richard whiteley

Richard Whiteley 59 Thurralilly St. Queanbeyan, NSW 2620

P: +61 2 6125 5829 (ANU) M: +61 4 1620 9245 E:[email protected] Web: richardwhiteley.com

Current Positions:

• Associate Professor and Head of Glass Workshop, School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra,

• Research Consultant for Refire Glass (commercial waste stream recycling project), Sydney, Australia

Education/Training:

1992 • Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA (Studio Head- William Carlson)

1987 • Bachelor of Visual Arts (with distinction), Canberra School of Art, Australian National University

(Studio Head- Klaus Moje)

1986 • Pilchuck Glass School (Cast Glass with Stanislav Libensky & Jaroslavá Brychtova)

1982 • Apprenticeship in Commercial and Stained Glass, Spectrum Studios, Victoria

Solo Exhibitions:

2013 • ‘Mass,’ Sabbia Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia

2011 • ‘Encapsulated Space,’ Bullseye Gallery, Portland, OR, USA

2009 • ‘Transparent Constructions,’ Marx-Sanders Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA

2008 • ‘Solid Light,’ Sabbia Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia

• ‘Solid and Suggested Space’, Object Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia

2007 • ‘Inner Space’, Axia Modern Art, Armadale, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

2005 • ‘New Work’, Marx-Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA

• ‘Recent Work’, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, OR, USA

2004 • ‘Arc’, Axia Modern Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia

2003 • ‘Refraction’, Axia Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

2002 • ‘Richard Whiteley’, Marx-Sanders Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA

• ‘New Work’, Heller Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2001 • ‘Richard Whiteley’, SOFA, New York, NY. Bullseye Connections Gallery, Portland, OR, USA

• ‘Symmetry,’ Australian Art Resources & Axia Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

2000 • ‘Skew,’ Bullseye Connections Gallery, Portland, OR, USA

1998 • ‘Transmission’, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

1996 • ‘Seam’, Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia

1995 • ‘Richard Whiteley’, The Glass Gallery, Bethesda, MD, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2013 • ‘Links,’ Tacoma Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, USA

• ‘10 Squared,’ Canberra Glassworks, Canberra, ACT, Australia

2012 • ‘Word of Mouth.’ Canberra Museum and Gallery. Canberra

2011 • ‘Shack,’ Survey Exhibition, The Shack, Everett, Washington, USA

• ‘Elements Glass,’ Craft ACT, Canberra, ACT Australia

• ‘Ranamok Glass Prize,’ Canberra Glassworks, (touring Australia)

• ‘artMRKT,’ Representation with Bullseye Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA

2010 • ‘Art Miami,’ Representation with Bullseye Gallery, Miami, FL, USA

• ‘SOFA’, Chicago representation with Ken Saunders Gallery. Chicago , IL, USA

• ‘Art Santa Fe’, Representation with Bullseye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA

• ‘Mind and Matter: Meditations on Immateriality,’ Curated by Margot Osborne

Jam Factory, Adelaide and Object Sydney, Australia

• ‘A Glass Act,’ Curated by Sandy Benjamin & Caroline Field, Australian Galleries,

Melbourne, VIC, Australia

2009 • ‘Art Miami,’ Representation with Bullseye Gallery, Miami, FL, USA

• ‘Filling the Void’ BECon Presenters, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, OR, USA

• ‘Tom Malone Glass Prize’ Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia

2008 • ‘In Essence’ The Stephen Procter Fellowship, Sabbia Gallery Sydney, NSW, Australia

• ‘Succession’ GAS Conference Exhibition, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, OR, USA

• ‘Pilot Light’ First year Anniversary Show, Canberra Glassworks, Canberra, ACT, Australia

• ‘Open Slather’ Ausglass Conference, School of Art Gallery, ANU, Canberra, ACT, Australia

2007 • ‘Salute II ’ Sabbia Gallery Sydney, NSW, Australia

• ‘Masters’ Sabbia Gallery Sydney, NSW, Australia

• ‘Heartland’ Inaugural exhibition for the Canberra Glassworks, Canberra, ACT, Australia

2006 • ‘Australian Glass 2006’ Sandra Ainsley Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada

• ‘Reflections: A Decade of North Lands Creative Glass’, National Museum of Scotland, UK

• ‘SOFA’, Chicago representation with Bullseye Gallery., Chicago, IL, USA

• ‘Australische Impressionen’, Galerie Rosenhauer, Göttingen, Germany

• ‘Ranamok Glass Prize’, School of Art Gallery, Australian National University, (touring Australia)

