Garland Magazine

The stories behind
what we make

✿ Welcome to Garland Magazine ✿

Enjoy our latest issue ✿ Temple & Gallery

Beyond the facades: Temple wood carving of Himachal Pradesh 

Lalita Waldia celebrates temple carvers who work intuitively, in order to serve the deity.

Kalighat Temple: A terracotta revival

Tamal Bhattacharya reflects on his work restoring the terracotta tiles of an ancient Bengali temple.

Gateways to the soul in Indian art and craft

Kruti Dholakia calls her teacher Reena Bhatia to talk about work inspired by devotion to Lord Krishna.

In search of mathh, a sugar craft for ingesting a sacred spirit

Kaustav Chatterjee visits Santipur in West Bengal to find the maker of a unique sacred consumable.

 

Featured Articles

From Issue 37 ✿ Temple & Gallery

Full Issue

A new home for the gods across the Indian Ocean

The Sri Vakarathunda Vinayagar Temple in outer Melbourne is a monumental construction built on solid community foundations.

by Kevin Murray

Making Memolo: Temple domes from Sitiwinangun, Cirebon

Akbar Adhi Satrio tracks the origins and future of the ceramic dome, part of Indonesia's Hindu heritage

by Akbar Adhi Satrio

The new Majapahit art: Craft or artefact?

Tod Jones argues for the importance of craft produced today in heritage sites, particularly in contemporary communities who live with ancient centres in Indonesia.

by Tod Jones

The crafting of sacred spaces in Australia

Pamela See finds creative work in devotional sites of Buddhist, Sikh, Catholic, Biniji and Mungguy peoples.

by Pamela See

Stay in the Loop

With recent news

See All Loop

What is the value of craft?

The inaugural report on the Value of Craft argues that craft plays a critical role in addressing the challenges of our time.

A cry from the heart: Disappearing crafts

LOkesh Ghai returns to Kutch to find a radical decline in the number of artisans practising their traditional crafts.

Beyond the Gallery: 28 January 2025

The Together Spaces series explored the different creative practices that are realised outside the art gallery. What did we learn from this?

Art on a stem: Floral botanical collage decoupage

Anuradha Sahu describes her patented press dry flower technique that channels the life force of nature.

Murad Mammadov ✿ Jewels of the Caspian Sea

Our January Laurel goes to an Azerbaijani jeweller who creates delicate beachscapes for personal adornment.

The value of craft in fiction

D Wood describes how craft activates the fictional worlds of "Blue Caftan" and "The Healing Season of Pottery."

Days we celebrate on the Garland platform:

Current Exhibitions

Highlights from our calendar

Full Listing
Max Adrian: RIPSTOP
The Center for Craft (Asheville, North Carolina)
26 July - 29 March 2025
Weaving matter: material experimentation
Ararat Gallery TAMA (Ararat)
12 October - 16 February 2025
re/JOY
Australian Design Centre (Sydney)
22 November - 19 February 2025

Upcoming Talks

Future Major Events