordination: Jodie Cunningham, Travis Bullock, Welly McGarry, Moraig McKenna, Frances<br />
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Cover image: Harriet Schwarzrock, Studio Visit <strong>2022</strong>. Photography: 5foot<br />
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<strong>Craft</strong> ACT: <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Centre is partially supported by the ACT Government and the Australia Council for the<br />
Arts, the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body.<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT: <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Centre is partially supported by the Visual Arts and <strong>Craft</strong> Strategy, an initiative of the<br />
Australian Government and all state and territory governments.<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT: <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Centre is a member of the network of Australian <strong>Craft</strong> Design Centres (ACDC).<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT: <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Centre acknowledges the Ngunawal and Ngambri people as the traditional<br />
custodians of the ACT and surrounding areas. We honour and respect their ongoing cultural and spiritual<br />
connections to this country and the contribution they make to the life of this city and region. We also<br />
acknowledge other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have made Canberra their home and we<br />
aim to respect cultural heritage, customs and beliefs of all Indigenous peoples.<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT certifies that all information provided above is true and correct to the best of our knowledge and<br />
belief.<br />
© <strong>Craft</strong> ACT: <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Centre <strong>2022</strong><br />
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<strong>2022</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> Contents<br />
<strong>2022</strong>: The year in review<br />
President’s report<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT achievements<br />
DESIGN Canberra achievements<br />
Month by month<br />
Goal 1: Innovation<br />
Exhibitions<br />
Research<br />
Residencies<br />
Public programs<br />
Goal 2: Collaboration<br />
Audience development and attendance<br />
Design Canberra programming<br />
Local, national, + global collaborations<br />
Goal 3: Value<br />
Effective communications<br />
Enhanced digital presence + engagement Membership<br />
Goal 4: Security<br />
Income<br />
DESIGN Canberra growth<br />
Member + staff professional development<br />
Acquittals, reporting and governance<br />
Board, staff, committees, volunteers, and interns<br />
Social pages<br />
Appendices: 2021 <strong>Craft</strong> ACT activity<br />
Membership<br />
Exhibitions<br />
Public programs<br />
Media<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT supporters and funding partners<br />
Thank you<br />
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Fire Country, Rebecca Selleck + James Tylor, <strong>2022</strong>. Photography 5foot<br />
<strong>2022</strong>: The year in review<br />
<strong>2022</strong> was an incredible year<br />
for <strong>Craft</strong> ACT representing a<br />
period of significant growth for<br />
the organisation and a massive<br />
recovery from the challenging<br />
years of the pandemic. We met<br />
and exceeded our strategic<br />
goals of Innovation, Collaboration,<br />
Value, and Security, with a full<br />
year of vibrant events, including<br />
the ninth and most successful<br />
DESIGN Canberra Festival,<br />
innovative exhibitions in our gallery,<br />
markets, auctions, workshops,<br />
public programs, competitions,<br />
awards, retail sales, and our<br />
Artists-in-Residence program.<br />
The synergy and vitality of our<br />
programming has been achieved<br />
through collaboration with over<br />
1400 generous stakeholders<br />
and has been well received by<br />
our community with engaged<br />
audiences growing.<br />
We achieved our strategic goal of<br />
Innovation via exhibitions, research,<br />
residencies, and workshops. We<br />
reached our goal of Collaboration<br />
through both <strong>Craft</strong> ACT and<br />
DESIGN Canberra programming<br />
working with local, national, and<br />
global artists, organisations, and<br />
partners. We enacted our pillar<br />
of Value through expanding <strong>Craft</strong><br />
ACT’s physical premises (with<br />
our Hub Shop and workshop<br />
space and working on the future<br />
Kingston Arts Precinct project),<br />
growing our audiences, providing<br />
opportunities for our members,<br />
and enhancing our online<br />
engagement. Further to this, we<br />
achieved our goal of Security<br />
through growing organisational<br />
sponsorship and artist’s income,<br />
growing the DESIGN Canberra<br />
Festival, increasing staff numbers,<br />
and providing professional<br />
development programs to our<br />
artist members; and ensuring<br />
our governance reporting and<br />
acquittals were of the highest<br />
standard—being successful in our<br />
application for ACT Government<br />
organisational funding.<br />
On a personal level an example<br />
of our many successes was an<br />
evening of programming during<br />
the Festival:<br />
On a balmy Friday evening in<br />
November <strong>2022</strong>, I sat in Civic<br />
Square as the sky went pink<br />
and learnt how to make woven<br />
bracelets under the expert<br />
guidance of accomplished<br />
Wiradjuri artist Jessika Spencer.<br />
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The sensory combination of<br />
the natural texture of the raffia,<br />
and the repeated rhythm of the<br />
stitching was both calming and<br />
compelling—exemplifying the<br />
wellbeing benefits of making<br />
by hand and the satisfaction of<br />
learning new skills and deepening<br />
my understanding of First Nations<br />
Culture. I sipped on a glass of crisp<br />
local Lake George Winery Rosè<br />
and nibbled on cheeses from the<br />
region—indulging in local delights<br />
further enhancing my state of<br />
relaxation. I chatted with strangers<br />
as I wove feeling a gentle sense<br />
of connection to each other in<br />
this shared making activity and to<br />
place—the beautiful Ngunnawal<br />
country we live in.<br />
We sat immersed in public artwork<br />
which altered our perception of<br />
the urban landscape and provoked<br />
me to ponder new ideas. Under<br />
foot was on an incredible largescale<br />
mural by Kamilaroi artist<br />
Leah Brideson that represented<br />
cultural shift in knowledge through<br />
a First Nations lens: symbols of<br />
waterways and rocks in velvety<br />
blues, oranges and white served<br />
as a potent reminder that whilst<br />
surrounded by concrete, we were<br />
on country and urgently need to<br />
pay attention to caring for country<br />
and climate.<br />
Behind me on the theatre ramps<br />
and the lane ways into the square<br />
was the mural by artist Lymesmith<br />
which used geometry and colour<br />
to reference the surrounding<br />
heritage architecture; enhancing<br />
the arrival and departure<br />
experience to the Square.<br />
As I looked up toward the <strong>Craft</strong><br />
ACT building, I could see the<br />
incredible woven sculpture, Given<br />
Conditions, by artist Lucy Irvine<br />
climbing up out of her temporary<br />
studio (CRA Second Space) into<br />
the windows of the gallery on<br />
the floor above like a strange<br />
alien organism, disrupting my<br />
perception of the building, of the<br />
definition of the craft of weaving,<br />
and the power of public art to<br />
change perspectives.<br />
Next to it a-top the building lights,<br />
were bulbous forms, exploring<br />
contemporary weaving practice<br />
by artist Julie Monro-Allison,<br />
her installation Becoming an<br />
exploration of biological life and<br />
the web of entanglement that<br />
exists between all living organisms.<br />
This lovely November evening<br />
in <strong>2022</strong> immersed me and our<br />
community in transformative<br />
experiences of being surrounded<br />
by artworks, making by hand,<br />
connecting with each other,<br />
learning traditional First Nations<br />
culture, celebrating Canberra,<br />
and being challenged to think<br />
in new ways. It encapsulates so<br />
much about why <strong>Craft</strong> ACT’s<br />
artists, exhibitions, and programs<br />
are essential to our lives and in<br />
celebrating our beautiful cities’<br />
significant design legacies and<br />
futures. Our artists, craftspeople<br />
and designers make work that<br />
reflects and reveals our society,<br />
tells our stories, connects us with<br />
our community and strengthens<br />
our sense of identity. It enhances<br />
our wellbeing and replenishes our<br />
human spirit.<br />
The arts are essential to our city,<br />
our culture, and our survival and<br />
what we do at <strong>Craft</strong> ACT is so<br />
incredibly important to our city<br />
and our world. Canberra has<br />
an extraordinarily high number<br />
of creatives per capita and<br />
in <strong>2022</strong> <strong>Craft</strong> ACT has been<br />
instrumental in showcasing their<br />
work and providing opportunities<br />
for audience engagement and<br />
income generation.<br />
At 51 years old, and the longest<br />
running visual arts organisation<br />
of our kind in Australia, <strong>Craft</strong><br />
ACT has played a vital role in<br />
sustaining Australia’s high-quality<br />
studio practice and supporting<br />
craftspeople, designers, and<br />
audiences, and we are proud<br />
to continue this tradition and<br />
continue to thrive because of<br />
our incredible artist members.<br />
It is these artists that give so<br />
much to our community and<br />
our world, with generosity they<br />
continue to enrich and challenge<br />
us. Often these makers cannot<br />
earn a living wage from their<br />
work and <strong>Craft</strong> ACT continues to<br />
advocate for fair pay for artists<br />
and provide opportunities for<br />
income generation and connection<br />
to growing audiences. We were<br />
delighted in <strong>2022</strong> to increase fees<br />
to artists by 100% and through all<br />
our programs supported artists to<br />
earn over $465,142 (up 70% from<br />
2019).<br />
Our <strong>2022</strong> exhibition program<br />
exemplified the best in innovative<br />
contemporary craft and design<br />
practice, showcasing the diversity<br />
of practice globally. A highlight<br />
for me was our annual members’<br />
exhibition which demonstrated<br />
excellence and innovation of our<br />
artist members' creative activities,<br />
and the diversity of practice in<br />
our region. The works presented<br />
complex responses to the theme<br />
of nurture, the post pandemic<br />
social environment, the influence<br />
of the pandemic, the climate<br />
crisis; and the critical need to look<br />
after each other and our world;<br />
demonstrating how important<br />
creative endeavour is in reflecting<br />
our communities' experiences.<br />
Other highlights for me included<br />
the exhibitions Fire Country,<br />
CONFLUENCE, BEEing, the <strong>2022</strong><br />
Robert Foster F!NK National Metal<br />
Prize and Home Life.<br />
The timely exhibition Fire Country<br />
by Rebecca Selleck and James<br />
Tylor addressed the physical<br />
and cultural significance of fire<br />
in Australia in a sensitive and<br />
poetic manner that captured<br />
the emotional trauma of fire in<br />
sparse sophistication resonating<br />
powerfully with our community.<br />
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CONFLUENCE showcased the<br />
extraordinary work of 2021 Artistin-Residence<br />
artists Valerie Kirk<br />
AM and Harriet Schwarzrock<br />
resulting from their immersion in<br />
the collections of Geoscience<br />
Australia and the environment<br />
of Namadgi National Park. This<br />
outstanding exhibition was<br />
awarded a Canberra Critics Circle<br />
Award for Visual Arts.<br />
The accompanying exhibition in<br />
July, BEEing, featured the work of<br />
established craft-based artist Dr.<br />
Julie Bartholomew and earlycareer<br />
contemporary ceramic<br />
artist Mahala Hill and sparked<br />
critical discourse around the<br />
intersection of art and awareness<br />
of biodiversity threats.<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT was honoured to<br />
present the new Robert Foster<br />
F!NK National Metal Prize,<br />
supported by the Tall Foundation,<br />
F!NK + Co. Director Gretel Harrison,<br />
and <strong>Craft</strong> ACT. This bi-annual<br />
award is an important professional<br />
development opportunity for metal<br />
practitioners and celebrated the<br />
outstanding work of ten emerging<br />
and established contemporary<br />
metalworkers, designers, and<br />
craftspeople across Australia.<br />
Artists from New South Wales,<br />
Victoria, South Australia, and the<br />
Canberra region were represented,<br />
with two outstanding artists,<br />
Gretal Ferguson and Larah Knott,<br />
awarded cash prizes.<br />
Our international sensation—the<br />
Home Life exhibition from Rome,<br />
showcased the best in Italian<br />
design in the <strong>Craft</strong> ACT Gallery<br />
during the DESIGN Canberra<br />
Festival. We were so excited<br />
to continue our long-standing<br />
partnership with the Embassy<br />
of Italy to bring this incredible<br />
exhibition to Canberra (thanks also<br />
to the support of the Institute of<br />
Italian Culture and the Prosecco<br />
Consortium).<br />
Other exhibitions demonstrating<br />
excellence in contemporary craft<br />
and design in our <strong>2022</strong> program<br />
included:<br />
• Collide + Divide, an experimental<br />
collaborative exhibition featuring<br />
eleven emerging JamFactory<br />
associates which explored the<br />
opportunities of a cross-discipline<br />
collaboration between the four<br />
JamFactory studios of glass,<br />
ceramics, jewellery, and furniture.<br />
• Tension[s] 2020, the Tamworth<br />
Textile Triennial exhibition focussed<br />
on the future of people and place<br />
through textile as a material and<br />
human experience as materiality.<br />
• Home Grown by artist Jeremy<br />
Brown, contrasted design-bynature<br />
and design-by-human,<br />
and linked raw materials to their<br />
final product as an ode to the<br />
harmonious existence of the<br />
two elements in Canberra’s own<br />
streets.<br />
• You Get A Rhythm About It<br />
showcased the work Peter Minson,<br />
spanning his 60-year career as a<br />
lampworker.<br />
• 6:30 Sessions, by Nellie Peoples<br />
and Michelle Stemm featured<br />
objects created as the result of a<br />
collaboration in lockdown.<br />
• Emerging Contemporaries,<br />
the <strong>Craft</strong> ACT National Award<br />
Exhibition for early career artists<br />
showcased the best in emerging<br />
graduate work from educational<br />
institutions in the region.<br />
We were delighted to host a<br />
website-based exhibition of<br />
some of the best journals from<br />
2021’s DESIGN Canberra Creative<br />
Journaling Challenge as part of<br />
our online audience engagement,<br />
developed to encourage daily<br />
creative practice which is proven<br />
to improve wellbeing and creative<br />
thinking. This online exhibition<br />
presented the winning journal of<br />
collage artist Laura Canty and a<br />
shortlisted group of 26 of these<br />
wonderful journals. Further to this,<br />
a selection of five of the journals<br />
were highly commended by the<br />
judges and were exhibited at the<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT Gallery. In November<br />
<strong>2022</strong> we ran the challenge again<br />
as part of the DESIGN Canberra<br />
Festival expanding its reach to<br />
national audiences thanks to our<br />
new partnership with Eckersley’s<br />
Art and <strong>Craft</strong>.<br />
In October <strong>2022</strong>, we were excited<br />
to launch our new initiative the<br />
DISCOVER: <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Trail<br />
(supported by the City Renewal<br />
Authority) in which six shortlisted<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT members were given a<br />
unique professional development<br />
opportunity to work with mentors<br />
to create public art works on<br />
display in the Canberra Art Biennial<br />
and the DESIGN Canberra Festival<br />
<strong>2022</strong>. These extraordinary public<br />
artworks bought craft and design<br />
practice into a public context and<br />
activated City West, engaging<br />
new audiences in a process of<br />
discovery and delight, and with a<br />
new way of engaging with craft<br />
and design.<br />
Our major outreach program,<br />
the DESIGN Canberra Festival,<br />
returned with a bang—being our<br />
biggest festival to date, after two<br />
years of being compromised by<br />
the pandemic. With over 250<br />
events, we enriched the city with<br />
an exhilarating, rich program<br />
of symposiums, talks, tours,<br />
exhibitions, public installations,<br />
and workshops for all ages. The<br />
Festival theme of transformation<br />
invited us to speculate on how<br />
we might transform our city,<br />
our community and our world<br />
through design and creative<br />
practice. Inspired by <strong>Craft</strong> ACT’s<br />
golden anniversary in 2021,<br />
and gold’s symbolism as an<br />
agent of transformation, we<br />
reflected on the ways that artist,<br />
designers, and craftspeople act<br />
as alchemists, transforming raw<br />
materials and ideas into objects,<br />
spaces, buildings, and concepts.<br />
The Festival engaged design<br />
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thinking and creative enterprise<br />
to speculate on how to solve the<br />
big issues of our time, improve<br />
our wellbeing; and to foster a<br />
vibrant, equitable, sustainable, and<br />
innovative society.<br />
The results for the <strong>2022</strong> festival<br />
were astounding, demonstrating<br />
the public appreciation for<br />
engaging with contemporary<br />
design and our community.<br />
470,660 people engaged with<br />
the Festival (an increase of 310%<br />
from our pre-pandemic highest<br />
statistics in 2019); 396,802<br />
people with our public art + public<br />
exhibitions; and 73,858 attendees<br />
with our programs + gallery<br />
exhibitions. We supported our<br />
creatives to generate $327,443 of<br />
income (an increase of 71% from<br />
2019) and supported more First<br />
Nations artists in the program than<br />
ever before. We saw an impressive<br />
35% increase in interstate visitors<br />
to Canberra for the festival, 59%<br />
new audiences to our website,<br />
and a 525.46% increase from<br />
2019 in our social media followers.<br />
We were thrilled to develop new<br />
family audiences through targeted<br />
inclusive programming, including<br />
our Creative Kids programs and<br />
the Forage at DESIGN Canberra.<br />
The Festival was an extraordinary<br />
collaboration between over<br />
1400+ stakeholders—artists,<br />
designers, craftspeople, industry,<br />
sponsors, educational institutions,<br />
organisations, and supporters.<br />
Their creativity, generosity and<br />
commitment contributed to<br />
community wellbeing and identity;<br />
and embedded contemporary<br />
craft, making and design at the<br />
centre of everyday life in Australia’s<br />
capital, a global city of design. The<br />
Festival is only possible due to the<br />
extraordinary generosity of these<br />
collaborators, and I wholeheartedly<br />
thank them for their loyalty and<br />
support.<br />
I make special mention of the<br />
key financial contributors to<br />
the Festival—without whom<br />
the festival could not run. The<br />
ACT Government via artsACT,<br />
the City Renewal Authority, and<br />
Cultural Facilities Corporation;<br />
our Platinum Sponsors - Alastair<br />
Swayn Foundation, Canberra<br />
BMW, Canberra Centre, Capital<br />
Airport Group, Embassy of Italy in<br />
Australia, Home by Holly, Sellecks<br />
Consultants, The Tall Foundation,<br />
University of Canberra and their<br />
Faculty of Arts and Design. Our<br />
exclusive product partners, A by<br />
Adina (Hotel), Capital Brewing<br />
(Beer), Eckersley’s Art and <strong>Craft</strong><br />
(Art Supplies), Her Canberra<br />
(Media), Lake George Winery<br />
(Wine), and Prosecco Consortium<br />
(Sparkling Wine). And the other 24<br />
partners whose generosity in-kind<br />
ensures the success of the Festival<br />
(full list of generous partners on<br />
page 64).<br />
During <strong>2022</strong>, I had the privilege<br />
to work with an incredible<br />
and completely delightful new<br />
team of staff whose creativity,<br />
commitment, energy, warmth and<br />
tenacity ensured organisational<br />
success and growth across all<br />
our activities. I extend my heartfelt<br />
gratitude to current core staff<br />
Moraig McKenna, Welly McGarry,<br />
Rachel Skeehan, Frances Spurgin,<br />
Belinda Neame, Travis Bullock<br />
and Christian Sirois; our casual<br />
staff—Daniel Margules, Eve<br />
Fairhall, Melissa Hammond, Elmi<br />
Slater, Mary Monro-Allison, Maree<br />
McGarry, Victoria Byron and Ella<br />
Myer; and our previous staff<br />
Georgia Arndell, Olinda Narayanan,<br />
Dotty Berryman, Justine Merrony<br />
and Meagan Jones.<br />
Our Board of Management has<br />
provided invaluable strategic<br />
leadership and vision to <strong>Craft</strong><br />
ACT, and I thank board members<br />
for their generosity and wisdom.<br />
Current members Rebecca<br />
Coronel, Jenny Edwards, Charles<br />
Brewer, Laura Crick, Rod Bobeldijk,<br />
Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello,<br />
Isabelle Mackay-Sim, and previous<br />
board members Caroline Forster<br />
OAM and Sam Bryant.<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT has been incredibly<br />
fortunate to be partially supported<br />
by the Australian and the ACT<br />
government which ensures<br />
organisational stability and growth.<br />
We are also partially supported<br />
by the Australia Council for the<br />
Arts four-year funding 2021 to<br />
2024, and the Visual Arts and<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> Strategy, an initiative of the<br />
Australian, State and Territory<br />
Governments and the ACT<br />
Governments Arts Organization<br />
Investment funding—being<br />
successful in <strong>2022</strong> in securing<br />
additional multi-year funding for<br />
2023 to 2026. I would particularly<br />
like to thank ACT’s Arts Minister<br />
Tara Cheyne MLA, Senior Advisor<br />
Michael Liu, and artsACT staff for<br />
their unwavering support of our<br />
activities.<br />
And finally, I thank our member<br />
artists who are at the centre<br />
of all of our activities—our<br />
member’s creativity, generosity<br />
and determination ensure the<br />
growth and success of our<br />
organisation and contribute to a<br />
vibrant arts culture in Australia.<br />
Our members give us purpose;<br />
bring a regional, national, and<br />
international perspective and<br />
expertise to our artistic programs;<br />
and consistently inspire us. It is an<br />
honour to support such a thriving<br />
and creative community.<br />
I am so grateful to work in an<br />
organisation that makes a tangible<br />
difference in the lives of our artists,<br />
our community, and our city, and<br />
invests in long term cultural and<br />
economic gain. I feel incredibly<br />
proud of what the <strong>Craft</strong> ACT<br />
community has achieved in <strong>2022</strong><br />
and so privileged to lead such<br />
an inspiring and creative cohort<br />
of incredible individuals. I am so<br />
excited about working together to<br />
continue our successes into 2023<br />
and beyond.<br />
Jodie Cunningham<br />
CEO + Artistic Director<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT: <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Centre<br />
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President’s report<br />
Retail sellers, F!NK, Anna Gianakis, + Jenni Kemarre Martiniello, <strong>2022</strong>. Photography Tim Bean<br />
In each year’s <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong>,<br />
we reflect on the achievements<br />
and activities of <strong>Craft</strong> ACT and in<br />
this, my third and final President's<br />
<strong>Report</strong>, I find myself overwhelmed<br />
at how much a small team and<br />
membership organisation can<br />
achieve in twelve months!<br />
Starting early in the year our<br />
annual Emerging Contemporaries<br />
exhibition highlights the best<br />
work from recent graduates, once<br />
again demonstrating the depth<br />
and range of new artists and<br />
makers. The extensive exhibition<br />
program also included creative<br />
responses from Valerie Kirk AM<br />
and Harriet Schwarzrock, our<br />
selected Namadgi National Park<br />
Artists-in-Residence for <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
Their reflections on the collections<br />
of Geoscience Australia and<br />
their time spent in the recovering<br />
Namadgi bush resonated<br />
strongly with our visitors. We<br />
were also pleased to present<br />
the inaugural Robert Foster F!NK<br />
National Metal Prize supported<br />
by the Tall Foundation, F!NK +<br />
Co-Director Gretel Harrison, and<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT, highlighting the talent<br />
in metalworking in the region<br />
and reinforcing the value of<br />
ensuring high quality training and<br />
mentorship in the crafts.<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT also punched above<br />
its weight with international<br />
collaborations. Our successful<br />
partnership with the Embassy<br />
of Italy brought the Home Life<br />
exhibition from Rome showcasing<br />
Italian design. Later in the year<br />
our first small, but significant<br />
collaboration, with the Embassy of<br />
Uruguay produced an exhibition<br />
of Uruguayan fibre arts spread<br />
across the <strong>Craft</strong> ACT Gallery and<br />
the Canberra Airport. With such a<br />
vibrant and engaged diplomatic<br />
community in Canberra we are<br />
making connections between<br />
members and makers across the<br />
world.<br />
In <strong>2022</strong>, the <strong>Craft</strong> ACT team<br />
delivered the ninth, and largest to<br />
date, DESIGN Canberra Festival.<br />
Although every year brings it's<br />
challenges and new programs the<br />
<strong>2022</strong> festival was the culmination<br />
of two years of planning, program<br />
development, and partnerships<br />
(after the necessary reductions<br />
in 2021 due to pandemic<br />
restrictions). Transformation was a<br />
triumph of coordination and sheer<br />
determination from the small <strong>Craft</strong><br />
ACT team to bring the Festival<br />
to the public. A count of the<br />
connections and collaborations<br />
that form the Festival indicated<br />
well over 1200 stakeholders, with<br />
many artists and organisations<br />
being repeat contributors over<br />
several years. It is this strength<br />
of community connection which<br />
make the DESIGN Canberra<br />
Festival such a fabulous and<br />
essential part of Canberra’s art<br />
and design ecosystem each year.<br />
I would like to acknowledge the<br />
leadership of our CEO and Artistic<br />
Director, Jodie Cunningham,<br />
whose personal commitment to a<br />
creative, positive and efficient <strong>Craft</strong><br />
ACT has been exemplary. My<br />
thanks also to the <strong>Craft</strong> ACT staff<br />
whose capacity to deliver high<br />
quality programs and services with<br />
enthusiasm and grit has been a<br />
highlight of <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT Members are of course<br />
the backbone of the organisation.<br />
