Connecting you with Australian culture online
Image courtesy of Craft ACT. There are a number of professions in Australia that contribute to a diverse design industry, including architects, interior designers, landscape architects, graphic designers, jewellers, industrial designers, fashion designers...
While Australia has no single uniform national costume, an Australian national dress style, based on specific local dress styles, has emerged in response to climate, lifestyle and identity. An Australian style can be seen clearly in the main types of loc...
A wide variety of Australian fashion textiles - hand-coloured, printed and painted silks, woven wool, dyed discharge and devore prints, ground velvets, and ochred designs based on traditional Aboriginal body paintings have all contributed to the definitio...
Nicola Finetti, Dress of silk georgette, silk chiffon and metallic embroidery on silk organza. Fashion can be defined by colour, cut, cloth, garment type, garment styles and interpretation of looks. Chinese silk embroidered shawls and Chinese surcoats b...
L'OrÚal Melbourne Fashion Festival (LMFF) (more info)
For one week in March each year, the L'OrÚal Melbourne Fashion Festival (LMFF) promotes Melbourne as a centre of fashion and style, stimulates ideas and highlights trends in design, innovation, business, the arts and all things fashionable. LMFF's unique
As part of this year´s Melbourne Fashion Festival Linden is presenting on the cross, an exhibition and performance project which crosses the boundaries between art and fashion. Leading artists and fashion designers have been invited to form collaborative ...
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ROD AINSWORTH NEW RADO FOR OUTBACK ARTS Outback Arts has just announced that Rod Ainsworth has accepted the position of Regional Arts Development Officer for the Far West region. NEW EXECUTIVE OFFICER FOR REGIONAL ARTS AUSTRALIA The new Executive Officer...
Modern Australia has a unique fashion style that is able to be clearly distinguished from European fashion lines. Many of Australia's top designers have been inspired by an extraordinary range of Australian fashion textiles and cultural influences. Chin...
The judging criteria of the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AMIA) Awards on 2 March can be applied to the interactive media as well as to fashion, performance, literature and Indigenous arts. The L'OrÚal Melbourne Fashion Festival, 4 -...
There are a number of professions in Australia that contribute to a diverse design industry, including architects, interior designers, landscape architects, graphic designers, jewellers, industrial designers, fashion designers, furniture makers and textil...
While Australia has no single uniform national costume, an Australian national dress style, based on specific local dress styles, has emerged in response to climate, lifestyle and identity. An Australian style can be seen clearly in the main types of loc...
A wide variety of Australian fashion textiles - hand-coloured, printed and painted silks, woven wool, dyed discharge and devore prints, ground velvets, and ochred designs based on traditional Aboriginal body paintings have all contributed to the definitio...
Presented as part of the 2008 L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival Cultural Program, How You Make It is a touring exhibition, initiated by Craft Victoria and toured by NETS Victoria to Object Gallery in Sydney, and a number of Victorian regional galle...
This issue will take a look at some of our upcoming exhibitions, say hello and goodbye to some of the Craft Victoria team, profile some of our new stock in COUNTER and preview some other exciting craft and design-related events. Cecilia Fogelberg's exhibi...
Gallery 1: Entwined Space Emily McIntosh, Lisa Cahill Between the walls and the floor space of Gallery 1, an undeniable tension is created when individual ideas become entwined. Entwined Space is a collaborative exhibition by glass makers Emily McIntosh ...
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