Simon Cottrell

Simon Cottrell, Australia.

Education:
2005 - 2010 Masters of Arts Research, Fine Arts. Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMITU)
1996 - 97 Honours, Fine Arts. RMIT University Melbourne, Australia.
1994 - 96 BA, Fine Arts major- Gold and Silversmithing. RMIT Melbourne

Collections:
1998 Macmillan Collection, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne, Australia.
2003 Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
2004 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.
2009 E’space Solidor, Ville de Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France.
2010 National Contemporary Jewellery Collection, Griffith Regional Art Gallery, Australia.
2011 Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia.
(Private Collections in North America, Asia, Europe, Australia, New Zealand)

Awards / Grants: 
2012 Australia Council, New Work Grant
2010 The National Contemporary Jewellery Award, Griffith Regional Art Gallery, Australia
2009 Atelier Ted Noten Artist Residency, Redlight Design, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2008 Australia Council Grant, for personal study into contemporary improvised music in NYC | 2nd prize ‘Refined Abundance International Art Jewellery Award’ Opera House Art Centre, Texas, USA
2005 RMITU Postgraduate Scholarship.
2000 Development Grant. Australia Council Visual Arts/Craft Fund For mentorship with Robert Baines.
1999 ‘KOODAK Peoples Choice Award’ Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Victora, Australia | ‘JOHNSON MATHEY AWARD’ For Excellence in Silversmithing, Australia
1996 LASLO PUZSAR AWARD. For Best Jewellery Design in Gold and Silversmithing, Australia

