Harriet Schwarzrock C.V.
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 Confluence, with Valerie Kirk AM, CraftAct with Geoscience Australia and Parks ACT, Namadgi Residency Exhibition. Upending Expectations, Canberra Glassworks, Travelling. The Hum and the Buzz, Neolite, St Peters Sydney. 2021 120 plasma heart installation at National Portrait Gallery Canberra, spaces between stillness and movement, for Australian Love Stories Exhibition. LIT Light in Transmission, Pittsburgh Glass Centre, USA. 2020 Public commission, Department of Home Affairs, co Canberra Glassworks, murmuration, Canberra. She Bends, Love Land Museum Colorado, USA. 2019 filament @ Suki&Hugh Gallery, Bungendore, NSW. She Bends, Var West Gallery Milwaukee, USA. Sydney. 2018 Hearts and Minds, Canberra Glassworks, ACT. Australia Il Vetro Illuminato exhibition, GAS conference, Venice, Murano Italy @ Berengo Studio. 2017 'Exquisite Nature Exquisite Neon', Suki&Hugh Gallery, Bungendore. 'Defining Moments', Canberra Glassworks, Australia. ‘City of Design’, Craft Act Members Exhibition. ‘History Repeated’, Craft Act and Corning MOG Collaborative concept. 2016 ‘Reflections’ Parliament House, Australia ‘Fresh Glass’, Canberra Glassworks, Australia 'Light Lines’ project with Sarah Rice at Canberra You Are Here Festival ‘Interconnected’ Form Gallery Queanbeyan ‘Reflections’ Parliament House, Canberra ACT. ‘Light Lines’ project with Sarah Rice at Canberra You Are Here Festival. 2015 ‘And So It Begins’. C5 Gallery, Canberra Winter Lights, Kirra Gallery, Melbourne 2014 Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize 2014, South Australian Museum Artisans in the Garden, Botanical Gardens Sydney Hobart City Art Prize, Finalist. Tasmania ‘Art in the Embassy’, United States Embassy Canberra ‘Tree’, Canberra Glassworks, Canberra Australia Finalist in inaugural KIGA Kirra Illuminated Glass prize, Melbourne ‘Revere’ Sabbia Galley, Sydney Australia 2013 Winter Lights, Kirra Gallery, Melbourne Anima, TCA, Lanyon Gallery, ACT Modern Market, Craft Act and Molonglo Group 2012 SOFA Chicago USA, c.o. Kirra Gallery Melbourne, VIC, Australia ‘Osmosis’ Kirra Gallery Melbourne, with Tevita Havea ‘Alphabet’ Craft ACT Canberra, curated by Mel George ‘Winter Lights’, Kirra Gallery Melbourne 2011 ‘Winter Lights’, Kirra Gallery Melbourne Glimpse’ Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney 2010 ‘Winter Lights’, Kirra Gallery Melbourne SOFA Chicago, Riley Gallery USA 2009 SOFA Chicago, Riley Gallery, USA Artisans in the Garden, Botanical Gardens Sydney Wheaton Village Glass Weekend, Riley Gallery, Cleveland USA Collect @ Saatchi Gallery, UK. co. Raglan Manly P3, Palm Beach Art Fair; Riley Gallery, USA 2008 “Limited Lines”, Canberra Glassworks, ACT SOFA, Chicago, Riley Gallery, Cleveland, USA Matthew Curtis and Harriet Schwarzrock, Riley Gallery, Cleveland, USA “Capital Glass”, Kirra Gallery, Melbourne,VIC, Australia Cowra Regional Gallery Art Festival, Cowra, NSW ‘Open Slather’, Ausglass members show, Canberra School of Art, ACT ‘Q’ Opening Exhibition. Queanbeyan NSW, Australia 2007 ‘New from Australia’, Chappell Gallery N.Y., N.Y SOFA, Chicago, Raglan Gallery, Sydney ‘Little drop of Kindness’, Craft and Design Centre, ACT 2006 ‘Red Christmas’, Work Shop Bilk, Queanbeyan. NSW ‘Minitures in Glass’, Work Shop Bilk, Queanbeyan. NSW 2005 Kamberra Wines, Canberra, group show ‘Verge’, Top Floor Gallery, Adelaide, in conjunction with GAS 05 2004 ‘Reflections’, Sydney College of the Art Survey, Wagga Wagga 2003 ‘Summer’, Fehraltorf, Switzerland 2002 ‘Talente’, Craft Australia, Muenich, Germany Newspace S.C.A, Scholarship Exhibition 1999 Sydney College of the Arts Degree Show ‘This Way Up’, Object Galleries C.F.C.C Sydney International Glass Arts Exhibition, Portsmouth, Virginia. Glenaeon Craft Arts Student Exhibition, Sydney. Student Show, Ausglass Conference, Wagga Wagga. This Way Up’, Object Galleries C.F.C.C Sydney. 1998 Sydney College of the Arts Degree Show. ‘Pacific Wave’, Bondi Pavillion, Sydney. Helen Lempiere Travelling Art Scholarship. N.S.W. Ministry of the Arts, Artspace, Sydney. Art Award Exhibition, Tap Gallery, Sydney 1997 Student Show, Ausglass Conference, Sydney. |
