Tag: Craft
Newsletter
Newsletter 511
Monday, October 2nd, 2023 Newsletter,This week I agreed to say a few words at the opening of the MAKE award at the Australian Design Centre. It sent me back to the age-old art v. craft debate – a body of thought that requires periodic updating. I can recall the horror with which many artists once used to regard the […]
Sydney Morning Herald Column
The Journey of Time
Thursday, August 2nd, 2018 Sydney Morning Herald Column,When James Abbott McNeill Whistler defended himself in court by saying that a dashed-off oil sketch represented the knowledge he had “gained in the work of a lifetime” he gave every lazy artist an excuse to feel important, and unwittingly established battle lines between art and craft. Nowadays it’s broadly accepted that one may create […]