Craft + Design Canberra

Craft + Design Canberra is a not-for-profit organisation and one of Australia’s longest running membership bodies, now celebrating 54 years. We are deeply committed to our creative community. Our artists, exhibitions, and programs are central to our lives and to celebrating Canberra’s rich design legacy and future.

Craft + Design Canberra operates a vibrant gallery showcasing contemporary craft and design exhibitions year-round, a retail shop featuring locally made handcrafted objects, workshops and public programs, and the biennial Craft + Design Canberra Festival.

Image: Entrace of Craft + Design Canberra Shop and Gallery | Photography by 5 Foot Photography.

Craft + Design Canberra

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

02 6262 9333

craftanddesigncanberra.org

Wed to Sat 12noon–4pm.

Exhibitions

holy arm gauntlet

Tom Campbell

7 Aug - 20 Sep

Material Transformations

Emma Bingham, Svenja Kratz and Sarah Stubb

7 Aug - 20 Sep

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Material, Meaning and Memory

Campbelltown Arts Centre’s in every room presents rich socio-political histories and personal storytelling, with works by Lara Chamas, Jagath Dheerasekara, Kuba Dorabialski, Roberta Joy Rich, Sancintya Mohini Simpson and Curtis Taylor.

Jasmeet Kaur Sahi

In Pictures

The peoples’ art collection is on display

In celebration of Artbank’s 45-year anniversary, two major exhibitions and a publication are on display. View, in pictures, Artbank’s Sydney exhibition, Art Text/Text Art.

Art Guide Australia

Interview

20 Questions with Natasha Walsh

Alchemist and artist, Natasha Walsh’s new solo show, The Window, embarks on a “new beginning” at N.Smith Gallery in Sydney.

Anna Carlsson

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Shadow and light

A quiet power pulses through It’s Always Been Always at Fremantle Arts Centre, where six First Nations women artists reflect on kinship, Country and cultural memory.

Rosamund Brennan

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Written in the stars

A major exhibition charts the ingenuity and creative spirit coming out of the Yirrkala community across time. In collaboration with Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Art Centre,Yolŋu Power: the art of Yirrkala is now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Tyson Frigo

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Sue Kneebone and the tides that bind

Over the past two decades, Sue Kneebone’s practice has threaded together found materials and archival information to consider the impact of settler colonialism on the landscape of South Australia. Kneebone’s exhibition at Adelaide Central Gallery is a nod to her great-great-grandfather and the “trans-oceanic” legacies braided into his story.

Craft + Design Canberra

Craft + Design Canberra

Exhibitions