2022 Craft ACT's Annual Report

selection of new furniture and
homewares by some of the
most exciting early career
designers and makers from
across Australia.
DESIGN Canberra Festival
exhibitions were also on display
at the Canberra Museum and
Gallery, the Canberra Centre, the
Canberra International Airport,
and the Canberra Theatre Centre,
with Golden Years, Shift, Koskela
x MOA, Abundant Wonder, Ripple
Effect, Dovetail, Shadow Lines,
CTRL.ALT.DESIGN, the Australia
x Uruguay Craft Exchange,
Friends in High Places, and Brutal
Transformations.
In activating public spaces
across the city and beside Lake
Burley Griffin, six outdoor public
art installations were installed
at Commonwealth Place, Civic
Square, Knowles Place, and across
City West:
• Mackenzie Saddler’s (Wiradjuri)
Geological Transformations
reflected on the layers of
changes on site.
• Lucy Irvine’s Given Conditions
considered the sweet spot
between organisational forces
allowing emergent phenomena.
• Julie Monro-Allison’s Becoming
explored biological organisms
and their entangled web.
• Leah Brideson’s (Kamilaroi)
Currents represented the shift
in rediscovering First Nations
culture.
• Lymesmiths’s Along Civic Lines,
referenced Canberra Heritage
buildings using geometry
and colour and provided a
‘directional pull to the heart of
the city’.
• DISCOVER: Craft + Design Trail
featured artworks by Hannah
Quinlivan, Lan Nguyen-hoan,
Rosie Armstrong, S.A. Adair,
Sam Sheppard, and Tony Burke
(details available on page 39).
The featured public programs
of talks and symposiums saw
robust discourse with artists,
designers, architects, curators,
academics, journalists, authors,
and government representatives
talking about public art, urban
design, and architecture. Highlights
included:
• DISCOVER: Public Art in
Canberra Symposium in
partnership with Canberra Art
Biennial and Canberra Museum
+ Gallery, with guest speakers
Kauri Hawkins, Elanor Clayton,
Virginia Rigney, Neil Hobbs, and
Rosie Armstrong, Kambri @ANU,
29 October 2022.
• Design Thinking, Learning and
Making in Canberra: Legacies
and New Initiatives with
Nationally renowned glass and
Jewellery artists, Tom Moore
and Blanche Tilden, Canberra
Museum + Gallery, 4 November
2022.
• Art and Creativity-Within and
Beyond Urban Public Spaces
Symposium, The Link, 4
DISCOVER: Craft + Design Trail, artist S.A.Adair, DESIGN Canberra Festival, 2022. Photography Tim Bean
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