Blanche Tilden, Through the Lens 04, 2022, salvaged glass camera lens components, flameworked borosilicate glass, anodised titanium, oxidised 925 silver, rare earth magnets, 185mm diameter.
Blanche Tilden, Through the Lens 04, 2022, salvaged glass camera lens components, flameworked borosilicate glass, anodised titanium, oxidised 925 silver, rare earth magnets, 185mm diameter.
Jo Hawley, Home I, II & III, 2021, Sterling silver Home I (Brooch) – 108 x 20 x 11 mm; Home II (Brooch) – 114 x 27 x 12 mm; Home III (Pendant) – 100 x 62 x 10 mm, plus chain.
Jessie French, Atoll Bioplastic Algae series, 2021, algal polymer derived from macroalgae: Geldium sesquipedale [agar], vegetable glycerine, gelatin, dimensions variable.
Prue Venables, Stemmed Bowl and Sieve, 2021, Limoges porcelain, silver, Bowl: 150 x 240 x 175 mm, Sieve: 360 x 140 x 80 mm.
Beverley Meldrum, Kelp Necklace (detail), 2020, kelp, ghostnet, handmade brass chain, 200 x 300 x 300 mm.
Congratulations the artists and makers who have each won in the Victorian Craft Awards.
Awarded every two years, the Victorian Craft Awards covers categories from jewellery to design to ceramics to emerging talent. The winners for each 2022 award are (with images above):
The Lynne Kosky Award for Contemporary Jewellery
Awarded to Blanche Tilden
Through the Lens series, 2021
The Excellence Award
Awarded to Damien Wright and Bonhula Yunupingu
Rom’mirri (Keeper of the Law), 2021
Jewellery Encouragement Award
Awarded to Jo Hawley
Home I, II and III, 2021
The Jardan Craft Award
Awarded to Jessie French
Bioplastic algae series, 2021
The Ceramics Award
Awarded to Prue Venables
Stemmed Bowl and Sieve, 2021
Encouragement Award
Awarded to Beverley Meldrum
Kelp necklace, 2020
Established in 2015 and now in its fourth iteration, the Victorian Craft Awards is Australia’s only awards event solely dedicated to craft and design. This year’s awards were initially postponed from September 2021 due to ongoing lockdowns, and features 59 finalists from a variety of disciplines, including Adam Markowitz & Oliver Tanner, Alexsandra Pontonio, Ana Petidis, Anke Kindle, Australian Tapestry Workshop & Troy Emery, Beverley Meldrum, Blanche Tilden, Cara Johnson, Damien Wright & Bonhula Yunupingu, Darren Healey, Ema Shin, Jessie French, Lee Darroch, Lindy McSwan, Lisa Waup, Liv Boyle, Louise Meuwissen & Ebony Russell, Sophia Cai, Thomas Lentini, among many others.
The winning works, alongside all 59 finalist works, will be showing at Craft Victoria until 21 May.
Victorian Craft Awards
Craft Victoria
5 April—21 May
In an Australian first, the Art Gallery of Western Australia presents Moving Landscape—an exhibition by internationally acclaimed US artist Sam Contis, curated alongside Dr Anna Arabindan-Kesson.
Hobart-based Max Mueller’s In the Sticks exhibition at Handmark Gallery features oil-on-linen works that show tranquil scenes of Tasmania, musing on how nature is managed and maintained in a context of civilisation and curation.
Inspired by the ways in which nature informs creativity, the exhibition Material Nature, now showing at Drill Hall Gallery, aims to encourage viewers to think deeply about the human connection to the natural world.
Now showing at HOTA, Writers Revealed is an ambitious exhibition covering six centuries, presenting manuscripts, letters, illustrations and rare editions from many of the most influential authors in English literature.
Traversing boundaries of the senses and of class, the work of Tina Stefanou is grounded in community. A solo exhibition at ACCA and a group exhibition at Bundanon showcase her work with unlikely collaborators.
Congratulations to Julie Fragar, who has won the 2025 Archibald Prize for Flagship Mother Multiverse (Justene), her portrait of fellow artist and colleague Justene Williams.
