JAMFACTORY IS THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE EIGHTEEN OUTSTANDING FINALISTS HAVE BEEN SELECTED FOR THE 2022 FUSE GLASS PRIZE.
The judges reviewed high quality and diverse entries from across Australia and New Zealand. The winner of the FUSE Glass Prize Established Artist Category will receive a $20,000 non-acquisitive cash prize, with the winner of the David Henshall Emerging Artist Prize receiving a $2,500 cash prize plus a professional development opportunity at JamFactory valued at $2,500.
The finalists for the 2022 FUSE Glass Prize are:
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ESTABLISHED ARTIST CATEGORY:
Nicholas Burridge (Vic)
Matthew Curtis (NSW)
Jess Dare (SA)
Mel Douglas (ACT)
Liam Fleming (SA)
Hannah Gason (ACT)
Tom Moore (SA)
Jason Sims (SA)
Drew Spangenberg (SA)
Alex Valero (SA)
Janice Vitkovsky (SA)
Kathryn Wightman (NZ)
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DAVID HENSHALL EMERGING ARTIST PRIZE
Bronte Cormican-Jones (NSW)
Rose-Mary Faulkner (NSW)
Alexandra Hirst (SA)
Bronwyn Sargeson (ACT)
Michelle Stewart (Vic)
Jianzhen Wu (SA)
Coinciding with the United Nations International Year of Glass in 2022, the exhibition of finalistβs works will be shown at JamFactory from 13 May - 3 July 2022 followed by a tour to Canberra Glassworks from 24 August - 25 Setember 2022 and Australian Design Centre from 7 October - 16 November 2022.
The winners of the Established and Emerging Categories will be announced on the 12th May 2022.
The 2022 FUSE Glass Prize judges are Justine Olsen, Curator of Decorative Art and Design, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington; Aimee Frodsham, Artistic Director, Canberra Glassworks; Rebecca Evans, Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, Art Gallery of South Australia; Cobi Cockburn, Glass Artist and 2020 FUSE Glass Prize Winner; Brian Parkes, Chief Executive Officer at JamFactory.
Parkes says of the judging process that, βthe judges were excited by the high calibre of entries and the variety of approaches to working with glass, which included works that were hand-blown, kiln-formed, slumped or lamp-worked as well as pieces that incorporated neon lighting, industrially-produced float glass or recycled glass bottles.β The judges will come together in person to view the exhibition in May, before it opens to the public, to select winners from the twelve established and six emerging finalists.
Established in 2016, the biennial FUSE Glass Prize is supported in 2022 by founding donors for the prize, Jim and Helen Carreker along with the Hon Diana Laidlaw AM, David McKee AM and Pam McKee, Pamela Wall OAM and Ian Wall AM, Susan Armitage, Sonia Laidlaw, Trina Ross and Maia Ambegaokar and Joshua Bishop. The David & Dulcie Henshall Foundation have also generously supported the Emerging Artist Category of FUSE through the David Henshall Emerging Artist Prize.