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Another Wet City — Robert Baines: Metal in Cairns
Wednesday April 18 2012
Sandra Brown is Object’s Touring Coordinator. Tasked with managing installs and bump-outs around the country, her travels have recently included navigating floods in Wagga Wagga.
It seems like the rain and water are following me around the country! Just back from wet and soggy Cairns, where I was installing Robert Baines: Metal, which is another touring exhibition for the Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft series.
Cairns Regional Art Gallery is a graceful old building in the heart of the city and is a very popular venue for locals and tourists alike. Object has a great relationship with this gallery, with a number of our touring shows going there. The most recent was Menagerie: Contemporary Indigenous Sculpture last year, and next year HYPERCLAY: Contemporary Ceramics will also show there.
Object-er Alex wins Emerging Australian Ceramic Award
Wednesday April 04 2012
For over ten years, the Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award has recognised outstanding talent in the field of ceramics. This bi-annual acquisitive award is presented in partnership with the Shepparton Art Museum and this year boasted an expanded prize pool of $55,000. The award is comprised of three categories — Emerging Australian, Australian and International — with each recipient receiving a significant stipend to produce a body of work for exhibition at Shepparton Art Museum in September of this year.
This year, the Emerging Australian award was won by Alexandra Standen, a fantastic young artist based in Sydney, who in her spare time can be found greeting visitors at Object Gallery!
Here, we take five minutes to ask Alex a few questions about winning the award, what it all means, and where to from here!
Object Exhibitions on the Move
Thursday March 29 2012
I thought you might be interested to know how far and wide our touring shows travel across this wide and sometimes brown/sometimes waterlogged country.
The Jeff Mincham: Ceramics exhibition is on a train to Bunbury, WA, and is currently somewhere in the middle of the Nullarbor. The Robert Baines: Metal exhibition is travelling north to Cairns Regional Gallery, and its travel and install will hopefully be cyclone/water free. Both exhibitions will open at the end of April.
Object’s touring exhibitions are truly national, and we certainly do support the Regional Galleries from east to west, and north to south. Closer to (our) home, don’t forget that Menagerie: Contemporary Indigenous Sculpture is currently out at Dubbo Regional Art Gallery, and HYPERCLAY: Contemporary Ceramics is showing at Watson Arts Centre, ACT.
Menagerie in Dubbo, HYPERCLAY to Canberra.
Thursday March 22 2012
What an exciting week it is for the touring exhibitions department here at Object. After all the hassle of floods around Wagga Wagga, the Menagerie: Contemporary Indigenous Sculpture exhibition has made it safely to its next stop, the Dubbo Regional Gallery at the Western Plains Cultural Centre. With an opening Friday night (23 March) everyone out there, along with Kate Ford our Exhibitions Coordinator, is working hard to get it ready for Dubbo’s audiences.
Down in Canberra, ACT, at the Watson Arts Centre, our installer Robert has been working with the staff there to install HYPERCLAY: Contemporary Ceramics. After its recent showing at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, the installation at Watson is challenging, but comments from Sara and staff down there indicate they are excited with this innovative digital exhibition.
2011 — Object’s Digital Year
Monday February 13 2012
2011 was a big year for Object. In addition to continuing a strong exhibition and touring program (as I write this there are six Object exhibitions open around the country) and developing and piloting our landmark primary education program Design Emergency, we have had some terrific achievements in the digital realm.
The first, of course, was back in February with the launch of Object magazine issue 60. After an eighteen month hiatus, the magazine returned in a digital form, published as a free iPad app. We were delighted when it appeared as a Staff Pick in Apple’s App Store, and even more delighted as the numbers of downloads soared past the printed figures — this shift to digital has seen many more people able to easily engage with contemporary design from Australia and around the world. Exciting also was the realisation that it is not just people in Australia who are reading the magazine — people from every corner of the globe are finding it and enjoying it. Last count was 65 countries and climbing.
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