RMIT University

Department Member, School of Art

Adjunct Professor

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Dr Kevin Murray is Adjunct Professor RMIT University, Research Fellow University of Melbourne and Australian Catholic University. 2000-2007 he was Director of Craft Victoria where he developed the Scarf Festival and the South Project, a four-year program of exchange involving Melbourne, Wellington, Santiago and Johannesburg.  He has curated many exhibitions, including 'Signs of Change: Jewellery Designed for a Better World';  'the World of Small Things'; 'Symmetry: Crafts Meet Kindred Trades and Professions'; 'Water Medicine: Precious Works for an Arid Continent'; 'Guild Unlimited: Ten Jewellers Make Insignia for Potential Guilds'; 'Seven Sisters: Fibre Works from the West';  'Common Goods: Cultures Meet through Craft' for the 2006 Commonwealth Games and 'Welcome Signs: Contemporary Interpretations of the Garland.'  His books include Craft Unbound: Make the Common Precious (Thames & Hudson, 2005). He is currently a Vice-President of the World Craft Council Asia Pacific Region, online editor for the Journal of Modern Craft and coordinator of Southern Perspectives, a south-south intellectual network. Projects in development include a history of Australian & New Zealand jewellery, the exhibition Southern Charms: New Power Jewellery Across the Pacific and a platform for Craft-Design Collaborations. He is convenor of Sangam: the Australia India Design Platform as part of the Ethical Design Laboratory at RMIT Centre for Design 

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