| EDUCATION: 1995: MA, Fine Art - Ceramics, RMIT. 1988: Acset 1 - Teacher Training, London . 1981-1983: Harrow Diploma of Studio Pottery, Harrow College of Art , London . Graduated with Distinction. 1971-1974: BSc (Hons class 2B) Zoology, Melbourne University . FURTHER TRAINING: 1977-1989 ILEA Pottery Classes, London Mouldmaking - North Staffordshire Polytechnic; Jigger/Jolley - Central School of Art and Design, London .
1989 - present Studio in Melbourne 1989 Meat Market Craft Centre - studio access 1985-1989 Gallery assistant, Contemporary Applied Arts, London 1986-1989 Studio in Stoke Newington , London 1983-1986 Studio in Kings Cross, London 1982-1984 Assistant to Daphne Carnegy (potter) - London 1977-1981 Assistant to Susan Bennett (potter) - London ; Assistant to Wendy Bainbridge (potter) - London . 1981-1989 Editor for Longmans and Methuin publishers, London .
National Gallery of Australia , Canberra National Museum , Auckland , New Zealand National Gallery of Victoria Queensland Art Gallery Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Powerhouse Museum , Sydney R.M.I.T. University , Melbourne University of Southern Queensland James Cook University , Townsville Queensland University of Technology , Brisbane Deakin University Bathurst Art Gallery , NSW Shepparton Art Gallery , VIC Hamilton Art Gallery , VIC Craft Council of the Northern Territory , Alice Springs Division Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville Nillumbik Shire Council Hermanns Art Award Collection Fletcher Challenge Collection
2004 Residency, Oribe Design Centre, Gifu , Japan 2003 Australia Council Grant - Development Third Prize, Jan Ken Pon, World Design Competition, New York and Japan 2002 Craft Victoria Grant Arts Victoria Grant - To attend exhibition at Nancy Margolis Gallery , NY 2001 Hermanns Art Award - Second Prize Australia Council Project Grant - New Work Australia Council funding to attend Ceramics Millennium Conference in Amsterdam 1997 Alice Craft Acquisition Award Townsville Ceramics Acquisition 1996 Australia Council - Project Grant Arts Victoria Grant - Arts 21 International Export and Touring Program 1995: Bathurst Art Purchase Award. Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award - Premier Award. Nillumbik Art Award Honourable Mention - International Ceramics Competition, Mino , Japan . 15th National Craft Award, Northern Territory . James Cook University Ceramics Award. 1994: Second Prize - Austceram Ceramic Art Award, Sydney. Australia Council Project Grant 1992: Two Honourable Mentions - International Ceramics Competition, Mino , Japan . 1989: First Prize - Cup competition - Arts and Crafts Society of Victoria. 1988: Crafts Council , UK - Photography Grant 1986: Product of the Show -Direct Design Show, London 1984-85: Crafts Council , UK - Grant to set up Pottery Studio and Maintenance Allowance for one year. 1981-83: Professional Classes Aid Council Grant Windsor and Newton Art Prize
2005, Rex Irwin Art Dealer 2003, 2001, 2000, 1997 Christine Abrahams Gallery 2002, 1999 Nancy Margolis Gallery , New York 2002, 1999, 1996 Beaver Galleries, Canberra 2001 Oxford Gallery , UK 2001, 1999 Barrett Marsden Gallery, London 2001 Freeman Gallery , Hobart 1998 Masterworks Gallery, Auckland , New Zealand . Alpha House Gallery, Dorset , UK . 1997, 1996 Savode Gallery, Brisbane 2004 Heresy: the secret language of materials , Craft Victoria Still life , Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland , NZ Jan Ken Pon World Design Competition , Gifu City , Japan 2003 Future Function , Manly Art Gallery , Sydney World Ceramic Exhibition , Stenlinge Slott Castle , Sweden Important Works on Paper and Important Ceramics, Rex Irwin Art Dealer 2002 Ritual of Tea - Jam Factory, Adelaide , Object Gallery, Sydney Less is More - Ceramics with a minimal aesthetic - Pewabic Pottery, Detroit , USA SOFA Chicago SOFA New York Less is More, Less is a Bore, Brisbane City Gallery - Australian Contemporary Art Fair - Melbourne 2001 Sotheby's, London - Contemporary Decorative Arts Selling Exhibition Contemporary Applied Arts, London - featured international artist Hermanns Award , Sherman Galleries, Sydney & national