• ‘Miniatures in Glass’, Workshop Bilk, Queanbeyan, NSW, Australia

2005 • ‘designed: Showcase’, School of Art Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

• ‘The Cutting Edge: Cut and Engraved Glass’, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia

• ‘SOFA’, Chicago representation with Marx-Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA

• ‘Seeds of Light: Twenty Years of Graduates from the Glass Workshop, School of Art, School of Art Gallery,

Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

• ‘Canberra Glass 2005’, Beaver Galleries, Canberra, ACT, Australia

• ‘Contemporary Kiln-Glass at Illinois Wesleyan University” a survey of works from the Bullseye Glass

Co. and Bullseye Connection Gallery’, Merwin and Wakeley Galleries, Ames School of Art, Illinois Wesleyan

University, Bloomington, IL, USA

• ‘20/20L Twenty Artists / Twenty Years’, Bullseye Connection Gallery, Portland, OR, USA

• ‘Glass Weekend’, Bulllseye Connection Gallery, Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ, USA

2004 • ‘Ranamok Glass Prize’, School of Art Gallery, Australian National University, (touring Australia)

•’Vetri. Nel Mondo. Oggi.’, Instituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettre, ed Arti, Venice, Italy

•’SOFA Miami’ Marx Saunders Gallery, Miami, FL, USA

• ’Forty: Showcase Exhibition’ Object – Australian Centre for Craft and Design, Sydney, NSW, Australia

• ‘Contemporary Glass Art in Australia’, Valami Mas, Budapest, Hungary

2003 • Ranamok, Canberra Museum & Gallery, Canberra, ACT, (touring Australia)

• ‘SOFA’, Chicago representation with Marx-Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA

• ‘Canberra Glass’, Beaver Galleries, Canberra, ACT, Australia

• ‘Methodology’, Mentorship exhibition with Aaron Robinson, Craft ACT, Canberra, ACT, Australia

• ‘Out of the Fire,’ Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA (catalogue).

• ‘Montage’ Quadrivium Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia

2002 • ‘Transparent Things,’ Craft ACT, Canberra, ACT & Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, NSW, Australia

• ‘Material Culture,’ National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia (catalogue)

• ‘Ecstasy,’ Quadrivium, Sydney, NSW, Australia

2001 • ‘29th Annual International Glass Invitational’, Habatat Galleries, Pontiac, MI (catalogue)

2000 • ‘RFC Glass Prize 2000,’ Volvo Gallery, Sydney, NSW (touring Australia, catalogue)

• ‘At the Edge,’(Contemporary Australian Glass) Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane QLD, Object

Australian Center for Craft and Design, Sydney, NSW. Sunderland College of Art,

Sunderland England (catalogue)

• ‘28th Annual International Glass Invitational,’ Habatat Galleries, Pontiac, MI, USA

• ‘Desire,’ Quadrivium Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia

1999 • ‘Fusion,’ Axia Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

• SOFA Chicago, Bullseye Connection Gallery, Portland, OR, USA

• ‘RFC Glass Prize 1999,’ Volvo Gallery, Sydney, NSW (touring Australia, catalogue)

• ‘International Expo,’ Glass Arts Society, Conference, Tampa, FL, USA

• ‘Vitreous,’ Queensland Contemporary Craft Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

• ‘Ausglass Members Exhibition,’ Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia

1998 • ‘Light Space Color,’ Exhibition with Architect Steven Holl, Bellevue Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA

1997 • ‘Glass Australia,’ Galerie Rob van den Dole, The Hague, Holland

1996 • ‘University of Illinois Alumni Exhibition,’ I Space, University of Illinois Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA

1995 • ‘RFC Glass Prize 1999,’’. Sydney, NSW (touring Australia)

1994 • ‘Critique,’ The Artists’ Museum, First Draft, Sydney, NSW, Australia

• ‘1994 Invitational,’ The Glass Gallery, Bethesda, MD, USA

• ‘Shattered Perspectives,’ Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO, USA

1993 • ‘69th Faculty exhibition,’ Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL,USA

1992 • ‘Illinois Glass,’ Marx Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA

1990 • ‘Glass Art from Australia,’ Galerie Rob van den Dole, The Hague, Holland & Galerie L,

Hamburg, Germany, Galerie Gottschalk-Betz, Frankfurt, Germany

1989 • ‘Australian Glass,’ Habatat Gallery, Detroit / Habatat Gallery, Miami/ Heller, New York, NY, USA

& Kurland/Summers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1988 • ‘Glass Australia 88,’ Meat Market Craft Center, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

