Dr. Kevin Murray

Dr. Kevin Murray is editor of Garland Magazine and Vice-President of the World Crafts Council – International. He is coordinating editor of the Online Encyclopedia of Crafts in the Asia Pacific and Latin America, with an African volume in progress. He co-founded the Knowledge House for Craft, is Senior Industry Fellow at RMIT University, and International Adviser for the Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2023. From 2000–2007, he directed Craft Victoria, developing the Scarf Festival and the South Project, a four-year exchange across Melbourne, Wellington, Santiago, and Johannesburg. He has curated major 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 (2005) and, with Damian Skinner, Place and Adornment: A History of Contemporary Jewellery in Australia and New Zealand (2014).