Our membership numbers attest<br />
to the success of the many<br />
programs and benefits offered<br />
by <strong>Craft</strong> ACT and confirm our<br />
relevance to the community we<br />
serve.<br />
I thank our Board of Management<br />
members for remaining engaged<br />
and collaborative throughout<br />
another busy year. Everyone on<br />
the <strong>Craft</strong> ACT Board has been<br />
focused on ensuring high quality<br />
governance and practical problem<br />
solving, with our aim being to<br />
support the team to effectively and<br />
efficiently deliver the strategic plan.<br />
Funding support from government<br />
and sponsors is essential to<br />
our operations. I thank the ACT<br />
Government, the Visual Arts and<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> Strategy (an initiative of<br />
the Australian, state and territory<br />
governments), and the Australia<br />
Council for the Arts (the Australian<br />
Government’s arts funding and<br />
advisory body) for their on-going<br />
support of <strong>Craft</strong> ACT.<br />
This will be my final President’s<br />
<strong>Report</strong> as I step down from<br />
my four years on the Board<br />
of Management. It has been<br />
an exciting, and sometimes<br />
extraordinary, time to have been<br />
on the Board and I have been<br />
lucky to have worked with many<br />
creative and talented <strong>Craft</strong> ACT<br />
staff and members in this time. I<br />
know the organisation will continue<br />
to deliver great programs and<br />
exhibitions into the future. I look<br />
forward to finding some time<br />
to reactivate my own creative<br />
pursuits and will continue to look<br />
to our Canberra region makers,<br />
craftspeople, and artists for<br />
inspiration.<br />
Rebecca Coronel<br />
President<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT Board of Management<br />
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<strong>Craft</strong> ACT achievements<br />
All Statistics compared to the pre-pandemic DESIGN Canberra Festival in 2019 unless otherwise stated.<br />
Artist participation<br />
109 in exhibitions<br />
153 in our public programs<br />
116 stocked our retail shop (↑15 from 2021)<br />
1,061 participated in DESIGN Canberra <strong>2022</strong><br />
28 First Nations artists<br />
1439<br />
artists participated<br />
$485,153<br />
total income<br />
generated for artists<br />
by <strong>Craft</strong> ACT activities<br />
↑45% from 2019<br />
Income generation for<br />
artists<br />
$20,944 exhibition sales (↓68%)<br />
$117,141 retail shop sales (↑57%)<br />
$7,000 artists fees paid for <strong>Craft</strong> ACT<br />
professional development programs,<br />
Artist-in-Residence + CO:LAB<br />
In addition to full-time employees <strong>Craft</strong><br />
ACT also engaged designers, craft<br />
practitioners and arts workers as casual<br />
and part-time staff to the value of<br />
$218,489.46 in <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
*includes fees paid to artists and artist generated income via Festival<br />
markets, open studios etc.<br />
Exhibitions<br />
3,687 in person attendances at <strong>Craft</strong> ACT<br />
exhibitions<br />
43,124 in person attendees at <strong>Craft</strong> <strong>ACT's</strong><br />
DESIGN Canberra exhibitions<br />
10 on-site exhibitions<br />
45 members in annual exhibition<br />
9 exhibition essays commissioned<br />
11 digital catalogues produced<br />
2 curators engaged<br />
3,687<br />
attendance at <strong>Craft</strong><br />
ACT exhibitions<br />
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40,400<br />
attendance at <strong>Craft</strong><br />
ACT public programs<br />
Public programs<br />
11,357 attendance at public programs<br />
19,373 attendees at <strong>Craft</strong> <strong>ACT's</strong> DESIGN<br />
Canberra public programs<br />
9,670 online attendees at <strong>Craft</strong> <strong>ACT's</strong> DESIGN<br />
Canberra public programs<br />
28 on-site <strong>Craft</strong> ACT public programs<br />
5 off-site <strong>Craft</strong> ACT public programs<br />
Members<br />
7 Life members<br />
60 Accredited Professional members<br />
97 Associate members<br />
207 <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Maker members<br />
44 <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Lover members<br />
576<br />
members<br />
↑80.8% from 2019<br />
161 Student members<br />
Communications<br />
Record<br />
engagement<br />
157,983 <strong>Craft</strong> ACT website visits (↑84%)<br />
44,868 <strong>Craft</strong> ACT Page reach (↑17%)<br />
4,216 <strong>Craft</strong> ACT email subscribers (↑25%)<br />
18 <strong>Craft</strong> ACT e-newsletters sent<br />
5,797 followers on <strong>Craft</strong> ACT Facebook<br />
(↑33%)<br />
8,075 followers on <strong>Craft</strong> ACT Instagram<br />
(↑96%)<br />
Volunteers and interns<br />
2 interns<br />
28 weeks, 210 intern hours valued at $7,000<br />
300+ hours of time donated by our board<br />
and committee members<br />
510 hours<br />
of time donated<br />
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DESIGN Canberra achievements<br />
All Statistics compared to the pre-pandemic DESIGN Canberra Festival in 2019 unless otherwise stated.<br />
250+ festival events were presented over 19 days from 2- 20<br />
November <strong>2022</strong>, which included:<br />
18 events including exhibition openings,<br />
City Sessions, launches, and a <strong>Craft</strong> +<br />
Design Auction Party<br />
31 exhibitions<br />
11 public art Installations<br />
16 talks<br />
6 symposiums<br />
14 tours<br />
13 adult Nurture Making by Hand<br />
workshops<br />
12 Creative Kids workshops<br />
3 craft + design markets<br />
45 Open Studios<br />
7 arts organisation open days<br />
1 Creative Journalling Challenge<br />
1 photography competition<br />
1 contemporary metal prize (<strong>2022</strong> Robert<br />
Foster F!NK National Metal Prize)<br />
Audiences<br />
470,660 people engaged with festival programs (↑310%)<br />
• 396,802 people with our public art + public<br />
exhibitions<br />
• 73,858 attendees with our programs + gallery<br />
exhibitions<br />
51% audiences had never attended DESIGN Canberra<br />
before<br />
27% of audiences from interstate (↑35%)<br />
42% of attendees attended more than 2-3 events and<br />
23% attended 4-8 events<br />
470,660<br />
engaged people<br />
↑310% from 2019<br />
78% of attendees felt connected to a creative experience<br />
and 74% their city—Canberra<br />
70% of attendees stated that after engaging in a DESIGN<br />
Canberra program their wellbeing had improved.<br />
Fields of interest<br />
Art: 56%<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> + Design markets: 7%<br />
Architecture tours: 9%<br />
Creative Kids activities: 5%<br />
Artist’s open studios: 5%<br />
Architecture talks: 3%<br />
Artist’s talks: 3%<br />
Exhibitions: 2%<br />
Creative Journaling Challenge: 2%<br />
Photography competition: 2%<br />
Audience by age<br />
18-24: 6.5%<br />
25-34: 17.8%<br />
35-44: 18.8%<br />
45-54: 17.5%<br />
55-64: 18.2%<br />
65-74: 10.1%<br />
75+: 2.4%<br />
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DESIGN Canberra income generation<br />
1061 artists were part of the festival<br />
130 exhibited in DESIGN Canberra<br />
exhibitions<br />
20 exhibited in public art installations<br />
DESIGN Canberra visibility and impact<br />
247,517 DESIGN Canberra website visits (↑21%)<br />
137,892 DESIGN Canberra Page reach (↑34% from 2021)<br />
221,289 web views and 83,236 web sessions<br />
3% click through rate from website (↑12% from 2021)<br />
895% increase in interstate clicks from 2021<br />
75% new audiences engaging online<br />
95% of online engagement come from an interstate audience<br />
45,040 e-newsletters views<br />
7,463 DESIGN Canberra email subscribers (↑34%)<br />
19 DESIGN Canberra e-newsletters sent with revenue of $9,324<br />
(↑365% from 2021)<br />
4.6% click through rate on e-newsletters (↑54% from 2021)<br />
970,000+ impressions across social media platforms<br />
14,922 social media followers (↑65%)<br />
4,744 followers on DESIGN Canberra Facebook (↑20%)<br />
10,178 followers on DESIGN Canberra Instagram (↑48%)<br />
85 media articles written from the launch date of the Festival<br />
7 radio interviews and 4 video interviews<br />
$455 revenue generated from media (↑NA% from 2021)<br />
Partnerships<br />
$327,443<br />
of income directly to<br />
artists ↑71% from 2019<br />
970,000+<br />
impressions across<br />
social media platforms<br />
Secured and worked collaboratively with sponsors, partners, and supporters from the broader<br />
Canberra community, including business, tertiary, cultural, and industry sectors.<br />
• Government: The Australia Council for the Arts, artsACT, City Renewal Authority, Cultural<br />
Facilities Corporation.<br />
• Platinum: Alastair Swayn Foundation, Canberra BMW, Canberra Centre, Capital Airport Group,<br />
Embassy of Italy in Australia, Home by Holly, Sellecks Consultants, The Tall Foundation, University<br />
of Canberra<br />
• Exclusive: A by Adina (Hotel), Capital Brewing (Beer), Eckersley’s Art and <strong>Craft</strong> (Art supplies), Lake<br />
George Winery (Wine), Prosecco Consortium (Sparkling).<br />
• Media: ArtsHub, Architecture AU, Dezeen, Her Canberra, Region Media (RiotACT).<br />
• Gold: F!NK + Co.<br />
• Silver: Australian Academy of Science, Design Institute of Australia, Embassy of Uruguay in<br />
Australia, Embassy of Finland in Canberra, Institute of Italian Culture, Australian National University,<br />
Kambri, Molonglo, National Museum Australia, ROJO Customs.<br />
• Bronze: Canberra Art Biennial, Complete Constructions Australia, Graham Humphries, Light<br />
House Architecture and Science, Meredith Hinchliffe, Norton Rose Fulbright, The Pop Inn by Wine<br />
Bar Co., Thinkplace.<br />
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Month by month<br />
JANUARY<br />
2023 Exhibition call out, 2 February<br />
<strong>2022</strong>.<br />
FEBRUARY<br />
Emerging Contemporaries<br />
exhibition and artists talks, 3<br />
February-19 March <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
You get a Rhythm about It<br />
exhibition and artist's talk, 3<br />
February-19 March <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT artists exhibit at DENFAIR<br />
+ Interiors Australia exhibition in<br />
Melbourne, 10-12 February <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
MARCH<br />
CO:LAB member professional<br />
development program call-out, 2<br />
March-4 April <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
Creative Journaling Challenge<br />
exhibition launch (online and <strong>Craft</strong><br />
ACT Gallery) and winning prize<br />
awarded to Laura Canty, 2 March<br />
<strong>2022</strong>.<br />
DISCOVER: <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Trail<br />
member professional development<br />
call out, 7 March <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT at Enlighten in the City,<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> After Dark with pop-up family<br />
workshops and shop, 10 March<br />
<strong>2022</strong>.<br />
Home Grown exhibition and artist<br />
talk, 24 March-14 May <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
Tension[s] 2020: Tamworth Textile<br />
Triennial exhibition and artists talks,<br />
24 March-14 May <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
<strong>2022</strong> <strong>Craft</strong> ACT <strong>Annual</strong> General<br />
Meeting (reporting on 2021), 29<br />
March <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
Welcome to Country and<br />
Ngunawal Culture talk by Wally Bell,<br />
senior Ngunawal Elder and chair<br />
of the Buru Ngunawal Aboriginal<br />
Corporation, 29 March <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
APRIL<br />
2023 Artist-in-Residence call out,<br />
26 April-2 June <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
MAY<br />
Artist-in-Residence program open<br />
day and workshops at Ready-Cut<br />
Cottage, 7 May <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
Collide + Divide exhibition and<br />
artist talks, 19 May-2 July <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
Fire Country exhibition and artist<br />
talks, 19 May-2 July <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
National Sorry Day social media<br />
posts on both DESIGN Canberra<br />
and <strong>Craft</strong> ACT Instagram,<br />
Facebook, and LinkedIn pages, 26<br />
May <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
Published How to be an Ally<br />
resources on our website, 26 May<br />
<strong>2022</strong>.<br />
JUNE<br />
<strong>2022</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> Fundraising Appeal,<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> and Design Transform the<br />
World, 1-3 June <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
Australian Museums and Galleries<br />
Association Conference <strong>2022</strong><br />
– Jodie Cunningham, <strong>Craft</strong> ACT<br />
CEO + Artistic Director, presented<br />
paper, Nurture: Mindful Making<br />
Case Study and organised and<br />
convened Art, <strong>Craft</strong> + Design<br />
Network session, Freelance<br />
Curator as Provocateur, 10 June<br />
<strong>2022</strong>.<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT Artistic Excellence<br />
Committee met for selection of the<br />
2023-2024 Artistic Program, 29<br />
June <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
JULY<br />
Nurture: <strong>2022</strong> <strong>Craft</strong> ACT <strong>Annual</strong><br />
Members Exhibition call out, 5 July-<br />
8 August <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
CONFLUENCE: 2021 Artists-in-<br />
Residence exhibition and artists<br />
talks, 7 July-27 August <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
BEEING exhibition and artists talks,<br />
7 July-27 August <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
NAIDOC Week social media<br />
profiling of First Nations artists<br />
and online resources for adults<br />
and children on both DESIGN<br />
Canberra and <strong>Craft</strong> ACT Instagram,<br />
Facebook, LinkedIn, and websites,<br />
3-10 July <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT at Winter in the City, Felt<br />
Caterpillar and Found Treasures<br />
workshops in partnership with the<br />
Canberra Regional Feltmakers, 9 +<br />
16 July <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
STORYBOX public art exhibition<br />
and launch showcasing <strong>Craft</strong><br />
<strong>ACT's</strong> Members, 12 July-30<br />
September <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
DESIGN Canberra Festival <strong>Craft</strong> +<br />
Design Auction call out, 25 July-23<br />
September <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
DESIGN Canberra Festival Dairy<br />
Road Design Market call out, 25<br />
July-12 August <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
AUGUST<br />
Professional Practice in the Arts<br />
talk for Canberra Institute of<br />
Technology visual arts students, 10<br />
August <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
Wear it Purple in the Arts talk in<br />
partnership with Wear it Purple,<br />
supporting ‘Rainbow Youth’, 25<br />
August <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
Indigenous Artists-in-Residence,<br />
Krystal Hurst and Jessika Spencer,<br />
conducted research at the<br />
National Library of Australia, 22-26<br />
August <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
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SEPTEMBER<br />
Indigenous Artist-in-Residence, Jessika Spencer,<br />
conducted residency at Ready-Cut Cottage in<br />
Namadgi National Park, 1-15 September <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
Nurture: <strong>2022</strong> <strong>Craft</strong> ACT <strong>Annual</strong> Members<br />
Exhibition and artists talks, 8 September-22<br />
October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
DESIGN Canberra volunteer call out via EDM and<br />
social media channels, 27 September <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
Jodie Cunningham participated as a panel<br />
member in the Sustainable Creative Careers:<br />
Balancing Creative Life discussion. Presented by<br />
the ANU School of Art & Design and supported<br />
by artsACT, 28 September, <strong>2022</strong><br />
OCTOBER<br />
DISCOVER: <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Trail public art<br />
installation in partnership with Canberra Art<br />
Biennial, in six locations across City West, 1<br />
October-20 November.<br />
<strong>2022</strong> Robert Foster F!NK National Metal Prize<br />
exhibition and award—the main prize and<br />
emerging prize awarded to Gretal Ferguson,<br />
and acquisition prize awarded to Larah Nott, 27<br />
October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
Home Life exhibition (From IMF Foundation<br />
Rome), 27 October-10 December <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
Seeing Seventies, DESIGN Canberra Architecture<br />
Photography competition exhibition, 27<br />
October-10 December <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
Jodie Cunningham chaired the Mentoring in<br />
Public Art Session at the DISCOVER: Public Art in<br />
Canberra Symposium, 28 October <strong>2022</strong><br />
DISCOVER: Public Art in Canberra Symposium<br />
was held in partnership with Canberra Art<br />
Biennial and Canberra Museum and Gallery, 29<br />
October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
NOVEMBER<br />
DESIGN Canberra Festival launched by ACT Arts<br />
Minister Tara Cheyne MLA in front of the Festival<br />
Hub Shop in Civic Square, 1 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
Launch of ACT Historic Places Art Prize,<br />
including <strong>Craft</strong> ACT <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Prize<br />
with Minister Tara Cheyne MLA at Lanyon<br />
Homestead, 4 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
DESIGN Canberra Festival program of 250<br />
events which included, but was not limited to,<br />
the following:<br />
‘Nurture’ Making by Hand workshops, Creative<br />
Kids workshops, exhibitions, symposiums,<br />
tours, artist talks, a pop-up shop and workshop<br />
space, public artworks, and events (see DESIGN<br />
Canberra section on page 54)<br />
HOME:MADE, Aurora, The Stills, and Roguetopia<br />
exhibitions at the Canberra Contemporary Art<br />
Space, 5-20 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
Golden Years, Koskela x MOA Arts, Shift,<br />
Abundant Wonder, and Ripple Effect exhibitions<br />
at Canberra Museum and Gallery, November<br />
<strong>2022</strong>.<br />
2023 Emerging Contemporaries Award winners<br />
selected and awarded, 7 November-16<br />
December <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
Jodie Cunningham participated as a panel<br />
member in the discussion From Silo to<br />
Collaboration, presented by the Design Institute<br />
of Australia at the National Museum of Australia,<br />
9 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
Canberra Critics Circle Award for Visual<br />
Arts awarded to Valerie Kirk AM and Harriet<br />
Schwarzrock for their <strong>Craft</strong> ACT exhibition<br />
CONFLUENCE at the 32nd <strong>Annual</strong> ACT Arts<br />
Awards, 22 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
Capital Arts Patrons Organisation <strong>Craft</strong> ACT<br />
Award awarded to Ximena Natanya Briceño and<br />
Jonathon Zalakos, 24 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
DECEMBER<br />
Christmas retail campaign, including 20% off<br />
lunchtime and evening happy hours, cross<br />
promotional partnership with City Renewal<br />
Authority’s Celebrate in the City campaign, 1-21<br />
December <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
* full list of all artists, craftspeople, designers, curators, speakers, and partners in appendix, page 50.<br />
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Goal 1: Innovation<br />
Foster innovation and excellence in artistic practice by building on our national and<br />
international reputation to support craft practitioners at every stage of practice.<br />
<strong>2022</strong> Robert Foster F!NK National Metal Prize Launch <strong>2022</strong>. Photography: 5foot<br />
Exhibitions<br />
The artistic program of <strong>2022</strong> was<br />
collated from an exceptionally<br />
high standard of applications from<br />
craft and design practitioners<br />
from our local, national, and<br />
international stage—showcasing<br />
a variety of mediums. Each<br />
application was peer-reviewed by<br />
the <strong>Craft</strong> ACT’s Artistic Excellence<br />
committee which comprised<br />
of six Accredited Professional<br />
Members, representing the craft<br />
and design disciplines of glass,<br />
metal, textiles, ceramics, paper,<br />
wood, and design, and <strong>Craft</strong> ACT’s<br />
CEO and Artistic Director, Jodie<br />
Cunningham.<br />
Through our artistic program, <strong>Craft</strong><br />
ACT continues to foster innovation<br />
and excellence in craft and design<br />
practices, support practitioners<br />
at every stage of their careers,<br />
showcasing and supporting<br />
extraordinary practitioners, recent<br />
graduates, early, mid, and late<br />
career artists, and craft and design<br />
researchers which represented<br />
a diverse range of mediums<br />
including glass, ceramics, metals,<br />
textiles, wood, paper, and mixed<br />
media. The <strong>2022</strong> program fostered<br />
innovation and excellence,<br />
continuing to build on our national<br />
and international reputation of<br />
supporting outstanding craft and<br />
design practitioners.<br />
In <strong>2022</strong>, <strong>Craft</strong> ACT showcased 13<br />
exhibitions which included:<br />
• 2 solo exhibitions<br />
• 4 two person exhibitions<br />
• 7 group exhibitions<br />
• 177 craft and design<br />
practitioners<br />
• 21 First Nation craft and design<br />
practitioners<br />
• 2 freelance curators<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT commenced its <strong>2022</strong><br />
exhibition program in February<br />
with three incredible shows,<br />
Emerging Contemporaries, 6:30<br />
Sessions, and You get a Rhythm<br />
about It. The <strong>2022</strong> Emerging<br />
Contemporaries exhibition featured<br />
craft and designer practitioners<br />
from educational institutions from<br />
across the Canberra Region. It<br />
was a great demonstration of<br />
graduating student’s resilience<br />
under the extraordinary pressures<br />
which came with studying during<br />
the worldwide pandemic. Jewellery<br />
artists Nellie Peoples and Michelle<br />
Stemm presented their exhibition<br />
6:30 Sessions, which was a result<br />
of joint art sessions from their<br />
respective homes during lock<br />
down. In recognition of Glass<br />
artist Peter Minson’s important<br />
contribution to glass art and craft<br />
in Australia we presented the<br />
exhibition You get a Rhythm about<br />
It, a retrospective of glassmaking<br />
through a contemporary lens.<br />
In March, we changed over<br />
exhibitions and hosted Jeremy<br />
Brown’s Home Grown and the<br />
2020 Tamworth Textiles Triennial<br />
touring exhibition, Tension[s].<br />
Brown celebrated the street trees<br />
of Canberra through two threads<br />
of practice, furniture making and<br />
botanical illustrations. Tension[s]<br />
showcased the best contemporary<br />
textiles practice art from across<br />
the country. It acknowledged the<br />
tension the world has endured<br />
with a focus on the “future<br />
of people and place through<br />
textile as a material and human<br />
experience as its materiality”.<br />
Opening in May, the exhibitions,<br />
Fire Country and Collide + Divide,<br />
were characterised and framed<br />
by collaboration. Fire Country,<br />
featuring collaborative work from<br />
Rebecca Selleck and James Tylor,<br />
explored the physical and cultural<br />
significance of fire in Australia<br />
with the work representing our<br />
relationship to fire. A disciplinebending,<br />
object-based exhibition,<br />
Collide + Divide, was an<br />
experimental collaborative project<br />
within which Associates (emerging<br />
practitioners) from the JamFactory<br />
shared interdisciplinary skills to<br />
create powerful mixed media<br />
works.<br />
In the midst of the Canberran<br />
winter, BEEing and CONFLUENCE<br />
opened in July. Featuring the<br />
work of Dr. Julie Bartholomew<br />
and Mahala Hill, BEEing brought<br />
visibility to the critical discourse<br />
to the survival of bees as their<br />
current population declines.<br />
These ceramic works brought<br />
the microscopic world of Bees<br />
into the gallery with a close-up<br />
examination of how bees are<br />
essential to our biodiversity.<br />
The exhibition, CONFLUENCE,<br />
was the culmination of <strong>Craft</strong><br />
ACT’s 2021 Artists-in-Residence<br />
program, showcasing the work<br />
of established artists Valerie Kirk<br />
AM and Harriet Schwarzrock<br />
resulting from their residency<br />
at Geoscience Australia and<br />
Namadgi National Park. After<br />
delving into the hidden treasures<br />
of Geoscience’s National Mineral<br />
and Fossil Collection; Valerie Kirk<br />
AM and Harriet Schwarzrock<br />
spent time in Namadgi National<br />
Park’s Gudgenby Ready-Cut<br />
Cottage, exploring and making<br />
art; taking with them a deeper<br />
understanding of the geological<br />
attributes of the landscape,<br />
which engendered new ways of<br />
looking and creatively engaging<br />
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with the environment. The<br />
resulting exhibition, CONFLUENCE,<br />
embodied the essence of the<br />
Artists-in-Residence program<br />
with Valerie and Harriet exploring<br />
new ideas, research, and material<br />
to then experiment, explore, and<br />
develop a deeper relationship<br />
with the landscape, their practice,<br />
and themselves. This outstanding<br />
exhibition was awarded a<br />
Canberra Critics Circle Award for<br />
Visual Arts at the 32nd <strong>Annual</strong> ACT<br />
Arts Awards in November.<br />
In celebration of the extraordinary<br />
work of our <strong>Craft</strong> ACT artist<br />
members, our annual members<br />
exhibition opened its doors in<br />
September. The Nurture Exhibition<br />
showcased contemporary<br />
expressions of craft and design<br />
uniting time-honoured techniques<br />
with modern interpretations.<br />
The works presented complex<br />
responses to the theme of<br />
nurture, the post pandemic social<br />
environment, the influence of the<br />
pandemic, the climate crisis, and<br />
the critical need to look after each<br />
other and our world.<br />
<strong>2022</strong> ended with three<br />
exhibitions celebrating the best<br />
in contemporary design and<br />
craftmanship nationally and<br />
globally; the inaugural <strong>2022</strong> Robert<br />
Foster F!NK National Metal Prize,<br />
Home Life and Seeing Seventies.<br />
Honouring the late Robert Foster,<br />
the F!NK National Metal Prize<br />
celebrated the outstanding work<br />
of ten contemporary metalworkers,<br />
designers, and craftspeople<br />
with generous cash prizes and<br />
an exhibition supported by F!NK<br />
+ Co., the Tall Foundation, and<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT. The selected finalists<br />
represented the value of highquality<br />
craft making skills, sound<br />
design, and innovation. The overall<br />
and emerging prize was awarded<br />
to Gretal Ferguson, with Larah Nott<br />
awarded the acquisition prize.<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT was delighted to<br />
continue collaborating with the<br />
Embassy of Italy, a partner of<br />
DESIGN Canberra since 2018.<br />
Together with the IMF Foundation<br />
in Rome, we brought Home Life<br />
