Category: Craft

  • The Spotify playlist

    Each week a playlist is curated on the Spotify platform for readers to listen to while browsing the blog. The tracks on the playlist have something to do with the blog entries, sometimes obviously and sometimes less so. To listen, click on the player above or head over to Spotify where you can search for…

  • Iceland and the poetry of weaving

    The Nordic nation of Iceland sits on the Mid Atlantic Ridge, midway between Europe and North America. Wild, windswept, beautiful, bleak and filled with fire and ice, the country is a romantic’s dream, an island of Vikings and sagas,… and art. While the music of Iceland is well-known, and it boasts a fine pedigree in…

  • Conversation and Cloth

    The next in the series of Conversation and Cloth talks will be on the 6th December 2024 at 10am in the Regent Theatre Cafe in Greymouth Māwhera. After a hiatus of a few months while the studios in Shetland were being sorted out and the new studios in Greymouth have been getting underway, the series…

  • Timelines

    Myriam Dion’s work, currently on show in New York, uses repurposed paper and ephemera to tell stories about women. In this exhibition, the artist has used paper to explore and highlight the rights of women and those who have fought for them. Cutting newspapers, reports, handmade papers, textile designs and photographs and weaving them together…

  • This week’s Spotify playlist

    Each week a playlist of audio is compiled and curated to go with the articles in the blog. The tracks have something to do with the blog entries and you can read about the links in a separate article on the blog. To listen to the playlist click on the player above or head over…

  • DY Begay’s Sublime Light

    The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian is currently hosting a show of tapestries by fibre artist DY Begay. In these works the artist explores her birthplace and home of Tsélaní on the Navajo Nation reservation through beautifully rendered land and skyscape interpretations in colour and texture. Sublime Light is on until July 13th…

  • You’re Still Here

    It is a commonality, losing someone, but we all experience that loss uniquely. Sometimes that experience is celebratory, joy for a full life. Sometimes it is not. Sometimes it is quiet and peaceful. Sometimes it is not. Whatever the circumstances we often want to mark the occasion. In this project, You’re Still Here, Rebecca Godderis…

  • Iris van Herpen

    Iris van Herpen, the Dutch fashion designer, has just completed a show in Brisbane: Sculpting the Senses. The original show in Paris in 2023 provided the inspiration for the Australian exhibition, which included film, visual art, sculpture, photography and installations as well as the designer’s interpretations of the surrounding worlds around her. Thanks to a…

  • This week’s Spotify playlist

    Each week the blog features a playlist that relates to its entries. The playlist is hosted on Spotify and you can listen to the audio on the player above or by heading over to Spotify on the Web or in the platform’s app. A search for “Music to read a blog by” will bring up…

  • The South Sea Islanders

    In 1863 a group of 67 labourers arrived in Brisbane, the first of 62,000 people from 80 Melanesian islands who endured forced migration to provide cheap labour to Australia’s cotton and sugar industries. This influx of people, which lasted until 1904, brought a new dynamic to the country, but many of the recent arrivals were…