Julie Blyfield

Julie Blyfield, 1957, Melbourne, Australia.

Education:
2002 Residency with Frank Bauer learning metal raising
1984-87 South Australian College of the Arts and Education, Associate Diploma of Jewellery Making and Silver-smithing, Adelaide, South Australia
1976-78 Torrens College of Advanced Education, Diploma in Teaching (Secondary Fine Art) Adelaide, South Australia

Professiona development:
2014 Attended Workshop-Conveying Korean Metal-craft by Sung-Joon Cho & Kenny Son, Jam Factory Adelaide, South Australia

Collections:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom | Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France | Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana, USA | Aberdeen Art Galleries and Museums, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK | National Museums of Scotland Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom | Turnov Collection, Czech Republic | National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT | The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, New South Wales | National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria | Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia | The Arts Centre, Melbourne, Victoria | South Australian Museum Waterhouse Art Prize, Adelaide, South Australia | Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia | Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland | Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory, Darwin, Northern Territory | Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery Toowoomba, Queensland | Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory |Griffith Regional Art Gallery, Griffith, New South Wales | Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Western, Australia

Awards:
2011 Overall First Prize The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, South Australia
2011 Honorable Mention CHEONGJU International Craft Biennale 2011, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2011 Shortlisted Brit Insurance Designs of the Year Award 2011 for Collec+tors Khai Liew exhibition, Design Centre London, United Kingdom
2007 Awarded South Australian Living Artist SALA monograph recipient for 2007 Arts SA / Wakefield Press SA
2006 Commendation City of Hobart Art Prize: Jewellery Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
2002 Won Open Inquiry Award: City of Perth Craft Award, Craftwest Western Australia
1996 Won Non Precious Award: 3rd. National Contemporary Jewellery Award, Griffith, New South Wales
1992 First Prize JMGA Neckworks, Fremantle Art Centre, Fremantle, Western Australia 

Grants:
2013-2016 Creative Australia. Grant Australia Council for the Arts (Solo exhibition at Ruthin Crafts Centre Wales, UK in September 2015)
2013 Independent Makers and Presenters Grant Arts SA (solo exhibition at Gallery 20/17 Sydney)
2008 Independent Makers and Presenters Grant Arts SA (for survey show 1990 -2010 at FORM, Perth, WA)
2007 New Work Established Grant, Visual Arts and Craft Strategy Grant VAB (for Solo at Gallery Funaki, Melbourne)
2006 Project Assistance Grant, International Exhibition - Paris Exhibition- Arts SA
2004 New Work Established Grant, Australia Council for the Arts VA/CB (for Gray Street Workshop 20 years at Galerie Ra)
2002 Residency with Frank Bauer and Exhibition Development Grant, Arts SA (for mentorship/solo at Gallery Funaki)
2000 New Work Grant, Australia Council for the Arts VA/CF (for Gray Street Workshop 15 years touring exhibition)
1997 Professional Development Grant, London studio residency VA/CF

Solo exhibitions:
2013 Second Nature Gallery Funaki Melbourne, Australia
2013 Twice Loved, Studio 20/17 contemporary jewellery and objects, Waterloo, Sydney, NSW
2011 Julie Blyfield: Contemporary Jewellery & Objects 1990 – 2010, Jam Factory, Adelaide, South Australia
2011 Julie Blyfield (Feature artist) Chicago SOFA represented by Charon Kransen Arts, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2010 Julie Blyfield: Contemporary Jewellery & Objects 1990 – 2010, FORM Gallery, Perth, Western Australia
2009 Natural Selection, Gallery Funaki, Melbourne, Victoria
2007 Julie Blyfield Vessels and Brooches, JamFactory Contemporary Craft & Design SALA feature, Adelaide, SA
2003 Flourish, Gallery Funaki, Melbourne, Victoria
2002 Traces, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
2003 Traces, Fingers Contemporary Jewellery, Auckland, New Zealand (with Lynn Kelly)
2003 Upon Reflection, University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide, South Australia
2001 Traces, JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design, Adelaide, South Australia (with Lynn Kelly)
1994 Memento Celebration Sentimentality, Jam Factory Craft and Design Centre, Adelaide, South Australia
1994 Memento Celebration Sentimentality, Craft Victoria Melbourne, Victoria
1988-89 At the Bullring Bullring, Jam Factory, South Australia & Emerald Hill Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria (with Leslie Matthews)

