C A N B E R R A M U S E U M A N D GA L L E RY
FOREWORD The Art of Giving : Acquisitions from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund is a celebration of one individual’s generosity, foresight, and commitment to creative practice. Meredith Hinchliffe is the longest standing personal donor to the Canberra Museum and Gallery (CMAG). Her annual donations have allowed CMAG to acquire a significant body of works, as well as providing a major source of support for the artists and craftspeople of the Canberra region. Meredith’s personal contributions have had, and continue to have, a significant cumulative impact. They give CMAG the capacity to represent the diversity, nuance and richness of our region’s craft and visual art practice to a degree we would not otherwise be able to achieve. They are a major support to us in developing our collection with certainty, confidence and pride.
The Art of Giving will recognise and honour Meredith’s remarkable generosity, showcase the treasures we have been able to acquire through her donations, and convince others of the value and importance of philanthropy, both for collecting institutions and for the creative practice of artists and craftspeople.
Harriet Elvin Chief Executive Officer Cultural Facilities Corporation May 2019
This generosity by a private individual continues to be a great inspiration to us. It acts as a powerful endorsement of what CMAG is doing. It assists us in our role of exploring and presenting the Canberra region’s creative practice in depth and detail. And it provides a lasting legacy of works for the benefit of our community.
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THE ART OF GIVING Museum collections grow in both purposeful and sometimes idiosyncratic ways. Canberra Museum and Gallery (CMAG) has a very recent history. Canberra, for a National Capital, is a ‘young’ city and the idea of establishing a museum to express its character and culture did not come until over 85 years after it was founded in 1913. As a cultural institution, CMAG sits within an already rich local ecology of collecting institutions – however their purpose is to reflect the Nation, and the vision of CMAG is deliberately and proudly different. In gathering together the works acquired for the CMAG Collection through the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund, from its inception in 2004 to the most recent acquisitions made in 2018, it is possible to reflect on what these works of art and design might collectively express about our time and this place. Most of the works were acquired contemporarily to their making. Assessing significance with such immediacy can be challenging. In some cases, it has allowed CMAG to acquire rare and unique works within our budget by artists who have gone on to establish significant international careers. It has also allowed the purchase of works by local artists who are already held in National or international collections but were not represented to their own community. Meredith graciously does not make suggestions for the use of her funds, so all the works have been selected by CMAG’s professional staff. 2
A CREATIVE ECOLOGY OF LEARNING, TEACHING, MAKING AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP By the 1990s something special was going on in Canberra in terms of the quality and diversity of local creative practice. Previously local art and design making had been tenuous, with a small circle of private galleries, a clutch of maker spaces doing great work on a shoestring and major commissions for public art generally for artists with a national profile. However, during the 1970s – 80s, there were the seeds of enthusiastic and entrepreneurial practice particularly in ceramics. The Fund allowed CMAG to purchase a group of early locally made studio ceramics originally collected by gallerist Barbara Mayo. These include works by Janet DeBoos, Doug Alexander, Jan Dunn, Ralph Jeffress, Bernd Weise and Rachel Taylor. More recent works reflect the main factor in driving the change towards a richer local ecology of practice. The development of specialist courses in studio practice from the late 1970s at Canberra School of Art has drawn generations of artists to study and to teach in Canberra and offered locally born practitioners such as Kirstie Rea and Ruth Oliphant the chance to be educated to a high standard within their own, relatively small city. Robert Foster who went on to establish F!nk, the internationally acclaimed design studio based in Queanbeyan, came from Victoria to study hollow-ware and jewellery under Ragnar Hansen and Johannes Kuhnen. Painter Marie Hagerty came from Sydney and
continues her studio practice here. Their collaboration for silver, red, yellow, grew from a shared interest in each other’s practice from their student days in the 1980s. The Australian National University’s (ANU) Glass Workshop has similarly fuelled excellence in glass as well as personal connections between makers. This is reflected in the collection with the elegant red vessel by Edols and Elliot, who met as students and have gone on to develop their blown glass making practice together. The energy from now a generation of these graduates has been critical to the success of Canberra Glassworks and Oliphants’ delicate but poignant Water cycle was made there. Ceramicists Martin Halstead, Moraig McKenna, Ian Jones and Kaye Pemberton have developed rigorous professional studio practices grounded in their Canberra based study.
