Emerging Contemporaries
Emerging Contemporaries 4 February - 20 March 2021 Akka Ballenger | Mika Benesh | Millie Black | Maitlan Brown | Ned Collins | Lea Durie | Annalise Fredericks | Daniel Leone | Christine Little | David Liu | Denni Maroudas | Olinda Narayanan | Bling Yiu | Jonathon Zalakos Emerging Contemporaries is the Craft ACT National Award Exhibition for early-career artists. This exhibition plays a pivotal role in supporting and transitioning artists into professional practice and placing Australian artists in view of the national cultural collecting institutions, business and industry, and audience. We're always looking for new talent to nurture and add to our Craft ACT community. We have an Emerging Contemporaries Award that we give to emerging talent from a number of sources: Sturt School for Wood, Canberra Potters Society, Canberra Institute of Technology, University of Canberra, the ANU School of Art + Design, University of New South Wales and the CAPO Craft ACT Emerging Artist award.
Emerging Contemporaries
4 February - 20 March 2021
Akka Ballenger | Mika Benesh | Millie Black | Maitlan Brown | Ned Collins | Lea Durie | Annalise Fredericks | Daniel Leone | Christine Little | David Liu | Denni Maroudas | Olinda Narayanan | Bling Yiu | Jonathon Zalakos
Emerging Contemporaries is the Craft ACT National Award Exhibition for early-career artists. This exhibition plays a pivotal role in supporting and transitioning artists into professional practice and placing Australian artists in view of the national cultural collecting institutions, business and industry, and audience.
We're always looking for new talent to nurture and add to our Craft ACT community. We have an Emerging Contemporaries Award that we give to emerging talent from a number of sources: Sturt School for Wood, Canberra Potters Society, Canberra Institute of Technology, University of Canberra, the ANU School of Art + Design, University of New South Wales and the CAPO Craft ACT Emerging Artist award.
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Mika Benesh<br />
University of New South Wales<br />
Artist statement<br />
Weaving Futures is an ongoing series of<br />
Jewish ritual objects designed to facilitate<br />
emerging and marginal Jewish ritual<br />
practices, particularly those which are<br />
queer, feminist and anti-colonial in nature.<br />
At the first stage of the fabrication<br />
process, the hannukiah, spice box, and<br />
natla (hand washing cup) are crafted<br />
out of woven candle wicks and dipped in<br />
molten beeswax. As pictured, in the final<br />
fabrication stages the pieces are cast in<br />
bronze and then silver-plated.<br />
The objects crafted in Weaving Futures<br />
can be used in a variety of different ways,<br />
with the project exploring the potential for<br />
non-prescriptivist design to catch a small<br />
hold of many Jewish futures.<br />
Biography<br />
Mika Benesh is an artist / writer / designer<br />
working on unceded Gadigal land in<br />
Sydney, Australia.<br />
Their practice traces relationships<br />
between cultural institutions, spirituality<br />
& theology, archives, queer/trans lives &<br />
movements, and white supremacy.<br />
Mika’s interested in facilitating emerging<br />
& marginal Jewish ritual practices through<br />
Judaica design.<br />
He works in jewellery and object design,<br />
graphite, print and book making,<br />
photography, and textiles.<br />
Image: Weaving Futures, 2020-2021, satin print, 42.0 x<br />
59.4cm. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.<br />
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