Grace Cochrane
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia

The role of the real

References:

Stephanie Britton, comment on discussion paper ‘Handmade at the heart of things’, Interact: Contemporary craftin a digital future, Craft Australia website: http://www.craftaus.com.au/phorum/index.php

Grace Cochrane, ‘Handmade at the heart of things’: Object magazine, no. 44, June 2004, reprinted (with essays by others) in Craft Australia, ‘Interact: the crafts in a digital future’: http://www.craftaus.com.au/phorum/index.php

Anna Somers Cocks, ‘Marketing the Permanent Collection’ in ‘Communicating the Museum’, 4th International Conference, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Valencia, Spain, 1-2 July 2004; in The Art Newspaper, Sat 25 September 2004; http://www.theartnewspaper.com/index.asp,

Sir Christopher Frayling, in ‘Shapes of things to come: What does the future hold for the crafts?’ Crafts, No 181 March/April 2003

Paul Greenhalgh, in ‘Shapes of things to come: What does the future hold for the crafts?’ Crafts, No 181 March/April 2003

Peter Hughes, ‘The argument against design’, Interact: Contemporary craft in a digital future, Craft Australia website: http://www.craftaus.com.au/phorum/index.php

Robert Hughes ‘A bastion against cultural obscenity’, speech at Burlington House, June 2, 2004, in The Guardian, June 2003.

Sarah Kenderdine and Tim Hart, ‘This is not a Peep-Show: the Virtual Room at Melbourne Museum, VROOM’, presented at seminar, ‘The death of interpretation?’, Museums and Galleries Foundation of NSW, Museum of Sydney, 23 July, 2004.   Click here for further info   

See also http://www.vroom.org.au    

iCinema web page; http://www.icinema.unsw.edu.au

David Revere McFadden, in ‘Shapes of things to come: What does the future hold for the crafts?’ Crafts, No 181 March/April 2003

Anne Stenros, ‘Good design goes global: the Fennia Prize 2003 Competition’, presentation at Finlandinstitutet, Stockholm, 8 April, 2003, in Form Function Finland 1/2003

Leo Tolhurst, ‘FYI: a beginner’s guide to the modern world: Cool craft’, Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend p 11, July 3, 2004

Stephen E. Weil, Making Museums Matter, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC, 2002

Grace Cochrane is senior curator of Australian decorative arts and design at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia. Since starting there in 1988 she has had a key responsibility for the development of the holdings of contemporary Australian crafts and design, has worked on numerous exhibitions within the museum and is currently co-ordinating teams developing a permanent collection-based decorative arts and design gallery for mid- 2005 and a major exhibition on the theme of design, industry and the handmade, in 2006.

Born in New Zealand, Grace Cochrane has a background in both art and education. She gained a B.Ed (1976) from the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education, and BFA, MFA (1984, 1986) and PhD (1999) from the University of Tasmania. Her professional appointments have included membership of both the Crafts Board and the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council.

She is the author of the The Crafts Movement in Australia: a History, NSW University Press, 1992; has contributed to a number of other publications; given lectures and papers in all fields of the crafts; and has a long record of judging awards, opening exhibitions and assessing graduating students. Following exhibition and collection research in SE Asia in 1994 she co-ordinated museum training workshops for ASEAN museum professionals in Malaysia in 1995. She received the Australia Council’s Visual Arts/Craft Board’s Emeritus medal in 2001.