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Media enquiries please email marketing@artisan.org.au. 

2022

MARCH

artisan is please to present three fabulous exhibitions spanning across all of their gallery spaces: Paula Quintela, CON OJOS Y DIENTES (With Eyes and Teeth) , Claudia De Salvo, INHABITING STATES OF TENSION, Catherine Large, OF SCALE AND INTRIGUE.  All three exhibitions run from 19 March 2022 - 4 June 2022  

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2021

OCTOBER

artisan is pleased to present Pulp Friction on show from 2 October - 12 November, 2021. Pulp Friction is a group exhibition showcasing designs, installations and complex paper works to examine cultural issues surrounding Chinese diasporic communities. Participating artists Yanqiao Jiang, Pamela See and Christine Ko explore Chinese culture through cultural displacement, commodification and stereotyping.

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JULY

Tension[s] 2020 is a coming together that both reveals and conceals the artist, reveals and conceals the audience, and provokes us to actively remember that if there is one thing hindsight has taught us, it is that we risk danger whenever we draw meaning from only one perspective.

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MAY

Do you think we heading for a dystopian or utopian world in 2070? Dystopia/Utopia 2070 is an exhibition designed to stimulate discussion about our future, to emphasize that the arts in conjunction with science are at the forefront of our survival, and to question what we take for granted. ⁠

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APRIL

Reflection Distortion conveys the precarious path of misperception and misconception and the potential risk in slippages of interpretation.

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FEBRUARY

The second in artisan's exhibition legacy series, Shaw & Shaw: RADICAL LOCALISM.  Shaw & Shaw: Radical Localism brings to light the individual and collective talents, passions and legacies of one family, deeply entrenched in the arts 
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2020

DECEMBER

ARTISAN celebrates it's 50th birthday with FIFTY years of FEMINISM & FIBRE, with exhibitions Drawn Thread and Close Knit.  Drawn Thread is the first iteration of The Hand-made Tale: 50 years of Craft and Design in Queensland, a series of curatorial offerings celebrating artisan's influential 50 years of operation. Click here to access the Media release

JULY

ARTISAN reopens with two new exhibitions inspired by the COVID-19 experience

artisan, Queensland's peak body for craft, has fully reopened with the launch of two new exhibitions inspired by the global COVID-19 experience: AboutFace and artisan Collects.
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JUNE

New online shop helping to promote and generate income for Australian craftspeople

artisan's new online store meets the growing demand for quality, handmade Australian craft and design while promoting and generating much needed income for Australian craftspeople.
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MARCH

Getting crafty during coronavirus closure

Queensland’s craft and design community are joining together to stay creative and connected in the midst of COVID-19 shutdowns.
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2019

NOVEMBER

New solo exhibition showcases Indonesian-Australian artist and rising star Jumaadi

Jumaadi: House of Shadow
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SEPTEMBER

Cape York couture finds home in Brisbane through design student collaboration

Wubuul Buii: Hopevale X QUT Fashion Collab
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JULY

The ‘Art of Making’ Celebrated In new Brisbane Exhibition
Make It: Tools, Technique & Time
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MAY

Ground-breaking exhibition explores how design for disability is not all about functionality
Agency by Design: Expressive Design for Disability
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JANUARY

Nationally acclaimed textile exhibition coming to Brisbane
Open House: Tamworth Textile Triennial
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2018

NOVEMBER

Most significant exhibition of Mona Ryder's work in Brisbane in 10 years
Mona Ryder Lone Star
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