Selected Exhibitions:
2012, June ‘The Year Was 2006’ Studio 20/17, Sydney Australia. | Mar ‘Unexpected Pleasures’ National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Australia | Mar ‘Silver 1987-2012’ 25 Anniversary of the Wangaratta Regional Art Gallery, Wangaratta, Australia | Mar ‘Zeit Schmuck: Simon Cottrell & Miele Harvey’ Gallery Wittenbrink Munich.
2011, Sept ‘Melbourne Boys; Nick Bastin, Simon Cottrell, Mark Edgoose, David Neale’ Gallery Bilk, Canberra, Australia. | Aug ‘Output to Paths’ Solo Exhibition, Gallery Funaki Melbourne. | July ‘SOFA West Santé Fe, USA (presented by Charon Kransen Arts) | Apr ‘The Friedrich Becker Prize’ Goethe Museum, Dusseldorf, Germany. | Aug ‘National Contemporary Jewellery Award Exhibition’ Sturt Gallery, Mittagong, Australia. | Nov SOFA Chicago, USA (presented by Charon Kransen Arts)
2010 ‘National Contemporary Jewellery Award Exhibition’ Griffith Regional Art Gallery, Australia | ‘SOFA West’ Sante Fe. USA (presented by Charon Kransen Arts) | ‘By Example’ Museum of Art/Craft Itami, Japan | ‘Schmuck 2010’ Internationale Handwerksmesse, Munich, Germany. | ‘Treasure Room Australia’ Galerie Handwerk, Munich Germany.
2009 ‘Four Jewellers, Baines/Bastin/Cottrell/Haydon’ Espace Solidor Cagnes Sur Mer, France | Melbourne Hollow-ware’, Fine Arts Faculty Gallery RMIT, Melbourne, Australia | ‘Sofa West’ Santa Fe, USA (presented by Charon Kransen Arts) | ‘Melbourne Hollow-ware’ Galerie Marzee, Nijmejen Netherlands.
2008 ‘SOFA Chicago’ Navy Pier Chiagao USA. USA (presented by Charon Kransen Arts) | ‘International Art and Design Fair” Park Avenue Armory NYC, USA (presented by Charon Kransen Arts) | ‘Beyond Metal- Contemporary Australian Metal’ RMIT Gallery, Melbourne Australia | ‘SOFA 2008’ New York, USA. USA (presented by Charon Kransen Arts) | ‘Schmuck 2008’ Internationale Handwerksmesse, Munich, Germany. also toured Birmingham City University Gallery; Miejska Galeria Sztuki, Lodz, Poland | ‘The McMillan Collection; Selected acquisitions 1961-2007’ Project Space, RMIT, Australia | ‘The Rhianon Vernon-Roberts Memorial Collection’ Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia | ‘Refined Abundance; International Art Jewellery Award’ Steven F Austin Gallery, Austin, Texas, USA
2007 SOFA 2007’ Chicago, USA (presented by Charon Kransen Arts) | ‘SOFA 2007’ New York, USA. (presented by Charon Kransen Arts) | ‘Beyond Metal- Contemporary Australian Metal’ Touring Bangalore New Delhi, Mumbai, India; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Singapore
2006 ‘Siemens Fine Art Scholarship Exhibition’ RMIT Gallery, Melbourne | ‘Connect’ Inaugural Gallery Funaki International Contemporary Jewellery Prize | ‘City of Hobart Art Prize’, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Australia | ‘Its Got Legs’ Postgraduate exhibition RMIT Gold and Silversmithing, School of Art Faculty Gallery | ‘Colin and Cicely Rigg Contemporary Design Award 06’ National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2005 ‘SOFA 2005’ Chicago, USA (presented by Charon Kransen Arts) | ‘Some…progress 05’ (solo installation) Objectspace Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand | ‘Space, Place and Poximity’ Elaine Jacob Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, USA | ‘SOFA 05’ New York, USA. (presented by Charon Kransen Arts) |  ‘10-2005’ Tenth anniversary exhibition, Galley Funaki, Melbourne | ‘Ninth Biennial Ernest Leviny Commemorative Silver Exhibition’ Castlemaine State Festival, Buda Historic Homestead, Castelmaine, Australia. Touring Hamilton Art Gallery, Ballarat Gold Museum, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne.
2004 ‘SOFA 2004’ Chicago, USA (presented by Charon Kransen Arts) | ‘International Art And Design Fair’ New York, USA (presented by Charon Kransen Arts) | ‘National Contemporary Jewellery Prize’, Griffith Regional Art Gallery, Griffith Australia | ‘International Jewellery’ Gallery Suba, Seoul, Korea | ‘Kunst RAI’ Arts Amsterdam, Rai Exhibition Centre (with Galerie Louise Smit) | ‘Metal Design 04’ International Design Centre, Nagoya, Japan | ‘COLLECT’ contempory craft fair, Victora & Albert Museum, London UK (with Galerie Louise Smit) | ‘Design Down Under’ South Shore Arts Center, Cohasset USA.
2003 ‘SOFA Chicago’ USA (presented by Charon Kransen Arts) | ‘SOUND’ (Solo Exhibition), Gallery Funaki, Melbourne, Aust. | ‘Melbourne International Mokume Gane Symposium & Exhibition’, Project Space, Melbourne Aust. | ‘SEXTET’ The Church Gallery, Perth, Aust. | ‘Metal element Six’ Quadrivium Gallery, Sydney | ‘Metal of Six Countries’ International Design Centre, Nagoya, Japan
2002 ‘RINGS’ , Gallery Funaki Melbourne | ‘Less is More / Less is a Bore’ Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane, Australia | ‘Sofa 2002’ Chicago USA | ‘International Art+Design Fair’ New York, USA (presented by Charon Kransen Arts)
2001 ‘SOFA 2001’ Chicago, USA (presented by Charon Kransen Arts) | ‘International Contemporary Jewelery’ 20th Century Arts Fair, New York, USA | ‘Foundations of Gold’ Asialink project, touring Melboure, Osaka, Seoul, Manila, Singapore and Mumbai | ‘Schmuck’2001 Internationale Handwerksmesse, Munich, Germany
2000 ‘Emerging’ Seven contemporary Jewelers, Gallery Funaki, Melbourne | ‘TALENTE’ International young craft practitioners award exhibition. Internationale Handwerksmesse, Munich, Germany
1999 ‘TRACE’ Exhibition of Melbourne Contemporary Jewellers. Curator Carlier Makigawa. Gallery Yu,
Tokyo & Museum of Art/Craft, Itami, Japan | ‘THE WORKS’ JMGA ,VIC. annual Members exhibition. Victorian Artists Society. Melbourne | ‘Contemporary Wearables 99’ eleven venues in Australia organized by Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery | ‘Sixth Biennial Ernest Leviny Commemorative Silver Exhibition’ Castlemaine State Festival, Buda Historic Homestead, Castelmaine, Australia
1998 ‘18 National Craft Acquisition Award,’ Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Teritory, Darwin. | ‘Grain’, Honors and Masters Gold+Silversmithing, First Site Gallery, Melbourne | ‘24th Alice Craft Acquisition’ The Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
1997 ‘Mornington Peninsula Craft Event’ Mornington Regional Gallery, Mornington, Victoria | ‘City of Hobart Art Prize’, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, Australia | ‘Graduate Metal’, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart.
1996 ‘OR(e)’ graduate exhibition, Gold and Silversmithing, Reserve Bank, Melbourne, Australia | ‘Fifth Biennial Ernest Leviny Commemorative Silver Exhibition’ Castlemaine State Festival Buda Historic Homestead, Castelmaine, Australia | ‘Toy, To Toy’ Customs House, Melbourne, Australia | ‘BOX’ satellite exhibition, Part of the Next Wave festival, RMIT Melbourne, Australia

