Western Australia
Dorothy Erickson: Jewellery inspired by light and land - Philippa O'Brien reflects on the extraordinary career of a West Australian jeweller whose work is inspired by a unique natural environment.
Lucky Charms: The temple returns to the gallery - Jacky Cheng traces the woven Joss paper objects in her Indian Ocean Craft Triennial exhibition back to Malaysia and her fraught role as a dutiful daughter.
JMGA WA: A leading edge of Australian jewellery - Tineke Van der Eecken & Jacquie Sprogoe recount the birth of Jewellers & Metalsmiths Group of Australia (WA) and how it is leading the push to revive a national jewellery platform.
underFOOT: A collective for honouring the land on which they stand - Nien Schwarz traces the journey of a craft collective that becomes entangled in the non-human.
South of the River Potters Club: After 50 years, a home of its own - As Barrie-Anne Morgan argues, local government support was critical to the longevity of this legendary potters' club.
How to stay grounded in a big mining state - We talk with venerable arts consultant June Moorhouse about the lessons she's learned working with small arts organisations.
Simon Gilby ✿ Figuring out the individual - Richard King discovers a sculptor whose work deconstructs the individual and so opens us up to the world.
Perdita Phillips ✿ Structural grotto - Our August laurel goes to Perdita Phillips for a cardboard grotto that beautifully frames an exhibition of geological finds.
Concurrencies: where the exact and the fragile converge - Mags Webster finds poetry in the marine jewellery of Tineke Van der Eecken.
Fiona Gavino ✿ Weave a deep breath - Fiona Gavino is our April laurel for a work that monumentalises basket-making as an expression of meditation.
Er Pavilion: On Country at the beach - Melissa Cameron writes about the making of the pavilion for the Fremantle Biennale, adorned with bangles of crowd-sourced beach debris, conveying a message of sustainability and reconciliation.
The flip side: Art protest and making ceramics - Joana Partyka explains the paradox of making expressionist ceramics while also defacing masterpieces to highlight the damage of fossil fuel projects.
Annette Nykiel ✿ Slow-Making Locally - Perdita Phillips visits Annette Nykiel’s exhibition Slow-Making Locally, a collection of slowly-made ecological objects
Juukan Tears Offcuts - In conversation with Tanya Lee, Melissa Cameron learns about the life of the jewellery pieces that were salvaged from her Juukan Tears installation, as a personal mourning for the loss of sacred Aboriginal heritage.
Tineke Van der Eecken ✿ In the flow - Koral Ward reflects on the flow of matter and form that brings together life and death in the work of Tineke Van der Eecken.
Nalda Searles ✿ Re-gifted in red - Curator Sandra Murray and writer Andrew Nicholls reflect on recent work in red by the fibre legend, Nalda Searles.
The Curious Five Go Surfing: A collaboration across the Indian Ocean - Susie Vickery collaborated with Bappaditya Biswas to produce an epic installation for the Indian Ocean Craft Triennial that celebrates the transformational power of ocean journeys. 
The world in a tea towel: Weaving cartographic abstractions - Nien Schwarz weaves connections to the land, transforming maps into tea towels for everyday use.
Shedding, dwelling, making: The artist collective We Must Get Together Some Time - Gregory Pryor documents the bush encounters of a West Australian collective that is finding ways of sharing knowledge outside the formal academy.
Yangon Alley Garden: A trail of paper flowers between Myanmar and Fremantle - Marina Lommerse documents an exchange in flower making between old Yangon (Myanmar) and Fremantle (Western Australia)
Curiosity and rituals of the everyday: The upcoming Indian Ocean Craft Triennial - Maggie Baxter outlines the forthcoming international festival coming up in Western Australia which promises to bring a dynamic region together.
Philip Noakes ✿ Silver from the West - The history of West Australian jewellery is well served by Dorothy Erickson, who has just published another substantial book on one of its leading exponents.
Rowena Strain ✿ Broome, the centre of the world - Rowena Strain's bowls tell the story of Catholics who've made a home "at the centre of the world".
Susie Vickery ✿ Embroidery portraits - Our July Laurel goes to Susie Vickery for her unique genre of embroidery portraits.
ヨークに渡った新潟のわらアート：日本に学ぶ干し草彫刻 - わらアート作家、守屋陽氏から私のもとに１通のメールには、日本で初めて出版されるというわらアートの本の英名が書かれていた。そのタイトルは「わらで地域を再生する」。その出版物やプロジェクトに似つかわしくないタイトルに私の口から笑みがこぼれた。わらアートは西オーストラリア州に何をもたらすのだろうか。そして、それは日本の地方で起きていることと、何か関係があるのだろうか。 Wara art from Niigata to York: Japan-inspired hay sculptures 🇯🇵 - Jenny Garroun and Ilsa Bennion tells the story of a West Australian wheatbelt town that was revitalised through the Japanese craft of making rice stalk sculptures
Elizabeth Marruffo ✿ The pomegranate - Siân Boucherd follows the journey of a Mexican painter in who recreates her culture exquisitely on the other side of the world
Divining a new life: Antipodean Encounters in Perth - Antipodean Encounters: Western Australian Artists and Taiwanese Culture is a wide-ranging exhibition curated by Ashley Yihsin Chang. Personal objects were used as a catalyst for conversation between 20 local artists and members of the Perth Taiwanese community who have immigrated to Western Australia.
