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Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft
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Living treasures
Masters of Australian craft
Margaret West: Master of Australian Craft 2008-2010
30 November 2008
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Curiculum vitae
- Training and education
- Selected solo exhibitions
- Selected group exhibitions
- Selected public collections
- Selected awards and honours
- Selected bibliography
| 1977 | Diploma of Education, Melbourne State College, Melbourne |
| 1976 | Graduate Diploma of Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne |
| 1975 | Diploma of Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne |
| 1955 | Certificate of Art (Post Matriculation), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne |
| 2008 | Scenes from Still Life (with Catherine Rogers) Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith, Australia |
| 2005 | Three Voices Three Continents, Finnish Museum of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2004 | Fatal Flowers, 2004, Gallery Hnoss, Gothenburg, Sweden |
| 2002 | Votive Gestures, Gallery Funaki, Melbourne, Australia, touring exhibition |
| 2001 | Double damask, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
| 2000 | Notes (the sky is a garden) Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France, touring international exhibition |
| 1999 | Notes (the sky is a garden) Kotelna Gallery, Prague, touring international exhibition |
| 1998 | Notes, (the sky is a garden), Gallery Funaki, Melbourne, Australia |
| 1992 | Interstices : Works by Margaret West from 1981-1992, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra, Australia, touring exhibition |
| 1987 | Margaret West, Makers Mark Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
| 1985 | Margaret West, The Contemporary Jewellery Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
| 1984 | Margaret West, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Australia, touring national exhibition |
| 1982 | Margaret West, The Makers Mark, Melbourne, Australia |
| 1982 | Margaret West, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, Australia |
| 2007 | Collect 2007, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom |
| 2006 | RADIANT, Galerie Ra Amsterdam, touring exhibition |
| 2006 | LUMINARIES, Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, The University of Sydney, Australia, touring exhibition |
| 2003 | The Landscape Show, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith, Australia |
| 2003 | Clemenger Contemporary Art Award 2003, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2002 | Beyond Ornament, Helen Drutt and Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, USA, touring exhibition |
| 2002 | Material Culture, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia |
| 2001 | Auriferous the gold project, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, Australia |
| 2001 | Micromegas, Galerie für angewandte Kunst of the Bayerischer Kunstgewerbe-Verein, Munich, Germany, touring exhibition |
| 2000 | Craft from Scratch, Triennial of Contemporary Craft, Franukfurt, Germany, touring national and international exhibition |
| 1998 | Nature as Object, 3rd International Crafts Triennial, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia |
| 1995 | Vichealth National Craft Award, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia |
| 1993 | '93 The Art of Jewellery, Tokyo, Japan (invited artist) |
| 1992 | National Craft Award, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia |
| 1987 | Four Australian Jewellers, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, touring national and international exhibition |
Selected public collections
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, USA
- National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
- South Australian Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
- West Australian Art Gallery, Perth, Australia
- Queensland Art Gallery /Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
- Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Australia
- Power House Museum, Sydney, Australia
Selected awards and honours
- Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft
- Australia Council Fellowship
Selected bibliography
- Collection, Arnoldsche Fine Art Publishers and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2007
- Strauss, Cindi, Ornament as Art, Avant Garde Jeweller from the Helen Williams Drutt
- Smith, Jason, Margaret West, Clemenger Contemporary Art Award 2003 Catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2003
- Thompson, Bob Beauty Meets Terror, Object 42, Sydney, 2002
- Elias, Anne, West and Warburton, Art in Australia, March 2002
- Ewington, Julie, Wide (true) blue yonder, Object Magazine, Sydney
- Anderson, Patricia, Contemporary Jewellery in Australia and New Zealand, Craftsman Press, 1998
- Ioannou, Noris, Masters of Their Craft, Craftsman Press, 1997
- Drutt English, Helen and Dormer, Peter, Jewelry of Our Time, Thames and Hudson, 1995
- Brennan,Anne, A Dangerous Act of the Imagination, Object Magazine, Summer 1992
- Ewington, Julie, Interstices catalogue and essays, Canberra School of Art Gallery, 1992
- O'Callaghan, Judith, Four Australian Jewellers, Catalogue essay, National Gallery of Victoria, 1987
- Cartlidge, Barbara, Twentieth Century Jewelry, Harry N Abrahams, New York, 1985
- Turner, Ralph and Dormer, Peter, The New Jewellery, Thames and Hudson, London 1985
