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Marian Hosking

Position Title

Studio Coordinator Metals and Jewelery

Qualifications

  • MA RMIT
  • PhD(in progress) Monash

Statement

Marian Hosking is an active participant in the national and international contemporary jewellery field. Continually researching, refining and exploring motifs and imagery, she constructs small objects and jewellery in her preferred medium of silver as well as in mother-of-pearl.

The importance and cultural relevance of jewellery and the hand crafted object is essential to her role as an educator and practitioner. As, " for Australians, nature is increasingly being hybridized with ideas of identity and history and hence cultural origins.

This allows Hosking's patterns to be seen as representations of social structures." (Alex Selenitsch, /Object /September 2001) Critical to the practice of her craft is "exactitude": seeking refinement of process and materials; a sensibility and sensitivity to the quality of idea, material and methodology .


Research/Professional activities

Awards

  • 2000
    • National Contemporary Jewellery Award
      Precious metal, Griffith, NSW
  • 1998
    • Rusden Foundation Award for Excellence in Silversmithing
      Buda, Castlemaine, Victoria

Commercial projects

  • 2003
    • Commissioned to Design and make Australia Council "Gifts"
  • 1998
    • Designed and made the Emeritus Award and Australia Council Medal for the Australia Council for the Arts

Conference papers

  • 2004
    • JMGA conference Melbourne - Four Silversmiths
      Contemporary Korean Metalwork
    • Curated Four Silversmiths
      Contemporary Korean Metalwork exhibition in Faculty Gallery Monash University

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2004
    • Familiar - Less- Familiar
      Academy Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania
  • 2003
    • Specific Pacific
      Gallery Funaki, Melbourne
  • 2001
    • Scattered Similarities
      Gallery Funaki, Melbourne
      Object Gallery, Sydney
  • 1999
    • Haku - Box
      Craft Gallery, Matsuya Ginza, Tokyo, Japan  
    • Sara - Plate
      Craft Gallery, Matsuya Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
  • 1998
    • Intimate Variations
      Gallery Funaki Melbourne, Australia
  • 1997
    • People, patterns, place
      Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Australia

In the past 9 years Marian Hosking has participated in group exhibitions in Tokyo and Nagoya in Japan,   Seoul and Cheongju in Korea, Shanghai, China, Vienna, Austria, Stuttgart and Munich in Germany, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Chicago, USA, London, Manchester and Birmingham in The United Kingdom and in the following states of Australia ; Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory.

Published material

  • Request Response Reaction : Designers of Australia and New Zealand
    Crafti, Stephen , Images Publishing Group, Mulgrave, Vic, 2002.

Research projects

  • Participant in HAT-Australia, Artist in residence, Brighton University, Brighton, United Kingdom.

Other

  • Ex-Officio president Craft Victoria

Links

 

  Staff Profile

Contact details:

p: +61 3 9903 2949
f: +61 3 9903 2845
email Marian