The 2021 Craft and Design Planner

2020 was a curious 12 months for the craft and design sector. For a lot of working in manufacturing, gross sales have been good as folks have been buying on-line. And but then again, makers – just like the gig economic system – have been largely impacted by the loopholes in help from JobKeeper.

We have been additionally witness to dramatic cuts to most of the design and craft based mostly coursed supplied at College artwork faculties.

But when the roll out of occasions in 2021 is something, it demonstrates that the craft and design sector is resilient and charged with marching ahead in supporting its personal this 12 months.

FESTIVALS AND MAJOR EVENTS

A lot anticipated, the first Indian Ocean Craft Triennial (IOTA 21) is because of happen in Perth and throughout Western Australia from mid-September to November.  Curiosity and Rituals of the On a regular basis is the theme, which will probably be expanded into areas of votive, adornment, utility and shelter. The premise is under-pinned by world points round sustainability, industrialisation, and reworking applied sciences.

The crew of six founding curators is working in collaboration with over 25 exhibition venue companions, with John Curtin Gallery and Fremantle Arts Centre to stage the central exhibitions, a convention, workshops, artist talks, and masterclasses.

Melbourne Design Week (VIC) will probably be held 26 March – 5 April. With the theme, Design the world that you really want, the Nationwide Gallery of Victoria (NGV) has requested the sector to reply to the way it will design for tomorrow, taking up board the premise that ‘regular is over’. That is the fifth version.

Going down in September, Sydney Design Week (NSW) will return in 2021 to discover all areas of design, structure, internet design, movement graphics, vogue design, illustration, sport design, interiors, sound design, and landscaping. This system focuses on the Australian Design trade whereas additionally reflecting on worldwide design themes throughout the context of Australia’s place within the Asia Pacific. It’s managed by the Powerhouse Museum.

Sydney Craft Week (NSW) will run from 8 – 17 October, with a name for entries opening in late Could 2021. This 10-day metropolis extensive pageant will embrace the theme Craft Values, celebrating the great thing about the hand-made and exploring what we worth about craft. It’s the fifth version and is led by the Australian Design Centre (ADC).

DESIGN Canberra (ACT) returns 9 – 29 November with the theme Transformation, and creating momentum to construct a extra resilient, linked, inventive and accountable way of life. Expressions of Curiosity are open till Eight March. It’s managed by Craft ACT.

Can design foster a vibrant, equitable, sustainable and modern society?

Rachael Coghlan, CEO and Inventive Director Craft ACT.

‘The eighth version of the DESIGN Canberra pageant asks what ought to we retain and what can we discard to attach extra meaningfully as a neighborhood, to nurture wellbeing and well being, have a good time creativity and scale back our burden on the surroundings?’ defined Rachael Coghlan, CEO and Inventive Director Craft ACT.

In 2021, Craft ACT will probably be celebrating its 50th anniversary.

Craft VIC has introduced audio system for its Making It Symposium, to be held on-line 21-24 February. Inspiring keynotes and conversations will take a dive into to the variety {of professional} craft apply at the moment.

Blanche Tilden Grand Palais (necklace) 2014. Glass and Silver. Picture Grant Hancock. Courtesy the artist.

EXHIBITION SHAPING THE SECTOR IN 2021

Jewelry

One of many extra thrilling exhibitions in 2021, is Blanche Tilden – ripple impact: a 25 12 months survey, curated by Jason Smith. The Melbourne-based jeweller and maker has a singular method to her supplies, specifically glass, which she explores each as a cloth for jewelry making and a metaphor for the connections between making, trade, the wearable object and the physique. Displaying at Geelong Gallery Eight Could – 1 August, it can then tour to Sydney’s USW Galleries 20 August – 20 November.

It’s not the one jewelry present that UNSW Galleries (Sydney) will current in 2021. Kyoko Hashimoto: Bioregional Our bodies will check out the environmentally sustainable practices of Japanese-born Australian designer. Hashimoto forages coal from decommissioned mines and carves it with diamond instruments, contextualising this fossil gas throughout the typology of latest jewelry. (7 Could – 31 July).

Throughout city additionally in Could, the Australian Design Centre (ADC) will current Made/Worn: Australian Up to date Jewelry (delayed on account of Covid-19), together with the work of 22 up to date jewelry artists. (20 Could – 7 July).

One other group exhibition – The Physique Layer– attracts collectively 13 main Australian and Worldwide makers working in gold and silversmithing, on the Craft ACT in Canberra. The exhibition coincides with the Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia convention.

It’s paired with the exhibition Small Connections, touring from JamFactory Steel Studio in Adelaide, and is centred across the idea of connectivity and communication that jewelry provides the giver, receiver and wearer. (each 27 Could – 17 July).

ADC may even current PROFILE 2021: Up to date Jewelry and Object Award,  Eight October – 17 November.

Kirsten Coelho, Ithaca 2020. Porcelain, satin white glaze. Picture courtesy the artist, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane and Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney. Picture: Grant Hancock.

