Books and Cards
Greeting Cards
Regular price $7.50 Save $-7.50Eggpicnic believe in long lasting products and transparent and honest design processes. These cards are designed and made in-house in the Eggpicnic studio in Canberra.
Materials: Made in Australia with vegetable based inks on 100% recycled card
Dimensions: 13.3 x 13.3 cm
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: Lean Timms and Eggpicnic | Craft and Design Canberra
Blue Wren 1 (Black Ink on White Paper - Hand Coloured)
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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Correa (Black Ink on White Paper)
Regular price $8.00 Save $-8.00Materials: Lino print card - black ink on white paper
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.
Sulfur crested cockatoo
Regular price $8.00 Save $-8.00Materials: Lino print card - black and yellow ink on white paper
Dimensions: 10 cm x 15 cm
About the Maker: Lisa is a full time scientific research technician in the area of plant biotechnology and is 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.
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.
Magpie 4 (Black Ink on White Paper)
Regular price $8.00 Save $-8.00Materials: Lino print card - black ink on white paper
Dimensions: 10 cm x 15 cm
About the Maker: Lisa is a full time scientific research technician in the area of plant biotechnology and is 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.
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.
Red Wattle Bird (Black Ink on White Paper - Hand Coloured)
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 is a full time scientific research technician in the area of plant biotechnology and is 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.
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 (Black Ink on White Paper - Hand Coloured)
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 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.
Gingko 2 (Black Ink on White Paper)
Regular price $8.00 Save $-8.00Materials: Lino print card - black ink on white paper
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.
Gang-gang Cockatoo Linoprint Card (Black ink on White Paper, hand-coloured)
Regular price $8.00 Save $-8.00Materials: Lino print card
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.
Gingko 1 (Black Ink on White Paper)
Regular price $8.00 Save $-8.00Materials: Lino print card - black ink on white paper
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.
Kookaburra (Black Ink on White Paper)
Regular price $8.00 Save $-8.00Materials: Lino print card - black ink on white paper
Dimensions: 10 x 15 cm
About the Maker: Lisa is a full time scientific research technician in the area of plant biotechnology and is 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.
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.
Shine Dome 2 (Black Ink on White Paper)
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 is a full time scientific research technician in the area of plant biotechnology and is 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.
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.
Printed Art Cards
Regular price $8.00 Save $-8.00Materials: Print on card
Dimensions: L 150 mm x W 105 mm
Meet the Maker: Kiran is a visual and textile artist with extensive international experience in several parts of the world, currently based in Canberra. She creates wearable art in silk that is free-flowing, colourful and light. The colours and designs she uses are inspired by the Australian flora and fauna and her travels around the world.
Belconnen Owl Linoprint Card (Black ink on White Paper)
Regular price $8.00 Save $-8.00Materials: Lino print card
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.
Knit
Regular price $8.00 Save $-8.00Materials: Lino print card - black ink on white paper
Dimensions: 10 cm x 12.5 cm
About the Maker: Lisa is a full time scientific research technician in the area of plant biotechnology and is 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.
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.
Magpie 2 (Black Ink on White Paper)
Regular price $8.00 Save $-8.00Materials: Lino print card - black ink on white paper
Dimensions: 10 cm x 15 cm
About the Maker: Lisa is a full time scientific research technician in the area of plant biotechnology and is 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.
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.
Banksia (Black Ink on White Paper)
Regular price $8.00 Save $-8.00Materials: Lino print card - black ink on white paper
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.
Linoprint card "Tabby weave"
Regular price $8.00 Save $-8.00
Materials: Lino print card
Dimensions: 10 cm x 15 cm
About the Maker: Lisa is a full time scientific research technician in the area of plant biotechnology and is 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.
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.
Reindeer Linoprint Card (Red in on White Paper)
Regular price $8.00 Save $-8.00Materials: Lino print card - red ink on white paper
Dimensions: 10 x 15 cm
About the Maker: Lisa is a full time scientific research technician in the area of plant biotechnology and is 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.
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.
Linoprint card "Baldessin pears"
Regular price $8.00 Save $-8.00
Materials: lino print card
Dimensions: 10 cm x 15 cm
About the Maker: Lisa is a full time scientific research technician in the area of plant biotechnology and is 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.
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.
Black Swan (Black Ink on White Paper, hand coloured)
Regular price $8.00 Save $-8.00Materials: Lino print card - black ink on white paper
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.
