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Image Bank
About Image Bank
The Craft Australia Image Bank is a unique image archive of the Australian Studio Craft Movement from the 1960s to the present day. The Image Bank is part of the Craft Australia National Historical Collection and includes over 25,000 35mm slides of original artwork across the disciplines of gold and silversmithing, textiles, ceramics, glass and wood. This includes extremely rare material from the 1960s and 1970s that predates the establishment of most of Australia's tertiary training programs in craft and design and their associated libraries and research collections.
The slide collection is the most comprehensive collection of original artworks by Australian craft practitioners and designers practicing in Australia in the mid to late twentieth century.
If you were a craft artist during this time or you visited craft exhibitions during this period, it is likely that the image you remember will be in this collection.
Visit our flickr set National Historical Collection to view some of the Image Bank slides.
Save our stories
The Image Bank has been identified as the area in "most urgent need of preservation" and, with support from the National Library of Australia, Craft Australia has begun digitising this nationally significant collection.
Help us save our stories. With your support we can save the Image Bank and ensure that these works are not forever lost in the plastic slide sleeves of the past. You can help us make this irreplaceable cultural and historical resource accessible online and protect it for future generations to use.
We need $45,000 to complete the first phase of this project. Your support will enable us to digitise the Education Slide Kits that form part of the Image Bank and assist in making our history accessible online.
Help save our stories, save the Craft Australia Image Bank. Make a donation to the Craft Australia Australian Craft Fund and watch the pie grow as we reach our target.
Be part of Australia's history, save the past for a vibrant future.
Project target amount: $45,000.00
Donations received: $ 9,337.10
We still need: $35,662.90
The 5 most recent donations were received from:
- Karen Thompson
- catrina vignando
- Gary and Maureen Lisle
- Toss Gascoigne
- artisan - idea:skill:product
