Garland Magazine

The stories behind
what we make

Treasures from Marege: Yolŋu-Makassan trade today

Diane Moon and Will Stubbs describe the exchange between Yolŋu and Makassan cultures that continues after their trade was banned.

Embroidering pugholes

Sera Waters describes how her embroidery brings to the surface the holes dug during settlement that remained as wounds on the landscape.

Martin Hill and Philippa Jones: Encircling the world

Alasdair Foster writes about the New Zealand duo that crafts emblematic shapes from the landscape to be captured by the camera.

Assegai: A spear of light across the Indian Ocean

Adam Markowitz reflects on the origins of his pendant light and why he decided to give it a Zulu name.

 

Featured Articles

From Issue 27: Estuary

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Omar Musa blends words and the wood carving of Borneo to explore beauty, rage and history

Kevin Brophy describes how Omar Musa blends words and the wood carving of Borneo to explore beauty, rage and history

by Kevin Brophy

The Svord Peasant Knife: Thanks to “Heavenly Blue Sky”

Bryan Baker recounts the day a Czech master arrived at his door and passed on the secrets that would enable him to develop the knife that is sold by hundreds of thousands around the world.

by Bryan Baker

Garrapara: Deep waters and the cycle of life and death 

Will Stubbs writes how Gunybi Ganambarr uses leftover building insulation to represent the cycle of life and death in salt and fresh water.

by Will Stubbs

Jenni Kemarre Martiniello’s Freshwater Saltwater Weave

Mel George writes about Jenni Kemarre Martiniello's glass works that transmogrify ancient fibre forms.

by Mel George

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Avi Amesbury ✿ Our material home

Julie Bartholomew reviews a sensory exhibition of ceramics that connects us to sand, seaweed, ash and other planetary materials.

The Last Kai ✿ A Moana renaissance

Our June laurel goes to an epic tapa recreation of da Vinci's Last Supper painting. Tui Emma Gillies shares the journey of its creation.

The Grandfather Clock: A dark history tolls

Sebastian Blackie winds a grandfather clock which then unwinds its dark history.

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.

Jesse Adams Stein: Do we still need to make things?

We interview Jesse Adams Stein about what she learned in writing Industrial Craft in Australia and the risks in not being able to make things anymore.

Views of Brisbane at hand

Pamela See reviews an exhibition at the Museum of Brisbane that depicts the urban landscape over time through the eyes of first and subsequent peoples.

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Highlights from our calendar

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Craft ACT (Canberra)
19 May - 2 July 2022
Victoria Manganiello: Material Technology
Australian Tapestry Workshop (Melbourne)
14 June - 26 August 2022
Bioplastic Futures: 3D Printing and the Maker Movement
Australian Design Centre (Sydney)
16 June - 2 July 2022
Bic Tieu: Objects In-between
UNSW Galleries (Sydney)
18 June - 14 August 2022
Liz Williamson: Weaving Eucalypts Project
UNSW Galleries (Sydney)
18 June - 14 August 2022
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Geelong Art Space (Geelong)
24 June - 27 August 2022
Beeing
Craft ACT (Canberra)
7 July - 27 August 2022

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