Clarence City Council is thrilled to announce the selection of the following finalists for the 2023 Clarence Prize for Furniture Design:
Patrick Adeney, Elliot Bastianon, Simon Colabufalo, Ben Grieve-Johnson, Brandon Harrison, Jessica Humpston, Mark Jones and Ellis Moseley, Melvin Josy, Adam Markowitz and Ruth Allen, Geoffrey Marshall, Duncan Meerding, Kevin Perkins and Belinda Winkler, Ivana Taylor and Darren Fry, Liam Starcevich, Tanya Singer and Trent Jansen
The Clarence Prize is a biennial exhibition that has found its niche within Australia’s art community celebrating innovative furniture design.
Entries are shortlisted based on the quality of aesthetic and craft, and ingenuity in function, purpose, material considerations and sustainability.
One acquisitive prize of $20,000 is awarded to the winner and which as acquired into the Clarence Art Collection. Two non-acquisitive prizes of $1,500 are awarded to works that are highly commended and to an emerging designer.
The 2023 Clarence Prize will not be appointing a replacement judge and will continue with the remaining two judges, Ashley Jameson Eriksmoen and Lucy Given.
Ashley Jameson Eriksmoen studied fine woodworking at the College of the Redwoods before earning her M.F.A. in Furniture Design at Rhode Island School of Design.
In 2006, she received the Norwegian Marshall Fund Grant to research traditional woodworking methods in Norway.
Prior to arriving at the Australian National University in 2012, Eriksmoen was based in Oakland, California and has taught design/woodworking at the California College of the Arts, the College of the Redwoods, the Oregon College of Art & Craft, the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and Penland School of Craft.
Eriksmoen is currently Head of Furniture at the Australian National University School of Art and Design and was the 2021 Clarence Art Prize winner.
Lucy Given won Australian Homeware Retailer of the year in 2017 and 2018, was awarded Excellence in Visual merchandising at the Global Innovations Awards in Chicago in 2017, and has been recognised by the National Retail Association and LightSpeed as one of Australia’s Remarkable Retailers.
Lucy was also the 2019 winner of the Tasmanian Small Business Award in the Telstra Business Womens Awards.
She has been a judge for Design Tasmania design awards and has lectured on store design, visual merchandising and regional retail at Life Instyle and Reed Gift Fairs.
2021 Winners
Winner $20,000 acquisitive award – Ashley Eriksmoen, Following years of steady decline we are witnessing a period of unprecedented growth
Highly commended award – Marta Figueiredo, The Elementary Abacus
Emerging designer award – Mathew Sherwen, Kodo
2017 Winners
Winner $20,000 acquisitive award – Hugh Altschwager, Bronze Bench, 2017
Highly commended award – Bernard Chandley, Lowbow Diner Chair, 2016
Emerging designer award – Nicholas Fuller, Voyage, 2017
Previous Winners
2015 Liam Mugavin (SA) Koto Light
2013 Laura McCusker (TAS) I-Beam Bench
2011 Simon Ancher (TAS) Clipped Wing Sideboard
2009 Fukutoshi Ueno (QLD) Dress Code Stools
2007 Sally Brown (TAS) Warp Bench
Ashley Eriksmoen, Following years of steady decline we are witnessing a period of unprecedented growth. Photo by Remi Chauvin
Marta Figueiredo, The Elementary Abacus. Photo by Remi Chauvin
Voyage, 2017. Nicholas Fuller. Photography Samuel Shelly
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The City of Clarence acknowledges the Tasmanian Aboriginal community as the continuing custodians of the land and pays respect to elders, past, present and emerging.
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The City of Clarence acknowledges the Tasmanian Aboriginal community as the continuing custodians of the land and pays respect to elders, past, present and emerging.
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