Common Goods: Cultures Meet through Craft

Common Goods: Cultures Meet through Craft, was exhibited at the Melbourne Museum as part of Festival Melbourne2006

Common Goods was a Craft Victoria exhibition produced for the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games.

You can visit the website here, or read an ongoing blog about the issues involved. There's also a rationale.

VISITING ARTISTS
Ahmed Nimad (Maldives) Audrey Boyle (New Zealand), Lewis Dick (Mauritius), Hlengiwe Dube (South Africa), Mary Farrugia (Malta), Niki Hastings-McFall (New Zealand), Zakir Hussain (India), Te Atiwei Ririnui (New Zealand), Margarita Sampson (Norfolk Island), Chandraguptha Thenuwara (Sri Lanka), Julie Tipene-O'Toole (New Zealand)

LOCAL ARTISTS
Kerri Ann Abbott , Jennifer Bartholomew , Lorraine Connelly-Northey , Lucy Irvine , Wendy Lugg ,
Mark McDean , David Ray