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2025 Emerging Contemporaries — Melanie Olde, *Canopy* 1, 2024, photo courtesy of the artist.

Craft + Design Canberra

Group Exhibition

2025 Emerging Contemporaries

2025 Emerging Contemporaries is Craft + Design Canberra’s prestigious award exhibition celebrating the next generation of designers and makers. Showcasing works by early career artists from leading local institutions, including Canberra Potters Society, Canberra Institute of Technology, and the ANU School of Art + Design, this exhibition highlights the diverse talent shaping the future of craft and design.

With: Philip Agius, Tess Carlton, Isabel Chen, Sophie Constable, Jemma Copland, Ruby Davies, Rachael Hanrick, Tilda Joy, Liv Kidston, Ali Mencshelyi, Lee Nelms, Melanie Olde, Isobel Waters.

20 February—8 April

Craft + Design Canberra

Level 1, North Building, 180 London Circuit Canberra ACT 2600

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Bhenji Ra dreams in dance

In Biraddali Dancing on the Horizon, now showing at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), Australian-Filipina artist Bhenji Ra explores pangalay—a dance form indigenous to the Tausug and Bajau peoples from the Sulu Archipelago and Sabah in the Philippines.

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Taking flight with Sorawit Songsataya

Shaped by the movement between histories and cultures, the work of Thai-born, Aotearoa-raised artist Sorawit Songsataya draws on mystery and plurality as a means of knowing the world. The artist is now showing at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and Monash University Museum of Art.

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Consuelo Cavaniglio’s tricks of the light

Consuelo Cavaniglia’s sunny studio in an industrial area of Sydney’s inner west reflects the artist’s fascination with light. Her recent glass works, now showing at Chau Chak Wing Museum, play with apertures, shadows, reflections and transparencies.

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Marikit Santiago’s divine interventions

In her audacious new exhibition, the Filipina Australian artist Marikit Santiago skewers the myths of the western canon and give pleasure and power—as experienced by women of colour—an arresting new form.

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Windows to the world: a conversation with Glen O’Malley

Queenslander Glen O’Malley stands as a key figure among a generation of photographers who depicted the domestic lives of Australians in the 1970s and 1980s. In an interview with Barnaby Smith, he discusses the landmark 1988 show Journeys North, and QAGOMA’s current exhibition Suburban Sublime: Australian Photography.

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The revitalization of Bundjalung weaving

A touring exhibition based on a publication of the same title, Bulaan Buruugaa Ngali celebrates Bundjalung artists revitalising the practice of basket weaving, as well as the Bundjalung language—two forms of knowledge that are deeply connected. The exhibition is now showing at Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre.

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Craft + Design Canberra

Group Exhibition

2025 Emerging Contemporaries

20 February—8 April

Craft + Design Canberra

More Exhibitions at Craft + Design Canberra

The Omega Series

Pamela Irving

Craft + Design Canberra

My unStill Life

Cam Michael

Craft + Design Canberra

Emerging Contemporaries

Multiple Artists

Craft + Design Canberra

Suggested Reading

Bhenji Ra dreams in dance

Josephine Mead

Taking flight with Sorawit Songsataya

Amelia Winata

Consuelo Cavaniglio’s tricks of the light

Jane O'Sullivan

Marikit Santiago’s divine interventions

Steve Dow

Windows to the world: a conversation with Glen O’Malley

Barnaby Smith

The revitalization of Bundjalung weaving

Josephine Mead

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