Object: stories of design and craft
Australian Podcast Awards finalist 2022 and 2023.
Meet the makers shaping contemporary craft and design in Australia. Hosted by Lisa Cahill, CEO and Artistic Director of the Australian Design Centre, Object goes into the studio with Australia’s most acclaimed craftspeople to ask how they make, why it matters, and how they keep going.
Series 3: Behind the scenes of the MAKE Award. Go inside Australia’s richest national award for contemporary craft and design. Meet 2025 winner Cinnamon Lee, whose jewellery-meets-lighting piece Noctua is packed with hidden meanings, and 2023 winner Vipoo Srivilasa. Hear from finalists High Tea with Mrs Woo, Julie Blyfield, Csongvay Blackwood and Johannes Kuhnen, and from judges Jason Smith, Hyeyoung Cho, Brian Parkes and Simone LeAmon on what makes a prize-winning work.
Series 2: Clay Connections. Ceramics is everywhere, and these five episodes show why. Hear from Ilona Topolcsanyi (plates for presidents and chancellors), Brett Stone, Jane Sawyer, Robyn Phelan and Eva Czernis-Ryl on collecting, teaching, writing about and curating clay.
Series 1: Masters of Craft. Australia’s living treasures put down their tools and talk. Helen Britton, Prue Venables, Jeff Mincham, Lola Greeno, Liz Williamson, Les Blakebrough, Marian Hosking and Robert Baines share career-defining moments and blunt advice for makers today. Plus an audio tour of seven key works from Helen Britton’s exhibition The Story So Far, and a bonus episode on the making of the Living Treasures series with Brian Parkes.
Object is produced by the Australian Design Centre. Host and Executive Producer: Lisa Cahill. Producer: Jane Curtis. Media and Production Support: Alix Fiveash. Sound: John Jacobs.
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