2014 Finalist
Robert WynneManly, New South Wales, Australia
The Magpie’s Hoard
Blown and float glass, bronze and steel
110 H x 65 W x 23 D cm
The lure of shiny things, the dream of ownership and the threat of losing it all - themes of The Magpie’s Hoard. Here is pride, desire and fear - and the seductive, ephemeral beauty of the shiny things.
Photographer: Robert Wynne
All entries as Finalist
2010 Finalist
2006 Finalist
Biography
Robert Wynne
Manly, New South Wales, Australia
Born
14/3/1959 Yarram, Victoria, Australia
Education
- 1983, Master of Arts (Art), California State University, Chico, California, United States
- 1981, Graduate Diploma (Visual Arts), Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- 1979, Diploma (Visual Arts), Monash University, Melbourne, New South Wales, Australia
Last Solo Exhibition
- 2006, Ethereal Light, Kirra Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Last Group Exhibition
- 2014, Kirra Illuminating Glass Award, Kirra Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Public/Private Collections
- Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
- Private Collection of Bill Clinton, New York, New York, United States
- Private Collection of Sir Elton John, Old Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom
- Japanese Royal Family Collection, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
- New Parliament House, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- Mobile City Art Glass Museum Collection, Mobile, Alabama, United States
- Victorian State Craft Collection, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Queensland Contemporary Art Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- National Art Glass Collection, National Art Glass Gallery, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
- Glassmuseet Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Jutland, Denmark
Awards/Grants
- 2014, Finalist , Ranamok Glass Prize, Australia
- 2014, Kirra Illuminated Glass Award, Kirra Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- 2010, Finalist Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Municipal Council, Double Bay, New South Wales, Australia
- 2010, Finalist, Ranamok Glass Prize, Australia
- 2006, Finalist, Ranamok Glass Prize, Australia
- 2005, Finalist, Ranamok Glass Prize, Australia
- 2004, Finalist, Ranamok Glass Prize, Australia
