{"id":8715,"date":"2021-05-20T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=8715"},"modified":"2021-05-19T16:58:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T06:58:42","slug":"the-neck-craft-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=8715","title":{"rendered":"The Neck \/ \/ Craft ACT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m in <em>The Neck<\/em>, a group show in Canberra, thanks to Bridget Kennedy of the eponymous <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bridgetkennedy.com.au\/studio-gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\">Project Space<\/a> in Sydney. It was meant to be last year, timed to coincide with the JMGA conference. In fact, it looks as though this whole programme was. Go see it if you can; there&#8217;s a lot of talent (and my friends!) in this room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>text below courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/craftact.org.au\/\">C<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/craftact.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">raft ACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re invited \/\/ Craft ACT: Craft + Design Centre warmly invites you to join us for the opening of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Making: A Way of Life<br>Alison Jackson and Dan Lorrimer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Small Connections<br>Danielle Barrie, Daria Fox, Emma Cuppleditch, Erin Daniell, Gretal Ferguson, Kath Inglis, Katherine Grocott, Polly Dymond, Sarra Tzijan and Zoe Grigoris<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Body Layer; Semblance and Self<br>Zoe Brand, Roseanne Bartley, Liesbet Bussche, Jing He, Cara Johnson, Lauren Kalman, Matt Lambert, Claire McArdle, Kristina Neumann, Tiffany Parbs and Halie Rubenis. Curator: Simon Cottrell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/craftact.org.au\/blogs\/future-exhibitions\/the-neck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Neck<\/a><\/strong><br>Vivien Atkinson, Roseanne Bartley, Macarena Bernal, Vernon Bowden, Zoe Brand, Melissa Cameron, Anna Davern, Pennie Jagiello, Cara Johnson, Bridget Kennedy, Claire McArdle and Melinda Young. Curator: Bridget Kennedy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be opened by: Tara Cheyne MLA, ACT Minister for the Arts, with guest speaker Oliver Smith, respected silversmith and senior lecturer at University of Sydney<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Opening &#8211; <br>Thursday 27 May. Exhibitions will continue until 17 July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Craft ACT&#8217;s gallery, exhibitions and shop are open five days a week.<br>Tuesday-Friday from 10am-5pm<br>+<br>Saturday 12pm-4pm<br>Level 1 North Building 180 London Circuit Canberra ACT 2601<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are in the area, look out for the artist talk too:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday 28 May, 12-12.45pm<br>at Craft ACT gallery<br>Free, bookings essential<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in The Neck, a group show in Canberra, thanks to Bridget Kennedy of the eponymous Project Space in Sydney. It was meant to be last year, timed to coincide with the JMGA conference. In fact, it looks as though this whole programme was. Go see it if you can; there&#8217;s a lot of talent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,111,107,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist-talk","category-exhibition","category-jewellery","category-objects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8715"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8721,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8715\/revisions\/8721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}