curated by Elisabetta Pisu to<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT. This exciting exhibition<br />
of contemporary Italian design<br />
revealed how houses could<br />
evolve in the future and showed<br />
how objects can enhance our<br />
enjoyment of being home.<br />
Showcasing the photographs<br />
of over 40 Canberra region<br />
photographers, Seeing Seventies,<br />
was the results of the 2021<br />
DESIGN Canberra Festival<br />
photography competition. The<br />
theme for 2021’s competition<br />
was ‘Design in the 70’s’,<br />
encouraging professional and<br />
amateur photographers to take<br />
photos which take a closer look<br />
at Canberra’s iconic design and<br />
architecture from the 1970s. Four<br />
finalists were selected, Cathy<br />
Breen, Henry Buttriss, and Lachlan<br />
Herring (2 selected for the open<br />
category and 2 selected for the<br />
student category) with one overall<br />
winner, Aaron Puls, announced at<br />
the opening.<br />
First Nation craft and design are<br />
embedded in our artistic and<br />
public programs. During <strong>2022</strong>,<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT supported more<br />
First Nations artists than the<br />
previous year with 21 First Nations<br />
practitioners exceptional craft and<br />
design works from across Australia<br />
represented.<br />
This included:<br />
• Mitjili Napurrula (Papunya) an<br />
Ikuntji textile artist featured in<br />
the HOME:MADE exhibition.<br />
• Kayannie Denigan (Luritja) a<br />
designer and mixed media artist<br />
featured in the HOME:MADE<br />
exhibition.<br />
• Leonie Kumutu (Papunya) an<br />
Ikuntji textile artist featured in<br />
the HOME:MADE exhibition.<br />
• Mackenzie Saddler (Wiradjuri)<br />
a designer and painter of the<br />
graphic intervention, Geological<br />
Transformations.<br />
• Wayne Simon (Biripi) a designer<br />
and maker featured in the<br />
Golden Years exhibition.<br />
• Sophi Suttor a ceramist featured<br />
in the Nurture Member’s<br />
Exhibition.<br />
• James Tylor (Kaurna and Te<br />
Arawa) a designer and maker<br />
featured in Fire Country.<br />
• Leah Brideson (Kamilaroi) a<br />
designer and co-painter of the<br />
graphic intervention, Currents.<br />
6:30 Sessions, Emerging Contemporaries, and You get a Rhythm about It exhibition opening, <strong>2022</strong>. Photography 5Foot<br />
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DESIGN Canberra <strong>2022</strong>, Kayannie Denigan & Estelle Briedis. Photography 5foot<br />
• Dianne Ungukalpi Golding<br />
(Ngaanyatjarra) a Tjanpi Desert<br />
weaver featured in Tension[s].<br />
• Judith Yinyika Chambers<br />
(Ngaanyatjarra) a Tjanpi Desert<br />
weaver featured in Tension[s].<br />
• Joyce James a Tjanpi Desert<br />
weaver featured in Tension[s].<br />
• Charlotte Golding<br />
(Ngaanyatjarra) a Tjanpi Desert<br />
weaver featured in Tension[s].<br />
• Amy Hammond (Gomeroi)<br />
a Yinarr Maramali Gomeroi<br />
Community weaver featured in<br />
Tension[s].<br />
• Lorrelle Munro (Gomeroi) a<br />
Yinarr Maramali Gomeroi<br />
Community weaver featured in<br />
Tension[s].<br />
• Bronwyn Spearim (Gomeroi)<br />
a Yinarr Maramali Gomeroi<br />
Community weaver featured in<br />
Tension[s].<br />
• Sophie Honess (Gomeroi)<br />
a Yinarr Maramali Gomeroi<br />
Community weaver featured in<br />
Tension[s].<br />
• Emily Honess (Gomeroi) a Yinarr<br />
Maramali Gomeroi Community<br />
weaver featured in Tension[s].<br />
• Lena Smith (Gomeroi) a Yinarr<br />
Maramali Gomeroi Community<br />
weaver featured in Tension[s].<br />
• Gabbi Briggs (Gomeroi) a Yinarr<br />
Maramali Gomeroi Community<br />
weaver featured in Tension[s].<br />
• Mona Fernando (Gomeroi)<br />
a Yinarr Maramali Gomeroi<br />
Community weaver featured in<br />
Tension[s].<br />
• Paula Savage (Kaurareg) a MOA<br />
Arts weaver featured in Koskela<br />
x MOA Arts.<br />
Research<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT is an advocate for<br />
practice-led research, where<br />
innovation and excellence in<br />
craft skills intersect. In <strong>2022</strong>,<br />
we have continued our support<br />
of practitioners to explore,<br />
experiment, and produce a variety<br />
of craft and design work with a<br />
number of exhibitions within this<br />
year’s artistic program showcasing<br />
the results of research. These<br />
exhibitions included:<br />
Jeremy Brown’s exhibition Home<br />
Grown, featured the practice-led<br />
research of making from local<br />
trees, investigating the beauty<br />
of both the internal and external<br />
structures. The connection<br />
between the two is often lost<br />
when a tree is stripped down to a<br />
functional material. Furthermore,<br />
Brown explored his relationship<br />
with the trees of Canberra while<br />
simultaneously giving the audience<br />
a chance to reflect and submit<br />
their own tree story. Brown intends<br />
to use the submitted stories to<br />
research other relationships to the<br />
trees and how that can translate<br />
into furniture works.<br />
Rebecca Selleck and James<br />
Tylor's exhibition, Fire Country,<br />
evoked an emotional response<br />
in our audiences examining the<br />
relationship between the physical<br />
and cultural significance fire has<br />
in Australia and on our landscape.<br />
Following the disastrous 2019 fire<br />
season, Selleck and Tylor explored<br />
the burnt landscape and brought<br />
their discoveries into the gallery<br />
space, translating their experience<br />
into furniture pieces and imagery.<br />
Their work investigates, through a<br />
contemporary lens, the potential to<br />
engage in cultural fire practices for<br />
a better managed future.<br />
Our South Australian counterpart,<br />
the JamFactory, facilitates<br />
interdisciplinary practice among<br />
emerging practitioners as part<br />
of their Associate program.<br />
The exhibition, Collide + Divide,<br />
presented at <strong>Craft</strong> ACT in <strong>2022</strong><br />
demonstrated the results of<br />
a practice-led approach to<br />
collaboration and experimentation.<br />
The generation of ideas and<br />
production of work was executed<br />
by allowing their discipline and<br />
expertise to inform each other’s<br />
contributions which created<br />
collaborative works featuring<br />
hallmarks of either practice. This<br />
skill sharing research amongst<br />
fellow practitioners also creates<br />
new and interesting ways of<br />
making and viewing their work.<br />
During 2021 Artists-in-Residence,<br />
Valerie Kirk AM and Harriet<br />
Schwarzrock, collaborated with<br />
research partner Geoscience<br />
Australia’s world-class National<br />
Mineral and Fossil Collection. They<br />
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gained an understanding of the<br />
geological history of Namadgi<br />
National Park which represents<br />
a timeframe of millions of years<br />
in the context of significant<br />
recent radical transformation. The<br />
resultant exhibition, CONFLUENCE,<br />
was presented at <strong>Craft</strong> ACT,<br />
featuring glass, textiles, and<br />
mixed media work. This exhibition<br />
demonstrated the effects of<br />
having access to a cultural<br />
institution and time and space<br />
to experiment has on a visual<br />
practice. Both artists stepped<br />
out of their comfort zone and<br />
mobilised, their rather immobile<br />
practices, to explore the Namadgi<br />
National Park landscape with a<br />
deeper understanding of what<br />
lies beneath. The displacement<br />
of their practices paved way for<br />
new methods to experiment<br />
and engage in the landscape<br />
without their usual tools at hand.<br />
This resulted in a multifaceted<br />
approach to creating work in situ<br />
and returning to their studios for<br />
further exploration.<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT’s CO:LAB professional<br />
development program was run<br />
for the second time in <strong>2022</strong>. This<br />
program is aimed at enhancing or<br />
transforming a craft practitioner’s<br />
practice through research and<br />
was supported by the generous<br />
donations from <strong>Craft</strong> <strong>ACT's</strong> Circle<br />
of Hands donor circle. Two <strong>Craft</strong><br />
ACT members, Lisa Cahill and<br />
Peter Bollington, were selected to<br />
conduct practice-based research<br />
with architecture firm Light<br />
House Architecture & Science<br />
and their clients to develop new<br />
lighting for a residential project in<br />
Canberra. This project encouraged<br />
the artists to embrace a spirit<br />
of collaboration, work across<br />
disciplines and gain exposure to<br />
commercial environments with<br />
other designers and clients.<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT actively supports<br />
practitioners in their pursuit of<br />
practice-led research facilitating<br />
collaboration, experimentation,<br />
and showcasing the result of their<br />
artistic brilliance. These exhibitions<br />
evoke viewers to ask themselves<br />
to consider their surrounds on<br />
the surface as well as in the<br />
depths. They conjured questions<br />
of the physical and cultural<br />
significance we have with fire in<br />
Australia, despite the destruction,<br />
pain, and apprehension we<br />
experienced during the 2019 fire<br />
season. Practice-led research<br />
also extended practitioners to<br />
explore and experiment, producing<br />
work that has undergone rigours<br />
analysis and interrogation. The<br />
foundation of all these successful<br />
projects is the generous support<br />
of our research partners and<br />
sponsors, whose vision and<br />
encouragement continues to<br />
inspire us. <strong>Craft</strong> ACT and DESIGN<br />
Canberra are grateful for support<br />
from the following institutions in<br />
<strong>2022</strong>:<br />
• ACT Parks & Conservation<br />
• Geoscience Australia<br />
• Light House Architecture &<br />
Science<br />
• SKEEHAN Studios<br />
• Miko Design<br />
• Design <strong>Craft</strong><br />
• National Museum of Australia<br />
• School of Art and Design,<br />
Australian National University<br />
• Faculty of Arts and Design,<br />
University of Canberra<br />
• The JamFactory<br />
Residencies<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT continued its partnership<br />
with ACT Parks and Conservation<br />
Service and established a<br />
research partnership with National<br />
Library of Australia for the <strong>2022</strong><br />
interaction of our annual Artists-in-<br />
Residence program. The selected<br />
artists, Bev Hogg (Ceramics),<br />
Mel Robson (Ceramics) and Julie<br />
Ryder (Textiles) spent March and<br />
April researching at the National<br />
Library of Australia and living and<br />
making at Gudgenby Ready-Cut<br />
Cottage in Namadgi National Park.<br />
An exhibition of the artists’ work<br />
generated though the residency<br />
project will be held in the <strong>Craft</strong><br />
ACT Gallery from 23 March to 13<br />
May 2023.<br />
On Saturday May 7, we held a<br />
public open day program as<br />
part of the residency project at<br />
Gudgenby Ready-Cut Cottage in<br />
Namadgi National Park with 2021<br />
artists Bev Hogg, Mel Robson,<br />
and Julie Ryder. The open day<br />
included artist demonstrations,<br />
workshops and talks, and a park<br />
Mel Robson, Artist-in-Residence, National Library of Australia, <strong>2022</strong>. Photography 5foot<br />
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anger talk about the inspiration<br />
and interpretation of the park<br />
environment and its history. The<br />
open day was a unique chance<br />
for the public to engage with<br />
the acclaimed artists and learn<br />
directly from the Namadgi park<br />
ranger whilst immersed in beautiful<br />
Ngunawal country.<br />
We were excited to launch our first<br />
Indigenous Artists-in-Residence<br />
program in August <strong>2022</strong>, thanks<br />
to the support of donor Phillip<br />
Kier. Selected artists Krystal<br />
Hurst and Jessika Spencer spent<br />
time conducting research at the<br />
National Library of Australia in<br />
August. Following this, Jessika<br />
Spencer stayed at Ready-Cut<br />
Cottage in Namadgi National Park<br />
from 1-15 September developing<br />
a new body of work, which will be<br />
exhibited at the <strong>Craft</strong> ACT Gallery<br />
from 23 March to 13 May 2023.<br />
Additionally, Jessika Spencer<br />
conducted two drop-in family<br />
weaving workshops as part of<br />
the DESIGN Canberra Festival<br />
City Sessions, in which she taught<br />
approximately 60 participants<br />
traditional Wiradjuri weaving<br />
techniques.<br />
Public programs<br />
Public programs were held for<br />
both community audiences and<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT members. We presented<br />
a range of programs to diverse<br />
audiences throughout the year<br />
increasing our engagement to<br />
include children and families and<br />
interstate visitors.<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> <strong>ACT's</strong> Making by Hand<br />
workshops are at the heart of<br />
what <strong>Craft</strong> ACT delivers to our<br />
community; connecting artists to<br />
audiences, teaching people new<br />
skills, and enhancing wellbeing<br />
through making and connecting.<br />
We are proud to have involved<br />
many of our artist members in the<br />
execution of these programs:<br />
• <strong>Craft</strong> ACT at DENFAIR + Interiors<br />
Australia exhibition in Melbourne<br />
featuring members Maitlan<br />
Brown, Madeline Cardone, Louis<br />
Grant, and Sam Sheppard, 10-12<br />
February <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Artists-in-Residence Bev Hogg,<br />
Julie Ryder, and Mel Robson<br />
completed their research with<br />
our <strong>2022</strong> research partner the<br />
National Library of Australia and<br />
their residency at Gudgenby<br />
Ready-Cut Cottage with our<br />
program partners ACT Parks<br />
and Conservation Service and<br />
the National Library of Australia,<br />
7-18 March <strong>2022</strong> and 25 April-15<br />
May <strong>2022</strong> respectively.<br />
• <strong>Craft</strong> ACT at Enlighten in the<br />
City, <strong>Craft</strong> After Dark with claymaking<br />
family programs and<br />
pop-up retail stall, 10 March<br />
<strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• <strong>Craft</strong> ACT at Winter in the<br />
City: Felt Caterpillar Beads and<br />
Found Treasure workshop in<br />
partnership with Canberra<br />
Region Feltmakers, 9 + 16 July<br />
<strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• MAKE:OVER, a styling master<br />
class presented by Lynsey<br />
Fryers—a professional<br />
development workshops for<br />
members, 26 February <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
The bulk of our public programs<br />
occurred as part of the DESIGN<br />
Canberra Festival in November<br />
which included over 250 programs<br />
(full DESIGN Canberra program list<br />
on page 54).<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT held artists and curator<br />
talks and events to complement<br />
the exhibition program. Full details<br />
are listed in the appendix, but<br />
highlights included:<br />
• Emerging contemporaries, 6:30<br />
Sessions, and You Get a Rhythm<br />
about It exhibition opening, 3<br />
February <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• 6:30 Session's floor talk with<br />
artists Nellie Peoples and<br />
Michelle Stemm, 5 February<br />
<strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• You Get a Rhythm about It floor<br />
talk with artist Peter Minson, 5<br />
March <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Home Grown and Tension[s]:<br />
2020 Tamworth Textiles<br />
Triennial exhibition opening, 24<br />
March <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Home Grown floor talk with artist<br />
Jeremy Brown, 2 April <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Fire Country and Collide + Divide<br />
exhibition opening ,19 May <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Collide + Divide floor talk with<br />
CEO + Artistic Director, Jodie<br />
Cunningham, in conversation<br />
with artist Daria Fox and Bailey<br />
Donovan, 21 May <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Fire Country floor talk with artist<br />
Rebecca Selleck, 18 June <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• BEEing and CONFLUENCE<br />
exhibition opening, 7 July <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• BEEing floor talk with artists Dr.<br />
Julie Bartholomew and Mahala<br />
Hill, 30 July <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• CONFLUENCE floor talk with<br />
artists Valerie Kirk AM and<br />
Harriet Schwarzrock, 23 July<br />
<strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Nurture: <strong>Craft</strong> ACT <strong>Annual</strong><br />
Members Exhibition opening, 8<br />
September <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• <strong>2022</strong> Robert Foster F!NK<br />
National Metal Prize, Home Life,<br />
and Seeing Seventies exhibition,<br />
opening, 27 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
* All floor talks were lived streamed<br />
via Instagram increasing our reach<br />
to national audiences.<br />
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Goal 2: Collaboration<br />
Ensure more local, regional, national, and global audiences have access to, and engage<br />
with, the Australian craft and design community.<br />
Dairy Road DESIGN Markets, DESIGN Canberra, <strong>2022</strong>. Photography 5foot<br />
Audience<br />
development +<br />
attendance<br />
The DESIGN Canberra Festival<br />
is the primary outreach<br />
program of <strong>Craft</strong> ACT. It fosters<br />
innovation, facilitates quality<br />
discourse, supports professional<br />
development, and promotes<br />
social inclusion. After two years<br />
of the pandemic, the Festival<br />
made an impressive comeback—<br />
with the <strong>2022</strong> program bigger<br />
than ever before with over 250<br />
events including symposiums,<br />
talks, tours, exhibitions, public art<br />
installations, and workshops for<br />
audiences of all ages leading the<br />
community forward into a new<br />
level of creativity, connection,<br />
wellness, and urban activation.<br />
The results for the <strong>2022</strong> festival<br />
were impressive with significant<br />
increases in audience diversity,<br />
numbers, and satisfaction (full list<br />
of statical data see page 10).<br />
In <strong>2022</strong>, we commissioned two<br />
evaluation projects to develop<br />
qualitative evaluation frameworks<br />
and methodologies to measure<br />
the impact of the Festival<br />
programming on our audiences,<br />
partners, and stakeholders based<br />
on our organisational values<br />
of connection, inclusivity, and<br />
wellbeing. We worked with DESIGN<br />
Canberra partners University<br />
of Canberra and Thinkplace in<br />
co-designed workshops, and<br />
implemented evaluation tools<br />
including surveys, interviews, and<br />
focus groups during the festival to<br />
inform the continuation of highquality<br />
audience experiences and<br />
inform the development of a more<br />
sustainable festival model based<br />
on quality outcomes for both<br />
audiences and stakeholders.<br />
The four main concepts selected<br />
to evaluate were connection,<br />
wellbeing, creativity, and inclusivity;<br />
with the results indicating that of<br />
these concepts, ‘inclusivity’, was<br />
ranked highest by our audiences.<br />
An encouraging outcome for<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT—proving that the wider<br />
community of both members<br />
and participants felt welcomed<br />
by and included in the Festival.<br />
We were delighted to discover<br />
from the results that more than<br />
78% of attendees felt connected<br />
to a shared creative experience<br />
in an inclusive environment, with<br />
more than 70% stating that after<br />
engaging in a DESIGN Canberra<br />
program their wellbeing had<br />
improved.<br />
Online inclusivity was commended<br />
in relation to the Creative<br />
Journaling Challenge and the<br />
online workshops for those not<br />
living in Canberra. Delivering<br />
workshops online extended our<br />
audience reach, with attendees<br />
joining from all over the ACT<br />
region, Sydney, regional NSW,<br />
Victoria, and Queensland.<br />
‘Creativity’ was also readily<br />
recognised and powerfully felt<br />
through active participation in<br />
activities such as Nurture Making<br />
by Hand workshops and the<br />
Creative Journaling Challenge. We<br />
were excited to find that other<br />
kinds of participation were also<br />
seen as creative, in a more passive<br />
way, such as attending artists talks<br />
or producing events as a member<br />
of a cross promoted organisation.<br />
A sense of connection; sense of<br />
wellbeing; creative experiences;<br />
and inclusive experiences are<br />
what <strong>Craft</strong> ACT aims to continue<br />
to focus on with our community.<br />
Through these guiding values we<br />
will continue to grow and maintain<br />
our audiences with integrity and<br />
depth.<br />
DESIGN Canberra audience<br />
development and attendance<br />
snap shot:<br />
Engaged 470,660 people<br />
(↑310% from 2019)<br />
51% new visitors to the Festival<br />
27% Interstate audiences<br />
75% new audiences online<br />
Enhanced creativity, inclusivity,<br />
and wellbeing<br />
78% of attendees felt<br />
connected to a to a shared<br />
creative experience in an<br />
inclusive environment<br />
70% attendees stating that<br />
after engaging in a DESIGN<br />
Canberra program their<br />
wellbeing had improved.<br />
DESIGN<br />
Canberra Festival<br />
programming<br />
The ninth edition of the DESIGN<br />
Canberra Festival asked how<br />
we can and should transform<br />
our world though design. In the<br />
context of the challenges our<br />
community and our world have<br />
faced over the last few years<br />
including the global pandemic,<br />
the climate emergency, the fires,<br />
and the floods; this year's festival<br />
used design thinking and creative<br />
enterprise to solve the big issues<br />
of our time, improve our wellbeing;<br />
and to foster a vibrant, equitable,<br />
sustainable, and innovative<br />
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society. The Festival theme arose<br />
from planning for <strong>Craft</strong> ACT’s<br />
50th—golden—anniversary which<br />
took place in 2021. Inspired by<br />
the symbolism of gold and the<br />
ways that artists and designers,<br />
like alchemists, transform raw<br />
materials and ideas into objects,<br />
spaces buildings, and concepts.<br />
The Festival engaged design<br />
thinking and creative enterprise,<br />
speculating on solving the big<br />
issues of our time, improving our<br />
wellbeing, connection, creativity,<br />
and fostering a vibrant, equitable,<br />
sustainable, and innovative society.<br />
The programs run with the DESIGN<br />
Canberra Festival encouraged and<br />
fostered connection, and a shared<br />
creative experience with the public<br />
welcomed at exhibition openings,<br />
panel discussions, artists talks,<br />
hands on workshops and festival<br />
‘spaces’ which promoted social<br />
connection with music, food,<br />
drinks and activities.<br />
The <strong>2022</strong> DESIGN Canberra<br />
Festival supported and showcased<br />
more First Nations craft and design<br />
practitioners than ever before (10<br />
artists). Presented in exhibitions<br />
and public art installations was the<br />
extraordinary work and talents of:<br />
• Mitjili Napurrula (Papunya) an<br />
Ikuntji textile artist featured in<br />
the HOME:MADE exhibition.<br />
• Kayannie Denigan (Luritja) a<br />
designer and mixed media artist<br />
featured in the HOME:MADE<br />
exhibition.<br />
• Leonie Kumutu (Papunya) an<br />
Ikuntji textile artist featured in<br />
the HOME:MADE exhibition.<br />
• Mackenzie Saddler (Wiradjuri)<br />
a designer and painter of the<br />
graphic intervention, Geological<br />
Transformations.<br />
• Wayne Simon (Biripi) a designer<br />
and maker featured in the<br />
Golden Years exhibition.<br />
• Leah Brideson (Kamilaroi) a<br />
designer and co-painter of the<br />
graphic intervention, Currents.<br />
• Paula Savage (Kaurareg) a MOA<br />
Arts weaver featured in Koskela<br />
x MOA Arts.<br />
With multiple workshops run<br />
by the talented First Nations<br />
practitioners Ronnie Jordan, Colin<br />
Jordan, and Jessika Spencer—<br />
sharing weaving techniques to<br />
create bush animals and wearable<br />
pieces.<br />
For the first time in DESIGN<br />
Canberra programming,<br />
workshops were hosted for<br />
children through our Creative<br />
Kids program, developing new<br />
family audiences for the Festival<br />
and <strong>Craft</strong> ACT. The program<br />
included design thinking, weaving,<br />
and ceramics workshops. The<br />
Designing Futures workshops<br />
developed by artist and educator<br />
Naomi Zouwer utilized creative<br />
thinking techniques to imagine<br />
Canberra futures by creating paper<br />
components for a collaborative<br />
sculptural installation that was on<br />
display in our Festival Hub for the<br />
duration of the Festival.<br />
Week 2 Open Studio - Estelle Briedis, DESIGN Canberra Festival, <strong>2022</strong>. Photography 5foot<br />
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Culture on the Move director,<br />
Ronnie Jordan (Kalkadoon Pitta<br />
Pitta), and her son, Colin Jordan,<br />
taught bush animal weaving to<br />
children of all ages at the Canberra<br />
Centre. Ceramic artist, Fran<br />
Romano, taught ceramic vessel<br />
making at the Canberra Centre to<br />
an enthusiastic group of under 12s.<br />
In addition to these workshops,<br />
DESIGN Canberra ran drop-in<br />
craft sessions at the Friday City<br />
Sessions at the Festival Hub. These<br />
featured clay hand building with<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT staff and weaving with<br />
Wiradjuri artist, Jessika Spencer.<br />
The Nurture Making by Hand<br />
workshops were held in the<br />
Festival Hub Shop workshop<br />
space, Civic Square, and Canberra<br />
Centre by <strong>Craft</strong> ACT member<br />
artists across a variety of mediums<br />
and employed craft and design<br />
techniques to promote wellbeing.<br />
Wellbeing activities included<br />
textiles, silk painting, clay making,<br />
felting, stitching, spoon making,<br />
and spatial weaving. The adult<br />
and kids’ creative workshops<br />
raised $11,475 for our artists and<br />
attracted 566 participants, with<br />
126 participants in our Creative<br />
Kids program.<br />
The DESIGN Canberra Festival<br />
featured 31 exhibitions across<br />
multiple venues. These exhibitions<br />
showcased <strong>Craft</strong> ACT artist<br />
members as well as local, national,<br />
and international practitioners. The<br />
diversity on show demonstrated<br />
the breadth and depth of which<br />
craft and design is the fore front<br />
of our everyday lives. The Festival<br />
kicked off early with:<br />
• the inaugural <strong>2022</strong> Robert<br />
Foster F!NK National Metal Prize,<br />
honouring the late Robert Foster<br />
by celebrating ten contemporary<br />
metalworkers, designers, and<br />
craftspeople.<br />
• Home Life curated by Elisabetta<br />
Pisu, with DESIGN Canberra<br />
partners the Embassy of Italy<br />
and IMF Foundation in Rome,<br />
an exhibition speculating how<br />
household objects will evolve.<br />
• Seeing Seventies, showcasing<br />
the results of the 2021 DESIGN<br />
Canberra Festival photography<br />
competition with the theme,<br />
‘Design in the 70’s.<br />
In addition, the Canberra<br />
Contemporary Art Space hosted<br />
