2023 Craft ACT Corporate Catalogue (1)

CRAFT ACT

CRAFT + DESIGN CENTRE

SUMMER 2023

WWW.CRAFTACT.ORG.AU CORPORATE CATALOGUE

Image credits:

Photography: Tim Bean Photography

Styling: Belinda Neame

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Canberra - City of Design

Sean Booth: ACT Brooch

Katie-Ann Houghton: Whiskey Glass

Ian Jones: Mugs

F!NK: Four Season Vase

Harriet Schwarzrock: Bud Series

Nick Rennie: Duo Salt + Pepper

F!NK: Jug

Chelsea Lemon: Canberra Trays

Ngaio Fitzpatrick: Gaia Bowl

Blanche Tilden: U Ring

Kirstie Rea: Blankets

Tjanpi Desert Weavers: Woven work

Lisa Cahill: Cufflinks Collab

Wayne Simon: Rainbow Serpent

F!NK: 3 Point Bowl

Studio Hacienda: General Assembly series

Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello: Glass Collection

Blanche Tilden: Glass + Metal Collection

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Canberra has always been a dynamic design laboratory and place of

creative enterprise which is embodied in First Nations culture, the Griffins’

visionary design for the city, Canberra’s iconic modernist architecture;

and its thriving contemporary sustainable design, craft and art industries.

At 51 years old Craft ACT: Craft + Design Centre is one of the longest

continuously running visual arts membership organisations in Australia

supporting artists, craft practitioners, designers and makers at every

stage of their careers. We celebrate the extraordinary talent of

Canberra’s creatives and continue to work to secure the vitality and

practice of the craftspeople, designers and audiences who form our

vibrant community – locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.

Purchasing from Craft ACT will sustain Australia’s high-quality studio

practice, grow the design craft sector and ensure the practice of

craftspeople and designers exists into the future. Shopping locally and

handmade has a low carbon footprint and contributes to environmental

sustainability.

Please help to support our artists by purchasing original, local and

handmade work of outstanding craftsmanship for your corporate gift

program. At a time when people yearn for the unique, the slow, the

handmade, the enduring, your purchase can help support a creative

community and help to create much needed change in our world.

Each gift will be hand wrapped and hand delivered to you or your client,

with information about the featured artist and Canberra’s thriving

contemporary craft and design community.

Thank you so much for your support.

Jodie Cunningham

CEO + Artistic Director

Craft ACT + DESIGN Canberra Festival

ACT BROOCH

SEAN BOOTH


Designed as part of the Centenary of Canberra celebrations, Sean’s

ACT Brooch is the ultimate Canberra memento. Forget the magnet

and postcard, wear the Australian Capital Territory instead.

Sean Booth grew up in Sydney, but later moved to Canberra to

commence study, where he began his career as a metalsmith. In

2002 Sean completed his undergraduate studies at The ANU

School of Art in the Gold and Silversmithing workshop, and has

recently established a workshop in the Canberra region.

Dimension: 36 x 38mm

Materials: Plywood

Available colours: Yellow, Turquoise, Green, Pink, Red + Blue

Price: $26

WHISKEY GLASS

KATIE-ANN HOUGHTON


Katie-Ann Houghton completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Sydney

College of the Arts in 2011. At the end of 2013, Katie-Ann applied and

was accepted into the competitive Associate Training Program at

JamFactory in Adelaide. During the two-year program in the Glass

Studio at JamFactory, Katie-Ann focused on developing distinct

design elements and refined her craftsmanship. She gained

invaluable skills from working with expert practitioners and the other

Associates.

Designed to fit perfectly in the user’s hand, each glass is hand

blown, hand painted with gold lustre and fired in the kiln, leaving

them a slightly warped cylinder.

Available with a gold or silver rimmed trim and packaged in a kraft

box.

Dimensions: H 340 x W 100mm

Material: Blown glass

Price: $88

MUGS

IAN JONES


Ian Jones began working with clay as a student at the Australian

National University School of Art. He then worked as an apprentice

for the late Doug Alexander at Cuppacumbalong Pottery, ACT and

set up his own studio at Gundaroo, NSW in 1979.