tour International Ceramics Exhibition, Alpha House Gallery, Dorset , UK Colonial to Contemporary, Powerhouse Museum , Sydney International Infusion III, Sybaris Gallery , Michigan , USA International 20 th Century Arts Fair, New York 'International Ceramics Selection' - Steninge Slott Kulturcenter, Sweden Sybaris Gallery , Michigan , USA - ' International Infusion' Australian Ceramicists at the Gallery Marianne Heller , Heidelberg , Germany Sturt Galleries, NSW; Queensland Potters 19 th National Craft Acquisition Award - Northern Territory Palm Beach International Art Fair Art Palm Beach 20 th Century Fine Art Fair The International Asian Art Fair, New York 20 th Century at Olympia , London Grosvenor House Art and Antiques Fair, London International Fine Art Show, The New York Australian Ceramics - Hong Kong Arts Centre Beverly Hills International Art Fair 1999 Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art , Japan 25 th Alice Craft Acquisition, Northern Territory Materiality - Spare Room, RMIT University SOFA - New York Purple Space - Jam Factory, Adelaide International Porcelain , Strasbourg , France Artistic Australia - Grand Hyatt Hotel, Tsukamoto and Etoh stores, Fukuoka ; Mitsukoshi, Tokyo ;Kadoya, Nishio; Anshindo store, Shizuoka ; Japan Hobart Art Prize 1998: Aurora - Vietnam . Triennale de la Porcelaine Nyon - Suisse F letcher Challenge Ceramics Award, Auckland , New Zealand . Aurora - RMIT Gallery, Melbourne RMIT Staff exhibition - Hong Kong Arts Centre SOFA - Chicago - Beaver Galleries ACAF - Melbourne - Christine Abrahams Gallery Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 1997: Australian Ceramics Exhibition - Galerie Handwerk, Munich . Aurora - - Pakistan : Karachi , Islamabad . Bangladesh : Dakka. F letcher Challenge Ceramics Award , Auckland , New Zealand . Alice Craft Acquisition Award , Northern Territory Australian Ceramics Exhibition - Kunstgewerbemuseum- Dresden . 1996: Australia Day Exhibition, Shepparton Art Gallery . The Vessel , Canberra School of Art Gallery . International Connections, Canberra . Stillness , Craft Council, ACT. Postpack exhibition , Canberra School of Art. Alpha House Gallery , UK . Aurora - Seoul Arts Centre , Korea . Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award , Auckland , New Zealand . Studio COM. Tachikichi Corporation, Kyoto , Japan . 1995: The Bowl - Savode Gallery, Brisbane . Mornington Peninsula Craft Event. Bathurst Art Purchase. Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award . Craft Victoria . Nillumbik Art Award. 15th National Craft Acquisition Award Northern Territory. Mino International Ceramics Festival, Mino , Japan . Lauraine Diggins - Australian Decorative Arts Survey . 1994: Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre. Ether Ohnetitel, Craft Collectors Circle . Colin and Cecily Rigg Award, National Gallery of Victoria . The Bowled and the Beautiful, Perth . Austceram Art Award. Contemporary Applied Arts, London . 1993: Jam Factory Gallery, Adelaide . 1992: Contemporary Applied Arts, London , Summer Show. Jennings Award, Meat Market Craft Centre. 'The Market, Kitch and Cultural Production, Craft Victoria . Mino International Ceramics Festival, Mino , Japan . 1991: Australia Day Exhibition, Shepparton Art Gallery . `ASPECTS' - RMIT Gallery, Melbourne . 1984 - 1989: Seven Dials Gallery, London . Kings Circus Gallery, Bath . Strangeways, London . Long Street Gallery, Tetbury. Sir John Cass College of Art, London . Royal Festival Hall, London . Southwark Cathedral, London . Fenny Lodge Gallery, Milton Keynes , UK . Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne . Direct Design Show, London . British Crafts Centre. Nexus Gallery, Brighton . Stafford Art Gallery , Staffordshire. Contemporary Applied Arts, London . Crafts Fair, Chelsea -selected exhibitor, Crafts Council UK . The Tent, Edinburgh Festival. Terrace Gallery, Worthing Oriel 31 Gallery, Newtown , Powys. Nottingham Castle Museum , Nottingham . Creative Eye, London - Crafts Council. The Harrow Connection - touring England , Scotland and Ireland - Northern Contemporary Arts, Crafts Council UK . SMB Art Staff Exhibition - Ballarat Fine Art Gallery .
