Small Prints - Canberra bird headshots
Regular price $55.00 Save $-55.00Eggpicnic believe in long lasting products and transparent and honest design processes. Their designs are printed on 320 gsm archival fibre-based cotton rag and each print is individually signed by hand by Camila, Co-founder of Eggpicnic. They are designed and made in-house in their studio in Canberra.
Materials: 320 gsm archival fibre-based cotton rag print framed in a wooden frame
Dimensions: 21 x 21 cm unframed
Meet the Makers: Canberra welcomes two new designers and birders to our community, Camila De Gregorio and Christopher Macaluso the creative minds behind Eggpicnic. In their Canberra-based design studio, the two designer-makers produce fine art prints and public art to end wildlife extinction through education.
Photos: Eggpicnic
F!NK Water Jug
Regular price $419.00 Save $-419.00An Australian design classic, Robert Foster’s water jug is F!NK’s signature piece and one the most recognisable objects to come out of Canberra. The coloured anodised aluminium F!NK jug fits perfectly into any household or boardroom and is a must for design collectors.
Materials: Anodised aluminium with a cast steel handle. Sandblasted matte finish
Dimension: H 30 cm x D 10 cm (base, slightly ovoid).
Capacity: 1.45 litres
Care instructions: Handwash only, not dishwasher safe.
Meet the Maker: F!nk + Co. is a much loved and respected Australian design company with an international reputation for producing world-class tableware, hollowware, jewellery and lighting. It was established by Robert Foster in 1993 with the aim of creating a design and manufacturing business to support and generate opportunities for Australian designer-makers.
F!NK challenges the notions that functional is boring, and that useful and visually exciting are mutually exclusive. Simultaneously supremely functional and totally elegant, no two F!NK pieces are exactly the same. Each article is created in small batches of 20 to 100 units and individually hand-finished in the Queanbeyan studio/workshop.
When commissioned to create a jug by a prominent Canberra restaurant in the 1990s, Robert took aluminium tubing, an everyday sustainable material, and fashioned it into a sleek economically viable product. The Water Jug was the first F!NK product and is still the mainstay of the company. It is a striking practical object and encapsulates the qualities of F!NK + Co.: distinctive design, function and technical innovation.
HeartFly
Regular price $45.00 Save $-45.00Artist: Lynn Petersen
Year: 2025
Materials: Merino wool, glass beads
Dimensions: 10 x 6 x 4 cm
This artwork is available for sale through Craft + Design Canberra. Please note that artwork cannot be collected until after the exhibition concludes.
Tumbled Bowl
Regular price $145.00 Save $-145.00Materials: Hand blown and engraved glass.
Dimensions: Approx H 12 cm x W 14 cm
Meet the Maker: Harriet Schwarzrock has exhibited extensively throughout Australia and abroad. Her work is widely collected and she has been the recipient of numerous awards and prizes.
She worked at the Canberra Glassworks in 2017 as the Creative Fellow, also supported by an Australia Council New Work Grant, to produce a neon installation for the 2018 Canberra Enlighten Festival. Harriet was awarded the 2018 Asia Link Toyama residency in Japan. In 2019 she thrilled to be the Proctor Fellow through the Glass Workshop travelling to the USA to study neon and plasma.
Images: Courtesy of Artists
Purple-crowned Fairywren
Regular price $250.00 Save $-250.00Materials: Salvaged metal cutlery and timber
Dimensions: H: 15cm x W: 12cm
About the maker: Sean Meany's creative endeavours traverse a landscape of whimsy, illusion and enigma. His portfolio melds a range of components, from sculptural works of imaginative creatures using recycled materials to contemplative pieces that push the boundaries of perception and photographic works that explore the world of liminal space. Within his arts practice, he seeks to shed light on the potential for rejuvenation and innovation, constantly pushing the boundaries of materials and techniques to foster fresh avenues for artistic expression.
Images: Craft + Design Canberra
Daffodil lino print card
Regular price $8.00 Save $-8.00Materials: Lino print card - black ink on white paper, hand coloured
Dimensions: 10 x 15 cm
About the Maker: Lisa was a full-time scientific research technician in the area of plant biotechnology and a part time artist. Not surprisingly it is nature, mainly plants, that inspire her art. The texture and patterns in nature are translated into either linocut print or tapestry weaving designs.
Merge Pocket Vase
Regular price $150.00 Save $-150.00Materials: Hand blown glass - merging of two colours
Dimensions: Approx H 140 mm W 90 mm
Meet the Maker: Harriet Schwarzrock has exhibited extensively throughout Australia and abroad. Her work is widely collected and she has been the recipient of numerous awards and prizes.
