Victoria
Nereides: A homage to our seagrass meadows - Anna Davern writes about her series of beaded pins inspired by the ancient Greek myth of sea nymphs.
Russell Jack ✿ Saving dragons - Dianne Dempsey's biography of Russell Jack reveals how caring for the dragon was a way of sustaining a Chinese diaspora culture.
Finding the One Tree: A day in the Whipstick forest - Debra Higgins documents a day in the life of her circular practice, caring for the land that provides her art materials.
The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion: The work of a thousand hands - Deep in the Whipstick forest is a Buddhist wonder for all to enjoy.
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.
Sky Temple - Helen Vivian reflects on that re-wilding project that enabled a garden to grow a temple
Joss House artifacts: Rediscovering Australia’s Chinese temples - Michael Williams uncovers a rich material heritage from communal buildings used by Chinese migrants.
The hidden art of flower petal bead making - Shalome Lateef threads stories and petals into garlands of prayer.
An enduring transience: Pandal hopping in Melbourne - Mitraja Bais goes in search of the Bengali Durga Puja in her new home, on the other side of the world.
Afghan weaves from clay to wool - Alexandra Copeland shares her journey from ceramics to carpet weaving via Afghanistan.
Carol Maberly ✿ An embroidered Tao Te Ching - For Carol Maberly, embroidery is a mindful way to reflect on the Taoist wisdom of Lao Tzu.
Melinda Capp ✿ Jewellery squared - Mem Capp writes about her identical twin sister, Melinda Capp, whose finely hammered jewellery work evokes reflection and doubles.
The Australian Tapestry Workshop: A weaver’s view - Chris Cochius reflects on her journey in and out of an organisation that feeds her creativity and provides a connection with fellow weavers.
Loom Rescue Group: Holding the thread together - Ana Petidis continues the collective spirit of the Handweavers and Spinners Guild
Basketmakers of Victoria: Projects with fibre - Jan Chamberlain reflects on an organisation that loves working together.
The Embroiderers Guild, Victoria: A haven for stitchers - Gail Thexton recounts the history of a long-standing and friendly stitching guild.
The Hanging Studio Table: For the many and the few - The Hanging Studio Table: For the many and the few
A table for elements at play - Mary Hackett demonstrates her mettle by forging elemental spheres for life on a table
Makers and Menders: Many hands make good - Crafting, creativity and community are at the heart of the Makers and Menders Program at the Brunswick Neighbourhood House (BNH) in Melbourne.
Lehenda: Many hands make feet fly - Natalia Moravski takes us behind the scenes in a Ukrainian dance company, where a team of volunteers make complex costumes that sometimes envelop the whole stage.
Victorian Woodworkers Association: Joinery in real time - Stephen Ziguras charts the history of a state-based woodworking association that is currently enjoying an increased interest in "bricks-and-mortar" activities.
A day in the life of a drum maker - Matt Stonehouse shares his day as a drum maker in rural Victoria.
FLOAT ✿ Lakeside with an arts residency on water, a feral MBA and a float-keeper - The FLOAT crew share their journey of creating an arts residency and Observatorium on Lake Tyers, while Isaac Carne shares his day as a float-keeper.
Parched: An artist research residency about drought in regional Victoria - Jacqueline Millner reveals what artist residencies can tell us about the lived culture of drought
Alpaca shawls: A love woven from life on land - Douglas Brodie asks Louiseann King about falling in love with alpacas and the processes involved in weaving shawls from their wool.
Steal This ✿ Melissa Cameron confesses to her role in a lawless jewellery gang - Melissa Cameron tells the story behind Melbourne's radical street jewellery scene of the 2000s.
Healing Country & the five senses - Francesca Bussey writes about listening and talking about mosaics, middens, and that which is bigger than all of us.
Industry relief: The Newport Railway Workshop Project - Geoff Hogg recounts a poignant public art project to honour the treasured history of a railway workshop
Walking in the expanded field of jewellery - Roseanne Bartley recounts a series of pathfinding projects that take jewellery to and from the streets.
