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Owen
Rye
CV
BORN
: Cooma, N.S.W. 1944
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., University of N.S.W., 1970; B.Sc. (Hons 1) UNSW 1965
EMPLOYMENT
- 1985 - Monash University,
Gippsland Centre for Art and Design: Senior Lecturer
- 1980-84 Canberra
School of Art, Part-time Lecturer, Ceramics Workshop
- 1970-80 Research
in Archaeology (1975-1980 at ANU Institute of Advanced Studies;
- 1970-1975 associated
with Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC USA).
AWARDS
- Winner: Society
for American Archaeology Award 2000 (for contributions to ceramic studies)
- Pioneer Potters’
Award 1997
- Whitefriars Award
1995
- Diamond Valley
Award 1992
- Gold Coast Award
1989
- Pottery in Australia
Award 1985
- Ampol Arts Award
1965
EXHIBITIONS
: SOLO
- 1997 Nora Eccles
Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Utah USA
- 1997 Ceramic Art
Gallery, Sydney
- 1995 Distelfink
Gallery, Melbourne
- 1991 Artworks (Victoria).
Collaboration with painter Rod Forbes
- 1991 Switchback
Gallery, Monash University (collaboration with Rod Forbes)
- 1989 Latrobe Valley
Arts Centre, Victoria
- 1979 Potter’s Place,
Canberra, ACT
- 1978 Potter’s Place,
Canberra, ACT
- 1970 Berrima Galleries,
NSW
EXHIBITIONS:
GROUP, INTERNATIONAL
- 1999 Different
Stokes (International Woodfire), University of Iowa Museum of Art
- 1999 Pyrochromatics.
Wellington B Gray Gallery, ECU, Greenville N.Carolina USA
- 1999 Four Australian
Woodfire artists. New Wagner Gallery, SIUE, Illinois USA
- 1999 Creative Australia
(Craft Australia)Azecra Gallery, Osaka, Japan
- 1997 Rosenthal
Studio-Haus Galerie, Hamburg, Germany (Salt-glazed porcelain).
- 1996 Aoyama Green
Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (Australia no Magikama Sakuhin).
- 1996 Meitetsu Gallery,
Nagoya, Japan
- 1996 Delinquent
Angel (Australian Contemporary Ceramics) : Itami Craft Centre, Osaka,
- Japan, and Takashimaya
Gallery, Singapore
- 1996 Fletcher Challenge
Award, Auckland, New Zealand (selected).
- 1995 Delinquent
Angel (Australian Contemporary Ceramics), Faenza, Italy
- 1994 Minokamo Municipal
Centre, Gifu, Japan
- 1993 Salzbrand
(International Saltglaze), Koblenz, Germany
- 1991 Arrowmont
School of Arts and Crafts, Tennessee, USA, Faculty Exhibition
- 1989 Salzbrand
(International Saltglaze), Koblenz, Germany
- 1988 Australian
Ceramics, Bicentennial Touring Exhibition, Canada
EXHIBITIONS:
GROUP, AUSTRALIA (SELECTED)
- 2000 Ceramics Purchase
exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of N. Territory
- 1999 A Generous
Vessel. Centre for Contemporary Craft, Customs House, Sydney
- 1998: Distelfink
Gallery, Melbourne: The Woodfire Aesthetic
- 1997 Shepparton
Art Gallery: Sydney Myer Fund International Ceramics Award.
- 1996 Strathnairn
Gallery, ACT: Australian Woodfire Survey
- 1996 Moore’s Building,
Fremantle WA: National Bowl Show
- 1996 Manly Art
Gallery, NSW Standing Sentinel (Potter’s Society of Australia).
- 1996 Shepparton
Art Gallery: Sydney Myer Fund Award , invitational
- 1996 Distelfink
Gallery, Melbourne: Director’s Choice
- 1995 Fusions Gallery,
Brisbane: Woodfire Survey Exhibition
- 1995 Threeways
Gallery, Gulgong, NSW: Woodfire, Significant Pieces
- 1995 Stables Gallery,
Mudgee: Claysculpt
- 1994 National Gallery
of Victoria, Rigg Craft Award (Invitational)
- 1994 Craft Victoria
: Crucible, Materials of Invention
- 1994 Door Gallery,
Fremantle, WA: National Bowl Show
- 1993 Ceramic Art
Gallery, Sydney, NSW: Woodfire, a Celebration
- 1992 Woodfire ‘92
Survey, Southern Cross University Lismore
- 1992 Jennings Award,
Meat Market, Melbourne (Selected).
- 1991 Switchback
Gallery, Monash University (with Chester Nealie and Jan Irvine).
- 1989 Woodfire ‘89
(Travelling exhibition to three NSW Galleries)
- 1989 Victor Mace
Gallery, Brisbane: Four Woodfirers
- 1989 Potter’s Gallery,
Brisbane : Woodfire Australia
- 1988 Manly Art
Gallery, NSW Fire and Earth, Contemporary Australian Ceramics
- 1987 Narek Gallery
Canberra: The Woodfire Show
COLLECTIONS
- Tajimi City Collection,
Mino, Japan
- Arrowmont Permanent
Collection, Tennessee, USA
- Nora Eccles Harrison
Museum of Art, Utah, USA
- Powerhouse Museum,
NSW Art Gallery of Western Australia Queensland Art Gallery Gold Coast
City Art Gallery
- Museum and Art
Gallery of the Northern Territory Shepparton Art Gallery
- Orange Regional
Gallery Ipswich Regional Gallery
- Latrobe Regional
Gallery Diamond Valley Collection
- Griffith University
Collection Curtin University Collection
- Queensland University
of Technology Collection Southern Cross University Collection
- Monash University
(Jan Feder Collection) Whitefriars College Collection
- Private Collections
in USA, Japan, England, Israel, Germany and in Australia including Greg
Daly and Margaret Tuckson collections.
WRITING
Author of two books
on archaeological ceramics and over 40 articles in ‘Ceramics Art and Perception’,
‘Pottery in Australia’ and numerous other journals; also numerous exhibition
reviews, book reviews and conference papers. Editorial Advisor, Ceramics
Art and Perception.
WORKSHOPS AND
PUBLIC LECTURES
In Australia, USA,
Papua New Guinea and Israel. Recent include: Firing the Tamba Kiln
(Cooroy, Qld (one week); Woodfire, SIU, Illinois USA; Pyrochromatics,
ECU, North Carolina USA (one week); Aesthetics of Woodfire, USU,
Logan, Utah, USA (one week); Kiln Master, Fire-up Gulgong, (one-week);
and Anagama Firing, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Tennessee,
USA (two-week workshop). Recently also Introduction to International
panels, and several papers including Woodfire in Australia
at Different Stokes International Woodfire Conference,University of Iowa,
USA
BIOGRAPHY
Represented in Masters
of Their Craft; Woodfired Ceramics; Contemporary Ceramic
Art in Australia and New Zealand; Collector’s Guide to Modern Australian
Ceramics; and Saltglaze Ceramics, An International Perspective.
Recent biography and reviews in Ceramics Monthly (USA), Ceramics
Art and Perception, Object and Craft Victoria. Also
exhibition catalogues including Delinquent Angel, Museo Internazionale
delle Ceramiche, Faenza and Different Stokes (international woodfire
survey exhibition), Iowa USA
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