PLACE Canberra’s high-country climate, big skies, intense light and expansive views are immediately compelling for artists. Encouraged by the fingers of raw bushland that weave in and around the suburbs, it is also a place where it is possible to develop an intimate knowledge of the natural environment from your backdoor. Two of the most recent acquisitions reflect a deep knowledge of country. Paul House is a Ngambri elder and his collaboration with Tom Rowney at the Canberra Glassworks to make a glass yidaki (Didjeridu) reflects
his intimate cultural knowledge of the flows of the Murrumbidgee River, its deep resonate sound reminding us of the power and force of this water in shaping the landscape. Gail Nichols’ work Stormwatch evokes the misty dripping escarpment she sees from her studio in the bush outside Braidwood. The aesthetics of Debra Boyd-Goggin’s elemental wheel thrown stoneware are grounded in the dry grey brown soils of the region and Sally Blake developed her delicate Seed Baskets made of silver and wool through her time as artist in residence in Namadgi National Park on the southern edge of the ACT. Cathy Franzi’s vase forms in porcelain incised with depictions of the Ginninderra Peppercress and Crimson Bottlebrush are drawn from her scientific study of local flora and a personal family history of bushwalking in the region. Stephen Holland has literally made his sensitive sculptural works from objects and materials found in the landscape. Anita McIntyre and Dianne Firth developed more abstracted visual language to reflect place and Helen Aitken-Kuhnen’s brilliantly coloured kiln cast glass vessel came partly as a response to the intense drought and raging fires that swept the city in 2003. Responses to place are not all that of the natural world. Patsy Hely brings wry observation of local identities and events in her tea set series and Deirdre Brocklebank has turned the formal view of the planned city into a playful hand-knitted suntop.
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THE DESIGNED CITY The Centenary year in 2013 was an opportunity for a range of creative projects to consider the impact of the Griffin plan and the ambitions for the founding of the National Capital. Stephanie Cantoni’s delicate tapestry portrait celebrates the once unsung work of Marion Mahoney Griffin in shaping that vision. The souvenirs commissioned by Craft ACT by a range of local practitioners, are evidence of a new playful confidence in celebrating the city.
CONNECTED WITH THE WORLD From the outset of its development, Canberra was outward looking as the place where the Federal Government shaped Australia’s place in the world. It also drew regular international visitors, many of whom went on to make their lives here. The CMAG Collection features the work of international artists who have developed and maintained a significant practice here. Anna Eggert, Luna Ryan, Kensuke Todo, and Sarit Cohen bring their respective cultural backgrounds from Croatia, the Netherlands, Japan and Israel to inform their work. At the same time the openness of opportunity has allowed them freedom to step beyond the conventional aesthetics of their nationalities. Nadège Desgenétez brings her sophisticated French training to her role as a lecturer at ANU since 2005 and has gone on to influence a generation of students with this global experience. 4
Global connections have also gone the other way. Scott Chaseling studied at the ANU but for much of his practice he has been an inveterate artistic traveller – undertaking residencies and projects all over the world. CMAG holds one of his early works, made with a complex combination of glass making techniques that vividly demonstrate the possibilities of innovation applied to ancient methods.
