Garland Magazine

The stories behind
what we make

Enjoy our latest issue ✿ Know-How: The Grammar of Making

Deborah Kelly: Cutting with the past to create a new order

Pamela See finds ancient resonances in the way Deborah Kelly cuts up the world to recompose a different future.

Wood carving in Nepal: How Buddha emerges every day

Gary Wornell is welcomed into the home of Ratnamani Bramhacharya, a Nepalese carver of immense skill and generosity.

Victor Meertens: Off Cuts

Gregory Pryor reflects on the career of a sculptor whose drive to dissect the world takes surprising forms, including breadmaking and musical performance.

What is a knife?

Arlo Davis ponders the way a knife marks time and creates consciousness.

 

Featured Articles

From Issue 28: Know How

Full Issue

A copper glass engraving wheel: The quest for the perfect tool

A chance discovery in his garden leads Peter Cummings on a quest for the perfect glass engraving tool.

by Peter Cummings

Subtle cuts: New word sculptures from Ally McKay

Miranda Hine is intrigued by the words cut by Ally McKaly, which reflect the social disjunction of the pandemic.

by Miranda Hine

12 Camels: Take a seat by chance

Nanu Youttananukorn and Lidia Vajda describe an exhibition in where Thai designers and makers were randomly assigned three legs to make a unique stool.

by Nanu Youttananukorn and Lidia Vajda

Other Possible Worlds: Threading together Thai communities

Luise Guest writes about an exhibition at 16albermarle Project Space and Delmar Gallery of Thai artists who skillfully and delicately bind together disparate elements of their world.

by Luise Guest

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The Sensorium Series in 2023

In 2023, the Garland platform will host a series of issues on taste, sound, smell and touch that help us "reconnect" with the world and expand the identity of craft beyond "visual" art.

Pippa Dyrlaga ✿ Precious pangolin

Our September laurel is awarded to Pippa Dyrlaga for a wonderfully intricate papercut that reflects the fragile condition of the pangolin species.

Kelly Austin ✿ Suspended decompositions

Jane Stewart writes about Kelly Austin's ceramics, whose material response to the mined landscape of Queenstown reflects the genre of still life in painting.

Latifa Zafar Attaii ✿ One Thousand Individuals

Susann Wintsch writes about Latifa Zafar Attaii's embroidered photographs that reflect the fraught identity of Hazara refugees.

Chiharu Shiota ✿ The Soul Trembles Ruptures Realities

Pamela See is intrigued by the Shinto roots in Chiharu Shiota's exhibition, in which she deconstructs the canvas to envelop the viewer in purifying threads.

Kevin Diallo ✿ Ode to Zouglou 

Claire Grant talks to Kevin Diallo about the vivid imprints of his journey from Cote d’Ivoire in the churchie emerging art prize.

Let's meet on the Garland platform:

Current Exhibitions

Highlights from our calendar

Full Listing
Storymakers in Contemporary Art
Japan Foundation (Sydney)
29 July - 28 January 2023
Morph
North Art Gallery (Auckland)
27 August - 7 October 2022
Full Circle: Karen Tapestry Weavers
Australian Tapestry Workshop (Melbourne)
1 September - 18 November 2022
fluxedearth | The colour of iron
Bendigo Pottery (Bendigo)
10 September - 23 October 2022
DRAWING THE LINE: handwoven tapestries by Sara Lindsay
Barometer (Sydney)
17 September - 2 October 2022
Resilience: New Reflections on Javanese Traditions
Meet The Makers Indonesia (Jakarta)
30 September - 29 December 2022

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Future Major Events