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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Ned Collins<br />
Sturt School for Wood<br />
Artist statement<br />
What is, what was, what will be<br />
hands deep within the soil, a small child<br />
plays.<br />
those building blocks that teach us are<br />
naive,<br />
yet they are old and wise<br />
we get older and find new building blocks<br />
to play with<br />
but those that are old have never lost their<br />
wisdom,<br />
have never stopped teaching us<br />
I have always had a deep reverence for<br />
craft. It is something old, something wise,<br />
somethin true to utility and true to beauty.<br />
It is this such involvement in the crafts, in<br />
the making of furniture, that finally gives<br />
voice, shape and direction to my artistic<br />
expressions. A world that nourishes my<br />
body with honest labour, my mind with<br />
puzzles and problems, and my soul with<br />
a way to let free those creations that exist<br />
within me.<br />
Biography<br />
Ned Collins is a recent graduate of Sturt<br />
School for Wood. His studies there<br />
allowed an exploration of self, of form,<br />
and of the traditional methods used in<br />
creating furniture. This was achieved by<br />
a relentless questioning of why, and by<br />
drawing inspiration from many artistic<br />
mediums outside of furniture. Collins<br />
seeks to further his practice by exploring<br />
the intersection between traditional<br />
methods and modern design to achieve<br />
functional, enduring creations.<br />
Image: A Statement on Cabinets and the Curiosities of<br />
Containment, 2020. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.<br />
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