a number of the Festival’s<br />
exhibitions. This included:<br />
• New Zealand artist, Tyler<br />
Jackson and his exhibition<br />
Aurora—a light bathed<br />
installation designed with<br />
influence from the Bauhaus;<br />
• Designer-in-Residence Lucy<br />
Irvine’s The Stills, the signature<br />
work of the Festival.<br />
• A collaborative work,<br />
Roguetopia, by Lucy Irvine and<br />
Davey Barbar, of an invading<br />
contemporary weaving<br />
infiltrating iconic 1970’s Canberra<br />
architecture.<br />
• HOME:MADE, a curated<br />
Eggpicnic Canberra Airport Installation, DESIGN Canberra, <strong>2022</strong>. Photography 5foot<br />
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selection of new furniture and<br />
homewares by some of the<br />
most exciting early career<br />
designers and makers from<br />
across Australia.<br />
DESIGN Canberra Festival<br />
exhibitions were also on display<br />
at the Canberra Museum and<br />
Gallery, the Canberra Centre, the<br />
Canberra International Airport,<br />
and the Canberra Theatre Centre,<br />
with Golden Years, Shift, Koskela<br />
x MOA, Abundant Wonder, Ripple<br />
Effect, Dovetail, Shadow Lines,<br />
CTRL.ALT.DESIGN, the Australia<br />
x Uruguay <strong>Craft</strong> Exchange,<br />
Friends in High Places, and Brutal<br />
Transformations.<br />
In activating public spaces<br />
across the city and beside Lake<br />
Burley Griffin, six outdoor public<br />
art installations were installed<br />
at Commonwealth Place, Civic<br />
Square, Knowles Place, and across<br />
City West:<br />
• Mackenzie Saddler’s (Wiradjuri)<br />
Geological Transformations<br />
reflected on the layers of<br />
changes on site.<br />
• Lucy Irvine’s Given Conditions<br />
considered the sweet spot<br />
between organisational forces<br />
allowing emergent phenomena.<br />
• Julie Monro-Allison’s Becoming<br />
explored biological organisms<br />
and their entangled web.<br />
• Leah Brideson’s (Kamilaroi)<br />
Currents represented the shift<br />
in rediscovering First Nations<br />
culture.<br />
• Lymesmiths’s Along Civic Lines,<br />
referenced Canberra Heritage<br />
buildings using geometry<br />
and colour and provided a<br />
‘directional pull to the heart of<br />
the city’.<br />
• DISCOVER: <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Trail<br />
featured artworks by Hannah<br />
Quinlivan, Lan Nguyen-hoan,<br />
Rosie Armstrong, S.A. Adair,<br />
Sam Sheppard, and Tony Burke<br />
(details available on page 39).<br />
The featured public programs<br />
of talks and symposiums saw<br />
robust discourse with artists,<br />
designers, architects, curators,<br />
academics, journalists, authors,<br />
and government representatives<br />
talking about public art, urban<br />
design, and architecture. Highlights<br />
included:<br />
• DISCOVER: Public Art in<br />
Canberra Symposium in<br />
partnership with Canberra Art<br />
Biennial and Canberra Museum<br />
+ Gallery, with guest speakers<br />
Kauri Hawkins, Elanor Clayton,<br />
Virginia Rigney, Neil Hobbs, and<br />
Rosie Armstrong, Kambri @ANU,<br />
29 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Design Thinking, Learning and<br />
Making in Canberra: Legacies<br />
and New Initiatives with<br />
Nationally renowned glass and<br />
Jewellery artists, Tom Moore<br />
and Blanche Tilden, Canberra<br />
Museum + Gallery, 4 November<br />
<strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Art and Creativity-Within and<br />
Beyond Urban Public Spaces<br />
Symposium, The Link, 4<br />
DISCOVER: <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Trail, artist S.A.Adair, DESIGN Canberra Festival, <strong>2022</strong>. Photography Tim Bean<br />
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November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Transforming Canberra<br />
symposium, with keynote<br />
speakers author Elizabeth<br />
Farrelly, Shine Dome, 5<br />
November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Medium Density Housing<br />
symposium, with keynote<br />
author Tony Fry. Shine Dome, 13<br />
November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
The series of artist talks gave<br />
audiences deeper insight into<br />
the artwork on display during<br />
the Festival including the Design<br />
Revisited series featuring Marita<br />
Leuver in conversation with<br />
Graham Rendoth reflecting on<br />
graphic design of the 1970’s, and<br />
architect Roger Pegrum discussing<br />
his legacy of achievements in<br />
Canberra housing design with<br />
Phillip Goad, Head of Architecture,<br />
Royal Melbourne Institute of<br />
Technology.<br />
The tours of DESIGN Canberra<br />
were very popular with attendees<br />
exploring local homes with<br />
extraordinary design and<br />
features, commercial properties<br />
re-imagined and new builds reenergising<br />
the city, and discovery<br />
of the art, design, and craft around<br />
the city. The DISCOVER: <strong>Craft</strong> +<br />
Design Trail public art tour hosted<br />
by freelance curator Deborah<br />
Clark featured the artwork of Fran<br />
Romano, Hannah Quinlivan, Lan<br />
Nguyen-hoan, Rosie Armstrong,<br />
S.A. Adair, Sam Sheppard, and<br />
Tony Burke. This professional<br />
development program was<br />
launched earlier in the year with<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT members selected<br />
to create public art installations<br />
with mentorship offered by<br />
senior practitioners Nick Stranks<br />
(Casting), Sam Tompkins (Digital<br />
Fabrication), Valerie Kirk AM<br />
(Textile) and Thor Diesendorf<br />
(Wood).<br />
For the second year running, the<br />
Creative Journaling Challenge<br />
(supported by Eckersley’s Art and<br />
<strong>Craft</strong>) provided a daily prompt<br />
word based on the theme of<br />
transformation for participants to<br />
respond to. These responses were<br />
then shared online via Instagram<br />
by the artists creating a dynamic<br />
online community for the duration<br />
of the Festival. The journal entries<br />
were shortlisted, with the main<br />
prize to be judged and awarded,<br />
and an online exhibition of finalists<br />
to be published in March 2023.<br />
This year the challenge was<br />
launched at a public program<br />
with two <strong>Craft</strong> ACT members<br />
demonstrating watercolour<br />
sketching by Sally Black and<br />
collage techniques by Dr. Llewellyn<br />
McGarry. It was also supported by<br />
two online Daily Creative Practice<br />
workshops run by <strong>Craft</strong> ACT artist<br />
members, Sally Black and Tom<br />
Skeehan.<br />
More than 45 open studios and<br />
seven arts organisation open<br />
days showcasing the work of<br />
235 artists as part of the Festival<br />
with <strong>Craft</strong> ACT artist members<br />
and organisational members<br />
welcoming the public into their<br />
spaces. Through these visits,<br />
attendees gained an insight<br />
into the behind-the-scenes of<br />
practitioners, purchased objects of<br />
beautiful design and craftmanship,<br />
and got to know the artists behind<br />
the thriving craft and design scene<br />
in Canberra. The open studios<br />
program enjoyed over 5,000<br />
attendees and raised $119,314<br />
income for artists.<br />
A highlight was our celebration<br />
event for <strong>Craft</strong> ACT’s belated 50th<br />
birthday which included the annual<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> + Design Auction Party, with<br />
food, drinks, music, and dancing.<br />
As a part of the celebrations,<br />
Geneviève Jacobs conducted<br />
interviews with representatives<br />
from the <strong>Craft</strong> ACT community<br />
over the past 50 years—<strong>Craft</strong><br />
ACT practitioners, supporters,<br />
and CEO’s past and present<br />
such as Jodie Cunningham, Ian<br />
Young, Tom Skeehan, Rachael<br />
Coghlan, Avi Amesbury, and Holly<br />
Komorowski, to discuss <strong>Craft</strong><br />
ACT’s significant contribution to<br />
the craft and design in Australia<br />
since 1970. The annual <strong>Craft</strong> +<br />
Design Auction gave design-lovers<br />
the opportunity to bid on pieces<br />
of contemporary design work by<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT members. The auction<br />
raised $5,269, with a portion of the<br />
objects going under the hammer<br />
in a live auction held at the closing<br />
party and the remaining items sold<br />
online. We thank Bianca Way and<br />
Jenna Dunley, from our Platinum<br />
Partner Home by Holly, for expertly<br />
running the live auction and<br />
encouraging spirited bidding.<br />
Partnering with Molonglo, the Dairy<br />
Road DESIGN Market was held<br />
on 6 November and presented<br />
a unique selection of stalls by<br />
11 <strong>Craft</strong> ACT members in the<br />
distinctive designed environment.<br />
Complementing our members<br />
wares were wine tastings by Cellar<br />
Door, works from the Molonglo<br />
Art and Object Collection, freshly<br />
prepared food, live jazz, and allages<br />
play activities by Green Hat<br />
Workshop. With over 2,000 people<br />
in attendance, it was a wonderful<br />
day for our members to engage<br />
with the wider community.<br />
Furthermore, after a two-year<br />
break, we welcomed the return of<br />
the Undercurrent Design Market<br />
with 21 of our members taking<br />
part in the three-day event at the<br />
National Portrait Gallery.<br />
In <strong>2022</strong>, we were excited to<br />
partner with the Forage Street<br />
Food Festival as part of our<br />
audience development activities.<br />
The Forage attracted over 2,000<br />
visitors to Civic Square and the<br />
Festival Hub. Many of these visitors<br />
being family groups, who enjoyed<br />
the sunshine, food, music, and the<br />
many public artworks Civic Square.<br />
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Local, national,<br />
+ global<br />
collaborations<br />
We were delighted to continue<br />
our long standing partnership<br />
with the Embassy of Italy (since<br />
2018) to bring the exhibition Home<br />
Life from the IMF Foundation<br />
in Rome to DESIGN Canberra.<br />
This was also supported by the<br />
Institute of Italian Culture and the<br />
Prosecco Consortium. Curator<br />
Elisabetta Pisu of Ep Studios,<br />
curated an exciting display of<br />
contemporary Italian design<br />
revealing the potential for how<br />
houses can evolve in the future<br />
and demonstrate how objects can<br />
enhance our enjoyment of being<br />
at home. These objects were<br />
beautifully crafted and allowed our<br />
audiences to see the best in Italian<br />
design first-hand and imagine<br />
the objects of the future which<br />
boasted sustainable, functional,<br />
and beautiful designs of everyday<br />
objects.<br />
We also partnered with the<br />
Embassy of Italy to present a panel<br />
discussion and cocktail event,<br />
Design Diplomacy - Conviviality +<br />
Innovation, reflecting on design as<br />
a part of inter-cultural exchange at<br />
the residence of the Ambassador<br />
of Italy. This year’s discussion<br />
included speakers, Paolo Crudele<br />
His Excellency the Ambassador<br />
for Italy in Australia, ceramic artist<br />
and <strong>Craft</strong> ACT member Moraig<br />
McKenna, chef Danny Russo,<br />
Derek Lath from Ferrero Food<br />
Service Australia, and Gabriele Flisi<br />
from Smeg Australia.<br />
In <strong>2022</strong>, <strong>Craft</strong> ACT was excited<br />
to initiate a partnership with the<br />
Embassy of Finland in Australia<br />
to present two programs that<br />
celebrated architecture and<br />
creative thinking processes in<br />
education. We worked together<br />
to celebrate the 20th Anniversary<br />
of the architectural significant<br />
Finnish chancery building with<br />
a public event including talks<br />
by the architects and a music<br />
performance.<br />
Our second Festival program at<br />
the Embassy of Finland was an<br />
exhibition and talk about Beyond<br />
the Verbal, an inter-cultural<br />
education research project for<br />
using creativity in education.<br />
Speakers included artist and <strong>Craft</strong><br />
ACT member Dr. Naomi Zouwer,<br />
in her role as Lecturer at the<br />
University of Canberra, Finnish<br />
artists Samuli Heimonen, Dr Tiina<br />
Lämsä from University of Jyväskylä,<br />
Finland, and indigenous artist<br />
Adam Duncan (Biripi).<br />
For the first time <strong>Craft</strong> ACT<br />
partnered with the Embassy<br />
of Uruguay to host a travelling<br />
exhibition of high quality craft<br />
and design for Uruguay at the<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT Gallery and at the<br />
Canberra Airport (thanks to the<br />
generous support of the Capital<br />
Airport Group). The cross-cultural<br />
exchange was an exciting way to<br />
build a global collaboration around<br />
our shared values of innovation,<br />
craft, design, and cultural<br />
importance. We are working with<br />
the Embassy of Uruguay towards<br />
an exciting cross cultural exchange<br />
program for Australian and<br />
Uruguayan artists for 2024.<br />
Home Life exhibition opening, DESIGN Canberra, <strong>2022</strong>. Photography 5foot<br />
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Goal 3: Value<br />
Educate the community about the potential of contemporary craft and design to<br />
inform public agendas, promote wellbeing and community cohesion, and forge viable<br />
commercial pathways.<br />
Weaving City Sessions with Jessika Spencer, DESIGN Canberra Festival, <strong>2022</strong>. Photography 5foot<br />
Effective<br />
communications<br />
Our <strong>Craft</strong> ACT and DESIGN<br />
Canberra Festival activities<br />
continue to be well-supported<br />
by the local media. The power<br />
of our contemporary craft and<br />
design has been effectively<br />
communicated to inform public<br />
agendas, promote wellbeing, and<br />
our continuous efforts in forging<br />
viable commercial pathways.<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT engaged the digital<br />
marketing agency, Tilt, to<br />
advertise the DESIGN Canberra<br />
Festival programs to regional and<br />
interstate audiences and raise<br />
brand awareness of Canberra as a<br />
global city of design. This resulted<br />
in a significant increase of 95%<br />
in new audiences engaging with<br />
the Festival website with interstate<br />
visitors to the Festival increasing<br />
by 35% from 2019.<br />
Sydney-based creative media<br />
public relations specialists,<br />
Articulate, were engaged<br />
to provide a strategic<br />
communications campaign<br />
designed to support the objectives<br />
of DESIGN Canberra with particular<br />
focus on expanding the national<br />
profile of the Festival in published<br />
media articles nationally. The<br />
results of this were articles and<br />
interviews with highlights such<br />
as; Australian Financial Review’s<br />
Life & Leisure, The Australian<br />
Design Review, Architecture &<br />
Design, Concrete Playground,<br />
The Canberra Times: Panorama,<br />
and the Canberra Weekly; and<br />
radio interviews with ABC Radio<br />
Canberra.<br />
Effective communications<br />
snapshot:<br />
247,517 DESIGN Canberra<br />
website visits (↑21%)<br />
157,983 <strong>Craft</strong> ACT website visits<br />
(↑84%)<br />
14,922 social media followers<br />
(↑ 65%)<br />
85 media articles<br />
7 radio interviews<br />
4 video interviews<br />
Enhanced digital<br />
presence +<br />
engagement<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT is dedicated to<br />
engaging its community of<br />
artists and supporters in as<br />
many ways possible. During<br />
the COVID-19 pandemic, we<br />
provided opportunities for digital<br />
engagement with our Artists'<br />
Studios Stories videos, Nurture<br />
online workshop programs, and<br />
the DESIGN Canberra Creative<br />
Journalling Challenge.<br />
In <strong>2022</strong> we continued to grow on<br />
this foundation of digital offerings<br />
with an online exhibition, online<br />
workshops, Meet the Maker videos<br />
(supported by Home by Holly), and<br />
live streaming of all openings and<br />
public talks via Instagram. This<br />
resulted in an expansion of the<br />
reach in the types of audiences<br />
we connected with online. Our<br />
DESIGN Canberra Instagram page<br />
grew its following to 10,178 people<br />
and our <strong>Craft</strong> ACT page grew its<br />
followers to over 8,075 people—<br />
demonstrating the success in our<br />
digital engagement strategies.<br />
The 2021 Creative Journalling<br />
Challenge online exhibition was<br />
made available online early in the<br />
year to coincide with the beginning<br />
of the <strong>2022</strong> Artistic Program. The<br />
online platform enabled the online<br />
community to have an intimate<br />
look into the submitted and<br />
winning journals with 1,382 page<br />
views.<br />
As part of DESIGN Canberra<br />
Festival we held two online Daily<br />
Creative Practice workshops, Pen<br />
and Watercolour with Sally Black<br />
and Ideation and Sketching with<br />
Tom Skeehan. With 82 participants<br />
across both workshops, we were<br />
able to involve a new and wider<br />
audience that otherwise could not<br />
engage with the Festival.<br />
Expanding our reach, <strong>Craft</strong> ACT<br />
live streamed all exhibition opening<br />
speeches, artists talks, launches,<br />
and parts of symposiums via<br />
the <strong>Craft</strong> ACT and DESIGN<br />
Canberra Instagram pages.<br />
Improving accessibility using new<br />
technologies available through<br />
social media platforms has been a<br />
game changer in how audiences<br />
participate in our creative spaces.<br />
In addition, it has not only<br />
increased our reach, but made it<br />
accessible to those who cannot or<br />
could not attend.<br />
Membership<br />
Our membership of craft<br />
practitioners, artists, designers,<br />
and makers at all career stages<br />
is at the heart of <strong>Craft</strong> ACT. Our<br />
members give us purpose; bring a<br />
regional, national, and international<br />
perspective and expertise to our<br />
artistic programs; and inspire<br />
us consistently. It is an honour<br />
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to support such a thriving and<br />
creative community.<br />
Accredited Professional<br />
Membership (APM) is the highest<br />
tier of membership at <strong>Craft</strong> ACT.<br />
APMs are professional craft<br />
practitioners and designers<br />
whose outstanding contributions<br />
demonstrate a high standard of<br />
artistic merit and technical skill<br />
and who have local, national and/<br />
or international experience and<br />
standing. This respected level of<br />
membership is attained through<br />
a peer assessed application<br />
process. Successful artists<br />
demonstrate a practice of artistic<br />
excellence and strong local<br />
and/or regional experience and<br />
engagement.<br />
Associate Membership of <strong>Craft</strong><br />
ACT is by application and suitable<br />
for emerging and established<br />
professional craft practitioners<br />
and designers who demonstrate<br />
commitment to their practice and<br />
require the benefit of insurance<br />
that comes with this level of<br />
membership.<br />
General Maker Membership<br />
of <strong>Craft</strong> ACT is our entry level<br />
membership aimed at practicing<br />
craft and design practitioners who<br />
wish to keep informed and help<br />
grow their profession.<br />
Our <strong>Craft</strong> and Design Lover<br />
Membership category (established<br />
in 2021) is designed for friends<br />
and supporters who want to<br />
engage with local craft and design<br />
communities, enjoy discounts at<br />
the <strong>Craft</strong> ACT shop, and special<br />
invitations to events. This category<br />
of membership saw significant<br />
growth in <strong>2022</strong> to 44 <strong>Craft</strong> and<br />
Design Lover Members ensuring<br />
more sales of our artists work<br />
though our retail space and<br />
attendances at programs.<br />
Our Student Membership category<br />
continues to grow each year. This<br />
membership is for high school,<br />
tertiary, and mature-age students<br />
interested in joining the <strong>Craft</strong> ACT<br />
community and developing their<br />
interest in craft and design. We<br />
aim to make this membership<br />
as accessible as possible, with<br />
the membership being free to all<br />
eligible concession card holders.<br />
This aim of accessibility flows into<br />
our public program with DESIGN<br />
Canberra <strong>2022</strong> supporting free<br />
tickets to our student members<br />
for many events including the<br />
DISCOVER: Public Art in Canberra<br />
and Medium Density Housing<br />
symposiums. We see this<br />
membership as the first step their<br />
craft and design careers.<br />
Inclusivity Membership—as part of<br />
our inclusivity initiative in <strong>2022</strong>—<br />
we supported artists identifying<br />
as First Nations, LGBTQI+, and<br />
disabled with a free yearly General<br />
Maker Membership.<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT keeps in regular contact<br />
with members via the <strong>Craft</strong><br />
ACT website, email newsletters<br />
(including a dedicated membersonly<br />
newsletter), and social media.<br />
The social media platforms we use<br />
to connect with our members are<br />
Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn.<br />
This includes a public facing<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT page and the private<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT Member group where<br />
members can communicate and<br />
collaborate with each other.<br />
Our public programs include<br />
professional development<br />
opportunities for our members and<br />
connect them with new audiences<br />
and new sources of income,<br />
especially through our Nurture<br />
Making by Hand workshops, in<br />
which they are engaged to teach,<br />
and the DESIGN Canberra Festival<br />
which included opportunities for<br />
members to be commissioned<br />
for public art and exhibitions; host<br />
open studios and artists talks, and<br />
participate in our <strong>Craft</strong> + Design<br />
auction. This year our members<br />
generated $485,153 income<br />
across all of our activities in <strong>2022</strong>,<br />
a 44% increase on from 2019.<br />
Left: City Session Artist Talk with Leah Brideson, Julie Monro-Allison, + Lymesmith, DESIGN Canberra Festival, <strong>2022</strong>. Photography 5foot<br />
Right: Dairy Road DESIGN Markets, Roz Hall, <strong>2022</strong>.. Photography 5foot<br />
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Goal 4: Security<br />
Support professionalisation, entrepreneurship and enterprise development to build<br />
capacity, skills and security for artists and the sector.<br />
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Design Thinking, Learning and Making in Canberra: Legacies and New Initiatives, DESIGN Canberra, <strong>2022</strong>. Photography Tim Ngo<br />
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Megalo Open Day, DESIGN Canberra Festival, <strong>2022</strong>. Photography 5foot<br />
Income<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT is committed to<br />
supporting artists to generate<br />
income to ensure sustainable<br />
professional careers, aiming to<br />
connect them to wider audiences<br />
and income sources. We are<br />
committed to growing our<br />
activities to ensure we can support<br />
more creatives and innovation in<br />
craft and design across the sector.<br />
In <strong>2022</strong> we increased artists fees<br />
by 100%, expanded the number<br />
of workshops delivered by artists<br />
and expanded our retail operations<br />
though the establishment of<br />
a pop-up Festival Hub shop<br />
which quadrupled our sales of<br />
artists work during the Festival in<br />
November. Total income generated<br />
directly by artists and designers<br />
as a result of <strong>Craft</strong> ACT and<br />
DESIGN Canberra was $485,153,<br />
approximately three quarters of<br />
this income was the result of the<br />
DESIGN Canberra Festival, $327,<br />
443.<br />
Income snapshot:<br />
Total Income $485,153 (↑45%<br />
2019)<br />
Exhibition sales $20,944 (↓68%<br />
2019)<br />
Retail shop sales $117,141 (↑57%<br />
2019)<br />
DESIGN Canberra $327,443<br />
(↑71%)<br />
During <strong>2022</strong>, we saw an overall<br />
drop in exhibition sales and an<br />
increase in retail sales which<br />
has reflected the economic and<br />
political climate of <strong>2022</strong>—the <strong>2022</strong><br />
Federal Election, employment<br />
uncertainties with returning to<br />
work post-pandemic, increased<br />
living costs, and supplier and<br />
manufacturing shortages and cost<br />
increases.<br />
The exhibition sales mirrored the<br />
ups and downs of last year, but<br />
on a smaller scale. In the first<br />
quarter we saw our second largest<br />
income yield for the year, with a<br />
downturn in the second quarter<br />
around the time the Federal<br />
Election was called and the lead<br />
up to the establishment of the new<br />
Government. The third quarter<br />
reflected the relief of the political<br />
and economic climate calming<br />
with the highest yielding income.<br />
However, in the fourth quarter,<br />
cost of living rose, and the sales<br />
dropped to our second lowest<br />
yield of the year.<br />
The retail sales mimicked the ebb<br />
and flow of last year’s figures,<br />
ending <strong>2022</strong> with a bang. The first<br />
quarter there was steady growth<br />
which exceeded the previous year.<br />
However, into the second and third<br />
quarter the sales flatlined, only<br />
recovering in time to have the best<br />
quarter of the year and a 75%<br />
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Retail sellers, F!NK, Annette Blaire, Harriet Schwarzrock, Jeremy Brown, Christopher Plumridge + Tjanpi Dessert Weavers, <strong>2022</strong>. Photography Tim Bean<br />
increase in sales for November<br />
<strong>2022</strong> in comparison to 2021. This<br />
increase reflects the opening of<br />
our Festival Hub shop, providing<br />
two locations for shoppers to<br />
purchase from with an increase in<br />
craft and design products on offer<br />
with 15 new stockists, and benefits<br />
from the effects of the DESIGN<br />
Canberra Festival marketing<br />
campaign.<br />
New retail stockists include<br />
• Kellie MacFarlane Studio<br />
• Days of August<br />
• Carol Cooke<br />
• Cheryl J Studios<br />
• Wendy Dawes<br />
• Adam Dossetor<br />
• Made by Pen<br />
• Moraig McKenna<br />
The dedicated staff and sector<br />
commitment from artsACT (ACT<br />
Government) and the Australia<br />
Council for the Arts (Federal<br />
Government) elevates the work of<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT, as does funding from<br />
the Visual Arts and <strong>Craft</strong> Strategy<br />
which is delivered by the Territory<br />
and Federal Government arts<br />
bodies. We are grateful for the<br />
security that this public funding<br />
• Ian Jones<br />
• Tamara Schneider<br />
• Adam Dossetor<br />
• Jaqueline Calvert-Lane<br />
• Caslake and Pedler<br />
• Merchants of Nonsense<br />
• Phoebe Porter<br />
brings to our organisation and our<br />
major public program, the DESIGN<br />
Canberra Festival.<br />
<strong>2022</strong> has seen <strong>Craft</strong> ACT work<br />
closely with the ACT Government<br />
on the implementation of the<br />
strategy to create Canberra as<br />
Australia’s arts capital—from the<br />
release of Canberra: Australia's Art<br />
Captial—Arts, Culture, and Creative<br />
Policy <strong>2022</strong>-2026. This bold<br />
declaration aligns with our strong<br />
commitment to nurture a thriving<br />
community of artistic excellence.<br />