In 1982 he purchased a ruined stone church, Old St Luke's Church,

and with help of an Australia Council grant built a 14 metre long

wood-kiln,

Dimension: 350mL x 13cm

Materials: Wood fired salt glazed stoneware

Price: $80

FOUR SEASON VASE

F!NK


F!nk + Co. is a much loved and respected Australian design

company with an international reputation for producing world-class

tableware, hollowware, jewellery and lighting. It was established by

Robert Foster in 1993 with the aim of creating a design and

manufacturing business to support and generate opportunities for

Australian designer-makers.

Each vase is crafted and finished by hand so every vase is unique.

The angled opening and the organic silhouette of the vase creates

a stunning sculptural piece - even without flowers! The tones can

be clustered together in the varying sizes to create a stunning

effect.

All F!NK products come with product information cards, set in

branded F!NK packaging.

Dimension: Small, Medium + Large

Materials: Pressed anodised aluminium

Available colours: Winter charcoal, Autumn copper, Summer gold,

Spring green, Silver, Black, Olive, Green apple + Champagne

Price: $179, $189 + $199

BUD SERIES

HARRIET SCHWARZROCK


Harriet Schwarzrock has exhibited extensively throughout Australia

and abroad. Her work is widely collected and she has been the

recipient of numerous awards and prizes.

She worked at the Canberra Glassworks in 2017 as the Creative

Fellow, also supported by an Australia Council New Work Grant, to

produce a neon installation for the 2018 Canberra Enlighten Festival.

Harriet was awarded the 2018 Asia Link Toyama residency in Japan.

In 2019 she thrilled to be the Proctor Fellow through the Glass

Workshop travelling to the USA to study neon and plasma.

Dimension: Bud Vase: 14cmx9cm + Bud Bowl: 12cmx14cm

Materials: Hand blown and engraved glass.

Available colours: Red yellow, Purple blue, Orange, Red, Teal, Olive,

Deep purple, Amber, Pink, Sorbet green + Yellow

Price: $130 + $145

DUO SALT + PEPPER

NICK RENNIE


Looking for a playful way to express yourself in the kitchen? The

Duo salt and pepper grinder pair, designed by Nick Rennie, marries

practical function with light hearted personal expression. The mix n

match pair allows you to interchange heads, or to further

personalise with a pair that reflect your individual lifestyles. Fancy a

boy-girl paring? Boy-boy? Girl-girl?

Designed to universally fit your hand for optimal operation and

employing the patented Crushgrind mechanism, which is renowned

for its fine to coarse grind capabilities, Duo is a set to bring

cheerfulness to your meal on a daily basis.

Dimension: Girl: 15cm (H) x 7cm Boy: 16cm (H) x 6.5cm

Materials: Australian blackwood and internal crushgrind mechanism

Available colours:

Price: $185

F!NK JUG

F!NK


F!NK + Co. was established by Robert Foster in 1993 in Queanbeyan,

NSW, Australia, with the aim of creating a design and manufacturing

business that would support and generate opportunities for

Australian designer-makers. Joined by Gretel Harrison in 1995,

together they built F!NK + Co. into the business it is today – a much

loved and respected Australian design company with an

international reputation for producing world-class tableware,

hollowware, jewellery and lighting.

The iconic F!NK jug is held in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

All F!NK products come with product information cards, set in

branded F!NK packaging.

Capacity: 1.45 litres

Materials: Anodised aluminium with a cast steel handle. Sandblasted

matte finish

Available colours: Black, Deep blue, Orange, Red, Green Apple, Gold,

Charcoal, Turquoise + Purple

Price: $419

CANBERRA TRAYS

CHELSEA LEMON


Chelsea Lemon is a Canberra-based designer and maker who

works with timber. Many of her pieces include foliage and plant

themes, mixed with interactivity and the decorative woodworking

technique 'parquetry'.

Chelsea's Canberra edition trays are handcrafted marquetry tray

featuring Canberra landmarks. They are perfect as a display piece,

or to hold light items.

Canberra Trays

Dimensions: Variable

Materials: Wood

Price: $400

GAIA BOWL

NGAIO FITZPATRICK


Gaia is the Greek goddess of the Earth. This piece is made from

shattered waste glass, fused together, finished with gold leaf and

symbolises how we might work together to repair the Earth.

