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Exhibitions Online
Announcing the launch of Exhibitions Online including current shows as well as trips down memory lane of exhibitions past.
While our physical gallery is temporarily closed, we’ll be open 24/7 online with new posts daily.
Our current exhibitions are now online via designtas.info/onlineexhibitions
kanalaritja: An Unbroken String | Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) Touring Exhibition
The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) is proud to present a national touring exhibition focused on shell-stringing, one of the Tasmanian Aboriginal community’s most culturally significant and closely-guarded traditions. kanalaritja: An Unbroken String features a variety of beautiful, delicate and rare shell necklaces, created by Tasmanian Aboriginal Ancestors in the 1800s, and acclaimed makers of today, as well as a new wave of stringers who had the opportunity to learn the tradition through the luna tunapri (women’s knowledge) cultural revitalisation project.
kanalaritja: An Unbroken String features a variety of beautiful, delicate and rare shell necklaces,created by Tasmanian Aboriginal Ancestors in the 1800s, and
acclaimed makers of today, as well as a new wave of stringers who had the opportunity to learn the tradition through the luna tunapri (women’s knowledge)cultural revitalisation project.
GLASS UTOPIA | Touring Exhibition by Craft ACT
Federica Biasi | Peter Bowles | Mel Douglas | Gala Fernandez | Liam Fleming | Elizabeth Kelly | Jenni Kemarre Martiniello | Federico Peri | Tom Skeehan | Stories of Italy | Zanellato/Bortotto | Matteo Zorzenoni
Inspired by the Murano glass chandelier that Italian architect Enrico Taglietti and his wife Francesca installed at the Italian Ambassador’s Residence in Canberra in 1967, the Glass Utopia exhibition draws a parallel between Venetian contemporary glass production and the Australian experience.
A selection of contemporary glass pieces by Italian and Australian designers will stimulate a visual dialogue between the objects, artists and glassmaking traditions.
Glass Utopia is curated by Annalisa Rosso and Francesco Mainardi of Mr.Lawrence, Milan, Italy.
Mr.Lawrence is a Design and Brand Consultancy founded in 2018 by Annalisa Rosso, design writer, content consultant and independent curator, currently editor-in-chief of Icon Design magazine (Mondadori); and Francesco Mainardi (aka theBrandist), brand strategist and creative director, currently professor of Design Management at Istituto Marangoni.
Image credit (above): Glass Utopia Installation View, Photo by Emily Dimozantos © 2020