Additionally, our strong relationship<br />
with the ACT Government—City<br />
Renewal Authority (CRA)—has<br />
demonstrated the powerful<br />
result of an aligned partnership.<br />
The DESIGN Canberra Festival<br />
would not have been possible<br />
without the CRA, and this year<br />
our festival was bigger and more<br />
impactful than any previous<br />
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festival—showing the vital role<br />
the CRA plays in not only DESIGN<br />
Canberra but in shaping our<br />
cultural landscape and community<br />
connection.<br />
In <strong>2022</strong> <strong>Craft</strong> ACT continued<br />
with the successes of the donor<br />
category, the Circle of Hands. This<br />
category is directly associated<br />
with the CO:LAB project which<br />
is a culmination of professional<br />
development, high-quality studio<br />
practice, and a cross-collaboration<br />
between industry and craft. This<br />
project started in April <strong>2022</strong> and<br />
will be exhibited in May 2023. We<br />
thank the Circle of Hands donors,<br />
Jenny Edwards, Peta Furnell,<br />
Design <strong>Craft</strong> and the Humphries<br />
Family Fund, for their continued<br />
support of this project.<br />
DESIGN Canberra<br />
growth<br />
DESIGN Canberra Festival<br />
continued to grow in <strong>2022</strong>;<br />
expanding our audiences—<br />
nationally and internationally—<br />
providing meaningful experiences;<br />
expanding on opportunities for<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT practitioners, and<br />
contributing to the branding<br />
of Canberra as a global city of<br />
design. The Festival has been<br />
on a growth trajectory since its<br />
inception in 2014 and incurred<br />
a practicable dip during the<br />
pandemic in 2020 and 2021. In<br />
<strong>2022</strong>, we recovered magnificently,<br />
building on a strong foundation of<br />
collaboration and innovative new<br />
projects.<br />
<strong>2022</strong> saw the largest increase<br />
across the board in the DESIGN<br />
Canberra Festival history. The total<br />
number of attendees increased<br />
310% since 2019, with a 35%<br />
increase in interstate visitors. More<br />
than 1,061 artists and creatives<br />
participated which is an increase<br />
of 108% from previous years.<br />
The Festival generated more<br />
than $327,000 income for these<br />
creatives with a 71% increase on<br />
previous years.<br />
The DESIGN Canberra Festival<br />
continues to thrive thanks to<br />
the generosity of our artists, our<br />
supportive sponsors and partners<br />
who have demonstrated their<br />
commitment to our organisation<br />
and the celebration of Canberra as<br />
a global city of design. We thank<br />
all of our sponsors at all levels<br />
for their loyalty and contribution<br />
to <strong>Craft</strong> ACT and the DESIGN<br />
Canberra Festival to execute a<br />
world class festival in <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
Sponsorship and self-generated<br />
income accounts for 70% of the<br />
Festival budget. Due to the support<br />
from our partners, we were able<br />
to deliver the DESIGN Canberra<br />
Festival which contributes so<br />
much to the future of our creative<br />
industries. We extend our sincerest<br />
gratitude to the following sponsors<br />
who supported us in <strong>2022</strong><br />
(outlined on page 64).<br />
Catching Space Workshop with Julie Monro-Allison, DESIGN Canberra Festival, <strong>2022</strong>. Photography 5foot<br />
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Member + staff<br />
professional<br />
development<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT’s CO:LAB professional<br />
development program ran for<br />
the second time in <strong>2022</strong>. This<br />
program is aimed at enhancing or<br />
transforming a craft practitioner’s<br />
practice and was supported by<br />
the generous donations from <strong>Craft</strong><br />
ACT’s Circle of Hands donor circle.<br />
Two <strong>Craft</strong> ACT members, Lisa<br />
Cahill and Peter Bollington, were<br />
selected to work with architecture<br />
firm Light House Architecture<br />
& Science and their clients<br />
to develop new lighting for a<br />
residential project in Canberra. This<br />
project encouraged the artists to<br />
embrace a spirit of collaboration,<br />
work across disciplines and<br />
gain exposure to commercial<br />
environments with other designers<br />
and clients.<br />
The artists each received a<br />
$5,000 artists fee, an exhibition,<br />
mentoring, sustainability advice,<br />
professional photography, and<br />
technical support. The artists<br />
consulted with the clients, started<br />
designing and prototyping, and<br />
have commenced working with<br />
designer Tom Skeehan who will<br />
mentor the artists in the next<br />
phase of their design process. The<br />
<strong>2022</strong> CO:LAB project will culminate<br />
in an exhibition at the <strong>Craft</strong> ACT<br />
Gallery in May 2023.<br />
This year we delivered an innovate<br />
new professional development<br />
program for our member artists,<br />
the DISCOVER: <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Trail,<br />
supported by the City Renewal<br />
Authority was presented during<br />
the Canberra Art Biennial and the<br />
DESIGN Canberra Festival and was<br />
developed to support craftspeople<br />
and designers to develop their<br />
skills in public art. The DISCOVER:<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> + Design Trail, featured<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT member artists Fran<br />
Romano, Hannah Quinlivan, Lan<br />
Nguyen-hoan, Rosie Armstrong,<br />
S.A. Adair, Sam Sheppard, and<br />
Tony Burke. This program began<br />
earlier in the year with <strong>Craft</strong> ACT<br />
members selected to create public<br />
art installations with mentorship<br />
offered by senior practitioners Nick<br />
Stranks (Casting), Sam Tompkins<br />
(Digital Fabrication), Valerie Kirk<br />
AM (Textile), and Thor Diesendorf<br />
(Wood).<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT continued to offer the<br />
Artists-in-Residence program<br />
as professional development<br />
for our members. This program<br />
enables members to apply for<br />
the opportunity to experience,<br />
research, and collaborate with<br />
a partner cultural institution and<br />
the ACT Parks and Conservation<br />
Service, receive funds to assist in<br />
the generation of exhibition work,<br />
and an exhibition at the <strong>Craft</strong> ACT<br />
Gallery. The selected members<br />
also facilitate and promote their<br />
practice through the popular<br />
Gudgenby Ready-Cut Cottage<br />
Open day, the exhibition opening<br />
and talks, and exhibition. This<br />
year, Bev Hogg (Ceramics), Mel<br />
Robson (Ceramics), and Julie<br />
Ryder (Textiles) were selected to<br />
spend time at the National Library<br />
of Australia and at Gudgenby<br />
Ready-Cut Cottage in Namadgi<br />
National Park. The results from<br />
this residence will be showcased<br />
at the <strong>Craft</strong> ACT Gallery from 23<br />
March to 13 May 2023.<br />
We were excited to launch our first<br />
Indigenous Artists-in-Residence<br />
program in August <strong>2022</strong> with First<br />
Nations artists Krystal Hurst and<br />
Jessika Spencer; thanks to the<br />
support of donor Phillip Kier. Both<br />
artists spent time at the National<br />
Library of Australia followed by<br />
a stay at Ready-Cut Cottage<br />
in Namadgi National Park. The<br />
new body of work from Jessika’s<br />
research which will be exhibited<br />
at the <strong>Craft</strong> ACT Gallery from 23<br />
March to 13 May 2023.<br />
In <strong>2022</strong> <strong>Craft</strong> ACT staff<br />
participated in professional<br />
development and training<br />
opportunities to build their<br />
knowledge and skills, these<br />
included attending and presenting<br />
at forums and conferences and<br />
operational training (full list of<br />
programs on page 53).<br />
At <strong>Craft</strong> ACT we are committed<br />
to the right for every person to<br />
fully experience and contribute<br />
to the creative and cultural life of<br />
Canberra. We have endeavoured<br />
to create a culture and practice<br />
that recognises, respects, values,<br />
and celebrates people with<br />
disabilities. Our new Disability<br />
Inclusion Action Plan will be<br />
released in 2023 with updates to<br />
the <strong>Craft</strong> ACT website highlighting<br />
accessibility and inclusion,<br />
supporting disabled members<br />
with inclusivity membership, and<br />
adjusting public programming<br />
to accommodate disabled<br />
participants. Accessibility and<br />
inclusion is a core principle at <strong>Craft</strong><br />
ACT and we desire to be a leader<br />
in normalising accessibility and<br />
inclusion with all opportunities.<br />
Acquittals,<br />
reporting, +<br />
governance<br />
The <strong>Craft</strong> ACT team, both staff<br />
and Board, have gone through<br />
significant renewal in <strong>2022</strong>. With<br />
a vibrant new team on the job,<br />
we hit the ground running and<br />
look forward to contributing to the<br />
growth of the organisation in 2023.<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT is supported by a<br />
diverse community of over<br />
1600 collaborators, sponsors,<br />
donors, and more than 576 (and<br />
growing) members. <strong>Craft</strong> ACT has<br />
established strong sustainable<br />
relationships with government,<br />
universities, retail, business,<br />
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education, and philanthropic<br />
sectors and proven itself a strong<br />
contributor to the sector.<br />
With the success of the DESIGN<br />
Canberra Festival, we have seen<br />
the benefits of these wellestablished<br />
relationships through<br />
the successful roll-over of funding<br />
from 2021 to <strong>2022</strong>, which was<br />
required due to the effects of<br />
the pandemic. All our generous<br />
sponsors and partners adjusted<br />
to the flexible terms demanded<br />
by COVID-19 restrictions to move<br />
their support to the <strong>2022</strong> festival.<br />
Following a time of constant<br />
adaptation, the security of the<br />
strong partnerships that <strong>Craft</strong> ACT<br />
has established over the years has<br />
contributed to the sustainability<br />
and growth of <strong>Craft</strong> ACT.<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT is partially supported by<br />
the ACT Government, the Australia<br />
Council for the Arts (four-year<br />
funding 2021-2024) and the<br />
Visual Arts and <strong>Craft</strong> Strategy. In<br />
<strong>2022</strong>, <strong>Craft</strong> ACT was successful<br />
in securing four-year funding from<br />
the ACT Government for 2023-<br />
2026.<br />
Our valued collaboration with<br />
the ACT Parks and Conservation<br />
Service on the Artist-in-Residence<br />
program continues to be a<br />
highly valued partnership for our<br />
artists. Aligning with The National<br />
Library of Australia as the <strong>2022</strong><br />
research partner, our Artists-in-<br />
Residence program is extensive<br />
and well supported by our partner<br />
organisations.<br />
Left: Tension[s] and Home Grown exhibition opening event, <strong>2022</strong>. Photography 5foot<br />
Right: Lucy Irvine + Davey Barber, Roguetopia, Margel Hinder sculpture, 1970., DESIGN Canberra Festival, <strong>2022</strong>. Photography 5foot<br />
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Board, staff, committees, volunteers, and interns<br />
Board of Management<br />
Rebecca Coronel | President<br />
(2017-2023) | Senior<br />
Manager, Strategy, National<br />
Film and Sound Archive<br />
Rebecca is a strategic leader in national cultural institutions with a<br />
wealth of experience in the museums sector and arts administration.<br />
In her current role at the National Film and Sound Archive, she is<br />
working on a range of projects, including property strategy. She was<br />
previously Assistant Manager, Collections Access, at the Department<br />
of Communications and the Arts, and managed a range of funding<br />
programs. Prior to 2017, Rebecca was the Manager, Exhibition Projects<br />
and Interpretation at the National Museum of Australia and was the<br />
President of Museums Galleries Australia ACT branch.<br />
Sam Bryant | Former<br />
Treasurer (2016-<strong>2022</strong>) |<br />
Business owner, Pack &<br />
Send Fyshwick<br />
Sam is a certified practising accountant with extensive experience<br />
in financial management from grass roots accounts payable and<br />
receivable through to high-level financial policy development, as well as<br />
financial reporting, asset accounting, management accounting, general<br />
finance and management consulting. Sam is skilled in the preparation<br />
of risk management and compliance audits. He holds an MBA and has<br />
demonstrated experience with governance requirements of the Financial<br />
Management and Accountability Act 1997.<br />
Charles Brewer | Treasurer<br />
(<strong>2022</strong> – ongoing) |<br />
Corporate and policy<br />
manager at Australian<br />
Department of Foreign<br />
Affairs and Trade<br />
Charles is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years corporate<br />
management experience in private and public sectors. He has led policy<br />
development, stakeholder engagement and change activities in his<br />
current work at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Australia<br />
and overseas. He has expertise in financial and budget management,<br />
procurement, HR, ICT, property, security, and project management and<br />
has previously been treasurer for not-for-profit organisations in the<br />
education and community sectors.<br />
Jennifer Kemarre<br />
Martiniello OAM |<br />
Member representative<br />
(2021-ongoing) |Award<br />
winning visual artist,<br />
Accredited Professional<br />
Member <strong>Craft</strong> ACT<br />
Jenni Kemarre Martiniello in an Award-winning visual artist, poet, writer,<br />
and photographer of Arrernte, Chinese and Anglo-Celtic descent. Jenni’s<br />
glass works have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions, including<br />
solo exhibitions at Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Belconnen Arts<br />
Centre, Canberra Glassworks and Sabbia Gallery in Sydney. She was<br />
awarded Canberra Critics Circle Awards for Visual Arts in 2011 and 2013.<br />
Jenni is an ACT Creative Arts Fellow (2003) and is the recipient of a<br />
2-year Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Visual Arts Fellowship from<br />
the Australia Council for the Arts for 2013/2014. In 2013 she won the<br />
prestigious Telstra Prize for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art.<br />
Isabelle Mackay-Sim |<br />
Member representative<br />
(2021 – ongoing) | Emerging<br />
ceramic artist, Associate<br />
Member <strong>Craft</strong> ACT<br />
Isabelle Mackay-Sim is an emerging Australian ceramic artist and 2018<br />
graduate from the Australian National University Ceramics Department.<br />
Since graduating she has participated in numerous exhibitions and<br />
residencies in Australia and Internationally. In 2019, Mackay-Sim’s work<br />
was included in the online exhibition for the Gyeonggi International<br />
Korean Ceramics Biennial, and she went on to receive the Talent Award<br />
from the Munich International <strong>Craft</strong> Fair in 2020. Mackay-Sim’s sculptural<br />
ceramic practice centres around a passion for exploring inter-sectional<br />
feminist issues, featuring the body as a pivotal motif. Mackay-Sim<br />
uses the figure in her work as a tool for communicating emotion and<br />
vulnerability.<br />
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Laura Crick | Secretary and<br />
public officer (2020-2023 |<br />
Senior Lawyer, Norton Rose<br />
Fulbright<br />
Laura is an experienced public law litigator who acts for government and<br />
private clients in relation to disputes involving administrative decisions,<br />
disciplinary proceedings, environment and planning, contracts and<br />
employment law. She regularly appears as a solicitor advocate in federal<br />
courts and tribunals and provides advice to the Australian Government<br />
in relation to regulatory compliance and program administration. Laura<br />
studied art history as part of a Bachelor of Arts/Laws at ANU and tutors<br />
there in litigation and dispute management.<br />
Jenny Edwards | Deputy<br />
President and sustainability<br />
advocate (2020 – ongoing)<br />
| Owner, Managing Director<br />
and Lead Scientist, Light<br />
House Architecture &<br />
Science<br />
Jenny has a Master's degree in science and is an ACT-licensed Building<br />
Energy Efficiency Assessor. In 2010, Jenny established an energy<br />
efficiency consulting business, Scinergy, which won the ACT Sustainable<br />
Cities Energy Innovation Award in 2010 for its innovative, scientific<br />
approach to improving energy efficiency in the residential construction<br />
sector. Since 2011, Jenny has been a director of the award-winning<br />
company Jigsaw Housing Pty Ltd, which has traded as the business Light<br />
House Architecture & Science since the end of 2015. In 2015 Jenny won<br />
the ‘Outstanding in Industry’ award from the ACT branch of the National<br />
Association of Women in Construction.<br />
Rod Bobeldjik | Board<br />
Member (<strong>2022</strong>-ongoing)<br />
| Complete Constructions<br />
(Aust)<br />
Rod Bobeldijk is the Director and co-founder of Complete Constructions<br />
(Aust) Pty Ltd, (Est. 1998), specialising in commercial construction and<br />
project management. Rod has significant experience working in the<br />
Commercial Construction Industry, where he has been involved in<br />
Building & Civil projects within the ACT, surrounding NSW and Sydney<br />
since 1993.<br />
As a Director, Rod has been instrumental in developing Complete<br />
Constructions (Aust), which has built a reputation in the industry as a<br />
highly regarded, professional and innovative organisation. A younger<br />
Rod was awarded MAB ACT Young Commercial Builder of the Year<br />
(2012) based on his “knowledge of his craft and his ability to work in<br />
cooperative arrangements with both his clients and designers”.<br />
Carolyn Forster OAM |<br />
Previous Board Member<br />
(March-July <strong>2022</strong>)<br />
Carolyn is vice-president of the Children’s Medical Research Institute<br />
board and a member of their Canberra committee since 1973, serving<br />
three times as its president. She worked in the federal parliament, as<br />
many of you know. She has chaired the ACT Heritage Festival for 11 years.<br />
She was chair of the board of Phillip College and is a past president of<br />
the Women’s International Club in the ACT. She also serves as chair of<br />
the Church of St Andrew Conservation and Restoration Foundation and is<br />
a very active council member of the Australiana Fund.<br />
Committee member and a former president of the Friends of the National<br />
Museum of Australia. She is the delegate also to the World Federation<br />
of Friends of Museums and is about to head off on a trip to Berlin and<br />
a member of the Australian Committee of the International Council of<br />
Museums.<br />
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Jodie Cunningham |<br />
Ex officio (non-voting)<br />
(2021-ongoing) | CEO,<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT: <strong>Craft</strong> + Design<br />
Centre and Artistic Director,<br />
DESIGN Canberra<br />
Jodie Cunningham is CEO + Artistic Director of <strong>Craft</strong> ACT: <strong>Craft</strong> +<br />
Design Centre, one of Australia’s leading creative centres for the<br />
development of visual art, craft and design. Jodie manages the overall<br />
operations and resources, acting as the main point of communication<br />
between the board of directors, staff, members, sponsors, and<br />
government bodies. She is the public face of the organisation,<br />
curating a vibrant program of exhibitions, residencies and crossdisciplinary<br />
collaborations including the DESIGN Canberra Festival.<br />
Cunningham is a highly creative arts leader, visual artist, and educator<br />
with extensive experience in developing and delivering innovative<br />
exhibitions, public programs in museums, galleries, and art contexts.<br />
She also has an extensive background in visual art and design<br />
education and a commitment to mentoring developing artists and<br />
fostering collaboration.<br />
Cunningham advocates for the power of creativity, the arts and<br />
cultural activity to provide hope to our communities, strengthen our<br />
local and national cultural identities, and facilitate social change.<br />
CEO + Artistic Director Jodie Cunningham, Emerging Contemporaries opening night, 2023. Photography Tim Ngo<br />
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Staff<br />
In addition to full-time arts workers, <strong>Craft</strong> ACT engages designers, craft practitioners, and artists as casual and<br />
part-time staff members to further support the Canberra arts community. The total value of this support to arts<br />
workers and artists was $218,489.46 in <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
CEO + Artistic Director Jodie Cunningham (from July 2021)<br />
Assistant Director (Communications) Megan Jones (left February <strong>2022</strong>)<br />
Marketing Manager Rachel Skeehan (from February <strong>2022</strong>)<br />
Gallery Manager Christian Sirois (from October <strong>2022</strong>)<br />
Gallery + Retail Manager Welly McGarry (October 2021-October <strong>2022</strong>)<br />
Project Manager Welly McGarry (from June <strong>2022</strong>)<br />
Justine Merrony (April 2021-May <strong>2022</strong>)<br />
Development Manager Travis Bullock (October 2021-Feburary 2023)<br />
Membership + Development Manager Frances Spurgin (From May <strong>2022</strong>)<br />
Public Programs Manager Moraig McKenna (from October 2021)<br />
Retail Manager Oli Narayanan (March <strong>2022</strong>-November <strong>2022</strong>)<br />
Events Manager Belinda Neame (from September <strong>2022</strong>)<br />
Marketing + Digital Content Assistant Georgia Arndell (October 2021-December <strong>2022</strong>)<br />
Gallery + Retail Assistant Bethany Brewsher (July 2021 – March <strong>2022</strong>)<br />
Oli Narayanan (October 2021 – March <strong>2022</strong>)<br />
Mary Monro-Allison (April <strong>2022</strong> – June <strong>2022</strong>)<br />
Victoria Byron (from October <strong>2022</strong>)<br />
Daniel Margules (from March <strong>2022</strong>)<br />
Melissa Hammond (from June <strong>2022</strong>)<br />
Ella Myer (from September <strong>2022</strong>)<br />
Elmi Slater (from September <strong>2022</strong>)<br />
Eve Fairhall (from September <strong>2022</strong>)<br />
Maree McGarry (October-November <strong>2022</strong>)<br />
Dotty Berryman (October – November <strong>2022</strong>)<br />
Sincere thanks to the former staff of <strong>Craft</strong> ACT, who made valuable contributions to the work and<br />
achievements of <strong>Craft</strong> ACT during <strong>2022</strong>. Your contributions continue to strengthen and support the work that<br />
we do, and we appreciate your ongoing support within the sector.<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT artistic<br />
program committee<br />
Ann McMahon (Textiles, APM)<br />
Anne Masters (Ceramic, APM)<br />
Caren Florance (Paper, APM)<br />
Sean Booth (Metal, APM)<br />
Nikki Main (Glass, APM)<br />
Kirandeep Grewal (Textiles, APM)<br />
Patsy Hely (Ceramics, APM)<br />
Jodie Cunningham (<strong>Craft</strong> ACT)<br />
Volunteers<br />
Central to our work is our community engagement and help from<br />
volunteers including artists, recent graduates, retirees, high school<br />
students, and people in our local community. <strong>Craft</strong> ACT enjoyed over 255<br />
hours in volunteer support in <strong>2022</strong>, to a value of $7,000.*<br />
We are especially grateful to all our volunteers, interns, and supporters.<br />
*Applying national $27.45/hour rate method (see www.<br />
volunteeringaustralia.org).<br />
Interns<br />
Angus Macoun<br />
Miranda Williams<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT thanks the community for its ongoing support of our programs.<br />
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Appendices: <strong>2022</strong> <strong>Craft</strong> ACT activity<br />
Membership<br />
Life members<br />
Beverly Wood | Bill Wood | David Williams | F!NK Design | Gene Willsford | Meredith Hinchliffe | Michelle Frost<br />
Accredited professional members<br />
Anita McIntyre | Annie Trevillian | Annette Blair | Ann McMahon | Avi Amesbury | Barbara Rogers | Belinda Jessup<br />
| Belinda Toll | Bev Hogg | Caren Florance | Cathy Franzi | Dianne Firth | Dimity Kidston | Elizabeth Kelly | Elizabeth<br />
Paterson | Eugenie Keefer Bell | Gail Nichols | Harriet Schwarzrock | Hiroshi Yamaguchi | Ian Jones | Jacqueline<br />
Knight | Janet DeBoos | Jennifer Robertson | Jenni Kemarre Martiniello | Joanne Searle | Jonathan Everett | Judi Elliott<br />
| Julie Bradley | Julie Bartholomew | Julie Ryder | Kaye Pemberton | Keiko Amenomori-Schmeisser | Kirstie Rea | Lisa<br />
Cahill | Lissa-Jane de Sailles | Lucy Irvine | Luna Ryan | Mark Eliott | Margaret Brown | Melanie Olde | Mel Douglas |<br />
Monique van Nieuwland | Moraig McKenna | Nikki Main | Pamela Irving | Phoebe Porter | Rozlyn de Bussey | Ruth<br />
Allen | Ruth Hingston | Sally Blake | Sarit Cohen | Scott Chaseling | Sean Booth | Sharon Peoples | Simon Cottrell |<br />
Susan Wiscombe | Valerie Kirk AM | Will Maguire | Ximena Briceño | Zeljko Markov<br />
Associate members<br />
Abbey Jamieson | Adam Dossetor | Adina Leigh-Fitzsimons | Akie Haga | Alice Sutton (van Meurs) | Angela Bakker<br />
| Anne Masters | Benedict Laffan | Brenda Runnegar | Bronwyn Sargeson | Camelia Smith | Cam Michael | Carol<br />
Cooke | Cassandra Layne | Catherine Newton | Chelsea Lemon | Chin-Jie Melodie Liu | Daniel Margules | Daniel<br />
Venables | David Liu | Debra Jurss | Edward Collett | Elizabeth Curry | Emilie Patteson | Emina Adriaans | Estelle<br />
Briedis | Fiona Hooton | Fran Romano | Isabelle Mackay-Sim | Isobel Waters | Galia Shy | Gerhard Herbst | Grace<br />
Blake | Hannah Gason | Helen Keogh | Jacqui Keogh | Janet Meaney | Jennifer King | Jenny Harris | Jenny Manning |<br />
Jeremy Brown | Jochen Heinzmann | Jodie Cunningham | Josephine Townsend | Jo Victoria | Julie Pennington | Kate<br />
McKay | Kerry Johns | Kirandeep Grewal | Lea Durie | Lee Leibrandt | Leonie Andrews | Lex Sorrentino | Louis Grant<br />
| Lucy Palmer | Olinda Narayanan | Olivia Gates | Madisyn Zabel | Mahnie Blakey | Maricelle Olivier | Marie Barincou |<br />
Michele Grimston | Minqi Gu | Nadina Geary | Nick Adams | Nichola Leeming | Nicola Knackstredt | Pamela McGrath<br />
| Patricia Hely | Peter Bollington | Pinal Maniar | Rene Linssen | Rob Schwartz | Robyn Campbell | Rodger Sutherland<br />
| Rolf Barfoed | Rose-Mary Faulkner | Rosie Armstrong | Roz Hall | Sam Sheppard | Saskia den Brinker | Sarah<br />
Murphy | Sara Wurcker | Sean Morris | Sinead Woods | Sue Hewat | Sue Peachey | Sophi Suttor | Tamara Schneider<br />
| Tania Vrancic | Tanya Taglietti | Tony Burke | Victoria Cotton | Virginia Sprague | Wayne Creaser | Zoe Brand<br />
The work of <strong>Craft</strong> ACT is also supported by 207 general maker members, 44 craft + design lover members, and<br />
161 student members in <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
Exhibitions<br />
Block 1: 3 February-19 March <strong>2022</strong><br />
Emerging contemporaries<br />
Sarah Barlow | Elliane Boulton | Noel Davar | Solomon Gates | Dom Gowans | Roz Hall | Brandon Harrison | Adeline<br />
Higgins | Abbie Holbrook | Tessa Hoser | Shen-Ju Hsieh | Ronnie Jordan | Alex Khoo | Daniel Licastro | Oliver Owens<br />
