Shifting light

From the exhibition 2024 Robert Foster Metal Prize

Year: 2024

Materials: 925 silver and Australian timber vessels, sheet silver drilled and saw pierced 

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About the Maker: Marian Hosking (Victoria) is an educator, jeweller and silversmith. With the benefit of intensive practice she has developed a personal vocabulary in her work to express a specific vision and interpretation of the qualities of Australian light and landscape in the detail of botanical specimens. She uses the drill and jeweller's saw together with lost wax castings and favours the soft white sheen of silver, with its evasive highlights and shifting shadows. 

She has held 16 solo exhibitions in Australia, one in Seoul (2006) and one in Tokyo (2000). She has participated in over 60 group exhibitions in Australia, Europe, the United States, Korea Japan and Asia. Her work is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, all State Galleries in Australia, the Hiko Mizuno College of Jewelery collection, Tokyo and Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland. She is represented in Australia by Gallery Funaki, Melbourne in Europe by Galerie Ra, Amsterdam and in Canada by Noel Guomach. She has been an educator in her field for over thirty years, including at Monash University, Melbourne and RMIT University. She received her PhD in 2009 from Monash University, an MA from RMIT University in 1996 and a Diploma of Art- Gold and Silversmithing in 1970 also from RMIT. In the early 1970’s Marian studied for three semesters at the Fachhochschule fuer Gestaltung in Pforzheim, Germany. An active member of jewellery and craft organizations she is committed to the promotion of and dialogue around contemporary jewellery and contemporary art practice.