Kevin Murray

Dr Kevin Murray is the editor of Garland Magazine. He is also Vice-President of World Crafts Council - International, coordinating editor of the Online Encyclopedia of Crafts in the Asia Pacific Region and the Encyclopedia of Crafts in Latin America (the next volume about African crafts is in development). He is the co-founder of the Knowledge House for Craft, Senior Industry Fellow at RMIT University and International Adviser for the Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2023. In 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 ‘Symmetry: Crafts Meet Kindred Trades and Professions’; ‘Water Medicine: Precious Works for an Arid Continent’; and ‘Seven Sisters: Fibre Works from the West’. His books include Craft Unbound: Make the Common Precious (Thames & Hudson, 2005) and, with Damian Skinner, Place and Adornment: A History of Contemporary Jewellery in Australia and New Zealand (Bateman, 2014).

Kevin Murray's recent articles

Beyond a consumer boycott: We need to divest US brands from our language

Beyond a consumer boycott: We need to divest US brands from our language

The other day, I asked my ride-share driver which platform offered him the best deal. He told me Didi gives more back to the driver, but he has to use the Uber app because everyone knows Uber. It's the first thing they think of.

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