She worked at the Canberra Glassworks in 2017 as the Creative Fellow, also supported by an Australia Council New Work Grant, to produce a neon installation for the 2018 Canberra Enlighten Festival. Harriet was awarded the 2018 Asia Link Toyama residency in Japan. In 2019 she thrilled to be the Proctor Fellow through the Glass Workshop travelling to the USA to study neon and plasma.
Ceramic flower earrings pink
Regular price $60.00 Save $-60.00Artist: Susan Buret
Materials: Ceramic
Dimensions: 33 mm diameter
Images: Craft + Design Canberra
Blue Wren 1 lino print card
Regular price $8.00 Save $-8.00Materials: Lino print card - black ink on white paper, hand coloured
Dimensions: 10 cm x 15 cm
About the Maker: Lisa recently retired from CSIRO after a 35-year career in plant biotechnology research. She will now be able to spend more time on her art practice.
Nature, mainly plants, inspire her art. The textures and patterns in nature are translated into either linocut prints or tapestry weaving designs.
She also weaves mini tapestries from yarns donated to her by founding Craft ACT member Fay Skyring. These yarns were thrums of warp yarns from upholstery fabric Fay wove for Parliament House in Canberra. In these framed works, Lisa uses them as weft threads to explore the interaction of the different colours Fay used in three different upholstery fabrics.
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Regular price $45.00 Save $-45.00Artist: Lynn Petersen
Year: 2025
Materials: Merino wool, glass beads
Dimensions: 10 x 6 x 4 cm
This artwork is available for sale through Craft + Design Canberra. Please note that artwork cannot be collected until after the exhibition concludes.
Yellow Coreopsis - Flower Patch Earrings by Jess Dare
Regular price $180.00 Save $-180.00This work accompanies the Beautiful Tensions exhibition which is the culmination of two years of work and research by Gray Street Workshop’s four current partners: Jess Dare, Lisa Furno, Sue Lorraine and Catherine Truman.
Materials: Powder coated brass, stainless steel earring hooks. Flower is hand-cut from 0.8mm sheet
Dimensions: flower 38mm diameter; overall length including earring hook 58mm; stainless steel earring wire 0.8mm; weight 7grams
Colour: Gloss Golden Yellow.
Splendid Fairywren #2
Regular price $250.00 Save $-250.00Materials: Salvaged metal cutlery and timber
Dimensions: H: 13.5cm x W: 11cm
About the maker: Sean Meany's creative endeavours traverse a landscape of whimsy, illusion and enigma. His portfolio melds a range of components, from sculptural works of imaginative creatures using recycled materials to contemplative pieces that push the boundaries of perception and photographic works that explore the world of liminal space. Within his arts practice, he seeks to shed light on the potential for rejuvenation and innovation, constantly pushing the boundaries of materials and techniques to foster fresh avenues for artistic expression.
Images: Craft + Design Canberra
Special Edition General Assembly Brooch - RE01
Regular price $550.00 Save $-550.00Studio Hacienda (2005–2008) was established in a factory space in Abbotsford by Blanche Tilden and Phoebe Porter following an Australia Council funded mentorship of Phoebe by Blanche in 2005.
The General Assembly brooches were developed as a series of designed and engineered component parts that, when assembled, are redolent of the built structures of Melbourne and Canberra.
Drawing inspiration from the philosophy of serial production demonstrated in the work of craftspeople such as Melbourne contemporary jeweller, Susan Cohn, and German master goldsmith, Friedrich Dau, Studio Hacienda have produced interchangeable components of varying colour, texture, form and material that are laid out in a "production line" ready pick'n'mix. Architectural details and signage found around Melbourne's CBD were starting points from which each design evolved.
"General Assembly exemplifies Porter and Tilden's common ground: working in multiples, exploring the individual impulse to select, combine and adorn, alertness to the ubiquitous street styles that pulse through a city. It is a project that involves people in a lively, intelligent conversation through the object. That's Studio Hacienda." - Merryn Gates
General Assembly—Canberra brooch series 2007–2008, remade 2021
Edition number RE01.
Materials: flameworked borosilicate glass, anodised aluminium, titanium, stainless steel
Dimensions: 8 cm (h) x 3 cm (w) x 0.5 cm (d)
Small Prints - Canberra birds on native plants
Regular price $55.00 Save $-55.00Eggpicnic believe in long lasting products and transparent and honest design processes. Their designs are printed on 320 gsm archival fibre-based cotton rag and each print is individually signed by hand by Camila, Co-founder of Eggpicnic. They are designed and made in-house in their studio in Canberra.
