Rebecca
Ward was born in New Zealand and is a Brisbane based artist with a contemporary
approach to jewellery. Through the use of both traditional and contemporary
materials and techniques her jewellery works arrest the viewer with a combination
of serene beauty and wry insight.
Since 1993 Rebecca has exhibited in Brisbane, Melbourne, Canberra, London and Singapore. Her work is influenced by NZ and Polynesian adornment and her interest in visionary and speculative writing. She was granted a Craft Qld (VACF Australia Council/Arts Qld) Mentorship Grant 2001; and also an Arts Qld Grant for a NZ Jewellery Residency in Dunedin.
Rebecca completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts majoring in Gold & Silversmithing in 1993. Rebecca ward one of the three founding members of MoB Workspace in the Museum of Brisbane at the Brisbane City Hall where she was a resident 2003-2007. Her work is becoming recognized as significant in Brisbane's creative visual arts community.
Curriculum Vitae
Rebecca Diana WARD
Born: Papakura, New Zealand
Resides: Brisbane, Australia
Postal: PO Box 2154, Windsor, QLD 4030, Australia
Telephone: +61 7 3861 0157 (home)
Email: rebeccawardjewellery@optusnet.com.au
Web: http://www.rebeccawardjewellery.com
Blog: http://www.rebeccathewrecker.blogspot.com
EDUCATION
1992 Bachelor of Visual Art, The Queensland College of Art, Griffith University,
Queensland, Australia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 Showcase, The Hive, Canberra, Australia
2004 "Sunken City", Reverse Garbage Gallery, West End, Queensland
Australia
2002 "Lost & Found", Craft QLD Store, Queensland, Australia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
"To be Confirmed", Arc Biennial, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia
2006
"Glam-r-Us", MoB Store, Museum of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
"Flash Trash, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
"Junk IT", Reverse Garbage, Queensland, Australia
"Wearing Glass", National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK
2005
"Tag", Craft Queensland, Queensland, Australia
"Rekindle", MoB Store, Museum of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
"If Only…", Charles Smith Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
"Wearing Glass", the gallery@oxo, London
"Shades of Summer", Indigo Contemporary Art, Norfolk, Virginia,
USA
"Token Love", Craft QLD Store, Queensland, Australia
2004
"Ocean: Elemental II", Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland, Australia
"Australian Expressions", Raffles Shopping Centre, Singapore
"Jeweller and the Photograph", Charles Smith Gallery, Melbourne
EXHIBITION COORDINATING/ORGANISING
2005 "Token Love", Craft QLD Store, Queensland, Australia
2004 "Jeweller and the Photograph", JMGQ Group exhibition, Charles
Smith Gallery, Melbourne
2003 "Silent Jewels", JMGQ fundraising silent auction, Brilliant
Facets, City and Craft QLD, Fortitude Valley
COLLECTIONS
2006 "Nana, Nana, Nana", Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
2006 Corporate Gift mementos for delegates of Museums Australia National Conference
May 14 -17.
PUBLICATIONS
Evans, D. (2007) Coolhunting Green, Adelaide: East Street Publications
Green Living, Autumn/Winter 2006, Canada, p 13
Sydney Morning Herald Essential section, "High-tech Hair", Nov 2,
2006, p 3
Voyeur Magazine (Virginblue inflight mag), April 2007, p 113
Noonan, K. (2006) "The Colour of Memories", Courier Mail, 25-26
March 2006, p.40
Edwards, A (2006) "Girl's new best friends", Courier Mail (BAM),
20 July 2006, p.41
Cousins, K. (2005) "Jewels of the city and sea", Canberra Times
(Times2), 28 September, pp 12-13
Monument, (2006) "Tag Team", No. 72, Apr/May
Sorensen, R. (2005) "Testimony of women on the make" Courier Mail
Treehugger "Found and Fossicked Jewellery"
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/04/found_and_fossi.php
GRANTS
2003 - 2007. Residency in MoB Workspace, Museum of Brisbane, Ground Floor,
City Hall, Brisbane.
2003 Awarded Arts QLD Professional Development Grant to undertake a 3mth residency
in SHED Workspace, Dunedin
2001 Awarded $10 000 Australia Council (VACF) Mentorship Grant for Emerging
Artist. 3 month project in Dunedin, New Zealand with jeweller and sculptor,
David McLeod. Launched "Lost & Found" April, 2002, Craft QLD
Store.
EMPLOYMENT
2000-07 Part-time School Administrative Officer/Assistant, School of Film/Arts,
Media and Culture, Griffith University
2007 Experience the Arts Jewellery workshop, Flying Arts
2004 Workshop delivery, Experience the Arts, Flying Arts
2000 Facilitator children's jewellery making workshop, The Queensland Art
Gallery
1999 Guest Lecturer/workshop coordinator, Browns Plains State High School
APPOINTMENTS
2004-07 Editor, Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia, Queensland Chapter
Inc
2004-06 Ordinary Board Member, Craft Queensland
2003-04 President, Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia, Queensland
Chapter Inc
2002-03 Exhibition Committee, Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia,
Queensland Chapter Inc