| Sue Peachey | Ailish Power | Kate Rice | Bronwyn Sargeson | Lucy Stackpool | Eliza Styles | Moea Vonsy | Cathy<br />
Zhang<br />
Emerging Contemporaries is the <strong>Craft</strong> ACT National Award Exhibition for early career artists. This exhibition plays a<br />
pivotal role in supporting and transitioning artists into professional practice and placing Australian artists in view of<br />
the national cultural collecting institutions, industry, and audience.<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT prides itself on nurturing emerging artists and welcoming them into our growing community. For<br />
Emerging Contemporaries, we select emerging designers and makers from numerous local institutions including<br />
the Sturt School for Wood, Canberra Potters Society, Canberra Institute of Technology, University of Canberra, the<br />
ANU School of Art + Design, University of New South Wales, and the CAPO <strong>Craft</strong> ACT Emerging Artist award.<br />
Exhibition launched by Rod Bamford, Senior Lecturer, Australian National University.<br />
6:30 Sessions<br />
Nellie Peoples | Michelle Stemm<br />
This exhibition featured the work of Brisbane-based designer-makers, Michelle Stemm and Nellie Peoples. The<br />
6:30 Sessions concept evolved out of the Covid-19 lockdowns, which cancelled the pairs income streams and<br />
creative deadlines, and more impactfully, crushed their motivation to make. By taking a small step to hold each<br />
other to account, a new home-bound schedule was developed; they decided to ‘meet’ each morning at 6:30<br />
am, in their respective backyards, to observe and draw the outside world. The exhibition is a result of the original<br />
process led, object making.<br />
Exhibition launched by Rod Bamford, Senior Lecturer, Australian National University.<br />
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You get a Rhythm about It<br />
Peter Minson<br />
In recognition of his important contribution to glass art and craft in Australia, <strong>Craft</strong> ACT presented the work of<br />
Peter Minson spanning his 60-year career as a lampworker. Coinciding with <strong>Craft</strong> ACT’s 50th Anniversary, in<br />
2021, the exhibition pays respect to the history of glassmaking in Australia and examines Minson’s work through a<br />
contemporary lens.<br />
Exhibition launched by Jodie Cunningham, CEO + Artistic Director, <strong>Craft</strong> ACT on behalf of Nola Anderson.<br />
Block 2: 24 March-14 May <strong>2022</strong><br />
Home Grown<br />
Jeremy Brown<br />
Home Grown presented new body of work by Jeremy Brown, in celebration of the beautiful street trees of<br />
Canberra, the city he was born and raised in. This exhibition invited viewers to wander the streets of our garden<br />
city and allows appreciation of some of the more hidden aspects of its natural beauty. By combining two main<br />
threads of practice, furniture making and botanical illustration, these works created a juxtaposition between the<br />
natural and built environments, bridging the disconnect between the origins of raw materials and a final product.<br />
Exhibition launched by Ashley Eriksmoen, Head of Furniture, Australian National University.<br />
Tension[s] 2020: Tamworth Textile Triennial<br />
Soraya Abidin | Mark Smith | Arts Project Australia | Del Stewart | Australian Tapestry Workshop | Gillian Bencke<br />
| Julie Briggs and Kelly Leonard | Armando Chant | Georgia Chapman | Linda Erceg | Anne Ferran | Dianne Firth |<br />
Sai-Wai Foo | Tina Fox | Erica Gray | Garth Knight | Yinarr Maramali | Julie Montgarrett | Deborah Prior | Margarita<br />
Sampson | Jane Theau | Tjanpi Desert Weavers | Elisa Markes-Young<br />
Tamworth Textile Triennial, held every three years, showcased the best of textile art from across the country,<br />
attracting artist participation from all states in Australia. The Triennial acknowledged that the world has long been<br />
a place under various Tension[s], both harmonious and dissonant. In order to bear witness to contribute to and<br />
respond to these tensions, the triennial artworks focused on the future of people and place through textile as a<br />
material and human experience as materiality.<br />
Exhibition launched by Vic McEwan, Curator, Artist, + Writer.<br />
Block 3: 19 May-2 July <strong>2022</strong><br />
Fire Country<br />
Rebecca Selleck | James Tylor<br />
Fire Country was a furniture and photography installation addressing the physical and cultural significance of<br />
fire in Australia. It drew the burnt landscape into the domestic space, revealing its intrinsic beauty as part of key<br />
environmental mechanisms. These works were representative of our contemporary relationship with fire and<br />
potential for better engagement in the future.<br />
Exhibition launched by Dr. Amanda Stuart, Curator, Writer, + Artist.<br />
Collide + Divide<br />
Erin Daniell | Mirjana Dobson | Bailey Donovan | Polly Dymond | Daria Fox | Sam Gold | Alex Hirst | David Liu |<br />
Francesca Sykes | Eloise White | Duncan Young<br />
Collide + Divide was a discipline-bending object-based exhibition featuring eleven emerging Jam Factory<br />
associates who work in various mediums. Artists collaborated in small groups on creating a body of work that<br />
celebrated interdisciplinary skill sharing, merging both contemporary art and craftsmanship.<br />
Exhibition launched by Jodie Cunningham, CEO + Artistic Director, <strong>Craft</strong> ACT.<br />
Block 4: 7 July-27 August <strong>2022</strong><br />
BEEing<br />
Dr. Julie Bartholomew | Mahala Hill<br />
This exhibition featured the work of established craft-based artist Dr. Julie Bartholomew and early-career<br />
contemporary ceramic artist Mahala Hill. BEEing bought into visibility the challenge of survival for bees through the<br />
craft practices of these artists. Both artists utlised the aesthetic power of craft practice to engage audiences and<br />
encourage critical discourse around the significance of bees and threats to biodiversity.<br />
Exhibition launched by Patsy Hely, Artist + Writer.<br />
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CONFLUENCE: 2021 Artist-in-Residence Exhibition<br />
Valerie Kirk AM | Harriet Schwarzrock<br />
The exhibition CONFLUENCE is the culmination of <strong>Craft</strong> ACT’s 2021 Artist-in-Residence program showcasing the<br />
work of Valerie Kirk and Harriet Schwarzrock which is the results of their engagement in the two-part residency<br />
project - researching at Geoscience Australia and creating in Namadji National Park.<br />
Exhibition launched by Peter Cotsell, Regional Manager Southern Parks ACT, ACT Parks & Conservation.<br />
12 July-30 September <strong>2022</strong><br />
STORYBOX public art exhibition<br />
The City Renewal Authority partnered with local and national institutions in Canberra including <strong>Craft</strong> ACT and<br />
commissioned ESEM projects to create STORYBOX Canberra, a unique digital place-making experience,<br />
showcasing the creative knowledge of the city. It centred around a four-meter digital cube in Garema place<br />
and a series of digital plinths placed throughout city west. <strong>Craft</strong> ACT digital stories of Associate and Accredited<br />
Professional Members Harriet Schwarzrock, Phoebe Porter, Kirandeep Grewal, Chris Harford, and Hiroshi<br />
Yamaguchi was featured on Storybox.<br />
Block 5: 8 September-22 October <strong>2022</strong><br />
Nurture: <strong>Craft</strong> ACT: <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Centre <strong>Annual</strong> Members Exhibition<br />
Adam Dossetor | Alice van Meurs | Anita M McIntyre | Annie Trevillian | Barbara Rogers | Brenda Runnegar |<br />
Bronwyn Sargeson | Cam Michael | Caren Florance | Dianne Firth | Elliott Bastianon | Galia Shy | Gerhard Herbst<br />
| Helen Keogh | Isobel Waters | Jennifer Robertson | Jeremy Brown | Jo Victoria | Jono Everett | Judi Elliort | Julie<br />
Bradley | Kate McKay | Kirandeep Grewal | Lea Durie | Lee Leibrandt | Luke Batten | Luna Ryan | Michele Grimston |<br />
Minqui Gu | Monique van Nieuwland | Nicola Knackstredt | NOT | Rebecca Selleck | Rene Linssen | Robyn Campbell<br />
| Ruth Hingston | Sally Blake | Sharon Peoples | Sophi Suttor | Sue Peachey | Tania Vrancic | Wendy Dawes | Will<br />
Maguire | Ximena Briceno<br />
The <strong>Craft</strong> ACT: <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Centre annual members exhibition showcased contemporary expressions of<br />
craft and design uniting time-honoured techniques with modern interpretations demonstrating the trends in<br />
contemporary craft and design in Australia by practitioners from the ACT and surrounding region.<br />
Exhibition launched by Meredith Hinchcliffe AM, Writer.<br />
1 October-20 November <strong>2022</strong><br />
DISCOVER: <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Trail<br />
Hannah Quinlivan | Lan Nguyen-hoan | Rose Armstrong | S.A. Adair | Sam Sheppard | Tony Burke (Studio Bud)<br />
A public art installation in partnership with Canberra Art Biennial, in six locations across City West featuring <strong>Craft</strong><br />
ACT Artist’s<br />
Block 6: 27 October-10 December <strong>2022</strong><br />
Seeing Seventies<br />
Aaron Puls | Alexa Munro | Amanda Willis | Anastasia Tzotzis | Angela McIntyre | Cathy Breen | Clare De Lune |<br />
Whitney | Daniel Morton Jones | Emily Leseberg | Fiona Bowring-Greer | Garth Kirwin | Graham Gall | Henry Buttriss<br />
| Henry Shawcross | Hilary Wardhaughl | Jakub Besedal | Jamila Gatica | Jeremy Byrnes | Kaet Lovell | Lachlan<br />
Herring | Liam Camilleri | Michael Oliver | Pam Saunders | Pamela Proestos | Priyanka Kaul | Rachel Ives | Rebecca<br />
Scouller | Richie Southerton | Sal Witchalls | Shannon Battisson | Stephen Hunter | Susanne Boag | aira Vora | Tara<br />
Edwards | Vanessa Smyth | Yi Xueqin<br />
Seeing Seventies: Photography Competition exhibition showcased the photographs of over 80 Canberra Region<br />
Photographers who entered DESIGN Canberra Festival’s 2021 photography competition. The theme for the<br />
photography Competition was ‘Design in the 70’s’, encouraging professional and amateur photographers to take<br />
photos which take a closer look at Canberra’s iconic design and architecture from the 1970s. The best of the<br />
competition, over 40 photographs, were exhibited in a signature DESIGN Canberra exhibition at <strong>Craft</strong> ACT: <strong>Craft</strong> +<br />
Design Centre.<br />
Exhibition launched by Travis Bullock, Development Manager, <strong>Craft</strong> ACT: <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Centre.<br />
Home Life<br />
Acme21 | Alcarol | Alessandro Zambelli | BIG | Claudio Larcher | Deanna Comellini | Emanuele Magini | Giulia<br />
Piovesan + Barbara Medeot | Ludovica + Roberto Palomba |Maddalena Casadei | Mandalaki Design Studio | Maria<br />
Elena Bompani | Mario Cucinella | Matteo Ragni | Michele De Lucchi | Odo Fioravanti | Studio Adriano Architetti |<br />
Studio Natural | Yack di Maio<br />
We are delighted to continue collaborating with the Embassy of Italy, a partner of DESIGN Canberra since 2018 to<br />
bring the exhibition Home Life, curated by Elisabetta Pisu from the IMF Foundation in Rome to DESIGN Canberra.<br />
This exciting exhibition of contemporary design revealed how houses will evolve in the future and showed how<br />
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objects can enhance our enjoyment of being home.<br />
Supported by the Embassy of Italy, Italian Cultural Institute, and the Prosecco Consortium.<br />
Exhibition launched by Elisabetta Pisu, Curator, EP Studio.<br />
<strong>2022</strong> Robert Foster F!NK National Metal Prize<br />
Alison Jackson | Bic Tieu | Gretal Ferguson | Johannes Kuhnen | Jonathon Zalakos | Kirsten Haydon | Larah Nott |<br />
Lindy McSwan | Oliver Smith | Sean Booth<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT was honoured to present the new Robert Foster F!NK National Metal Prize. This award celebrated the<br />
outstanding work of ten emerging and established contemporary metalworkers, designers and craftspeople.<br />
The finalists represented the value of high-quality craft making skills, sound design and innovation that we are<br />
lucky to have here in Australia. From these ten finalists, judges Brian Parkes (JamFactory) Rohan Nichols (University<br />
of Tasmania) and Ewan McGregor (National Gallery of Victoria) awarded both the main prize ($10,000) and<br />
emerging award prize ($3,000) to Gretal Ferguson, and the acquisition prize ($2000) to Larah Nott.<br />
This program is generously supported by the Tall Foundation, F!NK + Co., and <strong>Craft</strong> ACT: <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Centre.<br />
Exhibition launched by Gretel Harrison, Director, F!NK + Co.<br />
Public Programs<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT in-gallery public programs<br />
• Emerging Contemporaries, 6:30 Sessions, and You Get a Rhythm about It exhibition opening, 3 February <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• 6:30 Session floor talk with artists Nellie Peoples and Michelle Stemm, 5 February <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• You Get a Rhythm about It floor talk with artist Peter Minson, 5 March <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Home Grown and Tension[s]: 2020 Tamworth Textiles Triennial exhibition opening, 24 March <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Home Grown floor talk with artist Jeremy Brown, 2 April <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Fire Country and Collide + Divide exhibition opening, 19 May <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Collide + Divide floor talk with CEO + Artistic Director Jodie Cunningham in conversation with artist Daria Fox and<br />
Bailey Donovan, 21 May <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Fire Country floor talk with artist Rebecca Selleck, 18 June <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• BEEing and CONFLUENCE exhibition opening, 7 July <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• BEEing floor talk with artists Dr. Julie Bartholomew and Mahala Hill, 30 July <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• CONFLUENCE floor talk with artists Valerie Kirk AM and Harriet Schwarzrock, 23 July <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Nurture: <strong>Craft</strong> ACT <strong>Annual</strong> Members Exhibition opening, 8 September <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• <strong>2022</strong> Robert Foster F!NK National Metal Prize, Home Life and Seeing Seventies exhibition opening, 27 October<br />
<strong>2022</strong>.<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT off-site public programs (not including DESIGN Canberra programming)<br />
• <strong>Craft</strong> ACT at DENFAIR + Interiors Australia exhibition in Melbourne featuring members Maitlan Brown, Madeline<br />
Cardone, Louis Grant, and Sam Sheppard, 10-12 February <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• MAKE:OVER, styling master class presented by Lynsey Fryers—a professional development workshops for<br />
members, 26 February <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Artists-in-Residence Bev Hogg, Julie Ryder, and Mel Robson completed their research with our <strong>2022</strong> research<br />
partner the National Library of Australia and their residency at Gudgenby Ready-Cut Cottage with our program<br />
partners ACT Parks and Conservation Service and the National Library of Australia, 7–18 March <strong>2022</strong> and 25<br />
April-7 May <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• <strong>Craft</strong> ACT at Enlighten in the City, <strong>Craft</strong> After Dark with clay-making family programs and pop-up retail stall, Civic<br />
Square, 10 March <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• <strong>Craft</strong> ACT at Winter in the City: Felt Caterpillar Beads and Found Treasure workshop in partnership with Canberra<br />
Region Feltmakers, 9 + 16 July <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Indigenous Artists-in-Residence, Krystal Hurst and Jessika Spencer, conducted research at the National Library<br />
of Australia, 22–26 August <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Indigenous Artist-in-Residence, Jessica Spencer, conducted residency at the Ready-Cut Cottage in Namadgi<br />
National Park, 1-15 September <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT participation in external public programs<br />
• Jodie Cunningham attended Museums and Wellbeing Digital next Conference online, 31 January-2 February<br />
<strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Megan Jones attended DENFAIR + Interiors Australia exhibition to support <strong>Craft</strong> ACT Artists in Melbourne, 10-12<br />
February <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Jodie Cunningham convened National Art, <strong>Craft</strong> and Design Network (ACDNN), Australian Museum and Galleries<br />
Association (AMAGA) meetings, 17 February <strong>2022</strong> + 18 July <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Justine Merrony attended Melbourne Design Week, 17-24 March <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Jodie Cunningham, Frances Spurgin, Rachel Byron attended Fundamentals of Arts Fundraising Creative<br />
Partnerships, 19 May <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Jodie Cunningham, Frances Spurgin attended Canberra Tourism Leaders Forum Conference, 6 June <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
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• Jodie Cunningham presented paper, Nurture: Making by Hand for Wellbeing Case Study, at the AMAGA<br />
conference, 13 June <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Jodie Cunningham convened the National Art, <strong>Craft</strong> and Design Network (AMAGA) Session ‘Freelance Curator<br />
as Provocateur at AMAGA conference’ and arrange conference keynote presentation Sara Raza from New York,<br />
16 June <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Jodie Cunningham, Frances Spurgin, Rachel Byron attended Canberra Tourism Leaders Forum, 1 July, 2<br />
September, 1 November, + 6 December <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Frances Spurgin attended Aalto - Film Screening at the Embassy of Finland in Australia, 14 July <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Frances Spurgin attended Capital Arts Patrons Organisation (CAPO) Awards launch, 1 September <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Jodie Cunningham, Frances Spurgin attended 40th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art at the Embassy of<br />
the United State of America, 7 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Jodie Cunningham presented <strong>Craft</strong> ACT Emerging Contemporaries awards at University of Canberra, Australian<br />
National University, and Canberra Institute of Technology, 7 November-16 December <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Jodie Cunningham presented <strong>Craft</strong> ACT CAPO Awards, 24 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Jodie Cunningham and Moraig Mckenna attended Cultural Leaders Collaboration Forum at Canberra Museum +<br />
Gallery, 6 December <strong>2022</strong><br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT staff training<br />
• Jodie Cunningham, Welly McGarry, Travis Bullock, Moraig Mckenna, Justine Merrony, Georgia Arndell, and<br />
Meagan Jones attend First Aid Training, 21 February <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Welly McGarry attended Elevated Work Platform Operation training, 29 September <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Belinda Neame attended Responsible Service of Alcohol (RSA) training, 6 December <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
DESIGN Canberra Festival events<br />
• DESIGN Canberra Program Launch, Kambri @ ANU, 17 August <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• DESIGN Canberra <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Auction Party, Kambri @ ANU, 19 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• DESIGN Canberra <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Auction, Online, 2-20 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• DESIGN Canberra VIP opening, Civic Square, 1 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Abundant Wonder exhibition opening, Canberra Museum + Gallery, 3 November <strong>2022</strong><br />
• DESIGN Canberra Creative Journaling Challenge launch, Eckersley’s Art + <strong>Craft</strong>, 13 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Uruguay + Australia <strong>Craft</strong> Exchange exhibition opening launch, <strong>Craft</strong> ACT Gallery, 8 December <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Seeing Seventies exhibition opening, <strong>Craft</strong> ACT Gallery, 27 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Home Life exhibition opening, <strong>Craft</strong> ACT Gallery, 27 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• <strong>2022</strong> Robert Foster F!NK National Metal Prize exhibition opening, <strong>Craft</strong> ACT Gallery, 27 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Dovetail exhibition opening, Canberra Centre, 4 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Shadow Lines exhibition opening, Canberra Centre, 4 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• CTRL.ALT.DESIGN exhibition opening, Canberra Centre, 4 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• The Stills exhibition opening, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 6 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Aurora exhibition opening, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 6 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• HOME:MADE exhibition opening, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 6 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Roguetopia exhibition opening, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 6 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Friday City Session with The Pop Inn, Civic Square, 4,11, + 18 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Sunday Session with The Jetty, Commonwealth Place, 12 + 19 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Hive Mind Shift: Exploring Transformation through Spiritual Geometry exhibition closing, The Hive, 20 November<br />
<strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Ripple Effect exhibition opening, Canberra Museum + Gallery, 3 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Ginninderry Design Library exhibition opening, The Link, 5 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• PixelARTed exhibition opening, The Front, 3 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Open Studios, Canberra Region, 5, 12, + 19 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
DESIGN Canberra exhibitions<br />
• Ginninderry Design Library, The Link, 12 October-20 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Dark Matter, PhotoAccess, 13 October-12 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Timber Mosaics, Australian Botanical Gardens, 14 October-21 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Seeing Seventies, <strong>Craft</strong> ACT Gallery, 27 October-11 December <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• <strong>2022</strong> Robert Foster F!NK National Metal Prize, <strong>Craft</strong> ACT Gallery, 27 October-11 December <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Home Life, <strong>Craft</strong> ACT Gallery, 27 October-11 December <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Flowers Refashioned, Hyatt, 1-6 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Dovetail, Canberra Centre, 2-20 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• CTRL.ALT.DESIGN, Canberra Centre, 2-20 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Shadow Lines, Canberra Centre 2-13 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Golden Years, Canberra Museum + Gallery, 2-20 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Brutal Transformation, Canberra Theatre Centre, 2-20 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Brutalist Belconnen – Constructing the Cameron Offices, Online, 2-20 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• PixelARTed, The Front, 2-20 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Canberra Low Carbon Housing, 220 London Circuit, 2-20 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
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• BECOME, Stringworks Studio + Gallery, 2-20 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Phone X Stitch, Online, 2-20 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Abundant Wonder, Canberra Museum + Gallery, 3 November <strong>2022</strong>-12 February 2023<br />
• Ripple Effect, Canberra Museum + Gallery, 3 November <strong>2022</strong>-12 February 2023.<br />
• Hive Mind Shift - Exploring Transformational through Sacred Geometry, The Hive, 4-20 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Transformation with a Twist, Chiefly Wellbeing Centre, 4-5 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• HOME:MADE, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 5-27 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Aurora, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 5-27 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• The Stills, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 5-27 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Roguetopia, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 5-27 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Uncertain Shape of Time, M16 Artspace, 10-27 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Celebration, Kambah Scout Hall, 12 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Clean Slate, Cox Gallery, 14 November-16 December <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Uruguay + Australia <strong>Craft</strong> Exchange, Canberra Airport, 14 November <strong>2022</strong>-23 January 2023.<br />
• Uruguay + Australia <strong>Craft</strong> Exchange, <strong>Craft</strong> ACT Gallery, 14 November-21 December <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Friends in High Places, Canberra airport, 14 November <strong>2022</strong>-ongoing.<br />
DESIGN Canberra public art installation<br />
• DISCOVER: <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Trail, 1 October-20 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Becoming, Civic Square, 2-20 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Along Civic Lines, Knowles Lane, 2-20 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Geological Transformations, Commonwealth Place, 2-20 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Shift, Canberra Museum + Gallery, 2-20 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Currents, Civic Square, 2-20 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Given Conditions, Civic Square, 2-20 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• BMW Car Wrap, Civic Square, 8 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
DESIGN Canberra talks + symposiums<br />
• DISCOVER: Public Art in Canberra Symposium in partnership with Canberra Art Biennial and Canberra Museum<br />
+ Gallery, Kambri @ANU, 29 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Design Revisited: Roger Pegrum and Phllip Goad, Shine Dome, 3 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Design Thinking, Learning and Making in Canberra: Legacies and New Initiatives, Canberra Museum + Gallery, 4<br />