Star Linoprint Card (Red in on White Paper)
Regular price $8.00 Save $-8.00Materials: Linoprint card
Dimensions: 10 x 15 cm
About the Maker: Lisa is a full time scientific research technician in the area of plant biotechnology and is 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.
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.
3 Chickens Card - Christmas Edition
Regular price $7.50 Save $-7.50Buy four cards of any design by Kellie MacFarlane Studio, and the fifth is free (with thanks from the artist)
Materials: Hand-painted watercolour image printed on card with white envelope
Dimensions: Approx. 105 mm x 148 mm
About the Maker: Kellie MacFarlane is a Canberra based artist, illustrator and author. She studied fine arts, children’s book illustration and pottery in London, England. Her watercolour artworks and patterns are inspired by our beautiful Australian bush land and animals. Kellie is currently working on her first children’s picture book.
Photos: Courtesy of the artist
Cat and Mouse Card - Christmas Edition
Regular price $7.50 Save $-7.50Buy four cards of any design by Kellie MacFarlane Studio, and the fifth is free (with thanks from the artist)
Materials: Hand-painted watercolour image printed on card with white envelope
Dimensions: Approx. 105 mm x 148 mm
About the Maker: Kellie MacFarlane is a Canberra based artist, illustrator and author. She studied fine arts, children’s book illustration and pottery in London, England. Her watercolour artworks and patterns are inspired by our beautiful Australian bush land and animals. Kellie is currently working on her first children’s picture book.
Photos: Courtesy of the artist
Christmas Gumnut 2 Linoprint Card (Red ink on White Paper)
Regular price $8.00 Save $-8.00Materials: Lino print card - red ink on white paper
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.
Beautiful Tensions Gray Street Workshop Celebrates Forty Years by Anne Brennan
Regular price $59.95 Save $-59.95On International Women's Day in 1985, Catherine Truman, Sue Lorraine and Anne Brennan opened a cooperative jewellers workshop in the stable block of an old mansion in Gray Street, Norwood, in Adelaide (South Australia).
Over the ensuing forty years and at five different addresses, Gray Street Workshop has provided workspace and professional support not just to the permanent partners in the workshop, but to more than one hundred artists who worked there as tenants, many of whom have gone on to establish major careers of their own.
This publication marks the fortieth anniversary of the establishment of this remarkable institution and acts as a companion for the JamFactory national touring exhibition Beautiful Tensions: Gray Street Workshop celebrates forty years, which features new work by the Workshop's four current permanent partners: Jess Dare, Lisa Furno, Sue Lorraine and Catherine Truman.
About the Author
Anne Brennan received her jewellery training at Jakob Kramer College in Leeds in the United Kingdom. She and Catherine Truman shared a small workshop in Mitcham for a time, before co-founding Gray Street Workshop with Sue Lorraine in 1985.
While working at Gray Street she also began to write about the visual arts, craft and design, an interest that eventually led to the offer of a temporary teaching position in the Art Theory Workshop at Canberra School of Art (now Australian National University School of Art and Design) and she left Gray Street in 1990.
Anne completed a Master of Visual Arts at ANU in 1994. She was offered a permanent position at ANU School of Art in 1995, where she continued to teach and work in several senior roles for 23 years.
During this time Anne also kept up her practice as an artist, most notably in two collaborative projects with Anne Ferran, Secure the Shadow at Sydney's Hyde Park Barracks in 1995, and Twice Removed at Maitland Regional Gallery in 2004. Her work is included in several major collections, including the National Gallery of Australia.
Since her retirement from ANU, she has continued to write on the visual arts, craft and design. Most recently she co-edited the textiles issue of Art Monthly Australasia (Winter issue 2024) with Julie Ewington and Blake Griffiths and contributed the catalogue essay for the 2024 retrospective exhibition of senior tapestry weaver Diana Wood Conroy at Wollongong Art Gallery.
Anne lives and works in Canberra on the traditional lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people.
Pre-order your book today for collection at Craft + Design Canberra.
Greeting Cards - Short Run Series
Regular price $8.60 Save $-8.60Limited Edition.
The Short Run Series are an attempt to be lest wasteful in the studio: often experimental, they are printed in small batches using offcuts of fine art papers. Each batch is unique, and often contain variations in tone. Once a design runs out, it will not be repeated in the same way.
