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Enjoy our latest issue ✿ Alchemy Now: Makers that recover the beauty at hand

Roof top alchemy: Gilding statues in Nepal

Gary Wornell visits a legendary Nepalese gilder and witnesses the mysterious alchemy that turns idols golden.

The meaning of yellow

Helen Ting's weaving is inspired by the deep meaning of the colour yellow in Chinese culture.

Take a chance on art

Liat Segal presents three bodies of work that use randomness as a creative tool.

The tree-bird: An alchemy of the heart

Reihane Raei creates healing jewels inspired by the mystery of Persian poetry

 

Featured Articles

From Issue 29: Alchemy Now

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The robot embroiderer

Anying Chen explains a project to develop a robot to assist in the intricate embroidery craft.

by Anying Chen

The Dirge and the Vital Heat

Nicole Polentas writes about a series of art objects that draw on Aristotle's theory of Vital Heat to reflect on life and death.

by Nicole Polentas

Kuulua vuohmaan: Belonging to a mire

Ida Isak Westerberg returns to the queer space of mire in order to recover their Tornedalian identity, imprinting their tapestries with its colours.

by Ida Isak Westerberg

Composite bouquet: A plastic heirloom for the future

Vicki Mason seeks to realise the beauty of plastic in ornaments that will endure.

by Vicki Mason

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Welcome support for world knowledge-keepers: The Ministry of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil  

Maria Fernanda Paes de Barros shares welcome news of support for Indigenous peoples in the new Lula government of Brazil.

Crafting “natural” conceptions in and of China, of its nationhood and its people   

Pamela See considers the key political role played by woodcut prints in Chinese communism.

Works from the International Art Textile Biennale 2023

Works from the International Art Textile Biennale reveal a woven world.

The black gem of Ukraine: Forging fragility in Donetsk

We share a poem from Carbon: Song of Crafts by Svetlana Lavochkina that reflects the place of blacksmithing at the heart of Donetsk, Ukraine.

Jessica Murtagh ✿ Ancient Athens at the checkout

Jessica Murtagh is awarded the February laurel for an exquisite glass vessel that depicts a supermarket checkout in the form of an ancient Athenian amphora. 

The Shanghai Public Cultural Content Supply Platform: Distributing culture to the people / 通过公共文化服务平台

Li Zhiwei writes about a municipal service for cultural producers to find audiences across Shanghai.

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Resonance | the instinctive designs of Brodie Neill
Design Tasmania (Launceston)
24 November - 19 February 2023
Puffpiece 2
ArtPuff (Castlemaine)
1 December - 19 February 2023
Thinking Through Pink
Wollongong Art Gallery (Wollongong)
5 December - 5 March 2023
International Art Textile Biennale
East Gippsland Art Gallery (Bairnsdale)
20 January - 18 March 2023
Chili Philly’s Crochet Social 2023
Australian Design Centre (Sydney)
7 February - 22 March 2023
Unravelling Queerly
Australian Design Centre (Sydney)
7 February - 22 March 2023

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