November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Art and Creativity- Within and Beyond Urban Public Spaces, The Link, 4 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Restoring a Palm Springs Master Work with Jessy Moss, Canberra Museum + Gallery, 4 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Transforming Canberra, Shine Dome, 5 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Tyler Jackson Artist Talk, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 6 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Davey Barber Artist Talk, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 6 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Lucy Irvine Artist Talk, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 6 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• From Silo to Collaboration, National Museum of Australia, 9 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Intellectual Property (IP) for Designers, Discover House, 9 + 14 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• DIA Design Evening (Student Initiative), Kambri @ ANU, 10 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Design Revisited: Marita Leuver in conversation with Graham Rendoth, Shine Dome, 10 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• 100 Canberra Houses Book launch, Canberra Museum + Gallery, 11 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• DISCOVER: <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Trail Artists Talks, Canberra City, 13 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Medium Density Housing, Shine Dome, 13 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Canberra Low Carbon Housing Challenge, 220 London Circuit, 16 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Julie Monro-Allison Artist Talk, Civic Square, 18 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Lymesmith Artist Talk, Civic Square, 18 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Leah Brideson Artist Talk, Civic Square, 18 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Transforming your Home with Interior Designer Vanessa Hawes, Design <strong>Craft</strong>, 19 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
DESIGN Canberra tours<br />
• Verity Lane Contemporary Architecture Tour, Canberra City, 2 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Architecture Tour with Philip Vivian from Bates Smart, Canberra City, 4 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Around the Block on Grey St, Deakin—Walking Tour and Recollections, Deakin, 5 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Ginninderry Tracks A, Ginninderry, 5 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Ginninderry Tracks B, Ginninderry, 5 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• The Roaring 20’s – A glimpse into Canberra’s early design aesthetic, Calthorpe House, 5 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Canberra Low Carbon Housing Challenge: Tour of Net-Zero/Passivhaus with Michael Tolhurst, Narrabundah, 6<br />
November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• KALMA House Contemporary Architecture Tour, Kaleen, 8 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Rejuvenation of a Campus: The Kambri Cultural Precinct and Hanna Neumann Building @ ANU, Australian<br />
National University, 9 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Behind the Scenes Series: National Archive Preservation Facility (x2), Mitchell, 11 + 18 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Little Loft House Contemporary Architecture Tour, Giralang, 13 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Architecture Tour with Steven Cetrtek, Griffith, 16 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
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• Art and Architecture in the Parliamentary Zone, Canberra, 19 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Crace Eclectic House Contemporary Architecture Tour, Crace, 20 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
DESIGN Canberra workshops<br />
• Creative Journalling Challenge, online, 22 October-20 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Nurture Making by Hand: Shift with Mariana Del Castello, Civic Square, 2 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Nurture Making by Hand: Tending the Inner Garden with Sharon Peoples (x3), Civic Square, 2, 9, + 16 November<br />
<strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Festival Hub Drop-In workshops (x3), Civic Square, 4, 11, + 18 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Creative kids: Ephemeral Seed Pods, Canberra Centre, 4 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Nurture Making by Hand: Silk Scarf Painting with Kirandeep Grewal, Civic Square, 5 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Creative Kids: Design Futures (x3), Civic Square, 5, 12, + 19 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Nurture Making by Hand: Design Bootcamp with Sharon Peoples, Civic Square, 8 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• PixelARTed: Stamp and Brushes, The Front, 9 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Nurture Making by Hand: Ephemeral Thought Vessels, Civic Square, 9 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Nurture Making by Hand: Chemigrams with PhotoAccess, Civic Square, 10 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Creative kids: Bush Animal Weaving (x2), Canberra Centre, 11 + 18 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Queering the museum, Canberra Museum + Gallery, 11 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• BECOME: Remake and Tell Your Story, Stringworks Studio + Gallery, 11 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Make Believe with Paper Giant, Canberra City, 12 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Transformation, Innovation, New from Old, Fyshwick, 12 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Nurture Making by Hand: Spoon Carving with Fiona Glover, Civic Square, 12 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Transform your Jewellery, Wild Studio, 13 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• PixelARTed: Photoplay, The Front, 16 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Nurture Making by Hand: Catching with Julie Monro-Allison, Civic Square, 17 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Nurture Making by Hand: Clay Hand Building with Daniel Leone, Civic Square, 19 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Sip & Sketch with Sally Black, Commonwealth Place, 20 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
DESIGN Canberra markets<br />
• Hive Mind Shift: Exploring Transformation through Spiritual Geometry Markets, The Hive, 5 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Dairy Road Market, Dairy Road, 6 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Undercurrent Design Market, National Portrait Gallery, 25-27 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
Media<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT media articles<br />
• There were many impressive craft shows in Canberra in 2021 with more to come in <strong>2022</strong>, Canberra Times,<br />
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7540281/there-were-many-impressive-craft-shows-in-2021-withmore-to-come-in-<strong>2022</strong>/,<br />
1 January <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• <strong>2022</strong> arts festivals and events calendar, Arts Hub, https://www.artshub.com.au/news/calendars/<strong>2022</strong>-artsfestivals-and-events-calendar-2521849/,<br />
5 January <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• The Canberra Times' best photos of 2021: July, Canberra Times, https://www.canberratimes.com.au/<br />
story/7571260/year-in-pictures-july/, 6 January <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Artsday / Corks pop for artists at the Open, CityNews, https://citynews.com.au/<strong>2022</strong>/artsday-corks-pop-forartists-at-the-australian-open/,<br />
13 January <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• 2021 Emerging Artist Award Scheme (EASS) recipients announced, ANU SOAD, https://soad.cass.anu.edu.au/<br />
news/2021-emerging-artist-award-scheme-eass-recipients-announced 20/01/<strong>2022</strong>, 20 January <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• All the Australia Day honours for the region’s finest, RiotACT, https://the-riotact.com/all-the-australia-dayhonours-for-the-regions-finest/528216,<br />
26 January <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• <strong>2022</strong> design and craft calendar, ArtsHub, https://www.artshub.com.au/news/calendars/<strong>2022</strong>-design-and-craftcalendar-2526477/,<br />
27 Janurary <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Peter Minson and the art of lampworking | Exhibition essay, <strong>Craft</strong> ACT: <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Centre, https://craftact.org.<br />
au/blogs/news/peter-minson-exhibition-essay, 2 February <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Emerging Contemporaries and 6:30 Sessions, <strong>Craft</strong> ACT: <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Centre, https://craftact.org.au/blogs/<br />
news/emerging-contemporaries-and-6-30-sessions, 2 February <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• What's on in Canberra February <strong>2022</strong>, Canberra Weekly, https://canberraweekly.com.au/whats-on-in-canberrafebruary-<strong>2022</strong>/,<br />
23 February <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Lockdown jewellery shines in exhibition, CityNews, https://citynews.com.au/<strong>2022</strong>/lockdown-jewellery-shines-inexhibition/,<br />
24 February <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Minson, the master of lampworking, CityNews, https://citynews.com.au/<strong>2022</strong>/minson-the-master-of-lampworking/,<br />
24 February <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Artsday / The Yellow House celebrates women, CityNews, https://citynews.com.au/<strong>2022</strong>/artsday-the-yellowhouse-celebrates-women/,<br />
4 March <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Peter Minson's glass objects shatter expectations, Canberra Times, https://www.canberratimes.com.au/<br />
story/7634675/glass-objects-shatter-expectations/, 18 March <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Tamworth Textile Triennial Performance, Interaction and Material Futures - Essay by Vic McEwan (supplied<br />
marketing material), <strong>Craft</strong> ACT: <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Centre, 21 March <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
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• From Paint & Sip to the Canberra Comedy Festival: 15+ things to do in Canberra this week, HerCanberra, https://<br />
hercanberra.com.au/city/whats-on/from-paint-sip-to-the-canberra-comedy-festival-15-things-to-do-incanberra-this-week/,<br />
21 March <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Home Grown, <strong>Craft</strong> ACT by Jeremy Brown Exhibition essay by Ashley Eriksmoen, <strong>Craft</strong> ACT: <strong>Craft</strong> + Design<br />
Centre, https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/66593194/home-grown-exhibition-catalogue, 21 March<br />
<strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Opportunities and awards wrap, ArtsHub, https://www.artshub.com.au/news/news/opportunities-and-awardswrap-29-2533648/,<br />
23 March <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• <strong>Craft</strong> ACT to launch inaugural Robert Foster F!NK national prize, Canberra Weekly, https://canberraweekly.com.<br />
au/craft-act-launches-inaugural-robert-foster-fnk-national-prize/, 15 April <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• <strong>Craft</strong> ACT announces National Metal Prize in honour of Fink's Robert Foster, Canberra Times, https://www.<br />
canberratimes.com.au/story/7701014/craft-act-announces-prize-in-honour-of-finks-robert-foster/, 16 April <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Detailed judging by Canberra's Paul Murray and Jodie Cunningham delight Merimbula and District Arts Group<br />
Bega, District News, https://www.begadistrictnews.com.au/story/7702946/detailed-judging-by-canberras-paulmurray-and-jodie-cunningham-delight-merimbula-and-district-arts-group/,<br />
19 April <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Homegrown and Tension(s) at <strong>Craft</strong> ACT, The Canberra Times, https://www.canberratimes.com.au/<br />
story/7704696/socials-crafts-of-canberra/, 20 April <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• What’s on this (long) weekend in Canberra?, HerCanberra, https://hercanberra.com.au/city/whats-on/whats-onthis-anzac-day-long-weekend-in-canberra/,<br />
22 April <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Review: Tension(s) at <strong>Craft</strong> ACT is thoughtful and immersive, Canberra Times, https://www.canberratimes.com.<br />
au/story/7686828/textile-triennial-explores-tension/, 23 April <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• 40+ ways to spend this week in Canberra, HerCanberra, https://hercanberra.com.au/city/family-city/40-ways-tospend-this-week-in-canberra/,<br />
25 April <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• 80+ things to do in Canberra this May (you’re gonna need more days), HerCanberra, https://hercanberra.com.au/<br />
city/whats-on/whats-on-may-<strong>2022</strong>-canberra/, 30 April <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Mother's Day, SIX and Taste Local: 50+ things to do this week in Canberra, HerCanberra, https://hercanberra.<br />
com.au/city/family-city/mothers-day-six-and-taste-local-50-things-to-do-this-week-in-canberra/, 2 May <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• New National Metal Prize Honours Memory of Celebrated Designer, Living Arts Canberra, https://www.<br />
livingartscanberra.com.au/new-national-metal-prize-honours-memory-of-celebrated-designer/, 2 May <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• What's on in Canberra during May <strong>2022</strong>, Canberra Weekly, https://canberraweekly.com.au/whats-on-incanberra-for-may-<strong>2022</strong>/,<br />
5 May <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Everything you need to know about Canberra’s arts scene, May 14, <strong>2022</strong>, Canberra Times, https://www.<br />
canberratimes.com.au/story/7737630/everything-you-need-to-know-about-canberras-arts-scene/, 21 May<br />
<strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Fire Country' at <strong>Craft</strong> ACT explores intricate beauty of fire, Canberra Weekly, https://canberraweekly.com.au/firecountry-displays-the-intricate-beauty-of-fire/,<br />
21 May <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Socials: Opening night, Canberra Times, https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7753513/socials-openingnight/,<br />
26 May <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Queen's Birthday Honours: Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello awarded OAM for service to the creative and visual arts,<br />
Canberra Times, https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7775541/honoured-for-service-to-arts-artist-justdoing-what-feels-right/,<br />
13 June <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Attention art lovers: <strong>Craft</strong> ACT needs your help, HerCanberra, https://hercanberra.com.au/city/attention-artlovers-craft-act-needs-your-help/,<br />
20 June <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• 35+ events that will have you making the most of July, HerCanberra, https://hercanberra.com.au/city/whatson/35-events-that-will-have-you-making-the-most-of-july/,<br />
30 June <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Geoscience Australia collections inspire Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, Miragenews, https://www.ga.gov.au/<br />
news-events/news/latest-news/geoscience-australia-collections-inspire-artist-in-residence-exhibition, 8 July<br />
<strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Capital Life from July 9, <strong>2022</strong>: From musical theatre to Messiah, Canberra Times, https://www.canberratimes.com.<br />
au/story/7805558/from-musical-theatre-to-messiah/, 9 July <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Socials: Celebration of local artists, Canberra Times, https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7827494/socialscelebration-of-local-artists/,<br />
21 July <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• What's on around Canberra in July <strong>2022</strong>, Canberra Weekly, https://canberraweekly.com.au/whats-on-aroundcanberra-in-july-<strong>2022</strong>/,<br />
25 July <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Digital stories leave our institutions and hit the streets, RiotACT, https://the-riotact.com/digital-stories-leave-ourinstitutions-and-hit-the-streets/575015,<br />
26 July <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• 65+ things to do in Canberra this September, HerCanberra, https://hercanberra.com.au/city/65-things-to-do-incanberra-this-september/,<br />
31 August <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Discover <strong>Craft</strong> & Design Trail Launch and Artist Talks, ArtsHub, https://www.artshub.com.au/event/discover-craftdesign-trail-launch-artist-talks-2583690/<br />
• Opportunities and awards wrap, ArtsHub, https://www.artshub.com.au/news/news/opportunities-and-awardswrap-27-2529969/,<br />
2 September <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• 35+ ways to spend this week in Canberra, HerCanberra, https://hercanberra.com.au/city/film-theatre-music/35-<br />
ways-to-spend-this-week-in-canberra/, 5 September <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Canberra Artists transform vacant city space into creative hub, Canberra Weekly, https://canberraweekly.com.<br />
au/canberra-artists-transform-vacant-city-space-into-creative-hub/, 13 September <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Swapping studios for city offices, artists come to enliven Canberra's centre in Second Place program, Canberra<br />
Times, https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7901031/swapping-studios-for-city-offices-artists-come-to-<br />
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enliven-canberras-centre/?cs=14229, 14 September <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• About to get a whole lot more creative' - artists to transform Civic's vacant spaces, RiotACT, https://theriotact.com/about-to-get-a-whole-lot-more-creative-artists-to-transform-civics-vacant-spaces/593680,<br />
14<br />
September <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• What’s on this weekend? Here are 30+ things to do in Canberra, HerCanberra, https://hercanberra.com.au/city/<br />
whats-on-this-weekend-here-are-30-things-to-do-in-canberra/, 16 September <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Review: Nurture: <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Centre Members annual exhibition at <strong>Craft</strong> ACT is varied, Canberra Times, https://<br />
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7909211/craft-act-members-show-full-of-environmental-awareness/, 27<br />
September <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Indigenous designs to invoke a connection to Country through Ginninderry's urban spaces, RiotACT, https://<br />
the-riotact.com/indigenous-designs-to-invoke-a-connection-to-country-through-ginninderrys-urbanspaces/578953,<br />
27 September <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Opportunities and awards wrap, ArtsHub, 3 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Five things to do on (surprise, surprise) another rainy weekend, HerCanberra, https://hercanberra.com.au/city/sixthings-to-do-on-surprise-surprise-another-rainy-weekend/,<br />
6 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Spring high tea, local markets and building your own ‘air-bee-n-bee’: 40+ things to do this weekend in Canberra,<br />
HerCanberra, https://hercanberra.com.au/city/spring-high-tea-local-markets-and-building-your-own-air-bee-nbee-40-things-to-do-this-weekend-in-canberra/,<br />
14 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• 45 things to do this week in Canberra (you're going to need a longer week), HerCanberra, https://hercanberra.<br />
com.au/city/45-things-to-do-this-week-in-canberra-youre-going-to-need-a-longer-week/, 17 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• What’s on this weekend? 45+ things to do in Canberra, HerCanberra, https://hercanberra.com.au/city/whats-onthis-weekend-45-things-to-do-in-canberra/,<br />
28 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Dairy Road DESIGN Markets, ArtsHub, https://www.artshub.com.au/event/dairy-road-design-markets-2584179/<br />
• Art and Architecture at the Australian National University with Amy Jarvis from Canberra Modern and Deborah<br />
Clark Tour, ArtsHub, https://www.artshub.com.au/event/art-and-architecture-at-the-australian-nationaluniversity-with-amy-jarvis-from-canberra-modern-and-deborah-clark-tour-2584188/<br />
• Artist Talks with Julie Monro-Allison, Lymesmith, + Leah Brideson, ArtsHub, https://www.artshub.com.au/event/<br />
artist-talks-with-julie-monro-allison-lymesmith-leah-brideson-2584125/<br />
• 22 winners of CAPO arts grants, City News, https://citynews.com.au/<strong>2022</strong>/22-winners-of-capo-arts-grants/, 26<br />
November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• STORYBOX Canberra brings creative knowledge of national institutions to streets of City Centre, Mirage News,<br />
https://www.cmtedd.act.gov.au/open_government/inform/act_government_media_releases/act-city-renewalauthority-media-releases/<strong>2022</strong>/storybox-canberra-brings-the-creative-knowledge-of-national-institutions-tothe-streets-of-the-city-centre,<br />
7 December <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT radio<br />
• Block 1 exhibitions, Capital Radio, 5 February <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Jeremy Brown Home Grown, ABC, 22 March <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Jodie Cunnigham on <strong>Craft</strong> ACT Appeal, 2CC, 18 June <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Moraig McKenna, Neil Doody Artsound - for annual EOFY campaign, 20 June <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Genieve Jacobs Interview with Jodie Cunningham, RiotACT, 12 August <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Jodie Cunnigham, Neil Doody Artsound - DESIGN Canberra Launch, Radio – Artsounds, 18 August <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Malcolm from ABC Canberra on Civic Square Launch, ABC Radio, 13 September <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
DESIGN Canberra media articles<br />
• Opportunities and awards wrap, ArtsHub, 16 February <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• <strong>2022</strong> Design Canberra festival call out, Arts Hub, 22 February <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Opportunities and awards wrap, ArtsHub, 10 March <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Opportunities and awards wrap, ArtsHub, 23 March 2023.<br />
• Announcement piece sharing highlights from the program and ticket link, Canberra Weekly, https:/<br />
canberraweekly com.au/design-canberra-promises-most-ambitious-line-up-to-date/, 17 August <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Announcement piece sharing highlights from the program and ticket link, Windobi (online), https://windobi.com<br />
design-canberra-festival-announces-<strong>2022</strong>-program-with-the-most-ambitious-line-up-to-date/, 17 August<br />
<strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• DESIGN CANBERRA FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES <strong>2022</strong> PROGRAM WITH ITS MOST AMBITIOUS LINE-UP TO DATE,<br />
Articulate Journal, 18 August <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Link to City News announcement article, Australia News, 18 August <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• DESIGN Canberra promises most ambitious line-up to date, Canberra Weekly, https://canberraweekly.com.au/<br />
design-canberra-promises-most-ambitious-line-up-to-date/, 18 August <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• DESIGN Canberra Festival announces <strong>2022</strong> program with most ambitious line-up to date, HerCanberra, https://<br />
hercanberra.com.au/local-loves/design-canberra-festival-announces-<strong>2022</strong>-program-with-most-ambitious-lineup-to-date,<br />
18 August <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• DESIGN CANBERRA FESTIVAL announces the <strong>2022</strong> program with the latest ambitious line-up, Tornadopix,<br />
https://tornadopix.com/design-canberra-festival-announces-<strong>2022</strong>-program-with-more-than-200-events/, 18<br />
August <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• DESIGN Canberra Festival announces <strong>2022</strong> program with the most ambitious line-up to date, Windobi, https://<br />
windobi.com/design-canberra-festival-announces-<strong>2022</strong>-program-with-the-most-ambitious-line-up-to-date/,<br />
58
18 August <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Announcement piece sharing highlights from the program and ticket link, Her Canberra, https://hercanberra.com.<br />
au/local-loves/design-canberra-festival-announces-<strong>2022</strong>-program-with-most-ambitious-line-up-to-date/, 18<br />
August <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Announcement piece sharing highlights from the program and ticket link, Architecture & Design, https://www.<br />
architectureanddesign.com.au/news/design-canberra-festival-announces-<strong>2022</strong>-program, 19 August <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Included in a round-up of “The arts news you may have missed this week”, Arts Hub, https://www.artshub.com.<br />
au/news/news/the-arts-news-you-may-have-missed-this-week-6-2572726/, 19 August <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Announcement piece sharing highlights from the program and ticket link, Tornadopix, https://tornadopix.com/<br />
design-canberra-festival-announces-the-<strong>2022</strong>-program-with-the-latest-ambitious-lineup/<br />
• Inclusion in list of “<strong>2022</strong> events not to miss”, highlighting the Design Bootcamp workshop, Visit Canberra, https://<br />
visitcanberra.com.au/articles/<strong>2022</strong>-events-not-to-miss<br />
• Announcement piece on the return of the festival post-pandemic, CBR City News, https://citynews.com.au/<strong>2022</strong>/<br />
design-festival-returns-to-full-potential/<br />
• DESIGN Canberra Festival announces <strong>2022</strong> program with 200+ events, Architectureanddesign.com, https://www.<br />
architectureanddesign.com.au/news/design-canberra-festival-announces-<strong>2022</strong>-program, 19 August <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Feature announcing the return of the festival and Canberra as a ‘creative capital’ and a ‘global city of design’,<br />
Azure Magazine, https://www.azuremagazine.com/events/design-canberra-festival-<strong>2022</strong>/<br />
• Design Canberra is back, celebrating transformation, connection and the joy of making, RiotACT, https://theriotact.com/design-canberra-is-back-celebrating-transformation-connection-and-the-joy-of-making/586255,<br />
23 August <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Announcement piece highlighting Lucy Irvine’s signature piece and community element of the Festival, Riotact,<br />
https://the-riotact.com/design-canberra-is-back-celebrating-transformation-connection-and-the-joy-ofmaking/586255,<br />
23 August <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• This week’s arts news you may have missed, ArtsHub, 26 August <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Live your sustainable architecture dreams at Design Canberra Festival <strong>2022</strong>, Domain, https://www.domain.<br />
com.au/news/cbr-live-your-sustainable-architecture-dreams-at-design-canberra-festival-<strong>2022</strong>-1169845/, 25<br />
September <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Live your sustainable architecture dreams at Design Canberra Festival, All Homes, https://www.allhomes.com.<br />
au/news/cbr-live-your-sustainable-architecture-dreams-at-design-canberra-festival-<strong>2022</strong>-1169845/, 25<br />
September <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Feature announcing the return of the festival, highlighting architecture tours and describing Canberra as<br />