Ngaio Fitzpatrick is an artist, Visiting Fellow with the ANU Climate

Change Institute and recipient of a 2018 Australia Awards

Endeavour Fellowship for four months in Berlin.

Fitzpatrick’s interdisciplinary arts practice encompasses site specific

installation, performance, video and recently, collaborative

experimental music interactions in real time. With a background in

environmentally sustainable architecture and building informing her

practice, she is particularly interested in ways in which art can be

used to draw attention to the human disconnection from Earth

within the context of climate change

Gaia bowls come in Small, Large and X-Large

Dimensions: 10cm, 20cm + 25cm

Materials: Recycled glass, gold leaf

Price: $66, $99 + $330

U RING

BLANCHE TILDEN


A simple U of titanium with a coloured glass rod threaded through

the top. Sometimes the simplest designs are the best.

Blanche Tilden has created and exhibited contemporary jewellery,

glass and design since 1990. She is a celebrated master of her

trade, highly recognised and respected, nationally and

internationally.

‘During 25 years of practice in the fields, I have developed a unique

visual and material vocabulary through an innovative use of glass

and metals, creating jewellery and objects that reference

mechanical technology, industrial modernity and architecture.’

Dimensions: Small, Medium + Large

Materials: Titanium and flame worked bullseye glass

Price: $250

GLASS BLANKET

KIRSTIE REA


Kirstie Rea is an internationally celebrated Canberra-based glass

maker.

Her signature glass blankets symbolise care, but also fragility.

Kirstie Rea. Having established her studio in 1987, following her

graduation from the Glass program at the Canberra School of Art,

Kirstie has over the past 29 years continued to develop her practice

to become internationally recognised and respected for her works

in glass.

Dimensions: Small, Medium + Large

Materials: Glass

Price: $220, $280 + $350

BASKET

TJANPI DESERT WEAVERS


Maker Julie Anderson is an artist belonging to the Pitjantjatjara

language and cultural group and is from the remote community of

Finke, Northern Territory. Julie's works incorporate a wonderful sense

of colour and enjoys the meditative aspects of basket weaving.

Tjanpi Desert Weavers, a signatory to the Indigenous Art Code, is a

dynamic social enterprise of the NPY Women's council. Tjanpi

(meaning 'dry grass') supports Aboriginal women living in remote

Central and Western desert communities to create contemporary

fibre art.

When collecting desert grasses (minarri, wangurnu and yilintji),

women visit sacred sites and traditional homelands, hunt and gather

food for their families, and teach children about country. Grass is

bound with wool, string or raffia and combined with yinirnti (red

seeds of the bat-wing coral tree) and wipiya (emu feathers).

Dimensions: Various sizes

Materials: Tjanpi (grass), raffia

Price: $82 - $200

CUFFLINKS

LISA CAHILL


Kiln formed glass cufflinks in collaboration with Brenden Scott

French.

Lisa Cahill's glass installations create a discourse about the

Australian landscape and her affinity with it, often entwined with her

Danish heritage. Inspired by both the natural world and the transitory

nature of the urban experience, Cahill’s dreamlike images invite

viewers to draw associations with their own remembered

landscapes, resulting in a meditative and emotional response.

Rather than a direct reproduction they are more her own

interpretation of light and landscape and become a place for quiet

contemplation.

Dimensions: Depth 25mm; Glass faces are variable sizes,

Materials: Kiln formed glass

Price: $140

RAINBOW SERPENT

BANGLE

WAYNE SIMON


These dreamtime rainbow serpent bangles utilise polished silver

and coloured kangaroo leather braiding to produce uniquely

Australian statement pieces.

Wayne Simon is a proud indigenous contemporary artist, whose

heritage originates in Biripi country in Mid North Coast New South

Wales. He draws on his love of art, dancing, music and graffiti to

produce outstandingly beautiful jewellery that incorporates pearls,

silver and gold, kangaroo leather, echidna quill and feathers.

Dimensions: Internal diameter 6.5cm

Materials: Stirling silver and kangaroo leather

Available colours: Red, Yellow, Light blue, Teal, Royal blue, Navy blue,

Tan, Orange

Price: $462

F!NK BOWLS

F!NK


F!nk + Co. is a much loved and respected Australian design

company with an international reputation for producing world-class

tableware, hollowware, jewellery and lighting. It was established by

Robert Foster in 1993 with the aim of creating a design and

manufacturing business to support and generate opportunities for

Australian designer-makers.

