2014 Finalist
Mark EliottBondi Beach, New South Wales, Australia
Magpies
Flameworked and blown glass
30 H x 50 W x 35 D cm
Magpies – swooping, feeding, arguing, chortling; their pied song: pure as glass. I whistle back - hoping for communication. One listens momentarily to my gobbledygook before returning attention to her own kind. In memory of Ranamok and in the tradition of the Blaschkas I attempt the impossible – making homages to life.
Photographer: MA Garven
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2014 Finalist
Biography
Mark Eliott
Bondi Beach, New South Wales, Australia
Born
9/5/1957 Wellington, , New Zealand
Education
- 2013, Master of Visual Arts (Glass), Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- 2008, Master of Studio Arts (Glass), Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- 1991, Associate Diploma in Jazz Studies (Saxophone), Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Last Solo Exhibition
- 2000, Life, Form, Diversity, Glass Artists' Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Last Group Exhibition
- 2014, LIFEFORMS, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Public/Private Collections
- National Art Glass Collection, National Art Glass Gallery, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
- Australian Art, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- Australian Animation, National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- On Loan to the Museum, Glasmuseet, Ebeltoft, Jutland, Denmark
- Art Collection, Solomon Trust, Auckland, New Zealand
- Glass Collection, Northstar Glass, Tigard, Oregon, United States
- Private Collection of Toh Puan Kuan Mahani Idris Daim
- Private Collection of Geoffrey Strutton
- Private Collection of Elaine Pounder-Smith
- Private Collection of Nora Shreiber
- Private Collection of Barry Willoughby
- Private Collection of Lexie Nelson
- Private Collection of Andy and Deirdre Plummer
Awards/Grants
- 2010, Most Original Aesthetic (Dr. Mermaid), Sydney Underground Film Festival, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- 2010, People's Choice – Animation (Dr. Mermaid), Sydney Underground Film Festival, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- 2009, Finalist, Ranamok Glass Prize, Australia
- 2005, Finalist, Ranamok Glass Prize, Australia
- 2004, Finalist, Ranamok Glass Prize, Australia
- 1999, Finalist, RFC Glass Prize, Australia
- 1991, Jazz Composition, Jazz Action Society, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