Ceramics

An all-female group of ceramic artists flip to their inspiration in seasonality and climate within the exhibition SEASONS, at fortyfivedownstairs gallery (Melbourne) (2 – 13 February 2021).

Adelaide-based ceramicist Kirsten Coelho follows a profitable 2020 because the SALA function artist, with a brand new main survey exhibition curated by Jose de Silva for UNSW Galleries, Kirsten Coelho: The Return. It brings collectively a number of new and up to date works impressed by Grecian and Roman artefacts and architectural remnants.  (7 Could – 31 July).

Industrial designer Caren Elliss and Ceramic artist Alison Smiles come collectively in an exhibition that explores the collaborative nature of constructing, born from over 25 years that these two makers have shared, and the contrasting positions on design, up to date artwork and craft. Ludere (to play) is introduced by Craft ACT, 22 July – 11 September.

Alison Smiles, False Idol, Handbuilt earthenware with gold leaf, Jam Manufacturing facility Exhibition 2017. Picture Michael Haines. A part of Ludere (to play) at Craft ACT.

Natalie Rosin: Endangered + Extinct, will function architectural ceramic sculptures depicting misplaced metropolis buildings which have been demolished or are beneath risk of demolition. At Australian Design Centre, 20 Could – 7 July.

The JamFactory program will embody Indigenous ceramicist Pepai Jangala Carroll in 2021 as a part of the very profitable annual JamFactory Icons exhibitions.

Scott Chaseling, Sanctuary, 2020. The Redemption of Color set up view Canberra Glassworks. Picture courtesy the artist.

Glass

In a world that’s more and more grey-washed, Scott Chaseling investigates our complicated relationship with color and what color symbolises at the moment. His exhibition The Redemption of Color at Canberra Glassworks is his first main solo exhibition with the main establishment, regardless of his thirty 12 months profession. ‘By utilizing clear colored glass in geometric formations, he creates items that shift, change and evolve solely via bodily experiencing them in particular person,’ explains the gallery. (14 January – 11 April).

In one other vital solo exhibition, Craft ACT turns to the work of Mark Eliott with the exhibition Essence of Cloud. This exhibition will primarily comprise glass objects but in addition textual content, blended media, watercolour sketches, efficiency, music, scent and animation. (25 March – 22 Could). After which later within the 12 months, it can current the work of Peter Minson spanning his 60-year profession as a lampworker. (16 September – 30 October).

Peter Minson, Goblets. Picture: courtesy of the artist.

Opening Sabbia Gallery’s 2021 program is the brand new exhibition Parts, a solo exhibition by Adelaide glass artist Tim Edwards (10 February – 06 March).

Edwards can be a part of the group exhibition Fireflow, which will carry collectively 5 up to date artists exploring the chances of glass as a flexible medium. Together with the works of Alexandra Hirst (SA), Blanche Tilden (VIC), Jasmine Targett (VIC) Holly Grace (VIC) and Tim Edwards (SA), the Craft VIC present has been curated as a part of 2021 Melbourne Design Week. (26 March – 5 April).

Tim Edwards, Define #20 & #21, 2020, Blown glass wheel reduce. Photographer: Grant Hancock. Picture courtesy the artist and Sabbia Gallery.

2020 Craft ACT artists-in-residence and Indigenous glass artist Jenni Kemarre Martinello joins Sharon Peoples to current a brand new physique of labor impressed by their analysis on the Nationwide Museum of Australia (NMA) and their three-week residency interval at Namadgi Nationwide Park. (25 March – 22 Could).

JamFactory in Adelaide has but to publish its 2021 program, however we all know that – within the off 12 months of the biennial FUSE Artwork Prize – it can current South Australian artist Alex Valero because the inaugural recipient of the FUSE Glass Artist Residency . It goals to create important alternatives for mid-career artists working in glass in Australia and New Zealand. Valero will probably be in residence March via August with an exhibition of the end result at Carrick Hill, on account of open an new, purpose-built exhibition house in November 2020.

Alex Valero, recipient of inaugural FUSE Glass Residency. Picture provided.

And returning yearly, the acquisitive Tom Malone Prize on the Artwork Gallery of Western Australia is about to open in March, reflecting on present or main tendencies within the Glass Artwork Motion.

Textiles, Fibre Artwork & Vogue

Drawn Thread is the primary of 5 iterations of The Hand-made Story; 50 years of craft and design in Queensland, a sequence of curatorial choices celebrating artisan’s 50 years’ of operation. The exhibition is a celebration of, and name to arms for the continuation of a feminist textile platform to focus on the wrestle of ladies within the hierarchy of the artwork and craft world. Displaying till 13 February 2021.

Jill Kinnear, Reinforcement, 2020. Picture: the artist. Proven in Drawn Thread at artisan (QLD).

Additionally presenting a feminist dialogue, and persevering with their repute for vogue blockbusters, Bendigo Artwork Gallery will current Mary Quant: Vogue Revolutionary in March – a serious retrospective on revolutionary worldwide designer Dame Mary Quant. This exhibition comes direct from a sell-out season at London’s revered Victoria & Albert Museum with over 110 clothes and equipment. (20 March – 11 July).

