2010 Finalist

Robert WynneManly, New South Wales, Australia



Brain I


Blown and sandblasted glass with LED lighting
47 H x 23 W x 11 D cm


Looking at a brain is uncomfortable. This small, bizarre, alien-looking organ provides us with a sense of self. Self. Who we are, what we think, what we believe. It provides us with meaning and purpose – it might even be the fountainhead of the human soul. This bowl of sausages turned out on a plate.

This piece is laced with incongruity and contrast. An icon of unfathomed cosmology is presented as a decorative object. An organ that is fragile, fleshy and strangely incongruous (in any setting) is rendered in a hard, cold material with great ethereal beauty. Light and meaning, gauche and chic, surgery and art, imagination and electricity – and all the while, we are looking at the seat of our own self-awareness.


Photographer: Robert Wynne



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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

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