• ‘International Exhibition of Kilnformed Glass’, Crafts Council of the ACT. Canberra, ACT, Australia

• ‘New Work, New Artists,’ Glass Artists Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Selected Collections:

• Art Bank, Sydney, NSW, Australia

• Australia Capital Territory Collection, Canberra, ACT, Australia

• Australian National Glass Collection, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia

• Australian National University Collection, Canberra, ACT, Australia

• Bullseye Glass Company Collection, Portland, OR, USA

• Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA

• Embassy of Australia. Washington DC, USA

• Hotel Murano, Tacoma, WA, USA

• National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia

• Palm Springs Art Museum, CA, USA

• Portland Art Museum, Portland OR, USA

• Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia

• Queensland Contemporary Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

• Ranamok Glass Prize Collection, Sydney, NSW, Australia

• The Art Trust, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

• Victorian State Craft Collection, Melbourne, VIC, Australia Selected Grants, Awards & Research Funding:

2012 • Australia Council Grant. Individual Project Grant

2011-13 • Major public art commission for ActewAGL, Cotter Dam, Canberra, ACT

2009-11 • Principal researcher for glass recycling project, ANU and Refire Glass

2009 • Finalist: ‘Tom Malone Glass Prize’ Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia

2006 • MEC Grant, Australian National University for Kiln and hot glass research


2004 • Individual Project Grant, Arts ACT

2003 • Craft ACT Mentorship Grant


• National Design Commission for Australian Business Arts Foundation Awards (annually since 2001)

2000 • Winner RFC Glass Prize 2000 (Ranamok)

1999 • Peoples Choice Prize, RFC Glass Prize 1999

• First Prize, International Expo, Glass Art Society Conference Tampa, FL, USA

• Australia Council Grant (group). Assistance towards US exhibition

• Thomas Foundation Grant (group). Assistance towards US exhibition



• Capitol Glass Invitational Award. The Glass Gallery, Bethesda, MD, USA

1991 • Residency and Fellowship with Harvey Littleton, Littleton Studios, NC, USA

• Australia Council Grant (group). Assistance toward European tour of Australian glass

1990 • Graduate Scholarship and Assistantship. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

1988 • Awarded Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Grant for Young Australians

1986 • Australia Council Overseas Study Grant to attend Pilchuck Glass School

Chapter for Book:

2005 • ‘Richard Whiteley, Along a Different Parallel: Australian Directions in Glass Education’, in Australian Glass Today,

Margot Osbourne. Pp. 20 – 24.

Reviews & Publications:

2009 • Tina Oldknow and Dan Klein: ‘Richard Whiteley’ Catalogue . Blue Start Print, Canberra. ISBN 9780975004685

2006 • Review Marx Saunders Solo, James Yood, Glass Quarterly #102 p. 62

• “Make Me – Private Opinions” Emily Howes, Object, #49, Pp. 24-25

2005 • ‘Australian Glass Today, Margot Osbourne pp. 130-133

2004 • Cochrane, Grace. ‘Beyond Face Value’ Craft Arts International, # 58. 2003 pp 42

2001 • Bronwyn Watson, ‘ Touch of Glass,’ Sydney Morning Herald, Metropolitan, January 5-6 2002: p10

2001 • Anne Lim. ‘Art Goes Beyond Decoration,’ The Australian, May 5 2001: p15

2000 Feature Article. ‘Moments of Clarity’ Inside, #15 2000 pp100, cover & inside cover

• Meredith Hinchliff. ‘Richard Whiteley’ Craft Arts International , 50. Cover & pages 38-41

• ‘Giles Auty. ‘Winners Clear Cut Case for Simplicity’ The Australian, Monday September 4, 2000: p12

• Meredith Hinchliff. ‘The Art of Glass’ The Canberra Times, September 3, 2000: p65

• Jane Castles. ‘Master of Glass Etches His Place in Artistic History’ Manly Daily, 24 August, 2000: p6

• RFC Glass Prize 2000 Catalogue. Resource Finance Corporation and Glass Artists Gallery

• Inside Magazine. Cover and inside cover, photo essay studio glass. No 15

1999 • Edwards, Geoffrey. ‘A Note on Transmission’, Craft, Craft Victoria, Vol 29. No 237 1/99

1998 • Cochrane, Grace. ‘Australia, On The Horizon’ Glass Magazine (New York): p55

1995 • Ioannou, Noris. Australian Studio Glass. Singapore. Craftsman House. 1995

• Fleming, Lee. ‘Classical Glass, And More.’ Washington Post. Saturday, January 14 ,1995: p. C2

