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We are getting very close to finishing our wonderful extension to the studio. As well as the existing teaching space, kitchenette and bathroom, I now have a large space for my own work with multiple skylights to provide beautiful natural light to work under. We also now have a purpose built kiln room for the multiple kilns of varying sizes and purposes, and a wet room for mold making and coldworking.  It has made a huge difference for my weekly students, the courses we run, and for my own artistic practise. 

We have been gifted a magnificent window by the Prior family. It is a portrayal of Leonardo Da Vincis ‘Last Supper’ in stained glass spanning 2.6m wide x 1.35 m high. The window was made in memory of Mrs T.B Prior in 1955 and was displayed in Mosman Baptist for many years. It is a privilege to now display this work in the studio. 

At the end of March 2020 until June, I sadly had to temporarily close the teaching arm of my practise due to the Covid19 national restrictions. Although everyone who comes along was greatly missed, it provided an opportunity to regroup and to focus on the studio extension. We have now commenced this building project and will be using mudbrick earth construction, which will provide valuable additional workshop space. Teaching is now up and running again amidst the joys of soon to be mudbrick making days. The workshop is now functioning with strategies in place to meet the current state Covid requirements.

Just arrived home after a trip to Wagga to attend the opening of the biennial National Emerging Artist Glass Prize exhibition at the National Glass Gallery. I was honoured to receive the Highly Commended Award for my work Hope Upheld, seen here with Michael Scarrone – Curator of the National Glass Collection, and myself. The exhibition was judged by Suzanne Brett and Bethany Wheeler.

I was not only honoured to be selected as a finalist for Emerge 2018 at Bullseye Projects, Portland, Oregon, but thrilled to have won the silver Award for my work In Honour of Seeking, In Honour of Knowing, In Honour of Wisdom. Thank you Bullseye Glass for your ongoing support to glass artists around the world.

In August-September I travelled to the U.S.A to take up the Corning Museum of Glass Stanislav Libensky Award Prize. I spent two weeks taking a class called ‘Casting Voids’ with Richard Whiteley at The Studio – the teaching facility of the Corning Museum of Glass. It was an amazing time of learning, consolidating and expanding my thinking and ideas. I also spent just over a week in New York visiting the many amazing galleries, museums, and studios including Urban Glass, The Guggenheim Museum, the MET, and MOMA – a truly inspiring experience to carry forward into my practise.

My work Wisdom Contained, Wisdom Explained, Wisdom Revealed was selected as the winner of the Studio Glass Award at the Mansfield Arts Council Glass Exhibition in Victoria.

In January I attended the 2017 Ausglass conference – (r)evolve in Canberra and had a great time of learning, reconnecting with friends and colleagues, and also meeting many new fellow artists. At the conference exhibition I received the enormous privilege of being awarded the Vicki Torr Memorial Prize as voted by the Ausglass community with my work In Honour of Seeking, In Honour of Knowing, In Honour of Wisdom. Such an honour – thank you Ausglass.

My work ‘New Beginnings’ was selected by NAVA, (National Association for the Visual Arts) – to feature on their Christmas correspondence for 2016. Great to have glass represented in this way.

I was recently selected as a finalist for the Stanislav Libensky Award – an international glass exhibition which is held at the Prague Gallery of Glass in the Czeck Republic. Here I was awarded the Corning Museum of Glass Stanislav Libensky Award. The prize is a course at the Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass in the USA mid 2017.