2000 Finalist
Richard MorrellCastlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Bowl of Truth
Cast glass
35 H x 34 W x 17 D cm
While the nature of 'truth' is at best elusive, differing factions will often lay claim to being its sole possessor.
It becomes apparent that these claims are substantiated less by logic than by weight of numbers, or by being on the 'right' side of the argument.
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Biography
Richard Morrell
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Born
11/12/1953 London, Surrey, United Kingdom
Education
- 1999, Master of Visual Arts (Glass), Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- 1979, Bachelor of Design (Glass) with Honours, Stourbridge School of Art, Stourbridge, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Last Solo Exhibition
- 2008, Atavus, Kirra Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Last Group Exhibition
- 2013, Cicely and Colin Rigg Award, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Public/Private Collections
- Public Collection, Museum of Art and Craft, Steintorplatz, Hamburg, Germany
- Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Jutland, Denmark
- Toho Corporation Collection, Japan
- National Art Glass Collection, National Art Glass Gallery, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
- State Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- State Collection, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- State Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- State Collection, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Kerfoot Collection, National Art Glass Gallery, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
- Private Collection of Dan Klein and Alan J. Poole
Awards/Grants
- 2013, Finalist, Ranamok Glass Prize, Australia
- 2009, Finalist, Ranamok Glass Prize, Australia
- 2001, Finalist, Ranamok Glass Prize, Australia
- 2000, People's Choice Award, RFC Glass Prize, Sydney, Australia
- 1999, Finalist, RFC Glass Prize, Australia
- 1995, Graduate Scholarship, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- 1995, Finalist, RFC Glass Prize, Australia
- 1993, Development Award, Australia Council for the Arts, Australia
- 1991, Prizewinner, Ausglass Members Show, Ausglass, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- 1987, Development Award, Canberra, Australia
- 1985, Design Award, Gas and Fuel Corporation, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia