2013 Finalist
Kristin McFarlaneEast Ringwood, Victoria, Australia
Typographic Specimens: The Lost Art of Letter Writing
Kiln formed and cold worked glass, silver leaf and fibglass inclusions, glass lenses
1.9 H x 95 W x 38 D cm
Postcards were once a common form of communication. As technology has evolved, their use has dwindled and hand written messages have been replaced by email, text and Twitter.
These specimens of postcards are an archive of handwriting, an emotive form of communication that is rapidly becoming a lost art.
Photographer: John Hoogendoorn
All entries as Finalist
Biography
Kristin McFarlane
East Ringwood, Victoria, Australia
Born
1968 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Education
- 2004, Master of Fine Arts (Glass), Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- 2001, Graduate Diploma (Glass), Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- 1993, Bachelor of Arts (Graphic Design), Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Last Solo Exhibition
- 2011, Typecast, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Last Group Exhibition
- 2013, Light in Winter Exhibition, Kirra Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Public/Private Collections
- Private Collection of Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan
- Australian of the Year Recipient Award Commission (2005-2013), Australia
- National Art Glass Collection, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
- Bombay Sapphire Foundation, United Kingdom
- City of Moreland Collection, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Victoria, Australia
- The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Monash University Art Collection, Berwick Campus, Monash University, Berwick, Victoria, Australia
- Various Private Collections
Awards/Grants
- 2012, Finalist, Ranamok Glass Prize, Australia
- 2012, Travel Grant, Ian Potter Cultural Trust, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- 2012, Recipient - artVision 2012 Studio Glass Prize, Arts Council of Mansfield, Mansfield, Victoria, Australia
- 2011, Finalist, Ranamok Glass Prize, Australia
- 2010, Finalist, Ranamok Glass Prize, Australia
- 2010, Finalist, Libris Awards, Artspace Mackay, Mackay, Queensland, Australia
- 2008, New Work Grant (Emerging Artist), Australia Council for the Arts, Australia
- 2007, Selected Entry, Jutta Cuny-Franz Memorial Award, Jutta Cuny-Franz Foundation, Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- 2006, Finalist, Bullseye E-merge, Bullseye Glass Company, Portland, Oregon, United States
- 2004, Finalist, Ranamok Glass Prize, Australia
- 2004, Craft-in-Site Grant, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- 2003, 1st Prize, Student Exhibition, Ausglass, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
- 2003, Postgraduate Travel Grant, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