A PLACE OF INNOVATION A high regard for critical enquiry and innovation has been a significant element within Canberra based creative practice. The collection includes a rare and important early work by Gilbert Riedelbauch who, in 2004, pursued the emergent technology of 3D modelling in combination with his original German training in fine metalwork to produce a pair of delicate jewel boxes. Kirstie Rea subverts the glistening pristine aesthetic of contemporary glass by creating glass forms that intervene with the old and worn hand tools which are so much a part of the working landscape of the region. Michael Le Grand has been one of the city’s most influential artists, his involvement both as teacher at ANU and with major outdoor sculptural events of Floriade and the Canberra National Sculpture Forum bringing his sculptural practice to many. Eclipse is a fine and disciplined work that embodies power and movement within stasis.
TELLING STORIES AND SPEAKING OUT At the heart of the impact of many of these works is their ability to create new narratives conjured through a layering of personal histories, technical innovation and a sensitivity to place and cultures. Ruth Waller is represented by two major paintings spanning almost 20 years and this time frame reflects the depth of her practice in Canberra and her impact as a teacher to generations of students. Painting with quatrefoil is a complex work of passages, vistas and textured surfaces drawn from her consideration of early Italian Renaissance painting. Elizabeth Charles’ dry glazed ceramic sculpture Shrine also reflects a considered appreciation of historical forms – in her case of Islamic cultures. In contrast Rachel Bowak finds potency in humble objects with her fine renderings in stainless steel of the tools and the cleaning implements that are integral to her daily life and practice Artists also seek to bring personal response to some of the great environmental concerns of our time. Ann McMahon’s Blind Shark vividly speaks to the dangers of plastic pollution to creatures inhabiting our oceans. Abstract painter Derek O’Connor travelled to Antarctica and both his delight in experiencing this new landscape and his alarm in bearing witness to the evidence of rapid changes in the ice is reflected in his sweeping, dripping painting.
Lyndy Delian’s golden blown glass Turtle shell – connections appears fluid and glistening. The work embodies the artist’s intent in finding ways to express the connectedness between the animals, plants and country that are bound together through Aboriginal cultural understanding. In the early sculptural work by Danie Mellor, made at the end of his time studying at ANU, the artist has sought a way to capture both contemporary and colonial representation of place upon the form of a North Queensland rainforest shield of his traditional country. Across all these works there is a rich dialogue between the ideas of the artist and how they are expressed through materiality and technical process. This reflects Meredith Hinchliffe’s long-standing advocacy for the value of the voice for artists and designers within the community. 10 vessels 10 days by designer and maker Alison Jackson cogently sums up so much of the qualities of what this Fund has been able to acquire. A rigorous experimental work by an early career designer maker, educated in Canberra, the 10 exquisite vessels were literally made over 10 days. Sited together the work can be read as a landscape of ideas threaded by the bounty of a bubbling ecology of creative practice that CMAG is delighted to be able to represent and hold for the city. Virginia Rigney Senior Curator, Visual Art Canberra Museum and Gallery 5
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Anita McINTYRE Born 1942 Queanbeyan. Studied and practices Canberra
Tablet 1 - walking with ancient rocks, 2004 Southern ice porcelain, porcelain slip, millefiori, terra sigillata 38 x 55 x 10 cm 6
Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2004 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Helen AITKEN-KUHNEN Born 1952 Melbourne. Practices Canberra
Drought Bowl, 2005 Kiln cast and polished Bullseye glass 27 x 20 x 19 cm Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2005 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Scott CHASELING Born 1962 Tamworth. Studied Canberra. Lives Goulburn, NSW. Practices internationally
The Cleansing, 2004 Painted, fused and blown glass vessel 51 x 24 x 24 cm 8
Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2005 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Anna EGGERT Born 1952 Croatia. Australia from 1962. Studied and practices Canberra
Margarita, 2004 – 2005 Stainless steel mesh with enamel paint 82 x 77 x 54 cm 10
Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2005 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Debra BOYD-GOGGIN Born 1971 Papua New Guinea. Studied Canberra. Practices Queanbeyan
Mumma, 2006 Wheel thrown, glazed stoneware 42 x 25 cm 12
Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2006 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Elizabeth CHARLES Born 1960 Murwillumbah. Studied and practiced Canberra. Lives Southern Highlands, NSW
Shrine IX, 2006 Handbuilt stoneware with coloured slips , matte glaze 40.5 x 17.5 cm Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2006 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Martin HALSTEAD Born 1961. Studied and practiced Canberra. Practices South Coast, NSW
Untitled, 2006 Wheel thrown ceramic with applied gold leaf and metal element 60 x 28 x 28 cm 14
Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2006 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Moraig McKENNA
Born 1972 Scotland. Australia from 1974. Practices Gundaroo, NSW
Flower basket, 2006 Wood fired stoneware, celadon glaze 20 x 17 x 6 cm
Flower basket, 2006 Wood fired stoneware, ash glaze 31 x 17 x 5.5 cm Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2006 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Danie MELLOR Mamu/Njadjonji Language group. Born 1971 Mackay. Studied and practiced Canberra. Lives Southern Highlands, NSW
A moment of rest by Bluewater, 2006 Under glazed press mould earthenware 78 x 37 cm 16
Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2006 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Kaye PEMBERTON Born 1954 Sydney. Studied and practices Canberra
A good start to the day, 2006 Porcelain, murini motifs Teapot 15 x 20 x 12 cm 18
Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2006 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Derek O’CONNOR Born 1957 Warwickshire, England. Australia from 1969. Studied and practices Canberra
Iced, 2006 Oil on canvas 110 x 115.5 cm 20
Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2008 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Kensuke TODO Born 1975 Kyoto. Australia from 1999. Studied and practices Canberra
Apex, 2008 Mild steel 105 x 77 x 37 cm 22
Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2008 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Steven HOLLAND Born 1960 Dwellingup. Studied Canberra. Practices Michelago, NSW
Monaro (diptych), 2001 Gouache on sheep skulls, on welded fencing wire bracket 40 x 40 x 15 cm (each) 24
Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2009 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Sarit COHEN Born 1967 Israel. Studied and practices Canberra
Three Blue Temples, 2010 (this page) Porcelain, slip cast, transparent glaze, under glaze oxide 23 x 12 cm (dia.)
Tangled, 2010 Plate, porcelain, celadon glaze, under glaze oxide and carving 5.5 x 36.5 cm (dia.)
Beautiful, 2010 Plate, porcelain, celadon glaze, under glaze oxide and carving 3.5 x 26 cm (dia.) Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2010 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Patsy HELY Born 1946 Sydney. Studied, taught and practices Canberra
Jug: school anniversary, Queanbeyan, 2009 (next page)
Porcelain with under and over glaze colours 14.9 x 11.6 x 8.2 cm
Jug: Marion Halligan and interviewer, 2009 Porcelain with under and over glaze colours 15.2 x 8.5 x 5.4 cm Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection Purchased 2010 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
Cup and saucer: Quentin Bryce, Carla Zampatti, Government House, 2009 Porcelain with under and overglaze colours 5.6 x 12.1 cm Blown glass saucer by Nadège Desgenétez
Cup and Saucer: Ian Chubb, 2009 Porcelain with painted under and overglaze colours 5.8 x 12.2 (dia.) cm Wooden saucer by Peter Filmer 26
Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2011 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Steven HOLLAND Born 1960 Dwellingup. Studied Canberra. Practices Michelago, NSW
Australian Ravens, 2007 Plastic bin liners over wire frame with mother of pearl 22 x 47 x 12 cm [each] 28
Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2010 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Anita McINTYRE Born 1942 Queanbeyan. Studied and practices Canberra
China cup #4, 2010 (this page) Porcelain paper clay, slip cast, tissue paper transfer, glaze, stains, decals 9.5 x 6 x 4.5 cm
China cup #10, 2010 Porcelain paper clay, slip cast, tissue paper transfer, glaze, stains, decals 9.5 x 6 x 4.5 cm
Home valley, 2010 Mono print porcelain paper clay, porcelain slip, terra sigillata, millefiori with Perspex frame 10.5 x 22 x .5 cm
Place born, 2010 Mono print porcelain paper clay, porcelain slip, terra sigillata, millefiori with Perspex frame 10.5 x 22 x .5 cm
Collage of a journey, 2010 Keraflex porcelain, ceramic pencil, decals, stamps and tissue transfer, Perspex frame 44 x 51 x 3 cm Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2011 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Ann McMAHON Born 1959 Canberra. Studied and practices Canberra
Blind Shark, 2010 Recycled plastic bags, wire, cable ties, (wire frame manufactured by Rohan Thinsmith) 37 x 110 x 46 cm Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2011 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Ruth WALLER Born 1955 Sydney. Taught and practices Canberra
Deposition two (garbage suite), 2007 (this page) Synthetic polymer paint on canvas 152 x 106 cm
Painting with quatrefoil, 1999 (next page) Synthetic polymer paint, oil on canvas 140 x 180 cm 32
Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2011 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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The Duty Cycle, 2006 Adjustable wrench (C) 25.7 x 6.5 cm
Axe (D) 61 x 16.2 cm
Bolt cutters (B) 47.4 x 12.8 cm
Claw hammer 32.8 x 13.4 cm
Domestic aircraft 51 x 68 x 0.8 cm
Dustpan 33.2 x 23.6 cm
Dustpan brush (F) 30.8 x 7.9
Floor mop (A) 115 x 24.3 cm
Hacksaw (E) 43 x 13.5 cm
Toilet brush 39.7 x 8.7 cm
Toilet roll 35 x 30 x 2.4 cm All works TIG welded stainless steel 34
Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2012 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Lyndy DELIAN Wathaurong language group. Born 1953 Melbourne. Studied and practices Canberra
Turtle shell – connections, 2011 (next page) Blown glass, sandblasted, etched and engraved. Made at Canberra Glassworks 41 x 46 x 8 cm
Waterholes, 2013 Kiln formed and sand blasted glass 25 x 25 x 4 cm 36
Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2012 and 2013 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Michael LE GRAND Born 1951 Sydney. Taught and practices Canberra
Eclipse, 2010 Painted steel 66 x 86 x 59 cm 38
Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2012 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Dianne FIRTH Born 1945 Newcastle. Practices in textiles and landscape architecture Canberra
Deluge, 2011 Reverse appliquĂŠ, layered viscose felt with commercial cotton back, machine stitching with polyester thread. 138 x 71 cm 40
Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2012 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Stephanie CANTONI Born 1950. Lives Western Australia
Marion‌the woman beside the man, 2013 Wool tapestry 30 x 25 cm Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2013 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Canberra Centenary – Legacy of Good Design collection Sean BOOTH A.C.T. brooch and neck piece (top image) Cut vinyl, and cut silver 3.6 x 3.8 cm
Fiona HOOTON Shape a Nation construction Folded card 21 x 31 cm
Megan JACKSON The Marion scarf (middle image) Printed silk 54 x 170 cm
Dan LORRIMER and Mitchell BROOKS Griffin blueprint dish (bottom image) Pressed stainless steel 25.5 x 45.5 x 4 cm
Kate WARD I heart Canberra Silkscreened linen tea towel 50 x 70 cm
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Commissioned by Craft ACT to mark the Centenary of Canberra. Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2013 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
Cathy FRANZI Born 1963 Sydney. Studied and practices Canberra
Ginninderra Peppercress #5, 2012 Cool ice porcelain, sgraffito, brushwork 3.5 x 19 cm
Canberra Bells #10, 2012 (this page) Cool ice porcelain, sgraffito, brushwork 2.6 x 17 cm Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2013 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Barbara Mayo collection Doug ALEXANDER Born 1945 Victoria. Practiced Canberra 1976–1981. Died 1981
Lidded jar, c.1978 Glazed stoneware 10 x 14 cm (dia.)
Salt pig, c.1978 (this page, below) Glazed stoneware 19 x 12.5 (dia.)