1992 • Cochrane, Grace. The Crafts Movement in Australia. Sydney: University Press. 1992: p390–92

• Munro, Alison. ‘Origins and Originality.’ Craft Arts International 26: p103

• Fisher, Coral, ‘Alumni Profiles.’ School of Art and Design 92-93 Alumni News, University of Illinois

1990 • Anderson, Nola. ‘The Story of Studio Glass.’ Neues Glas 3/90: Cover + p210–16

• Le Lievre, Judy. ‘Art Glass from Australia.’ Craft Arts International 20: p63–69

Professional Positions & Activities:

2011 • Speaker, Design For the Next Decade, UTS and Object, Sydney

• Speaker, Glass Arts Society Conference, Seattle, WA, USA

2009 • Artist in residence, Tacoma Glass Museum, Tacoma, WA, USA

• Speaker Becon conference, Portland OR, USA

• ‘Inspire and Inform’ Inaugural lecture series for Bullseye Glass UK, co delivered with Heike Brachlow.

Royal College, London; University of Sunderland; University of Ulster, Belfast and other venues.

• Appointed board Member for the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council (2009-2012)

2008 • Speaker, Glass Arts Society Conference, Portland, OR, USA

• Demonstrator, Ausglass Conference, Canberra, ACT, Australia

2007 • Juror for New Glass Review 29, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA

2006-8 • Board Member and organiser for Ausglass Conference ‘Open House’ Canberra, ACT, Australia

2005 • Demonstrator, GAS Conference, Adelaide, SA, Australia

• Speaker Becon conference, Portland OR, USA

2004 • Speaker, Southern Exposure Glass Conference, New Zealand

2003 • Steering Committee for Canberra Glassworks, Canberra, ACT, Australia

• Keynote address, Becon conference, Portland OR, USA

2001 • Workshop leader, Professional Casting Seminar. Bullseye Glass Company, Portland, OR, USA

• Visiting Artist, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

• New Glass Review 23, New Glass Magazine 2000, Corning, NY, USA

1999 • Board Member Glass Arts Society, USA (International Member) (1999-2001)

• Artist in Residence, Bullseye Glass Co., Portland, OR, USA

1998 • Printing from Glass demonstrator, Glass Arts Society conference, Seto, Japan

1996 • External consultant for Object magazine (96-01), Sydney, NSW, Australia

• Board member Object, Australian Centre for Craft and Design, Sydney, NSW, Australia

(Vice President 98-00, President 00-02 and Active Board member (1996-2003)

• Chair of the Executive (96-97) and board member for Ausglass (1996-1999)

1995 • Eco Design studies, Eco Design Foundation, Rozelle, Sydney, NSW, Australia

1992 • Speaker and demonstrator 1992 Ausglass conference, Canberra, ACT, Australia

• Visiting Artist, Canberra Institute of the Arts, Canberra, ACT, Australia

1990 • Studio assistant for Weinberg Glass, Providence, RI, USA

1988 • Commission for Chisholm Primary School, ACT via The NCDC, Canberra, ACT, Australia

• International Master Workshops in Cast Glass. Canberra, ACT, Australia

Teaching Experience:

2013 • Instructor, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA, USA

2012 • Instructor, The Glass Pavilion, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, USA

• Instructor, The Studio, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA


• Instructor, Bullseye Glass Santa Fe, NM, USA

2010 • Instructor, Bullseye Glass Santa Fe, NM, USA


• Instructor, Becon Conference, Portland, OR, USA

2008 • Instructor, GAS Conference Workshop, Bullseye Glass Company, Portland, OR, USA

2007 • Instructor, Glass Workshop, Summer School, School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra,

ACT, Australia


• Instructor, Bullseye Glass Company, Portland, OR, USA

2004 • Instructor, Northlands Creative Glass, Lybster, Scotland

• Instructor, Summer Program, Wanganui, New Zealand

2003 • Instructor, The Studio, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA

2002 (current) • Associate Professor and Head of Glass Workshop, School of Art Glass Workshop,

Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia


• Instructor, The Studio, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA

• Instructor, Kanazu Forest of Creation, Ezura, Japan


1994-00 • Lecturer, Object Art and Design- Glass, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Sydney,

NSW, Australia

1993 • Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Art and Design (Fall), University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

1992 • Teaching assistant in glass studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

(1992-1993)

1990 • Teaching assistant to Klaus Moje, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA, USA

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