Discover innovation in the Festival's Exhibition Program. Featuring over 22 exhibitions, the program explores the regenerative potential of design thinking and making by hand, showcasing excellence in contemporary craft and design practice.
Propositions: 2023 Tapestry Design Prize for Architects exhibition presents the regenerative possibilities of tapestry to enhance architectural spaces, showcasing tapestries designed by architects for Kerstin Thompson Architect’s Bundanon Art Museum and woven by weavers at the Australian Tapestry Workshop (ATW.)
Urban Biome is a site-specific modular art installation which demonstrates ways in which regenerative design, reuse of materials and endemic plants can be incorporated into public space.
The Robert Foster Metal Prize exhibition showcases outstanding contemporary metal work highlighting how imagination, high-quality making skills, good design and innovation can regenerate how we see and interact with the world around us. Supported by the Tall Foundation, F!nk + Co Director Gretel Harrison.
In Continuum, acclaimed Arrernte glass artist Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello presents a stunning collection of glassworks inspired by the enduring beauty and sophistication of Aboriginal weaving and environmental design.
Speculative Materialism: Making for the Future engages with the complexities of being a material maker in a world where mass consumption and contemporary materiality plagues the health of the planet.
An exhibition of a unique collection of jewellery from Uruguayan design house Ipora Artesanos that is committed to promoting sustainable consumption and production.
Pattern Recognition celebrates female and non-binary artists from the ACT region who use abstraction and design principles to explore colour perception and spatial relationships. The exhibition investigates regeneration, exploring the influence of traditional craft disciplines on contemporary art practice.
Nathan Nhan's work draws on the material history of ceramics, where vessel forms are imbued with stories as powerful narrative devices.
Elliat Rich at Canberra Glassworks. Curated by Aimee Frodsham. Discover the rich material culture of this earth-orientated and relational society. A curated selection of everyday, iconographic and curious objects that provide insights into the other-ways of life on planet Earth. Mythica Ignota is on loan through the generous support of the The Rupertsberg Institute of Social Science.
Exhibition of work by Jeffrey Sarmiento at Canberra Glassworks exploring the potential of 3D printing and other glass making technologies.
This exhibition celebrates two of Canberra's most influential ceramic and textiles artists, Hiroe Swen and the late Cornell Swen who, together, led a uniquely creative life in this region.
In the installation, So-sei, artists Akie Haga and Justine McLaren present flameworked glass habitats for native Australian plants as if in the aftermath of bushfire.
How Soon is Now? showcases contemporary artist and ANU alumnus, Bruce Reynolds and the evolution of his practice from collage to relief and sculpture over a number of decades, as well as his ongoing interest in the relationship between pattern, history and the built environment. Presented by Museums & Galleries Queensland.
Designcraft’s cabinet makers have regenerated factory offcuts into new and unique designs.
Brutal Transformations: Regenerating Canberra’s Concrete Legacy by Lymesmith champions adaptive re-use of brutalist architecture, flipping the typically grey raw concrete into colour-saturated vibrant art works.
Above/Below is a group exhibition by artists who are inspired by their love of ferns, fungi, lichens, liverworts, moss, hornworts and algae. The 30 works are a diverse range of media from textile art, botanical illustration, jewellery, photography, ceramics and mixed media. Each artist has studied and then interpreted a cryptogam for this exhibition.
The 2024 CAPO Gala Auction is a highly anticipated annual Canberra art event featuring a silent auction, live auction, and raffle, where funds raised support local artists and organizations through the CAPO Awards program.
Second Chance, an exhibition by Finnish Artist Siru Tuomisto presents assemblage sculptures in which everyday objects have been regenerated into new forms. This exhibition explores the value of upcycling everyday objects, challenging the viewer to think about how they may reimagine their life by assembling objects of personal significance together in new, unexpected and clever ways.
An exhibition of models and visualisations based on physical prototypes made from upcycled, bio-based, and low-carbon materials responding to the theme of Regenerate. With the anticipated rise in global temperatures and the increased risk of extreme climatic events, there is an urgent need to consider ways of making residential buildings more responsive and resilient towards climate change.
This exhibition brings to life the ghosts of Canberra’s 20th-century architectural legacy. The Architectural Ghosts of Canberra is an exhibition of the ongoing mapping project by a research team from the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Canberra.
Join the artists from Pattern Recognition at Canberra Contemporary Art Space and hear them talk about their work in this exhibition. This will be followed by the official exhibition opening featuring a performance by vocalist Shikara Ringdahl in collaboration with the work by artist Hannah Quinlivan.
This exhibition takes the theme of Craft + Design Canberra Festival ‘Regenerate’ to go a step further and support new material propositions for new ways of living, new relationships with the material world, and demonstrations of design thinking through making and remaking objects.
Joining Hiroe Swen, six contemporary artists, Annie Parnell, Lea Durie, Mahala Hill, Nathan Nhan, Isabelle Mackay-Sim and Cathy Zhang each create a group of ceramic vessels that can display flowers but challenge the idea of a vase. Sachie Terasaki, a skilled Ikebana artist and instructor will make Ikebana arrangements in direct response to the ceramic works.
Growing up Modern: Alex Jelinek and Canberra's Round House is a first-hand account of living in 1960s Canberra and the story of how one of Canberra's best loved examples of mid-century modern architecture, the Round House came to be designed, built and made into a home.
In the exhibition Shades of Shadows, contemporary glass artist Hannah Gason continues her exploration of light and its ability to both articulate and create an illusion of space.