2003 Konstfack - School of Art & Design, Stockholm , Sweden University of Westminster , London , UK Royal College of Art , London , UK Bath University , London , UK Guldagergaard Cermamics Centre , Denmark 2002 Lecture, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery 2000 Lecturer, Monash University - Ceramics 1999 Lecture - Artists talk about inspiration - Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair 1999 Masters assessment, Monash University 1998 Workshop - The Persuasive Object - Unitec - Auckland , New Zealand 1993 - 1996 Lecturer, Melbourne University - Ceramics, Education; 1993 - present Lecturer, R.M.I.T. - Fine Art - Ceramics. Festival in Ceramics - Victorian Ceramic Group International Workshop, Canberra School of Art, ACT 1991 - 1993 External Examiner, Melbourne University Institute of Education, Ceramics. 1989 - 1993 Teacher in Ceramics, (0.6 time)- School of Mines and Industries, Ballarat. Visiting lecturer: RMIT, Fine Art - Ceramics; RMIT, Ceramics Summer School; Melb. Univ. Inst. of Education; Victoria College ; Ballarat Ceramic Group; Geelong Ceramics Group. 1984-1989: Guest Lecturer - Harrow College of Higher Education -Studio Pottery Course, London . 1979-1989: Inner London Education Authority - pottery classes for children and adults.
Adelaide Advertiser; Craft magazine (UK); Melbourne Age; Irish Times, Dublin (Eire); New Zealand Herald; Progress Press; New Zealand Potter; Pottery in Australia - Vol. 34 No. 3 - Spring 1995 - 'Transcending Place and Time' by Kevin White - pp 7 - 9. Ceramics Art and Perception - Issue 21 - 1995 - 'Life and Structure' - by Alison Britton - pp 69 -71; Pottery in Australia - Vol. 35 No. 3 - Spring 1996 -Throwing and joining porcelain - Karen Weiss Object Magazine; Belle Magazine; Vogue Living 'A Functional Philosophy' Jane Sawyer's Ceramics - Pottery in Australia - Vol. 34 No. 3 - Spring 1995 - pp18 - 19. Exhibition of New Work at Studio COM, Kyoto - report - Craft Victoria Bulletin, No. 1, 1997. Ceramic Review: May/June 1998 - Article by Alison Britton Ceramics Monthly Magazine ( USA ) Pottery in Australia , Article 2001 Pottery in Australia , Article 2002 - teapot and cup Hermanns Art Award Article, 2001 New York Times review 2002
The Harrow Connection; Slips and Slipware, Anthony Phillips (Batsford) - featured artist; Contemporary Porcelain, Peter Lane (Craftsman House). Masters of Their Craft, Norris Ioannou (Craftsman House). Design Sourcebook - Ceramics, Edmund de Waal (New Holland) Functional Pottery - Robin Hopper (Krause Pub.)
Prue Venables currently lives and works in Melbourne , Victoria
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