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- Bevan Haywood Final Showdown
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- Warren Langley, The Collective Memory
- Doug Lawrie, Untitled Round Vase
- Michael Le Grand, Yo-yo.
- Sue Lovegrove: Vanishing #352
- Tim Maguire, Untitled
- Queenie McKenzie Mooloogoor Hills
- Ann Marie McMahon, The Two Walyers
- Sally Morgan The Circle and other works
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- Trevor Nickolls, Bird
- Sir Sydney Nolan: Night and Desert Landscapes
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- Ningura Papurrula Women's Ceremonies
- Peter Pedriau, Coverer in Yellow
- Minnie Pwerle, Women's Ceremonies
- William Robinson , Twin Falls
- Darby Jampijimpa Ross: Emu & Water Jukurrpa
- Tom Rowney, Black, White and Grey Merletto Bowl
- William Sandy, Bush Bean Dreaming
- Jörg Schmeisser, Here and Now, Echoes of the Past
- Brian Seidel, Autumn Pond and Tropical Pond
- Michael Taylor, Showers
- Imants Tillers: Home Visitation III
- Freddie Ngarrmaliny Timms, Mud Springs
- Mykal Zschech, various works
- Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono Mural paintings
- David Voigt Ravenhill Gate and other works
- George Gittoes, The Henna Tattoo
- Sydney Nolan: Mask VIII
- Judith Clingan, Shearing Top Naas
- Eris Fleming, Hillside Paddock
- GW Bot, Threnody
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- Robin Nelson Drawings
- Colin Jordan, Intruder
- Stan De Teliga, Kydra River
- Dianne Firth, Black Opal
- Jack Featherstone, Alpine Ash Bark Painting
- Karla Dickens Second Skin
- One by Geoffrey Drake-Brockman
- Sculpture 19 by Derek F Wrigley
- Robin White wood cut series
- Graham Eadie,, Various works
- Peter Laverty, Seascape
- Paul Cavell, Postcard Incident
- Frank Hodgkinson, Black Cockatoo
- Brian Hirst Flat form Teal
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- Tommy Watson, Untitled, 2013 & 2016
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- Ian Henderson, Where is your heart and other works
- Maringka Baker: Kalinpil
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- Robert Hannaford, Jean Blackburn
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- David Armfield, Morris's Vineyard
- Cecily Gibson, Untitled Stoneware Bowl
- George Baldessin, Ed25 & Untitled works
- Andrew Sibley, The Trolley Pushers and other works
- Keith Looby, Packaged Landscape
- David Rose- Magpie in Orange Tree
- Unknown artist: Japanese Wedding Kimono
- Salvatore Zofrea, Various Works of Art
- Basil Hadley: Over Under the Trees
- Dacre Henry Deudreath Smyth: Towards Captains Flat
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Hilary Crawford, Sugar Town and other works
Sugar Town from the Series 'City of Bits' by Hilary Crawford
The Artist
Hilary Crawford is one of Australia's leading contemporary artists working in the glass/ceramics media with works in public and private collections globally. Hilary was born in 1973 and studied at the Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Canada before going onto studying in Australia with a Bachelor of Arts at the Australian National University in Visual Arts and in Design (Ceramics and Glass) at the University of South Australia. Since graduating, Hilary has become a professional full-time artist specialising in working with glass murrine (patterns formed in a glass cane which are revealed when the cane is cut in cross sections). Hilary is particularly known for her unusual three-dimensional shapes which are the result of her mastery of a range of techniques from tile fabrication to blowing glass, sculpting and cold working. Hilary has exhibited across the world including an exhibition at the Chapman Gallery, New York, and has been a finalist for the Ranamok Glass Prize in 2006, 2007 and 2008. Crawford has also taught and worked at both University of South Australia and at the ANU. In 2013, Hilary was an artist in residence at the Canberra Glass-Works.
The Work of Art
Sugar-Town, from the series, 'City of Bits' was one of the works of art created by Hilary Crawford as part of her graduation works in 2001 from the Australian National University, Canberra. Crawford created this work using black and white glass in a kiln formed fused technique. This is where the glass is heated to a state that different components fuse and bond together without being so hot that the glass melts. This is usually carried out in a flat area of the kiln to form a fused blank. The blank is then re-heated in the kiln so that it sags into its shape- this is sometimes called draping or slumping.
Crawford's work has been described as have a machine-like aesthetic, streamlined forms that derive from modern architecture. The use of murrine implants in Hilary's works represent random impressions of urban culture- a visual hybrid of streams of information and the built environment. In Hilary's own words, 'Fragments of information are sequenced so we perceive them on the move; other information we have to look at again, to blink, so as to recognise what we absorb.
As previously stated, Hilary Crawford's works are exhibited world-wide with works of art acquired by the Springs Art Museum, California, USA as well as closer to home at the Canberra Museum and Art Gallery, CMAG. Other works from the City of Bits include Cycloid #3 and Glint #2 & 3 currently with the Sanksa Galerie, Switzerland. The University of Canberra has one other example of Crawford's work in the Art Collection. Origami water-bomb #12 is a good example of Crawford's murrine glass compositions. This work is a hand blown and sculpted form with murrine implants with a diamond finish.