2004 Finalist
Robert Wynne and Yuri YanaiManly, New South Wales, Australia
Shima
Blown and sand carved glass
21 H x 27 W x 27 D cm
We have lived and worked along side each other for the past five years, This piece is a collaboration of technical and design influences encompassing both our Western and Asian cultural backgrounds. We discovered the title for this piece by serendipity. In English the word shimmer means ‘tremulous or faint diffused light’ and in Japanese the word shima means literally ‘stripe’.
Photographer:
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
