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Our latest issue: Regeneration - A partnership between past and future

Judith Crispin ✿ Picturing the gentleness of death

Alasdair Foster writes about the Lumachrome Glass Printing by Judith Crispin that renders decay in stillness.

Tecuil Alessia: Preserving the heart of the prehispanic kitchen

Raquel Bessudo heralds a new design for the traditional stove which promises a healthy future for traditional Mexican life

Vipoo Srivilasa: Will my heart remember?

Aaron Bradbrook presents a project by Vipoo Srivilasa to reincarnate objects relinquished by residents of Warrnambool.

Tender cloths

Michele Elliot uses wrapping as a ritual to reflect the passing of life.

Broached Recall: Bringing modernism to the surface

For Lou Weis, a new series of commissions based on early modernist veneers helps critically reflect on the trajectory of modernist design.

 

Featured Articles

From Issue 23: Regeneration

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Whakahoki: Returning to the lunar cycle in Māori culture

Keri-Mei Zagrobelna evokes an ancestor spirit to protect against the chaos of the new moon

by Keri-Mei Zagrobelna

Singing our life journeys: Rekindling the Vaihoho song-poems of Timor-Leste

The Timor-Leste Vaihoho tradition of song offers a connection to the past the current generations are keeping alive through video.

by Ildefonso da Silva, Daniel Valentim Pereira and Nelinha Pereira

Tongan designs for a safe pandemic voyage

Angus Gillies writes about traditional Tongan kupesi designs re-interpreted by Sulieti Fieme’a Burrows and Tui Emma Gillies for the COVID era. 

by Angus Gillies

Woven walls, threaded horizons: Traditional architecture in the modern urban fabric of Papua New Guinea

Rosemarie Rusch returned to the PNG of her childhood to student traditional architecture of woven walls, but she also learnt to appreciate the social life and friendships of village life.

by Rosemarie Rusch

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Anying CHEN: Craft revivals in today’s China

The tenth talk in our Reinventing the Wheel series goes to mainland China, where Professor Anying CHEN discusses many projects by his university that revive traditional crafts across the country.

Tareq Qaddumi ✿ Muqla’a slingshot

A giant slingshot is adorned with Palestinian embroidery as a monument to a culture that survives despite the odds.

Hamza ✿ Enter the circle

Kimsuka Iyer introduces Hamza, a Moroccan brass smith, bookbinder and oud musician.

Tamihana Katene ✿ taonga puoro

Keri-Mei Zagrobelna shares several powerful taonga puoro, traditional Māori instruments, made by Tamihana Katene.

Sally Blake ✿ Holding hope

Vy Tsan introduces an exhibition by Sally Blake that reflects the cycle of destruction and regeneration in the Canberra landscape.

Punk Rocks ✿ The Hope Pebble

Our August laurel goes to Objects of Mass Distraction, a Singapore collective whose series Punk Rocks features precious jewellery made from found materials ​​

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Current Exhibitions

Highlights from our calendar

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Vístome palabras entretejidas
Museo National de Arts (Mexico City)
14 March - 31 December 2021
ROLODEX. Craft a Conversation
The Center for Craft (Asheville, North Carolina)
4 June - 20 August 2021
Suite Américaine
The Center for Craft (Asheville, North Carolina)
24 June - 3 September 2021
WORKSHOPPED21
Australian Design Centre (Sydney)
20 July - 18 August 2021
Tensions 2020: Tamworth Textile Triennial
Artisan (Brisbane)
30 July - 4 September 2021

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