Not So Easy: Australian Design and Identity Since Federation

Not so Easy is an exhibition that draws on the TMAG Decorative Arts collection to explore the changing relationship between design and identity in Australia.

The works span the period from Federation in 1901 to the early twenty-first century, encompassing the Arts and Craft Movement, mid-century Australiana, the Anglo-Japanese studio ceramics movement, Postmodernism and beyond.

Some of the exhibition’s highlights are the recently donated collection of works by pioneering Tasmanian potter, Violet Mace (1883-1968), mid-century Australiana from the Easterbrook Bequest collection and contemporary work by Australian Aboriginal designers and crafts persons.