Materials: 320 gsm archival fibre-based cotton rag print
Dimensions: 21 x 21 cm unframed
Meet the Makers: Canberra welcomes two new designers and birders to our community, Camila De Gregorio and Christopher Macaluso the creative minds behind Eggpicnic. In their Canberra-based design studio, the two designer-makers produce fine art prints and public art to end wildlife extinction through education.
Photos: Eggpicnic
Bowl - orange, green, black and yellow 1
Regular price $85.00 Save $-85.00Materials: Slip cast + hand-built porcelain with white glaze
Dimensions: 7.5cm H x 10.5 cm L x 9cm W
About the Maker: Sarit Cohen received the Doug Alexander Memorial Award for Decorative Surface with the Canberra Potters' Society and has completed residencies in Denmark and Switzerland. These opportunities have significantly contributed to the development of her work in the areas of paper clay casting and porcelain manipulation. She received a major equipment grant from artsACT which enabled her to carry on with these experiments.
Sarit’s work bares the influence of her childhood spent in Israel of Indian & Turkish parents. Her memories of the desert, its surfaces & dry atmosphere are constantly evidenced in her objects. This, together with an increasing curiosity about her Indian background, forms the basis of her research. Although she has lived in Australia for more than 30 years, the conflict in the Middle East has been with her constantly & continues to emerge in her work by embracing iconography, design & stories from other cultures in the region.
Blue Banded Bee lino cut card
Regular price $8.00 Save $-8.00Materials: Lino print card - black ink on white paper, hand coloured
Dimensions: 10 cm x 15 cm
About the Maker: Lisa was a full-time scientific research technician in the area of plant biotechnology and a part time artist until she retired in 2024. Not surprisingly it is nature, mainly plants, that inspire her art. The texture and patterns in nature are translated into either linocut print or tapestry weaving designs.
As a printmaker and weaver my designs are often driven by the materials. Also as a weaver I incorporate non-traditional “yarns” in my work. The hanging ribbons inside clothes have no purpose after they have left their shop displays, so again these are being collected by friends and family to be woven into brooches. They add colour and shine into the woven wool background of tapestry woven brooches.
Flannel flower lino print card
Regular price $8.00 Save $-8.00Materials: Lino print card - black ink on white paper, hand coloured
Dimensions: 10 x 15 cm
About the Maker: Lisa was a full-time scientific research technician in the area of plant biotechnology and a part time artist. Not surprisingly it is nature, mainly plants, that inspire her art. The texture and patterns in nature are translated into either linocut print or tapestry weaving designs.
Wagtail Scoop - Large
Regular price $175.00 Save $-175.00Individually hand hammered handles make each piece truly unique, capturing the hand of the maker and the showcasing our traditional craft.
Inspired by their much-loved, sell out, limited-edition Brass Wagtail Scoops, the stainless steel wagtail scoops are a new addition to Ferro Forma's Signature Flatware Collection. Robust and sturdy, ready for years and years of use in your home, they need little to no maintenance to keep them looking as good as new.
Choose between the small or large Wagtail Scoop - both perfectly suited to your daily rituals and little moments in your kitchen.
Whether you're scooping flour for baking brownies or measuring out tea leaves for a hot cuppa - a Ferro Forma wagtail scoop will no doubt be a favourite you reach for again and again for all manner of things! Keep out on a shelf as a beautifully crafted object to admire whilst being within reach for whenever you need it.
Material: Stainless steel, sold individually
Dimensions: 11cm long, 7cm wide across the bowl
About the Makers: Ferro Forma is the culmination of a long-standing partnership between Alison Jackson and Dan Lorrimer. They are a metalsmithing workshop specialising in handcrafted small batch edition objects that capture the hand of the maker and the heritage of our craft.
Alison Jackson is a designer, maker and contemporary Silversmith based in Braidwood, Australia. Completing a Gold and Silversmithing degree at the Australian National University, Alison holds over two decades of artistic and technical metal forming expertise.
With an aesthetic best described as elegant, timeless, and minimal, Alison showcases her work through her fine jewellery, tableware, large scale installation, limited editions and exhibition work.
Alison’s work is held in both public and private collections, including a large acquisition by the Canberra Museum and Gallery. A recipient of numerous notable awards and grants, Alison’s work has been exhibited widely within Australia and also internationally, including at Inhorgenta (Germany) and Milan Design Week (Italy).
Dan Lorrimer is a contemporary sculptor, machinist, fabricator and toolmaker. With a degree in Sculpture from the Australian National University, Dan has since diversified his work, significantly developing his skills across a wide range of technical areas, specialising in metal forming.
Dan’s sculpture practice explores notions of movement, energy, solidity and illusion through minimalist sculptural forms, often located between the artificial and natural world. He has exhibited widely across Australia and has work held in private collections across the country.
Photos: Karina Sharpe images 1, Lean Timms image 2