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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Olinda Narayanan<br />
ANU School of Art + Design<br />
Artist statement<br />
Drifting In One Place explores boundary<br />
making through weaving. The mutual<br />
dependency of soft indigo dyed thread<br />
and structural supports creates an<br />
architectural tension. Which ultimately<br />
seeks to create new opportunities for<br />
people to interact with each other and<br />
with the built environment. This tension<br />
can be engaged with at a human scale,<br />
encouraging reflection on the coexisting<br />
boundaries and connections both in our<br />
interpersonal relationships and in space.<br />
This piece is part of an ongoing body of<br />
work exploring relationships, scale and<br />
surroundings called “Spatial Connections”.<br />
Biography<br />
Olinda is an emerging artist working<br />
with furniture, textiles and sculptural<br />
installation. She employs a combination of<br />
traditional hand making skills and digital<br />
technologies. Her art practice explores<br />
architectural influences on human<br />
relationships and well-being. Olinda is<br />
currently completing her Bachelor of<br />
Visual Arts (ANU) and will follow this with<br />
a 6month residency at ANU Makerspace.<br />
Olinda has exhibited in group exhibitions,<br />
namely Amplified/Together (2020), Haig<br />
Park Student takeover (2020) and Crafted<br />
(2019, 2018, 2017). Olinda’s work “Spatial<br />
Connections” (2020) won a number of<br />
prizes which have resulted in the work<br />
being exhibited in group exhibitions with<br />
CraftACT and Canberra Spinners and<br />
Weavers. Additionally, Olinda will present<br />
a solo show with Tributary Projects<br />
and participate in a residency with ANU<br />
Makerspace in 2021.<br />
Image: Drifting in one place, 2020, indigo dyed thread,<br />
copper and wooden supports, 2.1m x 2.1m x 1.5m.<br />
Photo: Courtesy of the artist.<br />
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