Materials: Hand-set and printed letterpress card with white envelope
Dimensions: Variable. Square is approximately: 12.5 x 12.5cm. Rectangle: 11 x 16cm
About the Maker: Caren Florance (Ampersand Duck) works creatively with text and print in many different ways, but books remain close to her heart. She works predominantly with relief printmaking, both press-based and hand-printed. Other forms of mark-making find its way into her work, particularly via re-visitings of old technologies.
Images: Craft + Design Canberra
Gumnut 1 (Black Ink on White Paper)
Regular price $8.00 Save $-8.00Materials: Lino print card - black ink on white paper
Dimensions: 10 cm x 10 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.
Christmas Cards
Regular price $5.00 Save $-5.00Materials: Ink print on card
Dimensions: 180 x 110mm
Meet The Maker: Sharon Peoples has been developing techniques in machine embroidery on soluble fabric which has resulted in lace patterning.
Peoples combines an academic career as the Convenor of the Museums and Collections Program within the Centre for Heritage and Museums, at ANU with her visual arts practice. She writes on fashion theory and the crafts. Her work is represented in public and private collections as well as public commissions.
Greeting card set
Regular price $25.00 Save $-25.00Beautifully designed blank card and gift tag set, designed in Canberra by Clare Mazitelli.
Each set contains:
3 x greeting cards, blank inside (A6 size when folded)
3 x envelopes
3 x gift tags
3 x round stickers
Dimensions: H 16.5 cm x W 11.5 cm
Meet the Maker: Clare Mazitelli is the designer behind Hue Lane, her textile business run from Canberra, Australia, which makes thoughtfully designed accessories and homewares to cherish.
Inspired by travel and nature the designs are originally painted by Clare with a mixture of watercolours and acrylics creating beautiful painterly textures. The designs are printed in Australia on natural linen and linen/cotton blends and then made into products by ethically accredited Australian manufacturers.
Photos: courtesy of the artist.
Relief printed card
Regular price $12.00 Save $-12.00Relief printed greeting card with assorted designs. Made by hand in Canberra
Material: Awagami Bamboo paper with Gambling relief inks
Dimensions: 9.5cm x 10cm (folded); 20cm x 20cm (unfolded)
Meet the maker: Wendy Dawes is a Canberra-based artist working primarily with printmedia, investigating individual and collective memory and the fallibility of both. Dawes explores and responds to the materiality of paper, frequently using the fold as a trope for the making, keeping, obscuration and loss of memory.
Photography by Wendy Dawes
Christmas Heart Linoprint Card (Red in on White Paper)
Regular price $8.00 Save $-8.00Materials: Lino print card - red ink on white paper
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.
Kangaroo Paw (Black Ink on White Paper, hand coloured)
Regular price $8.00 Save $-8.00Materials: Lino print card - black ink on white paper
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.
NSW Christmas Bells (Black Ink on White Paper - Hand Coloured)
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 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.
Hearts Card
Regular price $8.00 Save $-8.00Materials: Lino print card - red ink on white paper
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.
Blue Banded Bee (Black Ink on White Paper - Hand Coloured)
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.
Pack of four assorted cards
Regular price $45.00 Save $-45.00Relief printed greeting cards made by hand in Canberra
Material: Awagami Bamboo paper with Gambling relief inks
Dimensions: 9.5cm x 10cm (folded); 20cm x 20cm (unfolded)
Meet the maker: Wendy Dawes is a Canberra-based artist working primarily with printmedia, investigating individual and collective memory and the fallibility of both. Dawes explores and responds to the materiality of paper, frequently using the fold as a trope for the making, keeping, obscuration and loss of memory.
Photography by Wendy Dawes
Espresso (Black Ink on White Paper)
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.
Ouroboros (Black Ink on White Paper)
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 is a full time scientific research technician in the area of plant biotechnology and is 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.
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.
Christmas Basket Linoprint Card (Red in on White Paper)
Regular price $8.00 Save $-8.00Materials: Lino print card - red ink on white paper
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.
Gingko 1 (Black Ink on White Paper)
Regular price $8.00 Save $-8.00Materials: Lino print card - black ink on white paper
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.
Framed Work
Regular price $650.00 Save $-650.00Materials: Silk + Cotton Thread
Dimensions: W 385mm L 310mm D 40mm
Meet the Maker: Kirandeep Grewal is a visual and textile artist with extensive international experience in several parts of the world, currently based in Canberra. She creates wearable art in silk that is free-flowing, colourful and light. The colours and designs she uses are inspired by the Australian flora and fauna and her travels around the world.
Images: Craft + Design Canberra