R Bell, Transformations: The Language of Craft, Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2005. Transformations is a celebration of the recent work of 85 leading international and Australian artists working in the area of studio craft and...
Read MoreJ. Smith, ‘Wunderkabinets, On the Shelves of Memory and in the Temples of the Wardrobe’, Object, No 3, 1999, p. 49. IF WE CAN SPEAK OF THE MYTHS WE LIVE BY, THEN WE CAN ALSO SPEAK OF OBJECTS AS BEING INTEGRAL TO OUR CONSTRUCTS OF...
Read MoreA. Griffiths, ‘Boutique Office Building’, Design Ink, No 13, July 1993, pp. 30-33 'A Collins Street building in Lygon Street' reads like real estate language, written to appeal to the more pretentious business person who...
Read MoreQuinn,H, From the Cabinet of Curiosity (review of exhibition at Lauraine Diggins Fine Art Gallery, Caulfield, Victoria, Nov-Dec 1998), Australian Wood Review, March 1999, pp. 65-66. Containers for treasures. Containers for memories. A...
Read MoreBogle, M, The Chicago Fifteen - Contemporary Australian Furniture, SculptureObjects Functional Art (SOFA), Chicago, USA, 1996 The story of furniture in Australia follows the pattern that Mark Twain observed during an Australian lecture tour...
Read MoreEd. Nathan, L, Profile Helmut Lueckenhausen, Design is Art That Makes Itself Useful, Australian Wood Review, Issue 3, 1993. The first lime I saw the work of Helmut, some ten or more years ago, I remember being intrigued as much by the forms...
Read MoreK. Murray, ‘The Cabinet of Helmut Lueckenhausen’, Craft Victoria, 29, 1999, pp. 17-19. At the end of an academic year, a psychology student told me that she was leaving for Tel Aviv so ‘I can get some furniture for my...
Read MoreMurray, K, Symmetry, Crafts Meet Kindred Trades and Professions, catalogue essay, 1994. In introducing crafts to their kindred trades and professions, two worlds come face to face. On the one hand, there is the world of the crafts, where...
Read MoreBogle, M and Landman, P, Modern Australian Furniture, Craftsman House, Roseville NSW, 1889, pp. 24-27 Helmut Lueckenhausen is a puzzling artist. He makes furniture, but it has all the attributes of sculpture. He seems a quiet, thoughtful...
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