Awards 2022 INDE.AWARD Shortlist, DJAS, Canberra Glassworks. 2021 Pamille Berg Art in Architecture Award; ACT Architecture Awards. Craft Act, Geoscience Australia, Parks ACT, Namadgi Residency. 2019 Procter Residency USA and Canberra. 2018 Asia Link, Residency, Toyama, Japan. 2017 Australia Council New Work Grant. Helen Hill Smith Prize for Sculpture and Objects, The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize. William Fletcher Trust Grant Pilchuck Glass School Travel Assistance Willoughby Council Arts and Culture Grant Gerome De Costa Memorial Award, Sydney College of the Arts 1998 Helen Lempiere Travelling Art Scholarship. Education 2021+ Ph.D. Candidate School of Art and Design, Australian National University. 1995-1999 Sydney College of the Arts, Bachelor of Arts, Glass Studio, Honours, Sydney University. Selected training, professional positions and activities 2018 666 ABC local radio interview for Canberra’s Enlighten Festival 2018 Neon Demonstration, Gallery talk at Surreal Night, Canberra 2018 Asia Link, 6 week Residency, April May 2018, Toyama, Japan 2018 Taming Lightning Podcast, Percy Echols, Pittsburgh Glass Centre USA 2017 Australia Wide’ ABC Television Interview with A Bell. Glassblowing instructor at Australian National University, Canberra. Assistant to Steven Cole Neon Class Canberra Glassworks. Board Member CAPO, Capital Artist Patron Organisation. Queanbeyan Palerang regional Council Art Award. Inaugural Art Group 6 month residency at the Canberra Glassworks. 2016 Canberra Glassworks Artist in Residence. Professional Neon Workshop at Canberra Glassworks, Richard Wheater. Capital Arts Patron Organization, Canberra Weekly Award. 2015 Attended Martin Janecky workshop, Canberra Glassworks 2014 Wagga Wagga National Glass Collection 2013 Collection of American Ambassador to Australia, John Berry 2012 Collection of Canberra Museum and Gallery 2008 Katherine Grey workshop, Canberra Glassworks, ACT 2007 Participated in Giles Bettison’s workshop; ANU School of Art 2006 Attended Lino Tagliapietra demonstration, Jam Factory, Adelaide 2004-06 Studio assistant to Matthew Curtis, set up of our studio /home Queanbeyan, NSW. 2001 Studio Assistant to Matthew Curtis at Creative Glass Zurich, Switzerland. 2000 Studio Assistant Denizen Glass, Sydney. 1999 Studio assistant to Richard Whiteley, Sydney. Assistant at Yoshi Takahashi workshop, Sydney College of the Arts . Attended Yoshi Takahashi workshop, Jam Factory, Adelaide. Volunteer, Ausglass Conference, Wagga Wagga. 1998 Studio assistance At Denizen Glass Sydney for Ben Edols and Kathy Elliott and for Richard Whiteley Hot Glass workshop, ANU, Michael Scheiner Canberra Studio assistant ‘Innovations in Glass’, Suzi Barnes, Sydney. 1997 Assisted Glass Artist Gallery at SOFA Chicago. 1997 Studio assistant for Laura Donefer, Ontario, Canada. 1997 Hot glass assistant for Laura Donefer at Pilchuck Glass School, and at Corning Studios, USA. 1997 Studio assistant Stephen Rolf Powell, KY, USA 1997 Volunteer coordinator Ausglass conference, Sydney |
In my artistic practice, I endeavor to explore balance and interconnectivity. I am repeatedly drawn to those tenuous and often fleeting moments where an individual object and the asymmetrical fit together sympathetically.
I work predominantly with blown glass components and metal fixtures. I position multiples of similar biologically inspired forms into compositions. The components appear to be unfurling, evolving, floating and shifting in their assemblage. Whilst aligning these forms, I seek to capture a quiet sense of poise, rhythm and balance. Whilst being attentive to the poetry of the spaces created between forms.
I am drawn to the intrinsic complexity and aesthetic beauty of biological forms and growth. Most intriguing is the complex interplay between an organism and the verging environment. At this edge; interconnectivity demands a fragile yet robust balance. A fascinating interplay of contracting and expanding forces becomes apparent.
My studio is shared with my partner Matthew Curtis. We have a hot glass furnace; enabling us to tint glass as it is melted. This results in a certain depth and softness to the hues with which we are able to design our work. I take pleasure in the molten immediacy and manipulation of the material. Captivated by the particular rhythms and the cadence of the process of blowing glass.
On one hand this dynamic and physical process of blowing glass informs my practice. At other moments it is a quiet distillation of these objects, the contemplation of the placement of forms in order to create dynamic yet quiet works.