The National Emerging Art Glass Prize is a biennial competition, established to reward and promote innovation and excellence in contemporary glass open to current students or practising glass artists within five years of graduation.
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This year’s winner was Rose-Mary Faulkner for her work Continuum, an exquisite three-metre installation of two panels in kiln-formed glass.
“My current work presents a study of my own body from the restricted, subjective line of sight we have of ourselves, aiming to map the female figure through abstracted and layered photographic imagery in order to analyse form and surface,” Ms Faulkner said of Continuum.
“I investigate ways to observe and experience the body, expressed visually through soft dappled imagery, evocative of feeling and sensation.”
Established in 2010 and held every two years, the prize is recognised nationally and internationally as one of the premier events in Australian glass. As the home of the National Art Glass Collection, the gallery is proud of the role that this award plays in promoting glass as one of Australia’s most innovative artforms.
For the 2018 award, 29 of Australia’s most exciting new glass artists presented their entries and the exhibition features current students and recent graduates from universities across Australia including ANU, the University of South Australia, Monash University, WA’s Edith Cowan University and Curtin University and the University of Sydney.
Together, these extraordinary new talents showcase the future of Australian glass as one of the most dynamic, experimental, conceptually challenging and yet technically-skilled movements, worldwide.
The National Emerging Art Glass Prize 2018 exhibition is on display in the National Art Glass Gallery until Sunday July 29, 2018.
urban tapestry
Spanning over a decade of investigations, contemporary Australian artist Michelle Hamer’s, I am Part of a Living City exhibition highlights a unique practice of hand-stitched and drawn works based on ‘found’ urban texts and her own photography.
It includes works exploring highly-localised Australian street language through to markers of the most conflicted border zones in the world.
In an era of divisive politics Hamer’s work holds onto more subtle readings and mis-readings as it negotiates socio-political landscapes.
The works explore the fears and aspirations of everyday life through the lens of the artist’s own personal challenges as the slow-gridded nature of her practice contrasts with the easily-overlooked moments captured.