Group exhibitions:
2015 A fine possession Jewellery and Identity, Powerhouse Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney
2015 Art Palm Beach 2015, Palm Beach Country Convention Centre, Charon Kransen Arts, Florida USA
2015 LittleBig, Studio 20/17 Sydney, NSW
2014 A fine possession Jewellery and Identity, Powerhouse Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney NSW
2014 SOFA CHICAGO 2014, Charon Kransen Arts, Festival Hall, Navy Pier Chicago IL, USA
2014 Boxes, curated by Galerie Ra and Galerie Lemaire Amsterdam Netherlands www.gallery-lemaire.com
2014 National Contemporary Jewellery Award 2014 (finalist) Griffith Regional Art Gallery, Griffith, NSW
2014 Tour to, Courtesy of the Artist, Sydney NSW
2014 Domain of the material, curated by Tomyo Hiraiwa, Create Space Tokyo, Shinagawa, Tokyo Japan
2014 Cross Currents, curated by Charon Kransen Arts, Vaudeville Gallery, Fredericksburg, Texas USA
2014 Show Time: The Art Collection of Arts Centre Melbourne, The Arts Centre, Melbourne, Victoria
2014 Jewelry from down under, Taboo Studio, San Diego California, USA
2014 Kunst Rai, represented by Galerie Ra Amsterdam Netherlands
2014 The other side - Jewellery and objects from Australia and New Zealand, Gallery SO London, UK
2014 Art Fair Cyclorama Boston, Charon Kransen Arts, Boston MA USA
2014 Collect 2014, represented by Galerie Ra, Saatchi Gallery, London United Kingdom
2014 Frame, represented by Galerie Ra Munich Germany
2014 Art Palm Beach 2014, Palm Beach Country Convention Centre, Charon Kransen Arts Florida USA
2014 Wear a piece of Adelaide, The Arcade Adelaide, South Australia
2013 SOFA CHICAGO 2013, Charon Kransen Arts, Festival Hall, Navy Pier Chicago IL, USA
2013 Bodywork: Australian Jewellery 1972-2012, National Collecting Institutions Touring and Outreach Program, National Gallery of Australia, ACT Australian tour
2013 Artisans in the Gardens Lion Gate Lodge, The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney, NSW          
2013 Revealed2: Collector Space Anne & Gordon, Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, South Australia
2013 Beyond precious… beyond the oceans - Contemporary Jewellery Australia and New Zealand, Circuits Bijoux, presented by Helene Aziza, Atelier D'Art de France Paris, France
2013 Kunst Rai, Galerie Ra Amsterdam, Netherlands
2013 Collect 2013, Galerie Ra, Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2013 Schmuck 2013, Internationale Handwerksmesse Munich 2013, Germany
2013 17th Silver Triennial International, Gesellschaft fur Goldschmiedekunst, Deutches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau, Germany
2013 Cabinets of Nature and Curiosity, Bayerischen Staatssammlung fur Palaontologie und Geologie, Munich Germany
2013 Frieze Art Fair, Charon Kransen Arts, New York, USA
2012 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, Charon Kransen Arts, New York, USA
2012 Collect 2012 Galerie Ra, Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2012 Unexpected Pleasures – The Art and Design of Contemporary Jewellery, The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; The Design Museum, London, United Kingdom
2012 Ra present, Ra 35 years Ra Gallery, Galerie Ra, Object Fair Rotterdam, Netherlands
2012 Masterpiece 2012 London Adrian Sassoon, The Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London, UK
2011 Forces of Nature, Embassy of Australia, Washington DC USA
2011 Ra present, Ra 35 years Ra Gallery, Galerie Ra, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2011 Collect 2011 Galerie Ra, Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2011 ITAMI International Craft Exhibition: ‘Jewellery’, The Museum of Arts and Crafts Itami, Hyogo, Japan
2011 CHEONGJU International Craft Biennale, Cheongju Cultural Complex, Chungcheongbuk, Seoul, Republic of Korea 2011 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, Charon Kransen Arts, New York, USA
2011 Brit Insurance Designs of the Year Award 2011, Collec+tors- Khai Liew Design Centre, London, United Kingdom
2010 Bijoux Ceramique Metal, Galerie Helene Poree, Paris, France
2010 Falten Pleats Plissee, Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany
2010 Collect 2010 Galerie Ra, Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2010 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, Charon Kransen Arts, USA | Object Art Fair Galerie Ra, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2010 Treasure Room Australia, Schatzkammer Australien Galerie Handwerk, Munchen, Germany
2009 Bravura 21st Century, Australian Craft Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia
2009 Evoking Mystery, De Novo Fine Contemporary Jewelry, Palo Alto, California, USA
2009 SOFA New York International Contemporary Art & Design Fair, Charon Kransen Arts, New York, USA
2009 Collect 2009 Galerie Ra, Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2009 Schoonhoven Silver Award 2009 Poesie in Silber,  The Watertoron, Schoonhoven, Netherlands, Design Museum, Gent, Belgium, International Design Museum, Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, Germany
2009 Meister der Moderne, International Trade Fair 2009 Munich, Germany
2009 HARVEST an exhibition about plants and place from South Australian collections Museum of Economic Botany, Adelaide Botanic Garden, South Australia
2009 Raising the Bar: Influential Voices in Metal, MIMA Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, United Kingdom 