In March, ADC will current Signatures: The Mark because the Embodiment of Identification and Intent, the work of 21 fibre and textile artists from Untethered Fibre Artists Inc. (25 March – 15 Could)

The 2020 Tamworth Textile Triennial continues to tour nationally in 2021, with Pressure(s) visiting:

• Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Artwork Centre, NSW 5 March – 2 Could 2021
• ArtSpace MacKay, QLD 28 Could – 18 July 2021
• Artisan, QLD 24 July – 5 September 2021
• Craft ACT : Craft & Design Centre, ACT 18 September  – 31 October 2021
• Wangaratta Regional Gallery, VIC 20 November 2021 – 13 February 2021
• Monington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC 11 March– 15 Could 2022
• Ararat Gallery TAMA (Textile Artwork Museum Australia), VIC 21 Could – 26 July 2021
• Wagga Wagga Artwork Gallery, NSW  5 August – 23 October 2022

Additionally in Canberra on the Drill Corridor Gallery (ANU), curator Tony Oates takes a have a look at the 30-year profession of Nicole Ellis with the exhibition Fabrications. It surveys her wealthy and sophisticated involvement with collage, assemblage and located supplies. (19 February — 11 April).

Whereas Sally Blake: Place Markers at Craft ACT, is a solo exhibition arising from her analysis on ACT eucalypts as indicators of place, utilizing the bark and leaf dyes with fabric and threads (22 July – 11 September).

And as a part of its strategic plan to incorporate Indigenous illustration within the main curated exhibitions, JamFactory in Adelaide is planning a serious textile design exhibition in 2021.

Ornamental arts & Design

Presenting new collaborative work, metalsmiths Alison Jackson and Dan Lorrimer showcase the event and creativity concerned in producing small batch version tableware objects. Making: A Method of Life is introduced by Craft ACT, 27 Could – 17 July.

The Artwork Gallery of South Australia, just like the NGV, is a powerful help of Australian craft and design. This 12 months it takes a have a look at sea routes and world buying and selling of objects comparable to Chinese language porcelain, vivid Indian textiles, and stylish Japanese lacquer, with the exhibition, A Huge Emporium: Inventive alternate and innovation in a worldwide age. From 1 Could.

NGV Worldwide, equally takes a have a look at Japanese Design with the exhibition, Neolithic to Now. Spanning over 4 thousand years, it celebrates the wabi-sabi aesthetic of rustic earthenware ceramics, and encompasses Buddhist sculpture, minimalist medieval furnishings, refined motifs of porcelain ware, bamboo weaving to create up to date sculptural types. Displaying till 21 August.

Warwick Wright, Desk 2020. Picture: Courtesy of the Artists. Displaying in Australian Design Centre WORKSHOPPED.

In July, Australian Design Centre companions with WORKSHOPPED for the fourth 12 months to current excellent prototypes from rising and established designers in furnishings, lighting and objects. (15 July – 18 August).

Studio Woodwork is an exhibition that includes Australia’s most interesting designer-makers and artists working in wooden. Introduced in partnership with Studio Woodworkers Affiliation (SWA), catch it additionally at ADC in Sydney, Eight October – 17 November.

Craft ACT: Craft + Design Centre will current the inaugural CO:LAB  in 2021, and is inviting up to date craft practitioners to use. The brand new growth program which incorporates an exhibition, mentoring, sustainability recommendation, skilled pictures and an artist charge, encourages cross-disciplinary collaboration, and achieve publicity to industrial environments, with two craft practitioners positioned to work with an architect and their shoppers to develop new work for a residential venture in Canberra. Submissions shut Eight February.

A curated exhibition in November 2021 would be the fruits of a year-long program {of professional} growth and alternate to forge new instructions within the inventive industries.

Nikolina Brown, Pleasure Flesh, 2019, Displaying in Recent! set up shot, 2020. Images Michael Pham.

Rising expertise

Introduced yearly since 1993, Recent! showcases the vitality, ability and innovation of a few of the finest graduating college students from craft, design and tremendous artwork disciplines all through the state of Victoria. At Craft VIC,13 February – 20 March.

Equally, Rising Contemporaries is the Craft ACT Nationwide Award Exhibition for early-career artists, and performs a pivotal position in supporting and transitioning artists into skilled apply and inserting Australian artists in view of the nationwide cultural accumulating establishments, enterprise and trade, and viewers. (four February – 20 March). 

IN DEVELOPMENT IN 2021

JamFactory is beginning to work in the direction of its 50th anniversary in 2023.

Whereas the NGV has introduced the second version of the landmark, city-wide exhibition, Melbourne NOW, which will probably be centred at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia will probably be held additionally in 2023 – marking the ten-year anniversary of the inaugural 2013 exhibition.

The gallery introduced in 2020 that it’s going to dedicate an preliminary $1.5 million dedication to amass, fee and current new works by native Victorian artists, designers and designers – now underway.