Nigel Hewitt’s Recinder: Drawing in ash - Using ash collected from bushfires, senior visual artist Nigel Hewitt creates a political portrait of contemporary Australia in his new solo exhibition Recinder.
Discover: Works inspired by found objects - The Indian Ocean has been a region where cultures meet, including the great trading civilisations of Malay, India, Oman, China, Portugal, Netherlands, France and Britain. The shores across the Indian Ocean are strewn with objects from foreign cultures. This online exhibition features works made by artists that are inspired by their discoveries. 
Alistair Rowe’s Chandni Chowk: One Altered Move - Andrew Varano maps the influence of Old Delhi on the grided glass sculptures of Alistair Rowe
Fibre to metal: Mudlark Jilinbirri Metals from Carnarvon - Jilinbirri is the Yamatji word for an Australian bird, also known as the mudlark in Western Australia. It is the title of an exhibition by Yamatji fibre artists whose work was transformed into bronze.
“Who’s Nalda?” The influence of Eileen Keys and Pantjiti Mary McLean 🎧 - Kevin Murray talks with Nalda Searles about the major influences in her artistic development. 
Her Journey and our empty cups: Fiona Gavino in Escolta - Dayang Yraola traces Fiona Gavino's post-colonial journeys through Manila. 
Baluk Arts: Storied objects tied to Country - Tallara Gray and Neil Aldum talk about the collaboration with Baluk Arts to develop objects that tell powerful life stories for the exhibition In Cahoots.
Call Them Home - Marziya Mohammedali writes about her installation that identifies refugees who have died while held in detention by Australia.
Perth Mosque: A cultural structure strengthening collective identity - Qassim Saad examines the Perth Mosque as a product of Islamic influences in Western Australia. 
Looking in looking out: Yogic practice and public art in Western Australia - Maggie Baxter writes about two public artworks: 'Spanda' by Christian de Vietre on the new Elizabeth Quay Big Healer made of recycled Peppermint Trees by Lorenna Grant Busselton. 
Accessing the heart of hand-stitch: Merging tradition and innovation on the Indian sub-continent - Trish Bygott and Nathan Crotty reflect on Disappearing Dialogues at the Art Ichol, in central Madhya Pradesh
Vahana: An Indian-Australian cross-cultural ceramic experience - Bernard Kerr describes the epic production of a 3.5 m high terra cotta horse at the Midland Junction Art Centre by potter Mr Kasirajan from Tamil Nadu
Sustainable housing for artists and creatives: A new cooperative model in Fremantle - Koral Ward reports the inspiring new model to support Fremantle's artistic community. 
Full circle: Tjanpi, Polyglot and FORM’s Manguri Wiltja project - Andrew Nicholls writes about FORM's project with Tjanpi and Polyglot Theatre that discovered the wiltja as a symbol of home.
From glass beads to smoke water: Investigating the vocabulary of loss and renewal in the landscapes of the Yilgarn Craton - In seeking to draw the landscape of Yilgarn Craton, Greg Pryor discovers mysteries of reflected light in Western Australia.
A silent conversation with Jimmy Poland - Helena Bogucki reflects on her collaboration with Jimmy Poland for "Pieces of Gutharraguda (Shark Bay)". 
Ngurra: Finding our way home - Glenn Iseger-Pilkington finds a sense of home with the Ngaanyatjarra community, grounded and connected through Country. 
Conjured from the ocean, hand-made from steel - The charismatic whale shark (Rhincodon typus), the world’s largest living fish, is an ocean wandering filter feeder widely distributed in warm waters. Ningaloo reef off Australia’s west coast is a site of congregation and study of these mysterious majestic creatures listed in 2016 by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as Endangered, at […]
Purgatory on the Broome Peninsula: the art of Clare Peake - Gemma Watson considers the quality of time experienced in Broome that is re-created in Clare Peake's ceramics.
The Nullians - Sharyn Egan reflects on her work Nullians which fossicks settler-colonial history from the turned balga craft objects abandoned in second-hand shops.
Garland #10 launch at Walyalup, Fremantle on 28 March 2018 - “All stories, from the joyous to the sorrowful have a belonging, they are a part of who we are.” – Glenn Iseger-Pilkington Join us at the launch of Garland #10 at the Fremantle Arts Centre. Wednesday 28 March 2018 5:30pm conversation with contributors 6:30pm launch with the opening of Sensual Nature exhibition. Facebook event page
Creative currencies in the cupboard: Cecile Williams in Denmark - Kevin Murray travels to the village of Denmark on the south-west coast of Australia to witness the world of Cecile Williams, a fibre artist whose investment in the material currencies of everyday life bears fruit in an amazingly vibrant community.