CURTIS GLASS ART STUDIO
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Matthew Curtis C.V.


​Selected exhibitions

2023 
Paired, Suki & Hugh Gallery, NSW.
AGGREGATE: PERSPECTIVES IN RECYCLED GLASS, The Mixing Room Gallery, ACT.

2022   
Fuse Prize WINNER & Finalist Jam Factory Adelaide, touring exhibition Australia.
Tom Malone Prize finalist, Art Gallery of Western Australia.
Four Glass Masters, group exhibition Lew Allen Gallery Santa Fe
‘New Glass Now’, Corning Museum of Glass, travelling to the Renwick Gallery Smithsonian American Art Museum, USA. &Toyama Glass Art Museum Japan.
2021
'Luminous Margin' Solo exhibition Sabbia Gallery Sydney.
'New Glass Now' Smithsonian with Corning Museum of Glass.
 https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/new-glass-now
 ‘The Study’ Sabbia, Sydney.
2020 ‘Container’ Masters of Glass, Sabbia, Sydney.
‘F!NK Collaborative Jug Project’, Fink Queanbeyan & Craft ACT, Canberra.
2019 ‘Beyond the Bowl’ Hurstville Museum and Gallery, Australia.
‘Luminous: Dale Chihuly and the Studio Glass Movement’ MOG; 
Travelling exhibition to North West Museum of Arts and Culture, WA, USA.
Major outdoor public sculpture commission for Iskia Development Canberra.
Finalist Tom Malone Prize, WA Art Gallery, Australia.
2018   Sketch, Sabbia Gallery Sydney
2017    Assembled Sabbia Gallery Solo Exhibition Sydney
2017    Sarasota Glass Now. Habatat Gallery @ Sarasota USA
2017    Wheaton Glass weekend Habatat Gallery. USA
2017    Defining Moments, Canberra Glassworks, ACT, Australia
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2016    Art Palm Beach, Habitat Gallery, Florida USA, 
Sarasota Glass Now, Habatat Gallery, Sarasota USA, 
Habatat Gallery International Invitational Exhibition, USA.
Interconnected, Form Gallery, Queanbeyan NSW AU.

2015  
 Creative Fellow Canberra Glassworks, Canberra, Australia.
Wheaton Village Glass Weekend, Millville NJ, USA.
Habatat Gallery International Invitational Exhibition, USA.
2015  
 Tom Malone Prize Finalist, Gallery of Western Australia.
Palette, Sabbia Gallery Sydney.

2014    
Tree, Canberra Glassworks.
Habatat Gallery International Invitational, Michigan USA.

2013   
A Line of Symmetry, Sabbia Gallery, Sydney.
Habatat International Invitational, Michigan, USA.
Tom Malone Finalist, Art Gallery of NSW.
Waterhouse Finalist, South Australian Museum.
Prima, Sabbia Gallery, Sydney, Part of Art Month.
2012    
Habatat International Invitational, Michigan, USA.
Global + Local, Museum of Fine Arts St Petersburg,                      Florida, USA.
SOFA Chicago, co Pismo Gallery USA.
Habatat International Invitational, Michigan, USA.
2011    
Habatat International Invitational, Michigan, USA.
Geometry Masters Exhibition, Sabbia Gallery, Sydney.
SOFA Chicago, co, Pismo Gallery USA.
Members Exhibition, Craft Act.
2010    
Transparent, Axia Modern Art, Melbourne.
Sum of Parts, Masters Exhibition, Sabbia Gallery, Sydney.

Australian Survey exhibition; Imago Gallery, Palm Desert, USA.
SOFA Chicago, Thomas R Riley Gallery.
Ranamok glass prize, touring finalist, Australia.
2009    
Symmetry in Nature, Axia Modern Art, Melbourne.
Finalist, Ranamok Glass Prize, Australia.
Collect at Satchi Gallery London, Co, Raglan Gallery Sydney.
Palm Beach 3, Thomas R Riley Gallery, USA.
SOFA Santa Fe, Thomas R Riley Gallery, USA.
2008    
Matthew Curtis, solo exhibition, Riley Gallery, Cleveland, USA.
Dialogue, Beaver Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
Dividing Lines, Solo Exhibition, Pismo Gallery, Aspen, USA.
Palm Beach 3, Thomas R Riley Gallery, USA.
Collect, V&A, England, co, Raglan Gallery Sydney.
2007    
​SOFA Chicago, Thomas R Riley Gallery.
Structural Divisions, Axia Modern Art, Melbourne
2006    
Australische Impressionen, Gallery Rosenhauer, Germany.
Australian Glass, Sandra Ainsley Gallery Toronto, Canada.
SOFA Chicago, Thomas R Riley Gallery.
Collect, V&A, England, co, Raglan Gallery Sydney.
2005    
Segmented Structures, solo exhibition, Axia Modern Art, Melbourne.
Canberra Glass, Beaver Gallery, Canberra.
Glass Survey Exhibition, Sanske Gallery, Switzerland.
Collect, V&A, England, co, Raglan Gallery.
2004    
SOFA Chicago, Bullseye Gallery.
Something Different, Glass Pyramid Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
Solo Exhibition, Sanske Gallery Zurich, Switzerland.
2003    
Grid Lines, Solo Exhibition Axia Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia.
Tactile, Solo Exhibition at Quadrivium Gallery, Sydney.
National Sculpture Prize, Exhibition, National Gallery of
Australia, Canberra.
Surveying the Surface, solo exhibition at Beaver, ACT.
2002   
Material Culture, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Transparent Things, National Gallery of Australia
Travelling Exhibition, in collaboration with Wagga
Wagga Regional Art Gallery and The Thomas 
Foundation.
2001    
Solo Exhibition, Sanske Gallery, Creative Glass, Zurich.
Symmetry x 2, Australian Art Resources, Axia Modern Art, Melbourne.
1999   
Metallica, Glass Artist Gallery, Sydney.
Weekend 99, Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ.
Perspectives in Glass, Axia, Melbourne.
Diversity in Glass, Wheaton, New Jersey.
1998   
SOFA Chicago, with Glass Artists' Gallery, Chicago.
Translucence, Quadrivium Gallery, Sydney. 
Past Tense/Future Perfect, National Tour, Craft West, Perth.
1997   
"Explorations in Glass", solo show at Glass Artists' Gallery, Sydney.
RFC Glass Prize, Glass Artists' Gallery, Sydney; Museum
of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Studio 1818 Denver, USA;
Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane; Craft Victoria, 
Melbourne; Perth Galleries, Perth

