JENNIFER KING
CV
Jennifer King
Education
2012 Master of Fine Art by Research
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
2006 Graduate Diploma of Museum Studies
Deakin University, Burwood, Australia
2005 Bachelor of Fine Art - Honours
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Awards & Prizes
2016 - Selected Finalist - KIGA 2016: Kirra Illuminating Glass Award, Kirra Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
2012 - Selected Finalist - National Student Art Glass Prize 2012, National Art Glass Collection, Wagga Wagga, Australia
2011 - Selected Finalist - Stanislav Libenský Award 2011, Imperial Stables, Prague Castle, Czech Republic
Selected Finalist – Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Melbourne, Australia
Selected Finalist – Toyota Community Spirit Gallery 2011 Indoor Sculpture Prize, Melbourne, Australia
Selected Finalist – The Travelling Scholarship, Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland, Australia
Selected Finalist – Toorak Village Sculpture Prize, Toorak, Victoria, Australia
2010 - Selected Finalist – Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Melbourne, Australia
Selected Finalist – Ranamok Glass Prize, Touring Nationally 2010 – 2012, Australia
Grants
2016 - Australian Artists’ Grant, $1000, NAVA (National Association for the Visual Arts), Sydney, Australia
2014 - Travel Grant, $6000, Ian Potter Cultural Trust, Melbourne, Australia
2013 - ArtStart Grant, $10000, Australia Council for the Arts, Sydney, Australia
Residencies
2012 - International Kiln Forming and Kiln Casting Residency, North Lands Creative Glass, Scotland, United Kingdom
Solo Exhibition
2011 - Vitreous Fabric, ARB Gallery, Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne, Australia
International Group Exhibitions - Invitation
2015 - The Lie of the Land, North Lands Creative Glass, Scotland, United Kingdom
2012 - Beyond Tradition: Contemporary Glass In A Museum Environment, North Lands Creative Glass, Scotland
Intangible, North Lands Creative Glass, Scotland, United Kingdom
2011 - Stanislav Libenský Award 2011, Imperial Stables, Prague Castle, Czech Republic.
2010 - SOFA Chicago, Represented by Kirra Galleries, Chicago, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 - Guild {Home}, 1000 Degrees Glass Studios, Melbourne, Australia
2017 - Guild, 1000 Degrees Glass Studios, Melbourne, Australia
2016 - Aesthetics in a Time of Emergency, Craft ACT, Canberra, Australia
KIGA 2016: Kirra Illuminating Glass Award, Kirra Galleries, Melbourne, Australia.
2015 - Contemporary Glass: Refracting a History, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
A Sinister Beauty, Strange Neighbour, Melbourne, Australia
2014 - Encore Plus, Glass Artists Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
2013 - Australian Signatures: The National Art Glass Collection, National Art Glass Gallery, Wagga Wagga, Australia
The Black Object, Academy of Design Australia, Port Melbourne, Australia
Victorian Glass, Kirra Galleries and Albert Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2012 - National Student Art Glass Prize 2012, National Art Glass Collection, Wagga Wagga, Australia
Director’s Choice, Kirra Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Launch 2012, Glass Artists’ Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
2011 - Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Melbourne, Australia
Toyota Community Spirit Gallery 2011 Indoor Sculpture Prize, Port Melbourne, Australia
The Travelling Scholarship, Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland, Australia
Toorak Village Sculpture Prize, Toorak, Victoria, Australia
MM11: Monash Momentum In Motion, Kirra Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Media Specific, Monash University Faculty Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Peripheral Vision, Biennial Ausglass International Conference Exhibition. Sydney, Australia
2010 - Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Melbourne, Australia
Ranamok Glass Prize, Touring nationally 2010 – 2012, Australia
MM10: Masters and Mentors, 30 years Monash Glass, Kirra Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Tyro, Glass Plus Gallery, South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Greater Than One, Monash University Faculty Gallery, Caulfield Campus, Melbourne
Publications
2017 - Sculpture, Arms Race, New Glass Review 38, The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York, USA
2016 - Sculpture, Three Minutes to Midnight, Aesthetics in a Time of Emergency, Craft ACT, Canberra, Australia
2013 - Sculpture, Bâtiment Noir, Australian Signatures: The National Art Glass Collection, National Art Glass Collection, Wagga Wagga, Australia
2012 - Sculpture, Torsion, New Glass Review 33, The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York, USA
2011 - Sculpture, Crystal Vault, Stanislav Libenský Award 2011, Imperial Stables, Prague Castle, Prague, Czech Republic
Selected Bibliography
2016 - Simon Gregg, Aesthetics in a Time of Emergency, Garland Magazine, Issue 3, June 2016
Kerry-Anne Cousins, Aesthetics in a Time of Emergency: Craft as political commentary, The Canberra Times 3rd June 2016
Nic Crowther, Aesthetics in the Time of Emergency, The Shaker, Online, 6th June 2016
2012 - Glass artists are inspired by Lybster, John O’Groat Journal, Scotland, U.K. Published 6th June 2012
Artists prove they’re a ‘glass’ act, John O’Groat Journal, Scotland, U.K. Published 25th May 2012
2011 - Art Review: Stanislav Libenský Award, The Prague Post, Czech Republic, Published Wednesday 12th Oct 2011
Ranamok Glass Prize 2010, Craft Arts International, Vol. 81, March 2011. p. 98