Living Treasures: Masters of Australian craft
Marian Hosking - Living Treasure 2007
- Also see:
- » Marian Hosking website
- » On our selection
- by Alex Selenitsch. Craft Australia
- » Opening speech
- by Anna Waldmann. Craft Australia
With almost 40 years professional experience, Marian Hosking is one of Australia's foremost contemporary jewellers. She studied Gold and Silversmithing at RMIT in the late 1960s. In 1973 she established the first jewellery course at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, and in 1976 she returned to Melbourne to establish her own workshop before helping to found Workshop 3000 in 1981. Hosking lectured at RMIT for ten years from 1987, and has since worked as Head of the Jewellery and Metal Department at Monash University, where she is also undertaking a PhD.
Hosking has held solo exhibitions and has participated in innumerable group exhibitions in Australia and internationally. Her work is represented in numerous collections in Australia and overseas, including the National Gallery of Australia and the Powerhouse Museum. In recent years Hosking's practice has taken her to the United Kingdom, South Korea, Japan, Germany, Austria and India as an artist and curator.
Working almost exclusively with silver, Hosking has developed a distinctive vocabulary of techniques including casting, drilling and saw-piercing. She translates specific elements of the natural world into the language of silver, creating jewellery and objects of astonishing beauty.
Marian Hosking
Round Leaf Gum Brooch, 2006
925 silver
Dimensions: 10.5 x 8cm
Photographer: Julian Hutchens
Marian Hosking
Two India vessels, 2007
925 silver
Dimensions: Left: Round vessel, 2007 - 15 x 9cm;
Right: Oval vessel - 130 x 10.5 x 6.5cm
Photographer: Julian Hutchens
Marian Hosking
Gum Twig Chain, 2007
925 silver
Dimensions: 68 x 3.5 x 2.5cm (d) approximate
Photographer: Julian Hutchens
Marian Hosking
Left to right:
Heart Shaped Round Leaf Gum Necklace, 2006
925 silver, heat coloured with black linen thread
Dimensions: Each Unit 40 x 32 x 4mm
Photographer: Julian Hutchens
Gum Nut Chain, 2006
925 silver, heat coloured
Dimensions: Each Unit 10mm diameter
Photographer: Julian Hutchens
Celery Top Pine Chain , 2006
Heat coloured 925 silver
Dimensions: Each Unit 36 x 14 x 10mm
Photographer: Julian Hutchens
