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born in Nuriootpa South Australia
lives and works in Melbourne Australia
education
1994|97 Advanced Diploma in Applied and Visual Arts North Adelaide School of Arts
1989|91 Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies University of South Australia Adelaide
residencies
2011|18 ARIM (Artist Residency in Motherhood), Melbourne
2012|13 Australia Council for the Arts Visual Arts Board, Studio Residency London UK
2007 Artist in Residence, School of Jewellery, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, Birmingham City University Birmingham UK
2003|04 Assistant and Project Manager, Susan Cohn Workshop 3000 Melbourne
2002 Landscapes & Backgrounds, residency/site specific installation, with Greg Fullerton and Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery New South Wales
2001|02 Artist in Residence Metal Design Studio, JamFactory Contemporary Craft & Design Adelaide
2000 Artist in Residence, Silversmithing and Jewellery Department, Glasgow School of Art Scotland
1997|08 Access Jeweller, Gray Street Workshop Adelaide
select grants and awards
2018 Creators Fund, Creative Victoria
2018 Arts Projects For Individuals and Groups Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
2017 Arts Project Grant, City of Melbourne
2012 Skills and Arts Development, Australia Council for the Arts
2010 Ashington Mentorship Scheme (mentor), Helpmann Academy
2006 Skills and Arts Development, Australia Council for the Arts
2004 Arts Development Program: New Work Creation, Arts Victoria
2002 Emerging Artist Mentorship, (mentor Susan Cohn), Craftsouth; Centre for Contemporary Craft & Design and Workshop 3000 Melbourne
2001 Emerging Artists Professional Development Program: Project Assistance, ArtsSA
2001 Skills and Arts Development: New Work (Emerging) Australia Council for the Arts
1997|08 South Australian Youth Arts Development Grant, Artists in Studios Scheme, SAYAB Arts SA
solo exhibitions
2018 smother, Craft Victoria Melbourne
2018 permeate, Barossa Regional Galley Tanunda South Australia
2014 gleam, Gray Street Workshop Gallery Adelaide
2013 gloss, ACME Project Space London UK
2009 cosmetic, Craft ACT Canberra
2008 cosmetic, Craft Victoria Melbourne
2005 embellish, 23 Sherman Galleries Sydney
2002 probe, Craft Victoria Melbourne
2002 Grosseltern, Light Square Gallery, Adelaide Institute of Technology Adelaide
select group exhibitions
2020|23 Made/Worn;Australian Contemporary Jewellery, Australian Design Centre Sydney, NETS national tour
2021 Desire Paths, Centre for Craft Ashville North Carolina US
2020. She, Walker Street Gallery and Arts Centre Melbourne
2019 Family & Friends, Daine Singer Melbourne
2019 Body Control, Museum Arnhem Netherlands
2019 Museum of Platitudes and Aphorisms, c3 Contemporary Artspace & Rubicon Melbourne
2019 Verge, Bundoora Homestead Melbourne
2018 The Language of Things, The Dowse Art Museum Wellington New Zealand
2017 Masked, Holding House Detroit US
2017 Museum of Lost Public Notices, George Paton Gallery The University of Melbourne
2016 The SCOPE Galleries Art Award: Art Concerning Environment (high commendation), SCOPE Galleries Warrnambool Victoria
2015 Calendar Girls Project, Gray Street Alumni, Gray St Workshop Gallery Adelaide
2015 Victorian Craft Award (Directors choice), Craft Victoria Melbourne
2015 Move Me, Edinburgh Moving Image Festival, Embassy Gallery Scotland
2014 Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne
2013 Unexpected Pleasures; the Art and Design of Contemporary Jewellery, Design Museum London UK
2012 Tough Love, Australian Experimental Art Foundation Adelaide | Unexpected Pleasures, National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne
2011 Open Mind: International Contemporary Metal Art Exhibition/History & the New Material, Sungkok Art Museum Seoul Korea
2010 The Embassy Salon Show, Catalyst Arts Belfast Northern Ireland | By Example, The Museum of Arts & Crafts Itami Japan
2010 Extreme Beauty, Glassel School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston US
2010 Broadcast Yourself, (Embassy Gallery submission), No Soul For Sale: A Festival of Independents, Tate Modern London UK
2008 In the Making, Craft Victoria Melbourne | Refashioning the Fashion, Object Australia Centre for Craft and Design Sydney
2007 Fire Fire, The Narrows Melbourne
2007 Goldmember , Embassy Gallery Edinburgh Scotland
2006|07 Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award, National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne, NETS tour to regional galleries & Craft ACT
2006 Make the Common Precious, Centro Cultural Estacion Mapocho, Santiago Chile
2006 City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Hobart
2006 New Social Commentaries 06, Warrnambool Art Gallery Victoria
2005 Expiration, Project Space, RMIT University Melbourne
2005 Make the Common Precious, Craft Victoria Melbourne
2005 counter-productive, Craft Victoria Melbourne
