A toolmaker builds a brand new axe for when you can't see the forest for the trees

Work from thirteen Melbourne artists is interspersed throughout the permanent ‘Making Melbourne' historical exhibition at Old Treasury - how do they fit together?

Two jewellers find an original methodology that is highly mobile but reflects a sense of place

Paintings by a jeweller evoke the enchanted world of western Victoria

Artists form contemporary objects from the legacy of the hand made in Central Victoria

An exhibition of craft as art reveals wonderful idiosyncracies

Julia Robinson reconfigures Dante's epic poem as a grotesque and compelling ‘Infernal Cake'

An exhibition delves into the mysteries of the female exotic

An exhibition reveals the bones of the museum

A new voice in jewellery explores the link between the mechanical and the metaphysical

A exhibition brings together photography, architecture and fabric design

Jewellery that engages with a complexity of interactions that exceed the confines of physical time and space

A glass artist introduces Norwegian folk life into the cool design world

A glass artist honours the lost art of the kitchen

Flow charts connect the craft of grandmothers to the underworld of vice

We take a meander through a pastoral world where nature is just what it seems.

An exhibition of ceramics evokes sensuous landscapes

The cultural hybridity of the APT is a welcome change from the jingoism of Australia Day

Eleven artists create work with found objects, from frying pan lids to Yellow Page Directories

Two flagship surveys of contemporary craft and design provide radically different approaches to their subject

A exhibition of religious jewellery sits uneasily in the secular world of art

A new range by Susan Dimasi and Chantal McDonald becomes a performance of making, both production and parade, including a focus on tattooed kangaroo leather.

A homecoming exhibition by Berlin ceramicist

A major prize exhibition places visual art and craft on even ground

Four prolific Adelaide artists engage psychological, social and material concerns through the medium of ceramics

Design turns to craft as a way of seeing beyond the global product

A show of powerful ceramics evokes influence of landscape and Japanese culture, but reveals close attention to detail

An exhibition that presents the craft of model-making as a privileged site for architectural work

A show of handmade objects seems to transcend distinctions of high and low art

A new jewellery gallery heralds a fresh artistic vision that sees a reef without barriers

A show of Tasmanian craft & design steps away from state identity to a dialogue between objects

Review of graduate work reveals a creative breadth and return to artisanal values

A master creator of glass sculpture takes bold risks and lands on his feet

An exhibition pairing artists with works of the Embroiderer's Guild produces some stunning results and some loose ends

Responding to the traditional crafts of Pacific cultures, Annabelle Collett generates a new body of work. But how well does it fit into the museum context?

Sport provides an overdue exposure for traditional textiles and new paradigms for collaborative work, that don't always succeed.

Dutch glass artist works with Tiwi Island artists to render traditional forms into untraditional glass

Bendigo artist takes a thread for a walk around a statue of Queen Victoria

A new architectural publication promotes the importance of making in design practice

Textile sculptor makes cosies for fossils evoking Japanese traditions

A craft exchange is found challenging and fraught, but ultimately productive

The other history of New Zealand through its popular needlecraft

Wake up to the possibilities of Australian figurative ceramics

A project in the Australian Capital Territory looks to heritage through the eyes of contemporary craft

An exhibition of found materials demonstrates a 'growing inventiveness' in contemporary craft

Viewers are pleasantly 'nonplussed' by the presence of craft in this sculpture festival

An exhibition of glass and building fragment questions the relationship between architecture and art

Exhibition reveals the poetry of metal

Textile artist and writer Sue Green marvels at this extensive survey show of indiginous craft

Its tempting to feel a certain resistance to plastics as a medium but this exhibition may change your mind.

An examination of an extraordinary new body of work that explores pattern, technique and rhythm

New work reflecting the artist’s awareness of water as both resource and political tool.

Mark Mc Dean is a Melbourne-based curator and writer.

A feast of stories in an exhibition of narrative jewellery

Scicluna challenges the act of categorisation in the craft world

Take a peek into the finest wardrobes at the NGV:I

Thirty of the finest makers are brought together for the impressive SA Ceramics Award

A review of craftmakers' pieces sourced by Curator Debbie Pryor, interpreting the themes of landscape. The question of place is raised; are these objects art or craft?

Under the guidance of curator Rhana Devenport and local historian Shirley Fitzgerald, jewellers Joungmee Do, Brenda Factor, Rohan Nicol, Sean O’Connell and Alice Whish have examined the rich history of Pyrmont, one of Sydney’s inner city suburbs.