Janet DEBOOS Born 1948 Sydney. Taught and practices Canberra
Platter, c.1980s (this page, above) porcellaneous stoneware, wheel-thrown, blue and brown calcium matte glaze with iron brushwork 44 (dia.) x 5.5 cm
Ralph JEFFRESS Practiced Canberra 1967–1986
Platter, c.1970s stoneware, wheel-thrown, under glaze, glaze 32 (dia.) x 5 cm
Bernd WEISE Born 1953 Hamburg, Germany. Practiced Canberra from 1973 and Bungendore with Rachael TAYLOR 1977–1985. Lives Bega
Platter and ladle, c.1983 (Platter next page, above)
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stoneware, slab-built (Weise), iron wax design under glaze (Taylor) 9 x 40 x 28 cm
Jan DUNN Born 1940 Springvale, Victoria. Practiced Canberra 1978–2002. Died 2002
Vase, c.1980 stoneware, wheel-thrown, cobalt glaze under lustre glaze 13 x 11.5 (dia.) cm
Vase, c.1980 (this page, right) stoneware, wheel-thrown, cobalt glaze under lustre glaze 17 x 15 (dia.) cm Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2013 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Ruth OLIPHANT Born 1977 Canberra. Studied and practices Canberra
Water cycle, 2011 3 parts; blown glass vessels, with fused and carved glass inserts 11.8 x 7 cm; 11.8 x 7 cm; 12 x 7 cm 46
Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2013 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
Kirstie REA Born 1955 Canberra. Teaches and practices Canberra
Remnant rhythm, 2013 Kiln-formed glass and with found garden tool 162 x 20 x 20 cm Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2013 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Luna RYAN Born 1957 Netherlands. Australia from 1984. Studied and practices Canberra
A double sided story, 2013 Kiln cast recycled television screen, metal stand with rubber insert 34 x 49 x 9.5 cm 48
Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2013 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Gilbert RIEDELBAUCH Born 1961 Zurich. Australia from 1992. Teaches, studied and practices Canberra
DP Bowl 2.6, 2004 (this page) Digitally fabricated acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) with applied gold leaf 7.2 x 17 cm. Lids 7 x 13.5 cm
Pitcher, 1995 Digitally fabricated resin 17 x 14 cm Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2014 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Deirdre BROCKLEBANK Born 1947 Hopetown, Victoria. Practiced Canberra
Views of Canberra [sun top], 1981 Hand knitted commercially available cotton thread 45 x 34 cm
Views of Canberra [dress], 1981 Knitted and crocheted commercially available cotton thread 90 x 59 cm 50
Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2015 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
Sally BLAKE Born 1966. Studied and practices Canberra
Seed baskets, 2014 –15: Poa Sphagnum moss Phragmites australis Silver, silk, wool, plant dyes each 12 x 5 x 4.5 cm Works developed at the Artist-in-Residence program at Gudgenby Ready-Cut Cottage, Namadgi National Park in 2014. Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2015 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund.
