The difference between Art and Craft

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Jun 032011
 

Art school is all about timing. The year I finished I remember that the debate of Art vs. Craft was still heated and divisive. I think mainly because Craftspeople thought they were getting a crummy deal. Artists were swooning around being important and “informed” whereas the “Crafties” were dismissed as “decorative or functional”. I remember Ken Waugh, my lecturer in Art history opening an exhibition where he mentioned that we were dangerously close to the “Macrame belt of Melbourne” ( Warrandyte). Anyway, the more I thought about this, the more I needed to make a statement about where I thought the difference was.

So I did the obvious and treated the two doormats according to their function i.e Art or Craft.

 

Siege

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May 282011
 

 

“Siege” was an installation for the 200 Gertrude Street studio artists Christmas Show. I tried to demonstrate how many artists and art institutions took on a siege mentality. Materials used in the work included 188 cans, a .22 caliber rifle, telephone and learned text about Foucault…

 

 

 

365 Days project

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Oct 242010
 

Below are some installation shots of the 365 Days exhibition which was shown at Airspace in Sydney in 1995. The project consisted of a film a day (yes, film !) i.e. 36 exposures which visually mapped the day. The show also featured a 210 minute video Video showing each of the 13 000 odd frames sequentially and a single, Slip cased, artist book with 365 11 x 14 ” pages of the work.