2005 Shades of Gray: a survey of Gray Street Workshop access jewellers (1985-2005) JamFactory Contemporary Craft & Design Adelaide
2004 Design Down Under; Jewelry from Australia & New Zealand, Australian Embassy Washington DC and Bancroft Gallery South Shore Art Center Massachusetts US
2003 Cities of Silver and Gold, Craft ACT Craft & Design Centre Canberra
2002 8th Anniversary Holiday Invitational Exhibition, OXOXO Gallery Baltimore US
2002 Going Underground, in collaboration with Greg Fullerton, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery Broken Hill New South Wales
2001 City of Perth Craft Award, Craft West Gallery Perth
2001 Recent Acquisitions, Modern Jewellery Collection, National Museums of Scotland Edinburgh Scotland
2000 three point landing, Atrium Gallery, Glasgow School of Art Glasgow Scotland
select lectures and talks
2019 What do you think of when I say the word 'jewellery'? RMIT Design Hub Melbourne
2014 NC4 x2, NorthCIty 4, Melbourne
2014. gleam, artist talk, Gray Street Gallery, Gray Street Workshop Adelaide
2012|13 worn, Camberwell College of Arts, London UK and American University, Beirut Lebanon
2008|09 cosmetic, artist talk, Craft Victoria Melbourne and Craft ACT Canberra
2007 embellish, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design Birmingham City University UK, Glasgow School of Art and Edinburgh College of Art Scotland
2000 probe, North Adelaide School of Art Adelaide, Glasgow School of Art
2000 School of Jewellery Special Lecture Series: Tiffany Parbs, Edinburgh College of Art Scotland
select publications
2020 Mel Young, Everything and Nothing: Jewellery Beyond Adornment, Australian Design Centre Sydney
2020 Maria Maclennan, Forensic Jewellery: a Marriage of Two Worlds, Journal of Jewellery Research, Vol 3, pgs 41-59
2019 Derek Johnson (writer, dir & ed) and Luke Smithers (dir), Fragile Machine, film duration 6:02 mins, New York US
2016 Timotej Blažek (et al), Object and Material in Art and Education, Palacky University, Olomouc Czech Republic
2014 Xiao Liu, Li Piman, Contemporary Jewelry Design: Thoughts on Inspiration and Expression, China Youth Press International, Beijing China
2014 Kirsty Darlaston, Tough Love, Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts issue 77 Summer
2014 X, 10th Members Anniversary Edition Embassy Gallery, Workhorse Press Edinburgh Scotland
2013 Damian Skinner (ed), Contemporary Jewelry in Perspective, Sterling Publishing, New York US
2013 Susan Cohn, Exhibition in print: as seen by others: photography as strategy, Metalsmith vol 33 (4) pg 20-21
2012 Susan Cohn, Unexpected Pleasures: the Art and Design of Contemporary Jewellery, Skira Rizzoli New York US
2012 Bel Jacobs, ‘Ugly jewellery made beautiful: Unconventional accessories’, Metro News London, 3/12/2012
2011 Liesbeth Den Besten, On Jewellery: a Compendium of International Art Jewellery, Arnoldsche Art Publishers Stuttgart Germany
2010 Miquel Abellán, Dreaming Jewelry, Monsa Publishing Barcelona Spain
2009 Sakura Yokoyama (ed), Works by Tiffany Parbs: Artist, +ING Hair Magazine, issue #32, pg 38-41, Japan
2009 Diana Streak (arts ed), Body art with a message, The Canberra Times 24/03/09 pg 7
2006 Amy Sackville, New Directions in Jewellery II, Black Dog Publishing, London UK
2006 Michael Veitch, Sunday Arts, ABC Television Melbourne 16/04/06
2005 Kevin Murray, Craft Unbound: Make the Common Precious, Thames & Hudson Australia | Alex McDonald, Skin deep, State of the Arts Jul-Sept 05 pg 14
select catalogues
2021 Made/Worn: Contemporary Australian Jewellery, Australian Design Centre Sydney
2019 Claire McArdle, Verge, Bundoora Homestead Melbourne
2018 smother, texts by Daniella Watson and Tiffany Parbs, Craft Victoria Melbourne
2013 Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne
2011 Kiwon Wang, Open Mind: International Contemporary Metal Art, History and the New Material, Sungkok Art Museum ,Seoul South Korea
2010 Karen Findeis and Bridie Lander, By Example, The Museum of Arts and Crafts Itami Japan
2009 cosmetic, texts by Daniella Watson and Nella Themelios, Craft Victoria Melbourne
2005 Jane Devery & Danielle Whitfield, Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award, National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne
2005 Louise-Ann Zahara Expiration Project Space RMIT University Melbourne
2002 probe, text by Dr Kevin Murray Craft Victoria Melbourne
professional associations
ACME (Alumni Artist), London UK | Arts Hub, Australia | Craft Victoria, Melbourne | Gray Street Workshop (Alumni Artist), Adelaide | JamFactory Contemporary Craft & Design, Adelaide | Klimt02, Barcelona | NAVA (National Association of Visual Artists), Australia | NOD (Not Only Decoration), Vienna | Workshop 3000 Melbourne
collections
Modern Jewellery Collection, National Museums of Scotland Edinburgh Scotland | Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collections, Manchester | Rare Books Collection, State Library of Victoria Melbourne | private collections nationally and internationally