Marian Hosking

Position Title

Acting Head of Department of Fine Art

Qualifications

PhD Monash University
Crafting and meaning
Allusion, motif and identity in Australian jewellery and small-scale silver objects: a studio-based exploration.
MA RMIT University

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. She uses the natural environment as a starting point for motifs and patterns which can allude to identity and representations of social structures.

"I address the visualisation or modelling of 'nature' and our changing attitudes to 'nature' in contemporary jewellery. 'Modelling' is used as a term that infers a range of open-ended, investigations including real and fictional depictions of motif, allusion and identity."

Research/Professional activities

Awards

2009/2010
- Australia Council Fellowship
2007
- Living treasure, Masters of their craft, Object gallery touring exhibition
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

2008
- JMGA conference Adelaide - joint paper with Maureen Faye-Chauhan
2006
- A conference Sydney - Places and spaces
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