The Big Build: Industry by needlepoint - Jessie Deane honours the ugly but beautiful industrial landscape around her, stitch by stitch.
The Selkirk House commission: Drawing is knowing - Bren Luke's illustrations highlight the precious details of heritage architecture.
Street Sweepers: Adornment for outside care - Anke Kindle pays homage to the invisible labour of street cleaners with a jewellery practice that turns brushes into jewels.
Michelle Hamer helps us all slow down - Michelle Hamer reflects on two decades of making tapestries that lovingly render the emptiness of our urban road signs.
A “bin chicken” redemption - Napam is a street artist who lends her unique migrant perspective to walls for everyone to enjoy.
Aleisa Miksad ✿ Bacchic ceramics - Our February laurel is awarded to Aleisa Miksad for a vessel that bristles with Dionysian energy.
Crafting entrails to recover forgotten worlds - Dana Falcini recounts the alchemy in the hands-on transmutation of hog intestine into unique and precious objects.
Marta Figueiredo ✿ Elementary Abacus - Marta Figueiredo tells us about one of her remarkable multi-sensory works that brings together all five senses in an experiential feast.
The life of a rosemary distiller - For Bridget Nicholson, rosemary distillation is a fragrant craft that grounds the senses.
A bush alembic: To distil the scent of the land - Forest Keegel distils plant hydrosols as a way of being on Country.
Weaving to the beat - Sara Lindsay shares her experience of the unique sounds made in the weaving process.
Bringing gamelan to the west - Neil McLachlan recounts the development of a new version of the gamelan instrument adapted to the mobile Western lifestyle while keeping true to the Indonesian musical scale.
Round and round we go: Echoes of protest in sound and weaving - Jan Nelson speaks about the making of sound and woven works that reflect the fraught history of protest.
My lockdown Tonbak: A homemade industrial musical heritage - Through re-igniting the spirit of Industrial music alongside the emerging experimental Iranian music, Jahan Rezakhanlou innovated homemade Iranian percussion during the COVID lockdowns.
David Ray ✿ Four Treasons - Our June laurel is awarded to David Ray for his Four Treasons series of figurines that update the bucolic Staffordshire genre.
Sound Before Sound I: One and Three Scores - David Chesworth writes about an artwork using piano rolls to reflect on the materialisation of sound in place and time.
Gilty: Consuming contemporary jewellery - In her audacious exhibition, Claire McArdle invites the audience to consume and destroy her precious jewellery.
Make and bring your own chopsticks - We ask Vipun Chanchlani about the challenge of making your own chopsticks and how we should bring our own to restaurants.
Cone Eleven ✿ Crafting a theatre for specialist dining - Ilona Topolcsanyi collaborates with two chefs, demonstrating the creative role of the ceramicist in specialist dining. 
Terra ferment: Three recipes - Ilka White shares three recipes that reflect the same grounded sensibility that she applies to her weaving practice.
A wooden spoon: How to make life special - Eli Bek explains why he makes tableware from wood, as a way of "making special".
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.
The life cycle of steel - Lindy McSwan’s vessels reflect the beauty of iron remnants as they lie rusting in the landscape.
Devoted: Adding weight to weaving - Ana Petidis draws on her Greek heritage to revive the spiritual value of weaving.
Walking, thinking, making: A weaver in the world - Through six projects, weaver Sara Lindsay interlaces the warp of solitude with the weft of community.
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.
Bren Luke ✿ Life at a distance - Our August laurel is awarded to Bren Luke for his poignant animated illustration of a streetscape in Japan, which invokes the concept of ma, negative space, to reflect the era of social distancing.
dhurrung wurruki nyayl ngarrp – kunang - Tammy Gilson reflects on the combined Wadawurrung connection to Country and English sense of industry that has shaped her artistic path and social leadership.
Tonantsintlalli: Our Mother Earth - Desiree Ibinarriaga and David Marcelino Cayetano bring people together through their Nahuatl culture.
Katheryn Leopoldseder: Ode to restoration - Marian Hosking introduces a jeweller who honours those who sustained the historic nunnery where she works, featuring a rosary for one of its restorers.