‘Victorian Craft Award’ @ Craft

The ‘Victorian Craft Award‘ exhibition is exceptional and important. Sounds pompous yes … I know, but I challenge you to tell me of better exposition of contemporary craft.

Today the award winners were announced:

• Lynne Kosky Jewellery Award : Natalia Milosz-Piekarska
• Jewellery Encouragement Award : Sun-Woong Bang
• Excellence Award : Manon van Kouswijk
• Decal Ceramic Award : Kate Jones

exhibition at Craft

This post is about the work showing at Craft. The exhibition is so comprehensive they’ve had to share is across a number of sites, including 45downstairs (post coming), Sofitel and 1 Spring St.

The 116 artists to participate are listed on the Craft website [I really wanted to link to the Victorian Craft Award website, but I just couldn’t get the darn thing to load – while it wouldn’t be fabulous if that means my computron is being silly, I kind of hope that’s the case and everyone else can see the site easily].

(anticlockwise from bottom left) Katherine Bowman, Vito Bila, Lene Kuhl Jakobsen, Anna Forsyth

There are many beautiful objects here … something close to overwhelming actually.

Those I particularly responded to, from the group at Craft, include:

• Elizabeth Kennedy’s ‘Stains and Memories‘; tender and evocative embroidery and jewellery works
  

  Elizabeth Kennedy

• John Dermer’s ‘Salt Glazed Porcelain‘; a gorgeous shape and beguiling glaze colours
  

  John Dermer

• Katie Jacobs’s ‘Wolf Head‘ has an impressive presence (in first image)
• Michael Wong’s ‘Jelly Legs‘ brooch is assured

I’ll write about the work at 45downstairs next.

‘Victorian Craft Award‘ is at Craft and other venues until 15th August 2015 … quick quick, that’s only two weeks!