2026 Loewe Foundation Craft Prize. Photo: Ilaria Orsini. Courtesy: the artists and Loewe Foundation.
As AI rapidly transforms creative industries, from architecture and fashion to writing and design, one question hovered over a recent conversation at National Gallery Singapore: what makes craft indispensable in an increasingly automated world?
Zabalbeascoa argued that this binary misunderstands both. ‘It would be a mistake to think of craft as something from the past,’ she said. ‘It can become something even more futuristic.’
Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW.
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