Exhibition | Island Hopping | Jeffrey Sarmiento
Exhibition of work by Jeffrey Sarmiento at Canberra Glassworks exploring the potential of 3D printing and other glass making technologies.
2024 Craft + Design Canberra Festival Launch + Exhibition Openings
Join Craft + Design Canberra CEO + Artistic Director Jodie Cunningham to formally launch the 2024 Craft + Design Canberra Festival and celebrate the opening of 5 exciting exhibitions in the Craft + Design Canberra Gallery, Festival Hub Space and Civic Square.
Exhibition | Propositions: 2023 Tapestry Design Prize for Architects | Australian Tapestry Workshop
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.)
Exhibition | Urban Biome | Thor Diesendorf, Spike Dean, David Taylor
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.
Exhibition | Hiroe and Cornell Swen: Making a Creative Life
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.
Exhibition | Robert Foster Metal Prize | Multiple Artists
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.
Exhibition | Speculative Materialism | Multiple Artists
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.
Exhibition | Second Chance | Siru Tuomisto
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.
Symposium | Making and Remaking Canberra
Overlayed on the lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people was a city planned by the Griffins using Garden City principles. As our ‘bush capital’ evolves, we continue to be influenced and guided by its landscape setting. It was with respect for the landscape that Romaldo Giurgola crafted our most significant public building on Capital Hill, and it is with respect for the landscape that we reimagine our urban fabric to support a growing population.
Artist Talks + Exhibition Opening | Pattern Recognition | CCAS
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.
Market | 2024 Craft + Design Canberra Festival Markets
Visit the 2024 Craft + Design Canberra Festival Design Markets, buy unique and handmade objects directly from Canberra's best makers, participate in drop-in family workshops, enjoy local food and see the amazing Urban Biome sculpture in Civic Square.
Workshop | Eco-Crafting Jewellery Making with Recycled Materials | Alexi Freeman
Join regenerative designer and artisanal jeweller Alexi Freeman for a hands-on, family-friendly workshop exploring the creative potential of repurposed materials, transforming discarded domestic household recycling into unique, eco-conscious and wearable art.
Workshop | Clay Biomes | Daniel Leone
Make your own little environment out of clay to take home.
Exhibition | Pattern Recognition | Multiple Artists
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.
Workshop | Bush Animal Making | Culture on the Move
Join Ronnie Jordan (Pitta Pitta Wangkamahdla) and make a bush animal using natural fibres.
Tour | Supporting Canberra’s Modern: Engineering & Infrastructure Highlights of the National Capital | Canberra Modern
Join Canberra Modern for a bus tour of some of Canberra’s most used, but least understood places – the mid-century designed sites which make the city work, support residents and link its disparate parts together.
Tour | Canberra Open Homes | Timber House | Mather Architecture
Join us for an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of one of the award-winning houses from the 2024 Australian Institute of Architects, ACT Architecture Awards, Timber House by Mather Architecture. Timber House showcases how existing buildings with character and charm can be successfully transformed for modern family living.
Artist Talks | Speculative Materialism | Minka Gillian, Alexi Freeman
Join artists’ Minka Gillian, Alexi Freeman as they discuss their work in the Speculative Materialism exhibition at Craft + Design Canberra.
Tour | Canberra Open Homes | Bookend Addition | Studio Heim
Join us for an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of one of the award-winning houses from the 2024 Australian Institute of Architects, ACT Architecture Awards, Bookend Addition. Bookending the front and rear of an existing mid century Seidler-inspired dwelling are 2 interventions that respect the original design.
Artist Talks | Robert Foster Metal Prize | Ximena Natanya Briceño, Oliver Smith, David Walker
Join artists Ximena Natanya Briceño, Oliver Smith, David Walker as they discuss their work in the Robert Foster Metal Prize exhibition at Craft + Design Canberra.
Tour | Canberra Open Homes | Hyde Place Modern | The Mill
Join us for an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of one of the award-winning houses from the 2024 Australian Institute of Architects, ACT Architecture Awards. Hyde Place Modern is an example of the joy that can happen when clients who fell in love with a piece of Canberra’s modernist soul collaborate with architects who love it as much as they do. The finished house presents as a standout example of how our modernist homes can be brought up to modern standards through highly considered intervention and care.
Workshop | Model Modern: Kids Model Workshop | Canberra Modern
Join Canberra Modern and The Mill Architecture & Design at Manning Clark House for an architectural model building workshop for kids using found and recycled materials.
Tour | Canberra Open Homes | River View House | Studio Heim
Join us for an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of one of the award-winning houses from the 2024 Australian Institute of Architects, ACT Architecture Awards. River View House, a long linear design, takes advantage of expansive views to the Molonglo River corridor and across to the Arboretum. Unlike its neighbours, which demand attention through excessiveness and scale, the house is quiet and humble through its lowline single storey form made from neutral earthy materials.