Workshop Presentations: National and International:
2013 Masterclass Making it- Object design for jewellers RMIT Gold and Silver-smithing, Melbourne, Victoria
2012 Masterclass Workshop Sketching and metal chasing for Jewellers, Queensland College of Art Griffith University Brisbane, Queensland
2011 Workshop presentation The Botanical landscape: sketching, maquette making and the technique of chasing, North Seattle Community College, WA, Seattle, United States of America
2010 Workshop presentation Draw, Explore, Construct, TAFE Perth Western Australia
2007 Workshop presentation Chasing, San Diego State University, California, USA
2007 Workshop presentation Chasing and Smithing, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indianapolis, USA
2007 Series of five Workshop presentations for Designing Futures Jewellery Cluster, FORM Contemporary Craft and Design, Perth, Western Australia
2006 Workshop presentation Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Botanical Landscape –a jeweller’s perspective, Deer Isle, Maine, United States of America
2003 Here and There Aust /UK exchange Weekend workshop, Pearoom, Heckington, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
2002 Presented Flypress /Die forming weekend workshop for students & jewellers, Gray Street Workshop, South Australia
2001 5 Day Workshop presentation to jewellery students from the Lasalle SIA College of the Arts, Singapore Artist in Schools, Christies Beach High School - 10 day residency funded by the South Australian Youth Arts Board
2000 Artist In Schools Kingscote Area School - design for public space - 2 week residency, funded by SA Youth Arts Board
1999 Artist in Schools, Wilderness School - 2 week residency teaching Non Precious Jewellery to students, South Australia
1996 Taught Introduction to Jewellery Making – Weekend 2 day TAFE workshop, Kangaroo Island, South Australia

Galerie Ra, Amsterdam
Gallery Funaki, Melbourne Australia
Jam Factory, South Australia, Australia
Charon Kransen Arts USA
Adrian Sassoon, London UK