"Australian Glass" Art Forum, Singapore
1996 
RFC Glass Prize, Glass Artists' Gallery, Sydney
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and Editions
Gallery, Melbourne
"The Year of the Pig", Tatjana, Sydney. 
1995   
"Not Just One of a Kind", Glass Artists' Gallery, Sydney.
​
​Awards 
​
2022    Fuse Prize Winner, Jam Factory, Adelaide.
​             Collected : Australian Parliament House Collection
2021    Homefront Grant Arts Act.
             Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society Lecture
2015    Creative Fellow at Canberra Glassworks
2014    Capital Arts Patrons Organisation, Canberra, 
             Fellowship, New Work
2013     Waterhouse Art Science prize
2013     Arts ACT New Work Grant, ACT, Australia
2012     Arts ACT New Work, ACT Australia
2011      Arts NSW Travel Grant
2010     Arts Act New Work Grant, ACT, Australia
2006    New work Grant, Australia Council
2006    Artist Talk, Collect at the V&A, London England
2004    New work Grant, Australia Council
2002    New Work Grant, Australia Council Grant
1999     Thomas Foundation Grant
1999     Fellowship, Creative Glass Center of America, Wheaton
              NJ


Collections
Australian Parliament House Collection
Kaplan-Ostergaard Collection, Rancho Mirage California.
Etihad Towers, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Art Trust, Australia
National Gallery of Australia
Wagga Wagga National Glass Collection, Australia
Mobile City Art Glass Museum Collection, America
Ernsting Stiftung, Glass Museum, Coesfeld Germany
De Young Museum, Saxe Collection, San Francisco, America
Palm Springs Museum, CA, USA
Private Collection of Elton John
Societe General, Singapore


Selected training, professional positions
​& activities

2013    Waterhouse Art Science prize
2010    Artist Talk, SOFA Chicago, USA
2006   Artist Talk, Collect at the V&A, London England
2004-05 Construction and running of own Hot Studio
            Queanbeyan, NSW

2003-04 Hot glass tutor, Vetreria Artigiana, Switzerland
2001     Hot glass tutor, Creative Glass Center, Switzerland
2000    Hot glass tutor, Sydney College of the Arts
1999    Village Fellowship and demonstration, Millville, NJ
1998    Assisted Dale Chihuly at Sydney Festival event
            demonstration, Sydney College of the Arts, 
Sydney
1998    Hot glass tutor, Sydney College of the Arts
1998    T.A for Ben Edols and Kathy Elliott, Corning Studios, NY
1996    Lino
Tagliapietra demonstration, Jam Factory,
            Adelaide

1994-00  Team working with Ben Edols, Kathy Elliott, Bettina Visintin, Thomas Rowney, Denizen Glass Studio, Sydney
1994   Dick Marquis and Dante Marioni demonstration, CSA
1993   Rich Royal demonstration, Denizen Glass Studio,
           Sydney

1991-98  Assistant to Robert Wynne, production work and studio construction, Denizen Glass Studio, Sydney


Publications
​

"Hatching Out" Object Magazine, No 4, 1997 p 43, 44
"Glass", Australian House and Garden, March 1997 p 34, 35
"Portrait of an Artist", Country Looks, Aug/Sep 1997, p 76, 77
  • Home
  • Curtis
    • ABOUT
    • Luminous Margin Sabbia Gallery
    • Section and Xylem
    • Arc Installation
    • Images of Segmented Structure series
    • Images of Blown Glass Grid series & Constructed Bowls
    • Matthew making processes
    • Matt events
    • Matthew Curtis current images
  • Schwarzrock
    • Lightly Tethered
    • ABOUT
    • spaces between stillness and movement National Portrait gallery 2021
    • between movement and stillness
    • Schwarzrock process images
    • PLASMA @ Canberra Glassworks 2018 & @Suki&Hugh >
      • video by suki&hugh 2017
    • past neon & plasma experiments
    • sway & scribed series
    • a common thread
    • wall panels
    • freestanding sculpture
    • Harry events
  • HOME STUDIO
  • Contact us
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