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The gallery artisan outdoor stage at BIG SOUND 2010

Artisan is proud to again be partnering with QMusic, Queensland's music industry development association, on BIG SOUND 2010, an urban music festival held in the heart of Fortitude Valley. BIG SOUND, one of Australia's most internationally focused music conferences, produces three days of panels, workshops and artist showcases for local, national and international music industry representatives.

Following on from the enormous success of last year’s showcase held in our car park, artisan will again be providing an outdoor venue for BIG SOUND 2010 – The artisan Gallery Stage.

For this year’s line-up at the stage, and for more information on BIG SOUND 2010, please visit the dedicated page on our website.

BIG SOUND 2010 runs from September 8 -10 2010.

As part of our partnership with QMusic, artisan presents an exhibition celebrating the cross-over of design and music to coincide with Big Sound. Taken By Storm: The Album of Art of Storm Thorgerson was our inaugural exhibition in 2009, and Rolling Stone: The Covers 1972-2010 is the second, and sets yet another Australian benchmark for presenting groundbreaking design exhibitions.

Rolling Stone: The Covers 1972-2010 will be opened at artisan by Matt Coyte, Editor-in-Chief Rolling Stone on Thursday, September 2 2010, 6pm – 8pm.

The exhibition will continue through BIG SOUND 2010 until October 2 2010.

BDO joins artisan's Corporate Patron Program

Artisan is thrilled to announce that BDO has joined our exclusive Corporate Patrons program. BDO is one of the largest professional services firms in Queensland, specialising in providing expert business and accountancy advice, and artisan is very proud to be supported by this dynamic organisation.

Australia China Council supports Jimmy Pike to Ning Bo

The Australia China Council has awarded artisan funding to tour Desert Psychedelic: Jimmy Pike to the Ning Bo Museum in Ning Bo, China. The ACC Board were ”impressed with [our] project”,  and  artisan is extremely proud to be taking the textile, prints, and fashion of the late Indigenous designer, Jimmy Pike, to the people of China.

Desert Psychedelic: Jimmy Pike will be travelling to Ning Bo in early 2011.

Visions of Australia Funding for Tour De Force

Artisan is delighted to announce that we have received funding from Visions of Australia to tour our highly successful glass exhibition Tour De Force: In Case of Emergency Break Glass. The Minister for Environment Protection, Heritage and The Arts, the Honourable Peter Garrett recently announced that artisan was amongst a number of key arts organisations to receive funding in Visions of Australia’s 34^th round of funding toward exhibitions of cultural material.

Curated by Megan Bottari, Tour De Force  is a  conceptual glass exhibition featuring works  by nationally and internationally respected Australian glass artists Timothy Horn, Deb Jones, Jacqueline Gropp, Nicholas Folland, Neil Roberts, Tom Moore, Ian Mowbray and Patricia Roan.

The exhibition will tour to nine venues throughout New South Wales, South Australia, Australian Capital Territory, Queensland and Western Australia throughout 2011.

Industrial Desire to begin National tour

Artisan’s hugely popular Detroit concept car exhibition, Industrial Desire, will be hitting the open road. The exhibition is being de-installed next week and shipped to its first port of call on a national tour – the Toowoomba Motor Museum. Industrial Desire will be on show at the museum from September 13^th to October 29^th.

Industrial Desire takes you into the exciting world of automotive design. Featuring quarter-scale hi-tech models of fantastic concept vehicles, plus detailed renderings and a multimedia component.

Industrial Desire will tour to nine venues throughout Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria over 2010 and 2011.

Distinctive works from our selling exhibitions will now be available for purchase through our online store. This opportunity will begin with a selected range of Michael Hoffmeyer’s exquisite jewellery from our upcoming Crucible exhibition Atlas of Crystal Forms: Michael Hoffmeyer.

Please visit our Online Shop at www.artisan.org.au/shop

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Romy Willing
Acting CEO

ARTISAN MEMBER'S + PRACTITIONERS NEWS

'Throwing Shadows' Madeleine Brown & Vivienne Kelly Exhibition
'Throwing Shadows' is an exhibition of works by Brisbane-based artists, jeweller Madeleine Brown and photographer Vivienne Kelly. Together their works draw on elements from early scientific illustration of microscopic marine forms and in particular, those made by biologist Ernst Haeckel. The show officially opens on Friday 3 September at 6pm and runs until Sunday 2 October. Madeleine will also be running a beginner's silversmithing workshop in conjunction with the show, on Saturday 4 September. For more information please visit: http://www.noosaregionalgallery.org/

Ranamok prize winner
Congratulations to Sue Hawker, the winner of the Ranamok glass prize for 2010 for her work titled Too Much is Never Enough. More info: www.ranamok.com 

Kim Demuth exhibition
If you happen to be in Melbourne from Thursday the 9th September take a look at Kim Demuth's exhibition "Camino" at Beam Contemporary. The show opens from 6-8pm on Thursday 9th September and continues from 10th September until 2nd October. Beam Contemporary is open from 11am-6pm Tuesday - Saturday and is located at level 1/30 Guildford Lane, Melbourne, Victoria.

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