The Museum magazine issue 22

Issue 22 has a design focus and responds to the exhibition Material World, currently showing in the Gandel Atrium. The publication has been commissioned by Lyndon Anderson, Swayn Senior Fellow of Australian Design at the National Museum of Australia. Contents include:
Lyndon Anderson on artists and designers working with glass, including Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello, Phirak Suon, Brandyn Callahan, Tony Koutsonikolas. Dylan Vlahopoulos, Sam Tomkins and Iain Maxwell.
David Whitbread on the ‘Golden Age’ of Australian travel posters, 1930s to 1950s, profiling influential mid-century artists Eileen Mayo, James Northfield, Gert Sellheim and Percy Trompf.
Simon Jackson in conversation with Jefa Greenaway on recent design projects and the built environment in the ‘Age of Treaty’.
Lyndon Anderson in conversation with skateboarder and participatory design advocate Nathan Pharaoh on riding the Uluru Line and designing accessible skateparks.
Curated photo essay with text by Craig Middleton on designing queer meanings around historical artefacts.
Penny Craswell on the biomaterial revolution and recent products by Sruli Recht, Kate Scardifield, Edward Linacre, Killing Matt Woods and Mycelium Studios artists for Melbourne Design Week 2023.
Luke Keogh in conversation with Genevieve Lacey on Breathing Space: A Rewilding in Sound, commissioned for the Garden of Australian Dreams.
Catriona Quinn surveys a postwar Australian history of interior design as the story of an emerging field.
Joni Taylor on four object stories from the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme in the National Museum’s collection.
ISSN 2200-247272 pagesNational Museum of Australia September 2023Cover image: Translucent Ecco Leather coat from the Apparition Collection by Sruli Recht. Photo: Marino Thorlacius.
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