These bowls are inspired by Japanese origami and, fitting together

as a trio, they appear as a delicate paper sculpture.

This series is the perfect entertaining companion, with the small size

suited to serving dips and nuts, the medium size designed to serve

bread rolls, crisps and biscuits and the large size is ideal for salads

or as a fruit bowl.

Dimension: Small - other sizes can be ordered in by request.

Materials: Anodised aluminium

Available colours: Blue, Black, Silver, Red + Gold

Price: $149

GENERAL

ASSEMBLY

BLANCHE TILDEN

+

PHOEBE PORTER


General Assembly - Canberra is inspired by the considered plan

and built environment of our capital city. Developed for a special

event at Workshop Bilk, the starting points for the designs are

Marion Mahony Griffin's beautiful drawings of Walter Burley Griffin's

vision for Canberra.

General Assembly exemplifies Porter and Tilden's common ground:

working in multiples, exploring the individual impulse to select,

combine and adorn, alertness to the ubiquitous street styles that

pulse through a city. It is a project that involves people in a lively,

intelligent conversation through the object. That is Studio Hacienda.

Limited edition

Dimension: Varied

Materials: Aluminium, titanium, glass, stainless steel

Available colours: Varied

Price: $550

JENNIFER KEMARRE

MARTINIELLO

GLASS OBJECTS


Jenni Kemarre Martiniello is a highly respected Arrernte glass

artist from Central Australia who combines the traditional Aboriginal

practice of weaving with the European practice of glass making.

Her work is in many major collections, including the National Gallery

of Australia, the National Museum of Australia, the Canberra

Museum and Gallery, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, the

Australian Parliament House Collection, the National Art Glass

Gallery, the Belau

National Museum, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Kluge-

Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, and

the British Museum.


Materials: Blown glass

Price: $1,900 - $3000

BLANCHE TILDEN

GLASS OBJECTS

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It is the response of the wearer that makes Blanche Tilden's

jewellery succeed.

The connection that can develop once a necklace becomes

precious to someone else, once it becomes part of their persona,

their life, their experience, is the aspect of Blanche's practice that

she values most.

Blanche has exhibited contemporary jewellery nationally and

internationally since 1990. An innovative approach to materials, in

particular, glass, has developed over this time. A desire to

understand how things work, the relationship between the machine

made and the handmade, between the built environment and the

individual, continually inspires Blanche's work.

Blanche Tilden has created and exhibited contemporary jewellery,

glass and design since 1990. She is a celebrated master of her

trade, highly recognised and respected, nationally and

internationally.

‘During 25 years of practice in the fields, I have developed a unique

visual and material vocabulary through an innovative use of glass

and metals, creating jewellery and objects that reference

mechanical technology, industrial modernity and architecture.’


Materials: Borosilicate glass, sterling silver, stainless steel cable

Price: $300 - $2,000

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support Craft ACT to create greater opportunities for our

community of craftspeople and designers, and for the growing

audience who admire and appreciate the beauty, skill and

excellence of their work.

Your generosity supports our organisation as an advocate for

contemporary craft and design in Canberra and beyond. Help us to

shape a handmade and creative future through exhibitions, events,

residencies, professional development and commissions, as well as

the annual DESIGN Canberra festival. Join online now.

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DONATION

SUPPORT THE FUTURE

OF CRAFT + DESIGN


Support Craft ACT to create greater opportunities for our

community of craftspeople and designers, and for the growing

audience who admire and appreciate the beauty, skill and

excellence of their work.

Your generosity supports our organisation as an advocate for

contemporary craft and design in Canberra and beyond. Help us to

shape a handmade and creative future through exhibitions, events,

residencies, professional development and commissions, as well as

the annual DESIGN Canberra festival.

Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre has been endorsed by the

Australian Tax Office as a Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) and is

registered as a charity (as CRAFT ACT CRAFT AND DESIGN

CENTRE) with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits

Commission ABN: 33314092587. All donations of $2 or more will be

tax deductible if you live in Australia.

Thank you for your generous support, even a small amount can

make a big difference to our artists.

Thank you for supporting Craft ACT artists by purchasing bespoke,

handcrafted objects from our online shop.

Contact us:

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