2025 | Craft + Design Canberra Daily Creative Challenge

The Craft + Design Canberra Daily Creative Challenge is designed to redefine what creativity is.  Now in its 4th year the Challenge explores the theme of Rewilding, a call to return to untamed creativity, embrace imperfection, and connect with the raw, natural forces that shape both art and life.   Participants receive daily word prompts related to the theme of Rewilding via email throughout July, create a response using any creative technique and post an image to Instagram.

As CEO of Craft + Design Canberra i created this project several years ago as a means of connecting our community and sharing the benefits of daily creative practice with wider audiences, these benefits include improved wellbeing and cognitive function, productivity and self confidence.

I am participating in the challenge to be part of this rich connecting experience and reignite my creative energy in he winter months. I am not eligible for the prizes and participating to be part of our wonderful community.

For this year’s Challenge I hope to Rewild my creative practice by using a handmade process that is wildly different to my digital images, a contemporary jewellery technique of crocheting with copper wire.

Crocheting with wire is slow and repetitive and forces me to be present in the now. It is a quiet protest against the speed of contemporary living and the destruction it wreaks. A Rewilding antidote to the mayhem and a seed of alternate approaches to living and repairing our world.

For the 2025 Challenge my aim is to crochet sections of one long piece and or/ fragments that will all combine to create a one piece at the conclusion of the Challenge.