Living Treasures: Masters of Australian craft - 29 April 2008
South Australian Ceramicist Jeff Mincham named Living Treasure for 2009
It is with regret that Tasmanian furniture maker, Kevin Perkins (who was selected by the jury to be our Living Treasure artist in 2009) has had to withdraw from the Living Treasures project.
Launched in November 2005, the Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft series is an initiative of Object: Australian Centre for Craft and Design that is promoted by Craft Australia and supported by the network of Australian Craft and Design Centres, (ACDC). Each year, through the combination of a national touring exhibition and a major monograph publication, the series celebrates the achievements of Australia's iconic and influential crafts practitioners.
Object and Craft Australia are very pleased to announce that Jeff Mincham has been selected as the featured artist for the Living Treasures series in 2009. See: Artists' profile
Mincham has been an exemplary practitioner in the field of ceramics and a tireless advocate for the crafts sector in Australia for over three decades. He is the first South Australian to be featured in the series and his exhibition – featuring all new work – will open at Object Gallery in November 2009. A major monograph detailing his career will be written by Margot Osborne and will be launched alongside the exhibition.
Mincham recently said of his practice, "my first exhibition held at the Jam Factory, Adelaide in 1976 was a culmination of what had been a greatly varied student experience. However, by the time of my first Sydney exhibition, a strong landscape theme was clearly evident which has continued to evolve to the present time. For over thirty years I have had the good fortune to live and work in a remarkable landscape setting at Cherryville in the Adelaide Hills. My studio window looks eastward across deep timbered valleys and forested ranges that provide a dramatic backdrop to some spectacular weather events, so it is hardly surprising that the colours, moods, textures and events of the landscape should find their way into my work."
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