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Nadège DESGENÉTEZ Born 1973 France. Australia from 2005. Teaches and practices Canberra
Corporeal ground, 2014 Blown and sculpted glass, mirrored, carved, hand-sanded 31 x 45 x 29 cm 52
Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2015 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
Cathy FRANZI Born 1963 Sydney. Studied and practices Canberra
Crimson bottlebrush, 2015 Porcelain, wheel-thrown, engobe, sgraffito, glaze 15 x 30 x 11 cm Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2015 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Marie HAGERTY Born 1964 Sydney. Practices Canberra with
Robert FOSTER Born 1962 Kyneton. Taught and practiced Canberra. Died 2016
silver, red, yellow, 2014 anodised aluminium bowl made by Fink! Queanbeyan 14 x 55 x 44 cm 54
Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2015 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
Alison JACKSON Born 1986 Sydney. Studied and practices Canberra
10 vessels 10 days, 2015 Fine silver, oxidised fine silver, binding wire smallest vessel 5 x 6.5 x 6.5 cm Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2015 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Benjamin EDOLS Born 1967 Sydney. Studied Canberra. Practices Sydney
Kathy ELLIOT Born 1964 Sydney. Studied Canberra. Practices Sydney
Red / amber skein vessel, 2006 Blown and cold worked glass 50 x 27 x 9 cm 56
Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2016 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Ian JONES Born 1953. Studied Canberra. Practises Gundaroo, NSW
Granite clay jar #1, 2015 Anagama (wood) fired stoneware, natural ash glaze, local clay 26.5 x 14 x 7.5 cm Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2017 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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Gail NICHOLS Born 1953, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Studied and taught Canberra. Practices Mongarlowe (near Braidwood), NSW
Stormwatch, 2014 (this page) Hand built stoneware shouldered jar with soda vapour glaze 38 x 41 x 41 cm
Autumn Leaves, 2018 New and recycled torn fabric, hand hooked onto polyester backing 124 x 144 x 3 cm 58
Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2018 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
Paul HOUSE Ngambri-Ngurmal, Wallabalooa & Wiradjuri-Erambie. Born 1969 Canberra. Practices Canberra with
Tom ROWNEY Born 1971 Adelaide. Practices Canberra
Ngambri Murrumbidgee Green Glass Didjeridu, key E, overtone G, 2016 Blown glass with applied glass fragments 143 cm (length) Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection. Purchased 2018 with funds from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund
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A R T I S T S AC Q U I R E D 2004–2018
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ALEXANDER, Doug AITKEN-KUHNEN, Helen BLAKE, Sally BOYD-GOGGIN, Debra BOOTH, Sean BOWAK, Rachel BROCKLEBANK, Deirdre BROOKS, Mitchell and LORRIMER, Dan CANTONI, Stephanie CHARLES, Elizabeth CHASELING, Scott COHEN, Sarit DEBOOS, Janet DELIAN, Lyndy DESGENÉTEZ, Nadège DUNN, Jan EDOLS, Benjamin EGGERT, Anna ELLIOT, Kathy FIRTH, Dianne FOSTER, Robert with HAGERTY, Marie FRANZI, Cathy HALSTEAD, Martin HELY, Patsy HOOTON, Fiona HOLLAND, Steven HOUSE, Paul with ROWNEY, Tom JACKSON, Alison
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JACKSON, Megan JEFFRESS, Ralph JONES, Ian LE GRAND, Michael McKENNA, Moraig McINTYRE, Anita McMAHON, Ann MELLOR, Danie NICHOLS, Gail O’CONNOR, Derek OLIPHANT, Ruth PEMBERTON, Kaye REA, Kirstie RIEDELBAUCH, Gilbert RYAN, Luna TODO, Kensuke WALLER, Ruth WARD, Kate WEISE, Bernd and TAYLOR, Rachael
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Meredith Hinchliffe has been an advocate for the arts in Canberra since the 1970s. She has had a diverse career as a writer, curator and manager working both independently and within several art focussed organisations including the Australian Bicentennial Authority, Business Development of the ACT and as Executive Officer of Museums Australia. During the 1970s she was particularly active in the Women’s Electoral Lobby and maintains an active interest in feminist issues. In 2000 she was awarded an ACT Women’s Award and in 2011 she received an Australia Day Medal. Photo: Thorson Photography
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Published in association with the exhibition The Art of Giving: Acquisitions from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund shown at Canberra Museum and Gallery 7 May to 24 August 2019. Text: Virginia Rigney Design: Iona Walsh art+design Photography: Rob Little, RLDI Printing: CanPrint Communication ISBN: 978-0-9875455-1-0 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or information retrieval system without written permission from the publisher.
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(outside back cover) Marie HAGERTY with Robert FOSTER silver, red, yellow (detail), 2014 (inside front and back covers) Gail NICHOLS Stormwatch (details), 2014