The tom malone prize

The Tom Malone Prize was initiated by Elizabeth Malone, a Benefactor of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, in 2003 as a tribute to her late husband and glass enthusiast, Tom Malone.

Now in its fifth year, the Tom Malone Prize is a highly anticipated and significant, event on the calendar of Australia’s glass artists.

The Prize is an annual acquisitive prize open to glass artists throughout Australia. It provides an opportunity for artists working in Australia to showcase and be recognised for their work nationally. Each year, $10,000 is awarded to the winner and the winning work then becomes part of the State Art Collection at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

To celebrate the achievements of the Prize in its first five years, the Gallery presented an exhibition of the 2007 finalists and a retrospective of previous winners' works.  These were displayed alongside a selection of glass works from the State Art Collection.

The winner of the Tom Malone Prize for 2007 was Jessica Loughlin, for her work Through distance 3.

In the words of the judges, "This reserved and restrained work by Jessica Loughlin immediately impressed all of us.   The work is a thin vessel which glories in the complex pleasures of glass production as well as the representation of the immersive experience of moving through the landscape.  It has a rich and deep resonance that is the result of closely looking at the world and an immense finesse with the medium of glass: it is the work of a maker at the height of her form.  The piece is a major contribution to Australian glass and the country's ongoing artistic analysis of the landscape."

Click Here to See Information About the Previous Five Year's Winning Entries