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High Fashion, High Tea - Melbourne

6 September 2008

Fashionising.com presents High Fashion, High Tea. Melbourne's high society invites you to an afternoon of modern luxury. Indulge in fine food and drink, while your eyes feast upon a selection of this spring's fashion. Some of the designers involved are: Gary Bigeni, Antonia Paris, Alexi Freeman, Lyndel Yeo, Thurley, Kbad, Leonard St and Joolz. Trunk.

Duologue - Adelaide

19 July - 7 September 2008

Inspired by the simplicity of landscape and natural environment, two renowned South Australian glass artists come together in a major exhibition celebrating the interplay of light and dark, of substance and shadow and exploring the subtle abstract relationships that exist between negative spaces and their intersections with positive form. JamFactory.

Chosen Vessel - Australia's Own Car - Adelaide

19 July - 7 September 2008

Famous for her iconic ceramic Holdens of the 1970s and '80s featured in her film This Woman is Not a Car, Margaret Dodd here embraces digital media to make screen-based 3D modelling and animation software works in which virtual translucence inspires new works in porcelain. Dodd's works in this exhibition are dialogues between the virtual and the real and between her and her artist collaborators. JamFactory.

Pecha Kucha - Brisbane

18 September 2008

The Pecha Kucha will light up Brisbane design again in 2008. Pecha Kucha is Japanese for 'the sound of conversation' and brings together designers, artists, architects and interactive media for a series of short presentations. An array of presenters from the Brisbane design community will present their designs, thoughts and ideas, with an aim to promote collaboration and interdisciplinary connections across disciplines. Pecha Kucha is an associated event of Brisbane indesign. Turbine Hall, Brisbane Powerhouse.

Brisbane Indesign - Brisbane

20 September 2008

Brisbane Indesign is a leading design event bringing over 4,000 of the most respected architecture and design professionals together with the best international and local products. It is an event that enables the design community to visit leading showrooms in Fortitude Valley and the surrounding suburbs of Brisbane. Various locations.

Zlatka Viola Sirakova, Fluid II - Tanja, New South Wales

5-22 September 2008

Fluid II is an exhibition of knitted garments by Zlatka Viola Sirakova. For over 30 years Sirakova has been exploring the interplay of yarns and incorporating them into her unique structural forms, creating body garments of elegance and comfort. Yarns are combined for colour, strength, weight, drape and pattern. The garments flow over the body almost as a second skin. Narek Galleries

Perth Fashion Festival - Perth

Perth Fashion Week. Image courtesy of Jetstar Magazine.

1-30 September 2008

Perth will be awash with fashion fever as the annual Perth Fashion Festival, presented by the City of Perth, showcases the latest Spring/Summer collections. Highlights include the Ferngrove Wines WA Designer Showcase featuring emerging local design talent, the free Natuzzi WA Fashion Design Awards Public Judging, and the Model of the Year Awards. Various locations.

2008 RAIA Gold Medal winner - national speaking tour

13 March - 1 October 2008

Richard Johnson of Johnson Pilton Walker, winner of the 2008 RAIA Gold Medal will tour Australia and travel to Hong Kong over the coming six months to speak on his experiences and architecture. Mr Johnson is responsible for projects such as: the Art Gallery of NSW New Asian Wing, the Sydney Opera House master plan and refurbishments (with Jørn Utzon), the Museum of Sydney, First Government House Place, and the Australian Museum's New Zoology Building. Current projects and cultural icons of the future include the new National Portrait Gallery in Canberra and Tasmanian Art Gallery and Museum in Hobart. Canberra - 29 April; Melbourne - 12 May; Tasmania - 13 May; Adelaide - 2 September; Perth - 4 September; Brisbane - 29 September; Darwin - 1 October.

Craig Craft - Canberra

Image courtesy of Craft ACT.

18 September - 1 November 2008

Craig Craft is a new body of work by Craig Harris, a furniture maker exploring the relationship between a designer and craft. In this exhibition he has designed and created new furniture based on the construction techniques of ocean-going vessels. Craft ACT.

The History of Australian decorative arts. Lecture series - Sydney

4 November 2008

This series of lectures will begin with a consideration of some of the first furniture (tree-stump chairs), and metalwork (leg-irons), made in the colony, as well as the earliest buildings and their interiors. The lecture will go onto discuss the great flowering of cabinet making in the early 19th century, the possibility of an identifiable Australian style, the boom of cabinet making and gold and silver smithing that occurred following the discovery of gold.The decorative arts has come to include a broad spectrum of disciplines such as furniture, silver, metalwork, jewellery, ceramics, glass, textiles, fashion, and the popular arts, such as quilt-making. Michael Reid, Elizabeth Bay.

