Loop
“Everywhere it’s the same, and everywhere it’s different: two hands with five fingers each (and other body parts), and a continuous loop of string”
Over time, Garland is gathering a creative community across the Indo-Pacific. This page is where you can stay in the loop with updates from our Friends and Circle. See here if you would like to be featured in this Loop.
Why we need to forge our own academies - Universities have benefitted the crafts significantly, but we can't rely just on them to define our field.
Otobong Nkanga ✿ Soap stacks of the wider world - Jessica Hemmings reviews Otobongo Nkanga's exhibition of soap with the help of a novel by Teju Cole.
Sewing seeds: Stories of embroidery - Explore the craft that threads stories into the cloths that adorn our world.
Steal This ✿ Melissa Cameron confesses to her role in a lawless jewellery gang - Melissa Cameron tells the story behind Melbourne's radical street jewellery scene of the 2000s.
Fiona Gavino ✿ Weave a deep breath - Fiona Gavino is our April laurel for a work that monumentalises basket-making as an expression of meditation.
The shed: Stories of wood - Explore stories about the transformation of trees into objects of tactile beauty.
Ten Thousand Suns spotlights the technologies of First Nations peoples through craft - Pamela See reflects on the craft works in the 24th Sydney Biennale.
Tiago Ishiyama ✿ It’s all or nothing in the favela - Paul Sepaniak pays tribute to his friend, an inspiring Brazilian street artist of Japanese ancestry
The recurring pleasures of simple - In a dark space, redolent of wax, Sara Thorn discovers a minimal beauty.
Ancient calligraphy now in the city of Kairouan, Tunisia - Leila Ben-Gacem finds a calligraphic group today in Kairouan that is inspired by the city's classic eleventh-century work, "Quran of the Nurse".
Misako Nakahira ✿ Waves of tsuzureori - We speak to Australian Tapestry Workshop weaver-in-residence, Misako Nakahira, about her unique technique of blending weaves.
Birender Kumar Yadav ✿ Presencing the keepers of the kiln - Our March Laurel goes to Birender Kumar Yadav for his terracotta installation in homage to brick kiln workers, one of the highlights of the Indian Ceramics Triennale. 
Sana Balai ✿ A champion of inclusivity for International Women’s Day - Pamela See creates a papercut installation in honour of a woman who has helped acknowledge the diverse communities of Logan City.
Weaving Sumba’s history into the fabric of the world - Paul v Walters tells the inspiring story of MANAMU, a studio for woven steel jewellery on a remote Indonesian island.
Gee’s Bend: Does it matter who made it? - While an accessible range of craft products for the mass market is good in principle, it shouldn't hide how it was produced.
The thinker-maker in Iranian contemporary craft - Narges Marandi, Atefe Mirsane, Farhang Parsikia and Zahra Mottaghi reflect on the changing meaning of "craft" in Iran.
Library - You are invited to peruse the more conceptual articles published in Garland. Ask questions and consider answers.
Breath of the Fire Dragon 稻草香火龍 - Angela Sim shares the story of Singapore's fiery ceremony that farewells the dragon after its sojourn in our world.
Aleisa Miksad ✿ Bacchic ceramics - Our February laurel is awarded to Aleisa Miksad for a vessel that bristles with Dionysian energy.
Efficacious Intimacy ✿ Learnings from the Jugaad Project - Join Urmila Mohan and authors to discuss a new book of the Jugaad Project that considers the material basis of religious and political beliefs.
For earlier posts, see here.