
Handmade Universe: From Craft to Code and the Spaces Between
Handmade Universe celebrates the rewards of making and the limitless scope it offers for invention and enquiry.
Ranging across disciplines – from craft to coding and from astronomy to botany – the works in this exhibition show how quiet and intimate self-led discovery can be a powerful way to connect with the universal themes of place, culture and identity.
Contemporary artists present newly commissioned works to sit alongside rare and remarkable items from State Library Victoria and other collections. Many of the collection items have never been on public display before and will give visitors a sense of surprise at what you would expect to encounter at a Library.
Two works of immense scale are at the centre of Handmade Universe – Mandy Nicholson’s striking textile work Dharangalk Biik I Star Country and Sarah Spencer’s epic knitted star map Stargazing.
Wheelchair accessible.
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Location 
Victoria Gallery
State Library Victoria
328 Swanston St
Melbourne 3000
Price and bookings
Booking not required

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