Exhibition
November 16, 2019 — January 31, 2021
A maximalist celebration of contemporary craft practice today through a series of curated tableaux.
October 1 — November 7, 2020
Celebrates this significant artist and her exploration of the interconnectedness between human and non-human primates.
May 21 — July 19, 2020
Presents a vibrant cabinet of curiosities showcasing eclectic objects and artworks from makers’ personal collections.
March 12 — May 14, 2020
Presents artworks which symbolise and reflect love of all kinds across cultures.
Exhibition, Main Gallery
February 1 — March 8, 2020
Celebrating the next wave of Victorian graduates in contemporary craft and design.
October 1 — November 1, 2020
Rosie Gunzburg’s Stitch series looks at transformations between the digital, hand-made and natural world.
Exhibition, Vitrine Gallery
November 10 — December 12, 2020
The vessel in my culture has traditionally held water, provided nourishment and life and in sacred ceremony been the symbol for abundance.
September 29 — November 27, 2020
Lucy Tolan considers the textile qualities of clay through examining the convergence of material.
March 21 — June 20, 2020
The work responds to the concept of the Anthropocene and takes inspiration from henges, such as Stonehenge and Dorchester Henge.
June 23 — September 26, 2020
A sculptural meditation on the intersection between domestic labour, industrial production and modern art.
February 24 — March 28, 2020
The consequences of climate change and the prescient effects it causes to food production is of worldwide concern.
January 21 — February 22, 2020
Exploring the intersections between cloth and glass, this collaborative exhibition is a study in materiality.
December 17, 2019 — January 18, 2020
Contemporary jewellery artists make works using marine debris and discarded plastics.
November 30, 2019 — February 2, 2020
This showcase features limited edition and one-of-a-kind pieces by contemporary Australian makers.
Exhibition, Talks and seminars
August 24 — October 6, 2019
Elevating the everyday experience of opening doors and crossing thresholds in a new exhibition of symbolic entry ways.
July 13 — August 18, 2019
Soft Stories is an ongoing collaboration between artists Isobel Knowles and Cat Rabbit.
May 11, 2019 — July 7, 2021
An exhibition of contemporary tapestry and loom woven textiles.
March 23 — May 5, 2019
Showcases the energy, skill and innovation of some of the best graduating students from throughout the state.
January 19 — March 10, 2019
Exhibition exploring the breadth of internationally renowned contemporary jeweller, Catherine Truman's research-based practice.
March 16, 2019 — March 21, 2020
Celebrating new modes of digital thinking; a creative process made possible through the arrival of affordable and accessible 3D printing.
October 8 — November 9, 2019
A series of works on paper: collage ‘samplers’ created with the specific intention of application to fabric.
September 3 — October 5, 2019
An observation of commonality through diversity that emerges from shared experience.
June 25 — July 27, 2019
A series of sculptural ceramic work exploring the notion of impermanence.
July 30 — August 31, 2019
Re-contextualises the Members’ Vitrine Gallery as a display or archival cabinet, like that within a traditional museum collection.
May 21 — June 22, 2019
The weavings are made with crimplene thread, a synthetic fabric that was discontinued in the 1970s.
April 9 — May 18, 2019
An investigation into our relationship with Australian landscape.
March 5 — April 6, 2019
I chose calico and old kitchen cloths from my previous home, to carry the memory of the old home.
January 29 — March 2, 2019
Through the repetitive act of dropping moist clay from a height of 5 metres, Bolton experiments with ‘release, velocity and impact’.
March 9, 2019 — May 12, 2021
A selection of works by Mutti Mutti, Boonwurrung, Yorta-Yorta woman Maree Clarke.
March 30 — June 17, 2018
Features fourteen new works, together with an earlier work acquired for the Gallery collection in 2015.
August 3 — October 28, 2018
crowEST's work operates in the gaps between geometric abstraction, hand-crafted apparel and the expanded field of 'painting'.
October 6 — November 10, 2018
This collection of works explores the protective and nurturing role of nature.
July 24, 2018 — January 13, 2019
Celebrating the work of four Australian artists - Jessica Loughlin, Kirsten Coelho, Kath Inglis and Lindy McSwan.
October 6 — November 18, 2018
Tiffany Parbs examines contrary frameworks used to depict women in the media.
September 1 — September 30, 2018
This body of work displays David Pottinger's continued curiosity and research into the Japanese technique of Nerikomi.
August 25 — September 29, 2018
A new solo exhibition by wood turner and photographer Makiko Ryujin.
July 7 — August 19, 2018
At once friendly and unnerving, Troy Emery’s mythological creatures play with our imagination.
June 2 — July 1, 2018
A group exhibition exploring contemporary jewellery as a gesture of greeting.
March 15 — April 22, 2018
Combining craft philosophies, methodologies and materials with new technologies, craftspeople are at the forefront of innovation.
February 2 — March 11, 2018
For its 25th anniversary of Fresh! Craft presents the work of 13 recent graduates in contemporary craft, design and fine art practice.
November 13 — December 15, 2018
Narrates fraught and fragile human relationships to trees through material choices and making processes.
October 9 — November 10, 2018
Cat Rabbit and Andrea Innocent have come together to create a series of ‘Everyday Anxieties Mascots’.
July 31 — October 6, 2018
Works from old to new are presented together as punctuated moments and 'memories of landscape.'
June 26 — July 28, 2018
Explores the relationship between contemporary women and ‘the glass ceiling.’
May 22 — June 23, 2018
This body of work is a modern representation of primordial forces.
August 15 — September 22, 2018
This showcase at Craft presents the teapots of over fifteen contemporary craftspeople working across a diversity of discipline.
June 2 — July 2, 2018
Celebrates three Victorian designer makers exploring their work in contemporary lighting through material and form.
April 26 — May 26, 2018
Jeweller and object maker Lauralai Wilson returns to Craft with a solo exhibition of new works which respond to heartbreak.
