Tom Malone Prize 2008
Western Australia’s Kevin Gordon named winner of this year’s Tom Malone prize.
Perth glass artist Kevin Gordon has won the 2008 Tom Malone Prize for his stunning work Sea Urchin.
The Tom Malone Prize, now in its sixth year, is an acquisitive prize for contemporary Australian glass artists, with the winning work entering the State Art Collection. The prize was initiated in 2003 by Benefactor of the Foundation of the Art Gallery, Elizabeth Malone. The prize is intended to promote the creation, appreciation and enjoyment of glass made in Australia.
The Prize is judged on a rotating basis. In alternate years works are sent to the Gallery and judged by a panel. In intervening years the judges make a series of studio visits to short-listed entrants. This combination of judging methods enhances the Gallery’s connections with the Australian glass community, ensuring strong links are maintained with those making the best work in this fascinating medium. This year judges Elizabeth Malone and the Art Gallery’s Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Robert Cook, visited artists Charles Butcher and Matthew Ryan (NSW), Blanche Tilden, Nadia Mercuri and Tegan Hamilton (VIC), Clare Belfrage, Gabriella Bisetto and Tom Moore (SA), and Kevin Gordon (WA).
“It is an incredibly nuanced piece using complex sandblasting techniques and his highly-developed lens technique. These unite in this work to craft an endlessly intriguing dialogue between interior and exterior, microcosm and macrocosm. Given this, while based on a single marine animal, it also speaks of the connectedness of all plant and animal life on earth”. Robert Cook and Elizabeth Malone.
Kevin Gordon
Sea urchin
2008
Blown form, diamond wheel cut, sandblasting, and hard carved, brush wheel and felt polish
26 x 30 cm
State Art Collection,
Art Gallery of Western Australia
"It is my nature to understand the designs of nature and to look for the mathematical formulas and variations that guide its evolution. As life was first formed in the oceans it is here that we find the basic structures and designs that still resonate in so much of our lives. I also have a fascination with the mathematical formulas in computer assisted design and have studied the idea of fractals and Mandelbrot theory. In this theory, designs are produced by the repetition of a few basic variations in pattern. In my work, I emphasise this with the use of lens". Kevin Gordon
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