Résumé (Short)
Owen Rye (Australia) b.1944 Cooma NSW.
Member, International Academy of Ceramics;
Life member, Australian Ceramics Association
Education
Ph.D., University of N.S.W., 1970; B.Sc. (Hons 1) UNSW, 1965
Employment
2004-Present Self employed (studio work, writing, workshops and residencies)
1985-03 Monash University, Gippsland Campus: Senior Lecturer, Ceramics
1980-84 Canberra School of Art, Sessional Lecturer, Ceramics Workshop
1970-80 Archaeology Research (Smithsonian Institute USA and ANU Australia)
Awards
ClayModern Lifetime Achievement Award (Services to Education) 2004; Distinction Award, International Salt Glaze competition 2002, Koblenz, Germany; Pioneer Potters’ Award 1997; Whitefriars Award 1995; Diamond Valley Award 1992; Gold Coast Award 1989; Pottery in Australia Award 1985; Ampol Arts Award 1965
Exhibitions: Solo (Selected)
2023 Abstractions, Vitrine Showcase, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2022 Abstractions. Watson Arts Centre, ACT
2020 A Daedal Gallimaufry. The Barn Gallery, Montsalavat Vic (A Skepsi exhibition)
2018 Grit and Grace. Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell Vic.
2017 Masala. Skepsi at Malvern, Melbourne, Victoria
2017 Jars; An exhibition of large vessels. Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria
2016 Themeless Variations, Mansfield Gallery, Sydney NSW
2015 Showcase 6: Owen Rye. Shepparton Art Gallery, Shepparton, Victoria
2011 Owen Rye: Woodfired Ceramics. Sturt Gallery, Mittagong NSW
2010 Golden Ashes. Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2009 Watson Arts Centre (Recent Work), Canberra ACT
2008 Residency Exhibit, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum, Utah State University, USA
2007 Freeland Gallery, Sydney (Woodfire ceramics: the aesthetics of imperfection).
2007 Owen Rye: 25 years of Ceramics, a Survey. Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria.
2005 Art Centre Gallery, Astoria (Oregon) USA
2003 Ceramic Art Gallery, Sydney (Reconnaissance)
2002 Gallows Gallery, Perth
1997 Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State Univ., Utah USA
Exhibitions: Group, International (Selected)
2016 Presenter’s Exhibition, Waubonsee International Woodfire Conference, Sugar Grove, Illinois USA
2010 International Woodfire, Brollin (Pasewalk), Germany
2010 International Academy of Ceramics, Sėvres Museum, Paris
2010 Fuping + 3. Masterworks Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.
2009 Soft Beauty of traditional Shinos. Concord University Gallery, Athens, West Virginia, USA
2009 Oz 5 x 5. Lacoste Gallery, Concord, Massachusets USA
2007 Australian and New Zealand Ceramics, FLICAM, Fuping, China
2006 20+1 Years of the Tozan Kilns. NAU Art Museum, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
2006 Prairie, Plains, Pacific Woodfire, Bainbridge Island Gallery, Washington, USA
2006 Three Australian Woodfirers, Randolph Arts Centre, Asheboro N. Carolina USA
2005 The Gulgong Connection, Alpha House Gallery, Dorset, England
2002 Salzbrand (International Saltglaze) Koblenz, Germany
1999 Different Stokes (International Woodfire), University of Iowa Museum of Art
1999 Pyrochromatics. Wellington B Gray Gallery, ECU, Greenville N.Carolina USA
1999 Four Australian Woodfire Artists. New Wagner Gallery, SIUE, Illinois USA
1999 Creative Australia (Craft Australia), Azecra Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1997 Salt-glazed porcelain. Rosenthal Studio-Haus Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
1996 Australia no Magikama Sakuhin, Aoyama Green Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1996 Meitetsu Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
1996 Delinquent Angel: Itami Craft Centre, Osaka, Japan, and Takashimaya Gallery, Singapore
1996 Fletcher Challenge Award, Auckland, New Zealand (selected).
1995 Delinquent Angel (Australian Contemporary Ceramics), Faenza, Italy
Exhibitions: Group, Australia (Selected)
2023 Throughlines. Montsalvat, Melbourne Victoria.
2023 Terra Nova. Sturt Gallery, Mittagong NSW
2022 Sixty. Australian Design Centre, Various Locations touring Australia for several years
2022 Melbourne Design Fair, Melbourne Victoria
2022 Ceramics Stories. Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria
2021 Clay Dynasty, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney
2021 50 Years 50 Artists. Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria
2021 The Space of Emptiness. Craft Victoria (With Lindy McSwann and Yoko Ozawa), Victoria
2020 Flame Path. Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland
2019 Gippsland Sculpture. ARC Gallery, Yinnar Vic.
2018 From the South (with Su Hanna and Daniel Lafferty), Clay Gulgong, Gulgong NSW
2017 Four Ways: Susie McMeekin, Nealie, Isaac Patmore and Owen Rye Makers Gallery, Clayfield, QLD
2017 Identity — Contemporary Australian Ceramics, Skepsi @ Montsalvat, Melbourne
2017 Inflamed: Impassioned Australian Woodfiring. Makers Gallery, Brisbane.
2017 Woodfire 2017, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Sydney
2016 Quietude, Australian Woodfired Ceramics. Skepsi at Montsalavat, Melbourne, Vic.
2015 A Passionate Pursuit – Australian Studio Ceramics from the Kendon Collection. Fo Guang Yuan Art Gallery, Ceramics and Glass Circle, Melbourne
2015 Australian Woodfire: Curator’s Choice. Strathnairn Gallery, ACT
2015 Victorians Stepping Up. Belconnen Arts Centre, ACT
2015 Leaders. Craft Victoria, Melbourne.
2015 Showcase 6: Owen Rye. Shepparton Art Gallery, Shepparton, Victoria
2015 White Goods. Craft Victoria, Melbourne.
2014 Big Ceramics. Craft Victoria in Yarra Gallery, Federation Square Melbourne
2014 Australian Ceramics (Janet Mansfield Tribute). Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne
2012 Rigg Award (invitational), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2011 Art of Woodfire, Skepsi Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
2011 Inside Woodfire, Fifty Australian Stories. Gallery 9, Deloraine, Tasmania
2009 Pourers. Object, Australian Centre for Craft and Design, Sydney.
2009 In Good Company, The Fuping Show. Skepsi on Swanston, Melbourne
2008 Masters of Woodfiring. Sturt, Woodfire Conference, Mittagong, NSW
2008 Australian Woodfired Ceramics Survey. Freeland Gallery Paddington NSW
2006 Teabowls, Purple Space, Jam Factory Adelaide SA
2005 Australian Woodfire Survey, Watson Art Centre, ACT
2003 Rye Crop, Mura Gallery, Sydney NSW
2002 Gold Coast Ceramic Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Qld (selected).
2001 Bowled Over (National Bowl exhibition) Fremantle Arts Centre WA
2000 Ceramics Purchase exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of N. Territory
1996 Moore’s Building, Fremantle WA: National Bowl Show
1996 Manly Art Gallery, NSW Standing Sentinel (Potter’s Society of Australia).
1996 Shepparton Art Gallery: Sydney Myer Fund Award, invitational
1994 National Gallery of Victoria, Rigg Craft Award (Invitational)
Collections: International
USA: Fullerton Art Museum, San Bernadino, California; Arrowmont Permanent Collection, Tennessee; Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah; Art Center Gallery, Astoria, Oregon. China: FLICAM Museums, Fuping,; R.of Korea: World Ceramic Exposition Foundation Museum, Icheon; Japan: Tajimi City Collection, Mino; Germany: Handwerkskammer Koblenz; France: Ateliers d Art de France.
Private Collections in USA, Canada, Japan, Korea, England, Israel, Germany and in Australia including Greg Daly and Margaret Tuckson collections.
Collections: Australia
Australian National Gallery (ACT); National Gallery of Victoria; Powerhouse Museum, NSW; Art Gallery of Western Australia; Queensland Art Gallery; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery; Gold Coast City Art Gallery; Shepparton Art Gallery; Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory; Wollongong City Gallery: Orange Regional Gallery; Ipswich Regional Gallery; Latrobe Regional Gallery; Bendigo Art Gallery; Castlemaine Art Gallery; Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale; Diamond Valley Collection; Griffith University Collection; Curtin University Collection; Queensland University of Technology Collection; Southern Cross University Collection; Monash University (Jan Feder Collection); Whitefriars College Collection; VCA (Lawrence Collection).
Writing
Books: two on archaeological ceramics; a memoir, Beyond Short Street (2021); Palestinian Traditional Pottery (2021) and The Art of Woodfire, 2011. Many articles in ‘Ceramics Art and Perception’, ‘Pottery in Australia’ and international journals in England, USA, Germany; also numerous exhibition reviews, book reviews and conference papers. Editorial Advisor, Ceramics, Art and Perception.
Curator/Selector
Australian Woodfire survey exhibitions 1986, 1996 and 2005.
Artist in Residence, Workshop and Public Lectures
In Australia, USA, Germany, China, Korea, Papua New Guinea and Israel. Includes: Strathnairn ACT (AinR,W) Utah State University USA (AinR,W), Fuping China (AinR); Univ. of Tasmania, Launceston (Ain R). Workshops include North Carolina Potters Conference, USA; Anagama Firing, Astoria, Oregon USA; Throwing, Portland Oregon USA; Anagama Firing, Sturt Pottery NSW; Firing Tamba Kiln, Cooroy, Qld; Woodfire, SIU, Illinois USA; Pyrochromatics, ECU, North Carolina USA; Woodfire, USU, Logan, Utah, USA; Kiln Master, Fire-up Gulgong; Anagama Firing, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Tennessee, USA; also Brollin, Germany, and Gonzaga University Washington USA. Many conference papers and lectures.
Biography
Recent bio/reviews in Journal of Australian Ceramics, Ceramics Monthly (USA), Ceramic Review (England) Ceramics Art and Perception, Object and Craft Victoria; many others. Bio in many books.