Sydney Craft Week is a flagship occasion of the Australian Design Centre (ADC), and can return from 10-19 October for its ninth version. ‘It’s all about assembly the makers, connecting to artistic communities and having a go at making your self,’ says ADC Director Lisa Cahill.
Discussing this 12 months’s theme of Materials Intelligence, Cahill provides: ‘In some ways it’s a counterpoint to our lives more and more lived on-line, with synthetic intelligence quickly taking over what we as soon as thought-about human expertise.
‘Making is a elementary human ability that requires considering at every stage of the method about ideas, strategies, instruments and supplies. Craft practitioners have a deep respect for his or her supplies … They usually reuse and reinvent supplies with an emphasis on sustainability, which in flip is the theme of many SCW occasions.’
ADC has been in the news of late, battling stripped funding and but, stays dedicated to delivering 240 occasions for Sydney Craft Week (SCW), alongside the second version of the nationwide MAKE Award, Australia’s richest non-acquisitive craft and design award.
Listed below are ArtsHub’s favourites from the SCW program, which spotlight sustainable craft observe and considering:
ArtsHub’s high 10 picks:
Remade-Reloved jewelry rehash
This ongoing challenge – the place artists create modern jewelry from discarded parts – is a certain spotlight. Attend a flooring discuss with the curator and artists, or be a part of the Costume Jewelry Rehash workshop at ADC, and be guided by way of the method of upcycling and repurposing previous costume jewelry items.
Particulars: Jewelry Rehash Workshop: Saturday 18 October, 1.30pm – 3.30pm, $35pp. To book.
Speak: Saturday 18 October, 11.30am – 12.30pm, free. Exhibition Excursions: Thursdays, 12.30pm – 1pm.
Zero Waste ceramic glazes workshop
A simple one to take part in, this two-hour on-line workshop affords a singular alternative to discover ways to make environmentally and socially acutely aware ceramic glazes and pigments utilizing solely repurposed supplies.
You don’t should be a longtime craftsperson – this workshop will step you thru supply and course of a variety of native ‘waste’ supplies in addition to make your personal triaxial glaze exams to develop recipes. This workshop is a component webinar by Claire Ellis Ceramics, and half tutorial ending with a Q&A.
Particulars: Sunday, 12 October. Don’t miss out – register.
Artistic reuse at Reverse Rubbish
Everybody loves a thrift retailer – higher nonetheless, dive into reverse rubbish. This Marrickville establishment is providing a number of workshops together with sashiko workshops for aware stitching and restore, artistic reuse for teenagers with fabulous florals, and a particular wearables and trend focussed discuss and tour with Reverse Garbage CEO and artist/maker, Kirsten Junor. What a winner.
Particulars: Saturday 11 October, Sashiko Workshop with Yoshi – Aware Stitching & Restore $60pp; Monday 13 October, three Periods Artistic Reuse for Youngsters – Fabulous Florals $15 pp; and Saturday 18 October for Japanese ‘Tsumami’ Flower Accent Workshop $60pp. To book.
Tour/Speak: Friday 10 October, 6pm – 8pm Behind-the-scenes tour of Reverse Rubbish with CEO Kirsten Junor, $25pp.
Sustainable Textiles Symposium
The numerous medium of textiles is absolutely pushing the boundaries at this time, providing thrilling artistic avenues for each makers and lovers. The Blue Mountains collective MTNS MADE current the inaugural Sustainable Textiles Symposium on Saturday 10 October in Rozelle. Be part of the dialog in how we will construct a extra moral, sustainable textile and trend business, alongside sector leaders.
Particulars: Saturday 18 October. Speak: 10am – 11:30am; Q&A: 12pm – 1pm; Stay Demonstration, Workshop: 1.30pm – 3pm, Popup and Sew: 11am – 3pm. Offered at Fourth Weed Studio, Rozelle.
Restore Café and Open Studio & Kintsugi workshop
KINTSUGI and SASHIKO are Japanese practices of mending ceramics and textiles respectively. They emphasise respecting assets, minimising waste and honouring an artifact’s historical past, celebrating its fractures and tears. It’s restore as an act of fabric intelligence.
This is a chance deliver your particular ceramic, glass and textile objects alongside, so Fourth Weed Studio can provide them a second life.
Particulars: Sunday 19 October, 1pm – 5pm, drop-ins welcome however bookings preferred.
MAKE: Australia’s richest prize for craft
Celebrating materials by the highest makers throughout the Australian design and craft group is MAKE, a biennial award offered by ADC. The 36 finalists (chosen from 197 entries) show the unimaginable ability and materials intelligence, from Jane There’s astonishing vessel woven from horsehair, impressed by the aftermath of bushfires, to a settee constituted of discarded golf balls by Jake Rollins, and Roseanne Bartley’s masterful alphabet of rings in Mulga wooden to Scott Chaseling’s funky pots that appear like sweet however are technically wealthy.
Exhibition: Friday 10 October – Wednesday 19 November; Speak Saturday 11 October, 11.30am – 12.30pm; Exhibition Excursions Thursdays 12.30pm – 1pm. The $35,000 Award winner might be introduced 10 October.
Learn: Rethinking craft: 5 question with international craft platform Homo Faber
Sydney Ceramics Market
Our ultimate instructed spotlight is the return of the annual Sydney Ceramics Market, which options greater than 130+ ceramicists from throughout NSW and ACT over two days. Meet the makers, catch stay wheel-throwing demonstrations, choose up some new instruments or simply buy groceries. Offered at Sydney’s Carriageworks.
Particulars: Saturday 18 October and Sunday 19 October, 10am – 5pm, free.
Baggage from salvaged textiles
Convey alongside a salvaged piece of material, a cherished tapestry or handed down linen to be made right into a helpful bag. Stroll away with a helpful tote or talk about one thing extra bespoke that may be made collectively or that Kate can craft for you. That is additionally an open studio the place repurposed baggage and gadgets constituted of prepare and bus moquette may be bought.
Open Studio, Workshops: Friday 10 and Saturday 11 October 11am – 3pm, Wednesday 15 October 11am – 4pm, Friday 17 and Saturday 18 October 11am – 3pm, free. Please book workshop sessions.
Artisans within the Gardens
Expertise Australia’s best established and rising artists and craftspeople, with over 3,000 works on show, together with sculpture, ceramics, hand-blown glass, jewelry, and textiles set inside the Sydney Botanic Gardens. An ideal method to have a good time sustainable practices, and in anenvironmental setting.
Particulars: Saturday 25 October – Sunday 2 November, 10am – 4pm.
Woodfest’s deep dive into materials intelligence
Woodfest is a pageant that embodies Sydney Craft Week’s theme ‘materials intelligence’, enabling the group to witness the accountable stewardship of timber. Head to Wollongong for this grassroots occasion, the place folks can take pleasure in hands-on experiences with wooden artisans by way of workshops and demonstrations.
Particulars: Saturday 18 – Sunday 19 October, free.
