Lorraine Brigdale – 'Dillybag Brooch', 2023

To celebrate Vessels, NGV design store and Craft have curated a small selection of participating artists to produce a limited-edition retail offering exclusive to NGV design store and Craft.

Black fine wire dillybag brooch

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Lorraine Brigdale is a Yorta Yorta woman and multi media artist and designer and is based in Bendigo on Dja Dja Wurrung Country. Lorraine was commissioned for public artworks including the Creative Resilience Public Monument at Queen Victoria Womens Centre (commissioned by the Queen Victoria Women's Centre Trust together with the Victorian Government as part of the Victorian Women's Public Art program (VWPA). Lorraine won the Koorie Art Show Creative Victoria Award for Excellence in any Media, 2022 and Koorie Art Show Viva Energy Australia 3D Award, 2020. Her work is currently on exhibition at the NGV as part of Vessels .

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Vessel Project

June 1- July 29

The Vessel Project is an exploration of the vessel en masse, as imagined by Melbourne’s most creative practitioners. The showcase continues the examination of modern amphorae in Jugs, and celebrates Craft's curatorial collaboration with the NGV for Vessels – now showing as part of Melbourne Now at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia. 

Read about the exhibition.

Material: fine black wire

Dimensions: 2mm x 120mm x 50mm 

Photography: Henry Trumble