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ABC's "The Collectors" - Re-sale royalty?
May 7, 2010 One of my works recently resold via this program on the ABC television channel in Australia. My good friend Jane Burns, the foundation Executive Director of Craft Australia, noted: “I realised that you should now get some...
Read MoreJustice for Australian craftspeople
December 7, 2011 Filed under: Crafts in Australia — Tags: Craft problems in Australia — helmut @ 12:16 am I am one of the people involved in the current rush of letters, emails and circular discussions regarding the issue of...
Read MoreStudio Design in Technology Transfer - Design in a Scientific Research Program
STUDIO DESIGN in Technology Transfer. Design in a Scientific Research Program. The Core Project The ‘Innovative Technologies in the Design and Manufacture of High Value Furniture and Wood Products from Microwave-modified Wood’...
Read MoreCRC woodworks in Victorian public Galleries.
May 8, 2010 Filed under: Design for Wood — Tags: Lueckenhausen designs in public galleries and museums — helmut @ 1:51 am I was project manager for “Innovative Technologies in the Design and Manufacture of High Value...
Read MoreThe Crafts Council of Australia - Challenge and Opportunity
Lueckenhausen, H, The Crafts Council of Australia - Challenge and Opportunity Craft West, Western Australia It's been less than six years since I was 'absorbed' into the Crafts Council fraternity, chronologically a relatively...
Read MoreCulture in the Making: Ecumenism, Economics and the Arts
Lueckenhausen,H, Culture in the Making: Ecumenism, Economics and the Arts, The 1991 Gillian Bradshaw Memorial Lecture, Curtin University, 1991. To put this paper and of course my thinking into a context it helps to know that my background...
Read MoreCrafts downgraded by the Australia Council again
November 13, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: Craft problems in Australia — helmut @ 12:26 am In a review of 40 key organizations 12-13 September, the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council decided to bring a 40-year...
Read MoreVictorian State Craft Collection - Introduction To The Wood Collection
"Their sole passion directed, once their days of love had guttered, on the production of this wooden sculpture, and among the muddle of huts at the foot of the outer wall, existed a score of creative craftsmen whose position as leading...
Read MoreWhy Am I doing This?
Lueckenhausen, H, Why Am I Doing This? Craft Victoria, vol 21, no 207, March/April, 1991, pp 5-7 Lately a great deal has been written on the history, the status quo and the projected future of the crafts. In Craft Victoria alone, articles by...
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