Object No. 58 (2009)

The latest issue of Object has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

Features

• Art, Craft and Design in Wood: Examining the 'Blur Zone' - Wood and the crossover between art, craft and design is the focus of an upcoming exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) in New York City in 2010. MAD, NY Curator, Lowery Stokes Sims, writes about the exhibition and its intent.
• The Magic of Wood (Where Scientists and Designers Meet) - New technologies being developed by Australian scientists are creating opportunities for manipulating wood and, in turn, new potential for the material. Professor Peter Vinden of the University of Melbourne offers an insight into their research and development.
• Wood: A Social Commentary - Design Quarterly's editor, Alice Blackwood looks at what is it about wood that sees contemporary designers traversing new material territories.
• Carving Across the Continent - Object is collaborating with the Australian Museum to develop and present a major touring exhibition, Menagerie: Contemporary Indigenous Sculpture. Object's curator, Brian Parkes, looks at the craft of wood carving explored in this major exhibition.
• A New Era for New York's Museum of Arts and Design - Adelaide-based curator, Margot Osborne, was a trainee at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York in the 1970s. Last year, she revisited the museum, which is now the Museum of Arts and Design. She reveals her experience, then and now.

Profiles

• The Kevin Perkins - Australia's highly regarded writer, Richard Flanagan, creates a very beautiful portrait of Australia's living treasure, and his friend, furniture maker Kevin Perkins.
• Pests in the Tool Shed - New Zealand artists Regan Gentry and Ben Pearce are blazing a path that blurs the line between craft and contemporary art. Matt Blomeley writes.
• Wood X TEN - TEN is a group of 10 designers who are united through the shared vision of founder, Chris Jackson. He shares his personal experience with Object.
• Jon Goulder - Western Australian-based designer Jon Goulder refuses to make objects simply to make objects, Elisha Buttler finds out why.
• Deviant and Devious Ceramics - New Zealand's Paul Maseyk makes deviant and devious ceramics. Edward Hanfling writes.

Opinion

• On Wood and Up Wood - New Zealand's innovative furniture and lighting designer, David Trubridge, explores his relationship with wood.

Regulars

• Object Eye - Objects of design and ideas to inspire from across the globe.
• Emerging - Joan-Maree Hargreaves unveils this year's 18 finalists from Object's annual graduate exhibition, Design Now! 2009.
• Reviews