Marian Hosking: Greetings from…
Exhibition
/
29 Oct 2013
-
23 Nov 2013
Published: 31.10.2013
Gallery Funaki
- Mail:
- gallery
galleryfunaki.com.au
- Phone:
- 613 9662 9446
- 613 9662 9446
- Management:
- Katie Scott

Brooch: Untitled, 2013
Heat coloured silver
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.

One of Australia’s best-known metalsmiths, Marian Hosking presents her first solo exhibition at Gallery Funaki since 2009. Hosking has been at the forefront of the craft movement for over forty years, and in 2012 won the Cicely and Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award.
Artist list
Marian Hosking
"Marian Hosking’s recent research has taken her to familiar coastal and inland environments around Victoria and NSW. Areas in the bloom of a La Niña season and areas drying before a long, hot summer: The Grampians, Portsea, Guerilla Bay, Cape Conran, the Pink Lakes, the heathlands of Sydney, the Mallee. Places remembered from childhood holidays that Hosking invites us to see afresh through the small details we’ve forgotten.
Her familiarity with local environments has developed alongside her familiarity with jewellery processes, both honed over forty years of travelling and making. Hosking’s pieces describe fragments of a whole: we can extrapolate whole landscapes from the silvery specifics of her jewellery – they hint at ecosystems we tend to be barely aware of in the day-to-day of city life.
Through her rings, necklaces and brooches, Hosking brings these landscapes to bear on our own bodies. Somehow we are grounded by wearing them, and reminded that we too are irrevocably connected to and dependent on the same complex, fascinating and threatened system. The familiar mustn’t be taken for granted."
Katie Scott, October 2013
One of Australia’s best-known metalsmiths, Marian Hosking presents her first solo exhibition at Gallery Funaki since 2009. Hosking has been at the forefront of the craft movement for over forty years, and in 2012 won the Cicely and Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award. Her recent work – vessel and jewellery based – explores her passionate connection to the Australian environment using an increasingly broad palette of materials.
Her familiarity with local environments has developed alongside her familiarity with jewellery processes, both honed over forty years of travelling and making. Hosking’s pieces describe fragments of a whole: we can extrapolate whole landscapes from the silvery specifics of her jewellery – they hint at ecosystems we tend to be barely aware of in the day-to-day of city life.
Through her rings, necklaces and brooches, Hosking brings these landscapes to bear on our own bodies. Somehow we are grounded by wearing them, and reminded that we too are irrevocably connected to and dependent on the same complex, fascinating and threatened system. The familiar mustn’t be taken for granted."
Katie Scott, October 2013
One of Australia’s best-known metalsmiths, Marian Hosking presents her first solo exhibition at Gallery Funaki since 2009. Hosking has been at the forefront of the craft movement for over forty years, and in 2012 won the Cicely and Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award. Her recent work – vessel and jewellery based – explores her passionate connection to the Australian environment using an increasingly broad palette of materials.
Piece: Mallee, 2013
Stained porcelain, silver
Vessel with brooch lid
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.
Brooch: Untitled, 2013
Stained porcelain, silver
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.
Brooch: River red gum, 2013
Blackened silver
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.
Brooch: Wood and Bark, 2013
Eucalyptus wood, silver
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.
Gallery Funaki
- Mail:
- gallery
galleryfunaki.com.au
- Phone:
- 613 9662 9446
- 613 9662 9446
- Management:
- Katie Scott
-
Con-tacto. Centro de Diseño, Cine y Televisión. Degree Show 2020
24May2021 - 21Jun2021
Centro de Diseño, Cine y Televisión
Mexico City, Mexico -
Simply Brilliant. Artist Jewelers of the 1960s and 1970s
27Mar2021 - 27Jun2021
Pforzheim Jewellery Museum
Pforzheim, Germany -
Keramiek Triënnale 2021
07Mar2021 - 30May2021
CODA Museum
Apeldoorn, Netherlands -
Masterpieces in Miniature. Treasures from the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection
05Mar2021 - 15Aug2021
DIVA. Antwerp Home of Diamonds
Antwerp, Belgium -
Poetic Ceramics by Judith Bloedjes
28Feb2021 - 20Jun2021
CODA Museum
Apeldoorn, Netherlands -
Invisible Thread
01Feb2021 - 27Feb2021
Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein
Munich, Germany -
Preziosa Young 2020 in Barcelona
13Jan2021 - 03Feb2021
Hannah Gallery
Barcelona, Spain -
Like Silk
12Jan2021 - 12Feb2021
EASD València
Valencia, Spain -
HomeWork by Melanie Bilenker
08Jan2021 - 11Feb2021
Sienna Patti
Lenox, United States -
An Octopus's Garden of Silly Delights by Ulvi Haagensen x Morfosis by Ihan Toomik and Andreas Kivisild
06Jan2021 - 27Feb2021
A-Gallery
Tallinn, Estonia -
Fables for the Times. Presentation of Artist in Residence Program Revive in Ten
25Dec2020 - 05Jan2021
MEI-BO Art Museum
Shanghai, China -
Schmuckmelange. Die KunstModeDesign Herbststrasse. Degree Show 2020
21Dec2020 - 31Dec2020
Die KunstModeDesign Herbststrasse. Evening College JewelleryDesign
Vienna, Austria -
The Palace of Shattered Vessels: Light Catchers
19Dec2020 - 31Mar2021
FROOTS & Nogart
Shanghai, China -
See the Big from the Small
19Dec2020 - 03Jan2021
The Closer Gallery
Beijing, China -
Absolutely Abstract
17Dec2020 - 09Jan2021
Lee Eugean Gallery
Seoul, South Korea