View from Mount Fuji : a conversation with Lesley Kehoe, Lesley Kehoe Gallery.

An artist's perspective on new underground gallery

An exhibition exploring layers of meaning in the act of gift giving, for both giver and recipient.

Maverick Jeff Mincham comes home after thirty years in the landscape.

A new show by legendary Australian ceramicist is an opportunity to celebrate the role of craft in her work

Votive ceramics by Pip McManus rely on divine intervention

In early 2002, The Australian Ballet commissioned 17 of Australia's top designers to create their interpretation of a tutu to be worn by a dancer of the Australian Ballet. The only guideline was the definition of a tutu: a ballet dancer's short projecting skirt.

Out of Sight - Tactile Art 2004 encourages visitors to get 'hands on' and experience contemporary works of art through their sense of touch.

Ceramics inspired by the Flinders Ranges looks back to the Chilean village

International designers embrace rapid prototyping as a vehicle for craft

A unexpected journey through the best of design at the new Object: Australia’s New Design Centre

An exhibition reveals the secret life of objects in film.

An exhibition finds human experience in the inanimate world

Jeweller Sally Marsland presents an array of captivating vessels

White in colour, white in heritage, White in name. A new body of work celebrates liberation from expectancy

A creative collaboration flourishes as the Gold Treasury Museum closes to craft

Inside the glory box of the NGV

Houses and treasures spill their guts in an exhibition that layers sentimentality, temporality and corporeality

Re:turn, re:appraise, re:mind. A Dutch jeweller transforms the domestic object

An Objective appraisal of the Sydney craft and design scene

Heritage on tour: a pioneering exhibition uncovers Australia’s industrial ceramic history

Swimming in the light fantastic: translucent bone china lighting harks to undersea worlds

An artist's dialogue with history and its remains

Stitched drawings open a window of fancy

A personal reflection on an exhibition of Cape York artists.

Jewellery brings Korean and Australian worlds together with style but leaves room for substance

An exhibition featuring marked clothing alludes to lost souls

Adelaide textile artist Annabelle Collet gathers together fellow artists for an exhibition of irony and comment

An interesting combination between traditional and contemporary lace requires a little more dialogue

An exhibition of indigenous craft at the National Gallery of Australia

Craft transforms a home into a gallery.

An exhibition of textiles misses its craft context

A touring exhibition of British design provides minimal delight

An exhibition that explores the aesthetic of science finds mystery in blackness.

Three Sydney designers aspire to be artists and have fun along the way.

Jazz musician provides a musical response to Nicholas Jones' re-folded book

An exhibition of under- and over-scaled objects contains rich allusions to craft and literary history

A beautiful exhibition of work using indigenous materials rests on a questionable concept of nature.

The fold is explored as a design, creative, craft and emotional device in an exhibition curated by Robyn Phelan.

A reckless Melbourne ceramist recovers Keat's romantic vision.

A cultural archeologist ventures into the lost monuments of glass

This stunning exhibition of delicate macabre works heralds an exciting maker

Two ceramists harbour the mystery of symbols in their work

An Adelaide show of painting and textiles that offers a balm to the spirit

There is an 'echo of loneliness' in these exquisite carved porcelain simulacra.

The argumentative exhibition curated by Kirsten Fitzpatrick reveals there is more to contemporary craft than commercial design.

New Aboriginal ceramics feature a play between positive and negative space.

Alex Selenitsch finds the touring exhibition of British design a poor alternative to shopping.

Ex-Kiwi Melbourne jeweller looks at the evolution of Pakeha craft across generations.

Charlotte Hallows consideres the 'terror and beauty' in an astounding exhibition of new Tiwi ceramics.

Penny Collett reviews the last 30 years of ceramics in a group show at Bendigo

Stephen Bowers admires the structural integrity and honesty of Kirsten Coehlo's works in porcelain

Juliet Piers heralds the radical critique in an exhibition of work inspired by the CWA, curated by Vivonne Thwaites.

'.. it was Fuller´s old, cracked, chipped and dreary Johnson cups, complete with their muddy high tide marks, that deeply unsettled me.'

...a mix of the old—a scholar’s hat, bags, thimbles, a child’s traditional sock—and new—face masks, a doorknob cover, a mobile phone cover, workmen’s gloves, children’s slippers.

in Heavenly Cups, disposable coffee cups, embossed and dressed in pastel-coloured pearline glazes, sprout wings and float about in an ephemeral teacup ballet.