HOME:MADE
07 - 29 November 2020
HOME:MADE features a curated selection of new furniture, homewares and jewellery by some of the most exciting early-career designers and makers from across Australia. HOME:MADE is a signature exhibition for DESIGN Canberra presented by Craft ACT: Craft + Design Centre. In 2020, we will present this showcase exhibition in association with the Australian Craft + Design Centre network.
Featured artists: René Linssen (Craft ACT) / Krystal Hurst (Craft ACT) / Hannah Gason (Craft ACT) / Chloe Coldsmith (Australian Design Centre) / Timothy Robertson (Australian Design Centre) / Zoe Grigoris (Guildhouse/Jam Factory) / Danielle Barrie (Guildhouse/Jam Factory) / Jordan Leeflang (Guildhouse/Jam Factory) / Calum Hurley (Guildhouse/Jam Factory) / Samantha Dennis (Design Tasmania) / Scott van Tuil (Design Tasmania) / Chi Yusuf (Sturt) / Kazu Quill (Sturt) / Jenna Lee (Craft Victoria) / Kristin Burgham (Craft Victoria) / Peta Berghofer (Artisan) / Minqi Gu (Artisan) / Eunice Napanangka Jack (Ikuntji Artists) / Mavis Marks (Ikuntji Artists) / Keturah Zimran (Ikuntji Artists)
Image: René Linssen Sola Coffee Table 2020, photo Brenton Colley
THIS IS SUBURBIA
by DAVEY BARBER
07 - 29 November 2020
Local photographer Davey Barber (5 Foot Photography) has set out to explore and photograph the very place that raised him, the Canberra suburbs of yesterday, today and tomorrow for his debut exhibition This is Suburbia.
Commissioned by Craft ACT for the 2020 DESIGN Canberra festival, this photo series documents the ridiculously photogenic city of Canberra. Most photographers use suburban streets to get to their destination: on this occasion the streets are the destination. Barber draws on his own 30 years of life experience in the suburbs.
The photographer’s intention is to document what unique characteristics make the suburbs instantly recognisable to residents and to people just passing through, from the type of dwellings, shops, laneways, parks and the residents themselves. To emphasise Canberra’s ‘Bush Capital’ title, the photographs also document the four very distinct seasons of our city.
SWEET SUBURBIA
2020 Photography Competition
07 - 29 November 2020
The 2020 DESIGN Canberra photography competition responded to the theme of ‘This is Suburbia’ to celebrate the suburban identity of Canberra.
A panel of judges which included Beatrice Smith (Editor, HerCanberra), Davey Barber (Photographer, 5 Foot Photography) and Darren Bradley (Photographer) selected six finalists who will have their photographs on display alongside the 100 semi-finalists. These photographs present intriguing perspectives and diverse responses to our city’s suburban identity. Don’t miss the opportunity to see these beautiful photographs in person throughout the festival at Canberra Contemporary Art Space.
FROM AN UNTOUCHED LANDSCAPE
by JAMES TYLOR
07 - 29 November 2020
Artist James Tylor highlights the contemporary absence of Aboriginal culture within the Australian landscape and how this phenomenon is a direct result of the impact of European colonisation in From An Untouched Landscape.
As Tylor explains, the first European colonists forced the local Aboriginal people off their traditional lands and into small Christian missions and government reserves. This allowed the new European arrivals free access to clear the land for settlements, forestry and agriculture. This clearing of Aboriginal people from the landscape resulted in the removal of Indigenous cultural artifacts and identity from the Australian landscape.
Today the absence of Aboriginal culture within the Australian landscape is censored by this process of colonisation and has left much of the Australian landscape with the appearance that it was ‘Untouched’ before European arrival.
James Tylor is an Australian multi-disciplinary contemporary visual artist. He explores Australian cultural representations through the perspectives of his multicultural heritage that comprises Nunga (Kaurna), Māori (Te Arawa) and European (English, Scottish, Irish, Dutch and Norwegian) ancestry.
In 2011 he completed a bachelor of Visual Arts (Photography) at the South Australian School of Art in Adelaide and in 2012 he completed Honours in Fine Arts (Photography) at the Tasmanian School of Art in Hobart. He returned to Adelaide in 2013 and completed a Masters in Visual Arts and Design (Photography) at the South Australian School of Art.
Image: James Tylor Vanished From an Untouched Landscape 8 2018, Inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper with hole removed to a black velvet void, 50x50cm