Meet Rose-Mary Faulkner the 2018 Winner

Meet our 2018 NEAGP Winner Rose-Mary Faulkner

Wagga Wagga Art Gallery is delighted to announced that the National Emerging Art Glass Prize 2018 has been awarded to Rose-Mary Faulkner for her work Continuum, an exquisite 3-metre installation of two panels in kiln-formed glass. A crowd of enthusiasts and patrons of the arts gathered outside the National Art Glass Gallery on Friday 4 May for the announcement, and official launch of the Prize exhibition, by 2014 winner Sarah Humphrey.

Rose-Mary Faulkner graduated from the Australian National University School of Art with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Glass) with honours in 2016. Her current work is an investigation into methods of mapping and recording the female figure. By layering abstracted photographic imagery and employing the unique material qualities of glass, Rose-Mary explores and analyses the form and surface of the body.

Describing Continuum, Ms Faulkner says, “My current work presents a study of my own body from the restricted, subjective line of sight we have of ourselves, aiming to map the female figure through abstracted and layered photographic imagery in order to analyse form and surface. I investigate ways to observe and experience the body, expressed visually through soft dappled imagery, evocative of feeling and sensation.”

The winning piece will now be acquired for Wagga Wagga ArtGallery’s National Art Glass Collection. Ms Faulkner will receive a fully paid residency at North Lands Creative Glass in Scotland, one of the world’s most prestigious centres for the study and development of glass art. The Friends of the Wagga Wagga ArtGallery have also provided a prize of $4,000 to assist Ms Faulkner in this residency.

The Prize was judged by two of Australia’s most respected experts in the field of glass, glass artist Bethany Wheeler and industry specialist Suzanne Brett. The judges also awarded Highly Commended certificates to two other entries in the Prize: Clare Peters for her fused glass work, Hope Upheld, and Namdoo Kim for his set of nine core-cast pieces, Expendable Being. Both of the Highly Commended artists will also receive an award of $1,000 provided by the Wollundry Too Art Group.