Workshop | Chrysalis: Waste to Art | Minka Gillian
Join artist Minka Gillian to explore the transformative power of recycled materials. In this workshop you will discover how to regenerate rubbish into a small, Chrysalis netted sculpture, turning waste into art. This hands-on experience invites you to weave personal stories and creativity while highlighting the potential for beauty in everyday materials.
Talk | The Architecture of Iwan Iwanoff, Book Launch and Author Talk | Canberra Modern
Canberra Modern is excited to present the publication – The Architecture of Iwan Iwanoff in this book launch and talk by author Warren Andersen.
Tour | Canberra Open Homes | Un Peu Perrault | MYMYMY Architecture
Join us for an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of one of the award-winning houses from the 2024 Australian Institute of Architects, ACT Architecture Awards. Un Peu Perrault, by MyMyMy Architecture, stands as a testament to the transformative power of sensitive light touch architecture to enhance family connections and elevate daily life.
Workshop | Regenerate and Play: Vintage Glass Construction | Siru Tuomisto
Join international visiting Finnish artist Siru Tuomisto in a fun sculpture workshop that explores the value of everyday objects. Bring in an old object that has significance to you and learn how to regenerate it into a new, playful and exciting work of art.
Workshop | Fixed Fashion, Visible Mending | Asavari Deonath
Join us in this visible mending workshop with artist Asavari Deonath to explore the potential of regenerating what we wear by mending, to support our environment and reverse the devastating impacts of fast fashion on climate change.
Talk | The Living Art of Bonsai | Daniel Leone
Join Canberra Bonsai professional and ceramic artist Daniel Leone for this talk and demonstration as he unravels the mysteries of bonsai and gives you all the know-how to successfully keep and cultivate your own bonsai.
Workshop | Poetic Relief: Mixed Media Wall Sculptures | Mariana del Castillo
Join artist Mariana del Castillo to create poetic relief sculptures with tin and fabric that are inspired by the macro, quiet and regenerated natural world, visually exploring the anthropomorphic transformation of arthropods.
Workshop | Mindful Clay | Ephemeral Thought Vessels
Regenerate your soul and have fun making by hand in this reflective clay workshop with local ceramicist Fran Romano
Tour | Canberra Open Homes | House on a Path | Joanna Nelson Architect
Join us for an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of one of the award-winning houses from the 2024 Australian Institute of Architects, ACT Architecture Awards, House on a Path. A 1970s house on an experimentally planned suburban site in Canberra has been reorganised and reoriented through 2 precisely placed but loosely programmed additions to ‘front’ and ‘rear’. Japanese influences are evident in the original house and courtyard and Radburn planning principles in the battleaxe block – the unfenced ‘front’ boundary is to a public pedestrian path while the ‘rear’ driveway leads to the street. The principal architectural idea is to amplify these distinctive attributes while providing legible entries and introducing circular routes.
Workshop | Sketching in the Urban Biome | Sally Black
Bring your lunch and get creative with Canberra artist Sally Black in Civic Square to sketch the public artwork Urban Biome with watercolours.
Workshop | Personal Memento Assemblage | Harrison Le Lièvre
In this workshop you will be guided by Harrison Le Lievre, wood worker and assemblage artist, to collate unused personal mementos into your own deep rooted personal piece.
Workshop | Textile transformations: Queer threads | Henry Shawcross
Transform a scrap of fabric into a symbol of queer pride with textile collage, a technique that breathes new life into discarded textiles.
Workshop | Yarn Sticks with Harry’s Clarry (Kamilaroi)
Join First Nations artist Harry’s Clarry (Kamilaroi) to make your own personal Yarn Stick.
Artists Talks | Urban Biome | Thor Diesendorf, Spike Dean and David Taylor with Lucy Wilson
Join the creative team behind the Urban Biome installation in Civic Square for a discussion about the regenerative elements and collaborative process behind this work. Supported by City Renewal Authority.
Tour | On Country Walk | Tyronne Bell (Ngunawal)
In this On Country tour with Dhawura Tours you will follow the tracks and service trails of Black Mountain, with your guide, Tyronne Bell (Ngunawal) who will interpret the mountain's changing landscape since ancient times.
This tour features Aboriginal interpretation of the landscape, bush foods, artefacts, stone tools and their traditional uses as well as the beautiful bushland of Black Mountain and panoramic views of Canberra.
Talk | Celebration of Finnish Design | Embassy of Finland
The Embassy of Finland presents a celebration of Finnish Design in Australia.