Green TECH Australia - Sydney

7-8 November 2008

Green TECH 08 presents an international trade show and conference with a core focus on green building, sustainable design and clean technology. GreenTECH 08 special features include SRD ChangeX 08, Green Inventors Showcase, Eco House of the Future Competition and a Green Living Zone. Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre.

Place Makers: Contemporary Queensland Architects - Brisbane

2 August - 23 November 2008

Place makers presents the work of 22 Queensland architects in a major new exhibition. Exploring diverse design responses to climate, changing lifestyle patterns and population growth, Place Makers is the largest exhibition of contemporary architecture staged in an Australian art museum. The work is presented in an immersive exhibition environment that includes architectural models, specially commissioned films and photography, plans and concept sketches, and 3d modelling. Gallery of Modern Art.

17th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial Touring Exhibition - National

Sandy Elverd, 17th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial 2006. Image courtesy of the Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial.

Until 14 December 2008

The Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial is an exhibition showing the most innovative textile works of the previous two years. The 17th Biennial showcases fibre textiles from national artists and is recognised as Australia's pre-eminent textile related exhibition. In The World: head, hand, heart, curator Vivonne Thwaites presents a textile exhibition exploring themes as diverse as individuality and identity politics, belonging and our place in the world, gender and sexuality, the environment and the increasing insularity and disconnectedness of contemporary life. Various locations.

Modern times: the untold story of modernism in Australia - Sydney

8 August 2008 - 15 February 2009

Modern times reveals how modernism transformed life in Australia across five tumultuous decades from 1917 to 1967. The exhibition traces for the first time the impact of modernism on all aspects of Australian culture - from art, design and architecture to advertising, photography, film and fashion. Powerhouse Museum.

Featured projects

Art & Design Education Resource Guide 2008

September 2008

This is a comprehensive guide to art and design courses at universities, TAFE colleges and private schools in Australia and New Zealand, and selected colleges in South East Asia.

Melbourne Unbuilt: An audio walking tour

July 2008

Presented as part of the Melbourne International Design Festival, Melbourne Unbuilt - An audio walking tour explores 50 years of architectural concepts which never materialised. Brought to life through maps, models and drawings, Melbourne is vividly 'rebuilt' through voices of architects and historians. Unbuilt projects include Denton Corker Marshall's designs for Federation Square from 1996; Edmond and Corrigan's pyramidal State Library Competition entry, 1986; and what was hoped to be Melbourne’s equivalent to the Sydney Opera House: Ashton Raggatt McDougall's redesign of the CUB site,1994. Federation Square.

Tolarno Hotel. Image courtesy of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA).

Refurbishment of Tolarno restaurant - Mirka at Tolarno Hotel, Melbourne

April 2008

Peter Elliott Architecture and Urban Design have respectfully handled the spirit of a place that is a significant part of Melbourne's culinary and broader cultural history. Mirka at Tolarno was originally opened in St Kilda in the mid-1960's as a French bistro 'Tolarno', the third restaurant opened by Georges and Mirka Mora. They were best known for patronage by and of scores of artists, among them Charles Blackman and Joy Hester, who now comprise the backbone of Australia's twentieth-century art history. Elliot's approach has actively accepted the work of prior generations in order to weave these elements into a contemporary solution. The exterior of the building has received a light touch. New windows and a glass front door have been fitted between original tiled piers, panels have been repaired and new signage created.

architecture.com.au projects

Image courtesy of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA).

March 2008

architecture.com.au is a gallery based around the prestigious Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) National Architecture Awards, which have been running since 1981. The gallery currently contains approximately 2,000 projects that have been entered in the awards program from 1981 onwards.

Radford College Arts and Design Centre - Canberra

Radford College Arts and Design Centre. Image courtesy of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA).

March 2008

The new Radford College Arts and Design Centre by Cox Humphries Moss is the first stage of an Arts and Hospitality precinct for the school. The Centre is sited at the top of the sloping site, overlooking the school with views of the distant mountains. The Arts Centre consists of six studios and allows for art and textile activities to extend outdoors. The Centre's pitched roof folds at 90 degrees to become the back wall of the building. This creates interesting spaces internally and allows for a mezzanine within each studio. The Arts Centre uses passive heating and cooling methods, as well as natural ventilation. Entered for the 2007 RAIA Public Buildings category projects.