Education & Training Qualifications:
2016 Wearable Ceramics Masterclass with Peter Hoogeboom - RMIT, VIC.
2015 Introduction to Gemmology - Gemological Assoc of Australia, Hobart, TAS.
2011 Basic & Advanced Jewellery Techniques - Adult Education, TAS.
2010 Bachelor of Fine Art - University of Tasmania (UTAS)
2006 Diploma of Art Craft & Design - TAFE Tasmania
Exhibitions:
Selected Group:
2017 Inscription & Place - Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS.
2016 (un)Natural Ocean - Wild Island Gallery, Salamanca, Hobart, TAS.
2016 Edge 2 ~ Isthmus (as part of MONA’s MOFO festival) - Alonnah, Bruny Island, TAS.
2016/15 The Contemporary Jewellery Exchange - International.
2015 Serial Exchange (as part of Radiant Pavilion) - Loop, Melbourne, VIC.
2015 Vanishing Point - an arts/science collaboration - Institute for Marine & Antarctic Studies, TAS.
2015 Edge - Peripheries of Practice - Forestvale Design Centre, Bruny Island, TAS.
2014/12/11 Images of Tasmania 14/15/17 - Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, TAS.
2013 Pushing the Boundaries, Contemporary Jewellery - Schoolhouse Gallery, Rosny, TAS.
2013 Artists from the Island Exhibition - Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, TAS.
2013 Towards the Sun - The Schoolhouse Gallery, Rosny, TAS.
2013 apart - Lightbox Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, TAS.
2012 Repurpose - Entrepôt Fine Arts Gallery, UTAS, Hunter Street, Hobart, TAS.
2012/11/09 Artists from the Island - Adventure Bay, Bruny Island, TAS.
Solo:
2011 Slender Threads - Top Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, TAS.
2011 Microcosm - Art at the Point, Dennes Point, Bruny Island, TAS.
2009 Transient - Entrepôt Gallery, UTAS, Hunter Street, Hobart, TAS.
Awards/Prizes:
2015 Finalist - Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize - Double Bay, NSW
2014 Finalist & Highly Commended - Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize - South Australian Museum, SA
2012 Finalist - aRtECYCLE Art Prize - Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Dean’s Role of Excellence UTAS
Memberships:
2017 - current Craft Victoria - Melbourne, VIC.
2017 - current crafthaus - international.
2015 - current GuildTrip - Vancouver, Canada.
2012 - current Designed Objects Tasmania (DOT) - TAS.
2009 - current TMAGgots (young friends of Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery)
2007 - current Bruny Island Arts Association (BIAA) - TAS.
Selected publications:
Narrative Jewellery ~ Tales from the Toolbox, Mark Fenn - To be published late 2017.
Featured on TakePart - 2015: a digital news & lifestyle magazine and social action platform for the conscious consumer.
Ecouterre - 2015: a website devoted to the future of sustainable fashion design.
The Apple, P16-20 - Winter 2011: Slender Threads.
Islet on-line Journal - Summer 2010: Distilling the Dimensions.
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