Tilting at Windmills
‘None of these makers can separate design from making, or craft from production’. So opens Dr Olivia Hamilton’s wonderful catalogue essay for the exhibition This is Not Memphis held at Craft Victoria in April to May this year.
Curated by Chloe Powell, Craft Victoria showed the work of six craftspeople: designer makers head down and hands busy at the top of their games, elegantly poised at the ‘nexus of craft and design’.
Finding a stage for ‘skill, discipline, time, process, ingenuity, virtuosity and beauty’ amongst the relentless machine noise of the ‘design industry’, Adam Markowitz, Bern Chandley, Bryan Cush, Daniel Poole, Laura McCusker and I focused our gifts in an