Work Experience:
2011 ongoing Lecturer/research,Gold and Silversmithing, School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra | Relocated Studio to Canberra, Australia | May Guest Lecturer, Jewellery + Object Studios, Sydney College of the Arts.
2010, Aug Seminar Speaker “Practice as a Site of Enquirey” organised by the School of fine art RMIT.
2009, Sept Invited Visiting Artist Lecture, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
2009, Feb Atelier Ted Noten Artist Residency, Redlight Design, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2009, Jan Guest Lecturer at South Carolina University Fine Arts, Greenville, USA ; Massachusetts College of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
2008, Dec Guest Lecturer at State University of New York, New Paltz, USA ;
2008, Nov Guest lecturer Rhode Island School of Art and Design Providence USA; Indiana University, Bloomington USA ; Pratt Institute, School of Art and Design, Brooklyn, NYC, USA
2008, Nov Invited international guest speaker SOFA Chicago Lecture Series.
2008, Nov-Jan Artist Residency, Point B, Brooklyn, New York
2005, Sept, Guest Lecturer Auckland University, Manakau School of Visual Arts, NewZealand
2005, Aug Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia (JMGA) Annual public lecture.
2004, Dec Australia Council commission for design/making of the "2004 Emeritus Medal and Award"
2004-2007 Sessional Lecturer in Fine arts/Gold and silversmithing, RMIT University Melb. Australia
2003, July Guest lecturer LaSalle school of Fine Arts, Singapore
2002, May Selected for Asialink cross-cultural collaboative project.
2002 - ongoing Sessional lecturer in Fine arts/Applied arts/ Metal, Monash University, Caulfield Melb.
2001, 2002 Tutor, Gold+Silversmithing department, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
1997, 2008 Robert Baines, Artist / Goldsmith, Studio assistant
1997, June Design and prototyping of corporate giftware for production. RMIT, Vice Chancellor.
1997, March Frank Bauer, Artist / Metalsmith. Assisant with large private commission.
1995, Nov-Dec Mark Edgoose, Artist / Metalsmith. Studio assistant

Gallery Bilk, Canberra, Australia.
Gallery Funaki, Melbourne, Australia.
Metalab Gallery, Surrey Hills, Sydney, Australia.
Charon Kransen Arts, New York, USA.