Australia’s ‘capital of design’, Domain, https://www.domain.com.au/news/cbr-live-your-sustainable-architecturedreams-at-design-canberra-festival-<strong>2022</strong>-1169845/,<br />
25 September <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Feature announcing the return of the festival, highlighting architecture tours and describing Canberra as<br />
Australia’s ‘capital of design’, All Homes, https://www.allhomes.com.au/news/cbr-live-your-sustainablearchitecture-dreams-at-design-canberra-festival-<strong>2022</strong>-1169845,<br />
25 September <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Design Canberra relaunches in-person festival, Architecture Au, https://architectureau.com/articles/designcanberra-<strong>2022</strong>/,<br />
27 September <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Feature announcing the return of the festival and highlights, Architecture Au, https://architectureau.com/articles/<br />
design-canberra-<strong>2022</strong>/, 27 September <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Feature on Indigenous artists displaying work at DESIGN Canberra, Riot Act, https://the-riotact.com/indigenousdesigns-to-invoke-a-connection-to-country-through-ginninderrys-urban-spaces/578953,<br />
27 September <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Canberra puts on a show as 40 new works mark the NGA’s 40th, Financial Review, https://www.afr.com/life-<br />
and-luxury/arts-and-culture/canberra-puts-on-a-show-as-40-new-works-mark-the-nga-s-40th-<strong>2022</strong>1007-<br />
p5bo1l, 12 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Inclusion in Dezeen’s events guide, Dezeen, https://www.dezeen.com/eventsguide/<strong>2022</strong>/11/design-canberrafestival-<strong>2022</strong>/,<br />
15 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Interview with Jodie Cunningham on the festival as part of a piece on the growth of Canberra’s art scene, AFR<br />
Life & Leisure<br />
• Australian Design Review, https://www.australiandesignreview.com/architecture/design-canberra-announcesfive-more-exhibitions-and-a-new-collaboration/,<br />
24 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• DESIGN Canberra announces five more exhibitions and a new collaboration, Australian Design Review, ttps://<br />
www.australiandesignreview.com/architecture/design-canberra-announces-five-more-exhibitions-and-a-newcollaboration/,<br />
24 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Design Canberra set to take over the capital, Art Collector, https://artcollector.net.au/design-canberra-set-totake-over-the-capital/,<br />
25 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Article following Rosy Leake’s trip to Canberra in October, Art Collector, https://artcollector.net.au/designcanberra-set-to-take-over-the-capital/,<br />
25 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Interview with Jodie Cunningham or Georgia Stynes’ show (listen from 02.48), ABC Radio Canberra Afternoons,<br />
https://www.abc.net.au/canberra/programs/afternoons/afternoons/14089130, 26 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Article detailing ‘Seven Design Canberra Festival events you’ll want to book now’, Her Canberra, https://<br />
hercanberra.com.au/city/seven-design-canberra-festival-events-youll-want-to-book-now/, 26 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• What's on around Canberra during November <strong>2022</strong>, Canberra Weekly, https://canberraweekly.com.au/whatson-around-canberra-during-november-<strong>2022</strong>/,<br />
26 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Seven Design Canberra Festival events you'll want to know, HerCanberra, https://hercanberra.com.au/city/sevendesign-canberra-festival-events-youll-want-to-book-now/,<br />
26 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Article announcing exhibitions and Forage Festival, Art Daily, https://artdaily.com/news/151132/DESIGN-Canberrafestival-announces-exhibition-program-and-inaugural-partnership-with-Forage-Festival#.Y23EhnZBxD9,<br />
27<br />
59
October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Article announcing symposiums and talks, Australian Arts Review, https://artsreview.com.au/design-canberrafestival-announces-program-of-symposiums-and-talks-exploring-the-design-identity-of-australias-capital/,<br />
28<br />
October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Three things you should not miss at this year's Design Canberra festival, explore, https://www.exploretravel.com.<br />
au/story/7960319/three-things-you-should-not-miss-at-this-years-design-canberra-festival/, 28 October 022.<br />
• DESIGN Canberra festival announces program of symposiums and talks exploring the design identity of<br />
Australia’s capital, Australian Arts Review, https://artsreview.com.au/design-canberra-festival-announcesprogram-of-symposiums-and-talks-exploring-the-design-identity-of-australias-capital/,<br />
28 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• What makes good public art in Canberra? It's about more than giant sculptures, Riotact, https://the-riotact.com/<br />
what-makes-good-public-art-in-canberra-its-about-more-than-giant-sculptures/607023, 28 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Design Canberra, Concrete Playground, https://concreteplayground.com/canberra/event/design-canberra, 29<br />
October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Design Canberra Festival <strong>2022</strong> includes public art that's right up your street, The Canberra Times, https://www.<br />
canberratimes.com.au/story/7955399/think-this-is-a-new-electricity-box-on-northbourne-heres-why-yourewrong/,<br />
29 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Full page feature on the DISCOVER trail, including interviews with Jodie Cunningham and Moraig McKenna,<br />
Canberra Times: Panorama, https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7955399/think-this-is-a-new-electricitybox-on-northbourne-heres-why-youre-wrong/,<br />
29 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Online version of Panorama interview with Jodie Cunningham and Moraig McKenna on the DISCOVER Trail,<br />
Canberra Times, https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7955399/think-this-is-a-new-electricity-box-onnorthbourne-heres-why-youre-wrong/,<br />
29 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Design Canberra Festival celebrates transformation (web), Canberra Weekly, https://canberraweekly.com.au/<br />
design-canberra-festival-celebrates-transformation/, 30 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Full page interview with Jodie Cunningham, Canberra Weekly, 30 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Online version of interview with Jodie Cunningham, Canberra Weekly, https://canberraweekly.com.au/designcanberra-festival-celebrates-transformation/,<br />
30 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Included as a weekend highlight, Out in Canberra, https://www.outincanberra.com.au/whats-on-thisweekend-153/,<br />
31 October 0222.<br />
• Included as lead event in roundup of ‘30+ things to do in Canberra’, Her Canberra, https://hercanberra.com.au/<br />
city/design-canberra-southfest-and-la-grande-fete-30-things-to-do-in-canberra/, 31 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Six architecture and design events in November from Dezeen Events Guide, dezeen, https://www.dezeen.<br />
com/<strong>2022</strong>/10/31/six-architecture-design-events-november-<strong>2022</strong>-dezeen-events-guide/, 31 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• DESIGN Canberra, Burlesque, magic and fire, and La Grande Fete: 30+ things to do in Canberra, HerCanberra,<br />
https://hercanberra.com.au/city/design-canberra-southfest-and-la-grande-fete-30-things-to-do-in-canberra/,<br />
31 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Design Canberra Festival celebrates transformation (print), Canberra Weekly<br />
• Design Canberra Festival Listing, Common Times<br />
• Design Canberra Festival opens, Design Institute of Australia, https://www.design.org.au/dianews/designcanberra-festival-opens<br />
• DESIGN Canberra Festival Announces Exhibition Program & Partnership with Forage Festival, green, https://<br />
greenmagazine.com.au/design-canberra-forage-festival/<br />
• Public art: it's right up your street, Panorama<br />
• Preview piece shared on Concrete Playground Sydney’s Facebook page (247k followers), Concrete Playground,<br />
https://www.facebook.com/concreteplayground/<br />
• DESIGN Canberra included as a highlight in Art Collector’s ‘Collector’s Lunch’ newsletter, linking to piece from<br />
Rosy Leake’s Canberra visit, Art Collector<br />
• Included in ABC Arts newsletter in a roundup of festivals opening this week, ABC Arts, https://view.mail-list.abc.<br />
net.au/<br />
• Inclusion in Art Almanac newsletter, Art Almanac<br />
• Online version of interview with Jodie Cunningham on the festival as part of a piece on the growth of Canberra’s<br />
art scene, Australian Financial Review, https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/canberra-puts-ona-show-as-40-new-works-mark-the-nga-s-40th-<strong>2022</strong>1007-p5bo1l<br />
• 60+ events for your non-stop November, HerCanberra , https://hercanberra.com.au/city/whats-on/60-<br />
events-for-your-non-stop-november/, 31 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Design Canberra Festival, Arts Hub, https://www.artshub.com.au/event/design-canberra-festival-2588103/<br />
• All About Arts, ABC Arts<br />
• DESIGN Canberra Festival announces exhibition program and inaugural partnership with Forage Festival,<br />
Art Daily, https://artdaily.com/news/151132/DESIGN-Canberra-festival-announces-exhibition-program-andinaugural-partnership-with-Forage-Festival#.Y1tnEexBxF8<br />
• The Forage Food Festival, ArtsHub, https://www.artshub.com.au/event/the-forage-food-festival-2589940/<br />
• Design Canberra Festival <strong>2022</strong>, Azure Magazine, https://www.azuremagazine.com/events/design-canberrafestival-<strong>2022</strong>/<br />
• Write up following media briefing on 20 October on the themes of Alchemy and Transformation, with quotes<br />
from Jodie Cunningham, City News, https://citynews.com.au/<strong>2022</strong>/design-festival-enters-a-golden-age/, 1<br />
November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• What's on in Canberra this November, about regional, https://aboutregional.com.au/whats-on-in-canberra-thisnovember/,<br />
1 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Design festival enters a golden age, CityNews, https://citynews.com.au/<strong>2022</strong>/design-festival-enters-a-golden-<br />
60
age/, 1 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Stitching together technology and design, HerCanberra, https://hercanberra.com.au/life/people/stitchingtogether-technology-and-design/,<br />
1 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Article announcing exhibition program and Forage Festival, Green Magazine, https://greenmagazine.com.au/<br />
design-canberra-forage-festival/<br />
• Listing of Forage Festival in partnership with DESIGN Canberra, Arts Hub, https://www.artshub.com.au/event/theforage-food-festival-2589940/<br />
• Food and wine events in Canberra this week, November 1, The Canberra Times, https://www.canberratimes.com.<br />
au/story/7963080/capital-brewing-turns-five-and-youre-invited-to-the-party/, 1 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Roundup of ‘five things you can’t miss at the DESIGN Canberra Festival’, highlighting Forage, Dairy Road Design<br />
Market, The Robert Fink Prize, Shadow Lines and Seeing Seventies, Her Canberra, https://hercanberra.com.au/<br />
city/five-things-you-cant-miss-this-week-at-the-design-canberra-festival/, 2 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Article including overview of the festival, Art Almanac, https://www.art-almanac.com.au/design-canberra-<strong>2022</strong>/,<br />
2 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Editor's pick: Stands at Interiors Australia and Denfair, Architecture Au, https://architectureau.com/articles/<br />
editors-pick-stands-at-interiors-australia-and-denfair/, 2 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Design Canberra <strong>2022</strong>, Art Alamanac, https://www.art-almanac.com.au/design-canberra-<strong>2022</strong>/, 2 November<br />
<strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Five things you can't miss this week at the DESIGN Canberra Festival, HerCanberra, https://hercanberra.com.au/<br />
city/five-things-you-cant-miss-this-week-at-the-design-canberra-festival/, 2 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• DESIGN Canberra brings art and architecture to the capital, Architectureanddesign.com, https://www.<br />
architectureanddesign.com.au/news/design-canberra-brings-art-architecture-capital#, 3 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• The Forage and DESIGN Canberra Festival to combine for celebration of food and design on Saturday, The<br />
Canberra Times, https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7968416/forage-design-canberra-combine-forcelebration-of-food-and-design/,<br />
3 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• The Dairy Road Design Market is here, and your Sunday plans are sorted, HerCanberra, https://hercanberra.com.<br />
au/food-drink/the-dairy-road-design-market-is-here-and-your-sunday-plans-are-sorted/, 4 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Six foodie events for your weekend, HerCanberra, https://hercanberra.com.au/food-drink/six-foodie-events-foryour-weekend/,<br />
4 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Announcement piece on the Festival, Articulate Journal, https://articulatepr.com.au/journal/, 4 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Announcement of exhibitions and Forage Festival partnership, Articulate Journal, https://articulatepr.com.au/<br />
journal/, 4 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Announcement of talks and symposiums, Articulate Journal, https://articulatepr.com.au/journal/, 4 November<br />
<strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Design Canberra festival launches a citywide transformation of art and ideas, RiotACT, https://the-riotact.com/<br />
design-canberra-festival-launches-a-citywide-transformation-of-art-and-ideas/609485, 5 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Art, jewellery, wine and something for the kids: six things you can't miss this week at the DESIGN Canberra<br />
Festival, HerCanberra, https://hercanberra.com.au/city/art-jewellery-wine-and-something-for-the-kids-sixthings-you-cant-miss-this-week-at-the-design-canberra-festival/,<br />
7 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• More than $9million in grants off to the arts, City News, https://citynews.com.au/<strong>2022</strong>/more-than-9million-ingrants-off-to-the-arts/,<br />
8 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• The best things to do around Australia This November, Australian Traveller, https://www.australiantraveller.com/<br />
australia/all-the-best-things-to-do-in-australia-this-november/, 9 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• What's on around Canberra this weekend 11-13 November, Canberra Weekly, https://canberraweekly.com.au/<br />
whats-on-around-canberra-this-weekend-11-13-november/, 9 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Article on ‘Three things not to miss at this year’s DESIGN Canberra festival’ in online version of ‘Explore’<br />
supplement, Canberra Times, 11 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Eggpicnic reveals a new installation at the Canberra airport that highlights our fragile alpine ecosystem, Canberra<br />
Times, https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7984566/alpine-creatures-find-a-home-at-airport/?cs=14243,<br />
17 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• BMW depicting Canberra's endangered Golden Sun Moth wins car-wrap competition, RiotACT, https://www.<br />
youtube.com/watch?v=qnez_avL3yE,What's on around Canberra this weekend, 18-20 November, Canberra<br />
Weekly, https://canberraweekly.com.au/whats-on-around-canberra-this-weekend-18-20-november/, 17<br />
November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Did someone say another 40+ things to do in Canberra this weekend?, HerCanberra, https://hercanberra.com.<br />
au/city/did-someone-say-another-40-things-to-do-in-canberra-this-weekend/, 18 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• 30 events for your busy week in Canberra, HerCanberra, https://hercanberra.com.au/city/30-events-for-yourbusy-week-in-canberra/,<br />
21 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• BMW depicting Canberra's endangered Golden Sun Moth wins car-wrap competition, RiotACT, https://theriotact.com/bmw-depicting-canberras-endangered-golden-sun-moth-wins-car-wrap-competition/613688,<br />
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DESIGN Canberra radio<br />
• Genevieve Jacobs Interview with Jodie Cunningham, RiotACT, 12 August <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Jodie Cunningham livestream interview, HerCanberra, 17 August <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Canberra Weekly Interview with CEO, Canberra Weekly, October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• ABC Radio Canberra Afternoons, ABC Radio Canberra Afternoon, 26 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
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DESIGN Canberra livestreams<br />
• Creative Journalling Challenge Launch, DESIGN Canberra, https://events.humanitix.com/event-creativejournaling-challenge-launch?,<br />
Instagram, 13 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Opening Home Life + F!NK National Metal Prize, DESIGN Canberra, https://events.humanitix.com/exhibitionopening-homelife-and-fink-prize,<br />
Instagram, 27 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• DISCOVER Symposium, DESIGN Canberra, https://events.humanitix.com/symposium-discover-public-art-incanberra-presented-by-canberra-art-bienale-design-canberra-and-canberra-museum-and-gallery,<br />
Instagram,<br />
29 October <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Hub Shop/ Media FAMIL Launch, DESIGN Canberra, https://events.humanitix.com/design-canberra-festivalpreview,<br />
Instagram, 1 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• DESIGN Canberra Festival launch, DESIGN Canberra, https://events.humanitix.com/design-canberra-vip-launch,<br />
Instagram, 1 November 2021.<br />
• Design Revisted: Roger Pegrum + Phillip Goad, DESIGN Canberra, https://events.humanitix.com/design-revisitedroger-pegrum-in-conversation-with-philip-goad-83uvyn6u,<br />
Instagram, 3 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Bates Smart Tour, DESIGN Canberra, https://events.humanitix.com/architecture-tour-with-philip-vivian-frombates-smart,<br />
Instagram, 4 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Blanche Tilden + Tom Moore Symposium, DESIGN Canberra, https://events.humanitix.com/symposium-designthinking-learning-and-making-in-canberra-legacies-and-new-initiatives,<br />
Instagram, 4 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• CTRL.ALT.DESIGN, Dovetail + Shadow Lines Canberra centre opening, DESIGN Canberra, https://events.humanitix.<br />
com/exhibition-opening-ctrl-alt-design-dovetail-shadow-lines, Instagram, 4 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• FORAGE Festival, DESIGN Canberra, https://designcanberrafestival.com.au/highlight/the-forage-food-festival/,<br />
Instagram, 5 Novermber <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Transforming Canberra: Elizabeth Farrelly, DESIGN Canberra, https://events.humanitix.com/symposiumtransforming-canberra-with-keynote-elizabeth-farrelly,<br />
Instagram, 5 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• BMW car wrap winner announcement, DESIGN Canberra, Instagram, 8 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Talk + Workshop: University to Employment, DESIGN Canberra, https://events.humanitix.com/workshop-diadesign-evening-with-bernadette-wilson-and-tom-skeehan,<br />
Instagram, 10 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Design Revisited: with designer's Marita Leuver in conversation with Graham Rendoth, DESIGN Canberra, https://<br />
events.humanitix.com/design-revisited-marita-leuver-in-conversation-with-graham-rendoth, Instagram, 10<br />
November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• 100 Canberra Houses, DESIGN Canberra, https://events.humanitix.com/100-canberra-homes, Instagram, 11<br />
November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Medium Density Housing, DESIGN Canberra, https://events.humanitix.com/symposium-medium-densityhousing-with-keynote-speaker-tony-fry?_instagram,<br />
13 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Talk: Panel discussion Conviviality + Innovation - Italian Embassy, the Extraordinary Italian Taste, DESIGN<br />
Canberra, https://events.humanitix.com/talk-design-diplomacy-italian-embassy-the-extraordinary-italian-taste,<br />
Instagram, 14 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• House tour with Steven Certeck, DESIGN Canberra, https://events.humanitix.com/architecture-tour-with-stevencetrtek,<br />
Instagram, 16 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• University of Canberra FADX Award ceremony, DESIGN Canberra, Instagram, 16 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• BMW depicting Canberra's endangered Golden Sun Moth wins car-wrap competition, RiotACT, https://www.<br />
youtube.com/watch?v=qnez_avL3yE, 17 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Friday City Sessions, DESIGN Canberra, Instagram, 18 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Civic square Artist talks, DESIGN Canberra, https://events.humanitix.com/artist-s-talks-by-julie-monro-allisonlymesmith-and-leah-brideson,<br />
Instagram, 18 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• Closing Party + auction, DESIGN Canberra, https://events.humanitix.com/craft-design-auction-party, Instagram,<br />
19 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• On Country Tour with Wally Bell, DESIGN Canberra, https://events.humanitix.com/on-country-tour-of-mountmajura-with-thunderstone,<br />
Instagram, 19 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
• House tour: Mega Flora, DESIGN Canberra, https://events.humanitix.com/contemporary-architecture-tour-craceeclectic-house-by-megaflora,<br />
Instagram, 20 November <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
<strong>2022</strong> Emerging Contemporary installation view, <strong>2022</strong>. Photography 5foot<br />
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<strong>Craft</strong> ACT supporters and funding partners<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT is thankful for the ongoing support and funding given by the ACT and Australian governments,<br />
through the Australia Council for the Arts and the Visual Arts and <strong>Craft</strong> Strategy<br />
DESIGN Canberra sponsors and partners<br />
DESIGN Canberra is the primary outreach activity for <strong>Craft</strong> ACT: <strong>Craft</strong> and Design Centre. <strong>Craft</strong> ACT gratefully<br />
acknowledges the generous support of our partners and sponsors for the festival.<br />
Government: The Australia Council for the Arts, artsACT, City Renewal Authority, Cultural Facilities Corporation.<br />
Platinum: Alastair Swayn Foundation, Canberra BMW, Canberra Centre, Capital Airport Group, Embassy of Italy<br />
in Australia, Home by Holly, Sellecks Consultants, The Tall Foundation, University of Canberra and their Faculty of<br />
Arts and Design.<br />
Exclusive: A by Adina (Hotel), Capital Brewing (Beer), Eckersley’s Art and <strong>Craft</strong> (Art supplies), Lake George<br />
Winery (Wine), Prosecco Consortium (Sparkling wine).<br />
Media: ArtsHub, Architecture AU, Dezeen, Her Canberra, Region Media (RiotACT)<br />
Gold: F!NK + Co.<br />
Silver: Australian Academy of Science, Design Institute of Australia, Embassy of Uruguay in Australia, Embassy<br />
of Finland in Canberra, Institute of Italian Culture, Australian National University - Kambri, Molonglo, National<br />
Museum Australia, ROJO Customs.<br />
Bronze: Canberra Art Biennial, Complete Constructions Australia, Graham Humphries, Light House Architecture<br />
& Science, Meredith Hinchliffe, Norton Rose Fulbright, The Pop Inn by Wine Bar Co., Thinkplace.<br />
Foundation and trusts<br />
The Humphries Family Fund<br />
Circle of Hands<br />
Design <strong>Craft</strong> | The Humphries Family Fund | Jenny Edwards | Peta Furnell | Phillip Keir<br />
Future craft ($500-2,000 donations)<br />
David Williams | Harriet Elvin | Jenny Edwards | Rebecca Coronel | Richard Baz | Sue Ranford<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> family ($1-499 donations)<br />
Alberto Florez | Annie Trevillian | Benedict Laffan | Cat Vignando | Fiona Hooton | Frances Spurgin | Helen Ennis<br />
| Helen Keogh | Jodie Cunningham | Justine Merrony | Kayannie Denigan | Kerry-Anne Cousins | Laura Crick |<br />
Llewellyn McGarry | Madisyn Zabel | Margy Burn | Marylou Pooley | Moraig McKenna | Rachel Skeehan<br />
DESIGN Canberra X Forage Food Festival, <strong>2022</strong>. Photography 5foot<br />
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Thank you<br />
I extend my heartfelt thanks to everyone who supports <strong>Craft</strong> ACT in our mission to embed contemporary craft,<br />
making and design at the centre of everyday life in Australia’s capital, a global city of design and who supports<br />
us to embed our values of inclusivity, creativity, and wellbeing into our programming.<br />
I am especially grateful to our artist members who are at the heart of everything that we do. I am continually<br />
in awe of our member artist’s innovation, skill, and dedication to the championing of contemporary craft and<br />
design in Australia. With shared passion and commitment, we connect the Canberra region’s high-quality<br />
studio practice to the world. We foster innovation, build collaboration and champion a secure future for the<br />
valued, creative, and essential community of contemporary craftspeople, designers, and audiences.<br />
I thank the many supporters, funding partners, sponsors, members, donors, collectors, and audience members<br />
for their contribution to the incredible achievements of <strong>2022</strong> (full list of supporters at page 64). This generous<br />
and engaged support has ensured that <strong>Craft</strong> ACT is in a strong position artistically, financially, professionally,<br />
and collaboratively to continue to build our capacity into the future ensuring that the value of contemporary<br />
craft and design in nurturing our community, shaping our identity and touching our souls is embedded in our<br />
culture.<br />
I thank our board of management, advisory and committee group members and, especially, our hardworking<br />
staff for their dedication, creativity, flexibility, and tenacity. As a CEO in my second year with the organisation I<br />
am so grateful to work collaboratively with the <strong>Craft</strong> ACT community as we continue to grow into an optimistic<br />
future building on the significant legacy of 51 years of innovation and creative endeavour.<br />
Jodie Cunningham<br />
CEO + Artistic Director<br />
<strong>Craft</strong> ACT: <strong>Craft</strong> + Design Centre<br />
Left: Lucy Irvine + Davey Barber, Roguetopia, Clem Cummings bus shelter, 1975, DESIGN Canberra Festival, <strong>2022</strong>. Photography 5foot<br />
Right: Gretal Ferguson, Out of Frame, <strong>2022</strong>. Photography Tim Bean Photography.<br />
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<strong>Craft</strong> ACT certifies that all information provided above is true<br />
and correct to the best of our knowledge and belief.<br />
All statistics compared to the pre-pandemic DESIGN Canberra<br />
Festival in 2019 unless otherwise stated.<br />
Minister for the Arts Tara Cheyne, Launching DESIGN Canberra Festival, <strong>2022</strong>. Photography 5foot<br />
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