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Manningham Art Gallery has selected 59 finalists for the 2015 Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award:
Sue Acheson, Jane Annois, Robert Barron, Garry Bish, Jia Jia Chen, Amanda Christians, Tim Clarkson, Yvette DeLacy, John Dermer, Magdalena Dmowska, Naomi Eller, Phil Elson, Glenn England, Bridget Foley, Neville French, Lee Goller, Tatiana Gvozdetskaya, Georgia Harvey, Terunobu Hirata, Rahima Jackson, Wendy Jagger, Lene Kuhl Jakobsen, Kate Jones, Joanne Linsdell, Irianna Kanellopoulou, Varuni Kanagasundaram, Motoko Katsuta, Amy Kennedy, Janetta Kerr-Grant, Leana Kim, Chris Mason, Steven McClure, Susan McFarland, Darren McGinn, Sanné Mestrom, Lilach Mileikowski, Fiona Murphy, Mirta Ouro, Kirsten Perry, Robyn Phelan, Sonja Plitt, Christopher Plumridge, David Ray, Judith Roberts, Susan Robey, Ted Secombe, Ashleigh Sims, Dean Smith, Dawn Tang, Cyrus Tang, Dawn Vachon, Diana Williams, Prue Venables, Lesley Walsh, Dawn Whitehand, Alistair Whyte, Graeme Wilkie, Choon Yeok and Daniela Zimmermann.
The Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award was first established and developed in 2009 by Manningham Council to support Victorian Studio Ceramics and acknowledge the importance of ceramics in the region. The award recognises excellence in the field of studio ceramics and surveys the full scope from functional ware through to sculptural and conceptual works.
This year’s award offers a major prize of $8,000 and a general acquisitions and Valley of the Arts Award acquisitions pool of $6,000. The accompanying exhibition of finalists’ work surveys contemporary studio ceramics from across Victoria, whilst also celebrating the important place of ceramics in the Manningham region.
This year’s award is being judged by Robert Reason, Curator of European and Australian Decorative Arts at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Amongst the many exhibitions of his that have featured ceramics, the 2006 Gladys Reynell retrospective and accompanying monograph was a highlight. Widely published in craft and design, Robert also lectures in Art History for the University of Adelaide.
Award winners to be announced at the exhibition opening on Wednesday 15 July, 6-8pm at Manningham Art Gallery.
Manningham Art Gallery
15 July to 29 August, 2015
Melbourne
Winner of the 2013 Award. Manningham Art Collection: Petrus Spronk, Landscape of the mind, 2012, 16 x 26 x 26cm
