Dr Tony Hanning

Position title

• Lecturer, Gippsland Centre for Art & Design

Qualifications

• PhD (Visual Art), Monash University
• Master of Fine Art, Monash University
• Diploma Visual Art, G.I.A.E

Statement

Tony Hanning is an internationally recognised glass artist. His work centres on the role of memory and place in the inducement of reverie. Utilising the light carrying properties of glass he carves layers of coloured glass on blown forms to create a sense of  'place' This involves considerable drawing and research into narratives that present a range of visual stimuli that could loosely be classed as "things we remember never having seen". He is concerned with the practice of bringing the unconscious into the momentary in a range of materials beyond glass such as photography and drawing.

He is a former Director of Latrobe Regional Gallery and continues to curate exhibitions in public spaces.

Remembering art school as "the best days of his life" he is rewarded by the opportunity to be part of the best days of someone else's life as a Lecturer and mentor.

Researh/professional activities

Grants:

• 2002
  • Australia Council New Work Grant
• 1988
  • Australia Council Presentation and Promotions Grant
• 1984
  • Australia Council Overseas Development Grant

Works in Public Collections:

• Victoria and Albert Museum, London
• Australian National Gallery Canberra
• National Gallery of Victoria
• Art Gallery of Western Australia
• Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney
• Queensland Art Gallery
• Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
• Museums and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
• Art Gallery of South Australia
• Geelong Art Gallery
• Latrobe Regional Gallery
• Rockhampton City Gallery
• Gippsland Art Gallery
• Wagga Wagga National Glass Collection, NSW
• Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery Launceston
• Devonport Art Gallery, Tasmania
• Victorian State Craft Collection
• Monash University Collection
• Tulane University Collection, USA
• Wanganui College, New Zealand
• Melbourne University Collection
• Parliament House, Canberra
• Parliament House, New South Wales
• Artbank, Sydney

Curated Exhibitions

• The Social Realists, Arts Victoria
• Works With paper, Ewing and George Paton Galleries, Melbourne
• The Campbell Hughston Collection, Latrobe Regional Gallery
• Contemporary Artists of Gippsland, Latrobe Regional Gallery
• Magistery, Monash University / Latrobe Regional Gallery
• Four Australian Glass Artists, Maryland. USA
• Toward a Local Art, Latrobe Regional Gallery

Selected Bibliography

• Jennifer Hawkins, Opie Contemporary International Glass: 60 Artists in the V&A, V&A Publications, London, 2004
• Tsuno Yoshimizu, A Survey of Glass in the World, Kyryudo Publishing, Tokyo, 1990
• Dan Klein, Glass: A Contemporary Art, Rizzoli London, 1989
• Norris Ioannou, Masters of Their Craft, Craftsman Press Sydney, 1997
• Norris Ioannou, Australian Studio Glass: The Movements, Its Makers and Their Art, Craftsman House Sydney, 1995
• Margot Osborne, Australian Glass Today, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2005
• Grace Cochrane, The Crafts Movement in Australia, New South Wales University Press, Sydney, 1993

Boards and Positions Held

• 2009 Chair Latrobe Regional Gallery Advisory Committee
• 1998 -2001 Member, Visual Arts Board. Australia Council
• 2001-2003 Member, Regional Arts Victoria
• 2000-2002 Chair, Gippsland Education Precinct Consultative Committee
• 2000- 2003 Mayor, Latrobe City