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1 September 2008
Artistic excellence times two
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| Marian Hosking |
Monash University's, Faculty of Art and Design is celebrating the achievements of two of its academics who have been awarded prestigious Australia Council Fellowships.
Co-ordinator of the Metals and Jewellery Studio, Marian Hosking and lecturer in sculpture, Dr Kathy Temin received the Fellowships that are awarded to artists to enable them to realise ambitious projects and develop their research practice.
The Dean, Professor John Redmond said these Fellowships are the pinnacle of Australia Council acknowledgment. Only four are awarded each year and to have two of the recipients in Victoria is unusual, to have two at universities in Victoria is extraordinary (because many University staff cannot get sufficient research time to compete with full-time artists); but to get two of the four at one University is quite exceptional. It is an outstanding achievement.
Dr Temin has exhibited extensively over the past 20 years and the Fellowship is the latest achievement in a long line of awards.
She was the recipient of an Australia Council residency at PS1 in New York in 1997 and, in 1999, won the prestigious Moet and Chandon Art Fellowship. In 1996 Dr Temin was a recipient of the Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship.
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| Marian Hosking's work |
Marian Hosking is one of Australia's foremost contemporary jewelers with almost 40 years professional experience working almost exclusively with silver.
Her work is represented in numerous collections in Australia and overseas, including the National Gallery of Australia and the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. She has exhibited in prestigious galleries in Japan, Germany, Austria, United Kingdom and South Korea.
The Faculty is delighted with Marian and Kathy's success and extends all best wishes for the research they will undertake on the Fellowships.
Professor Redmond also acknowledged the success of Lecturers, Dr Tom Nicholson and Lilly Hibberd who were awarded Australia Council development grants for new works.
For more information, contact Samantha Blair, Media and Communications on +61 3 9903 4841 or 0439 013 951.
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