Biography - Erin Conron
Erin has been building her art practice for more than 15 years. She completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts with a major in glass, at the Canberra School of Art in 2007 and her Honours year in 2008. Since graduating, she has participated in numerous group exhibitions nationally and internationally.
In 2008, Erin was a finalist in the Ranamok Glass Prize and in 2012 was awarded the McGrath Emerging Artist Award from the Capital Arts Patrons Organisation. In recent years, she has won the Queanbeyan City Art Prize, and a was finalist in both the 2018 Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize and the 2017 Hindmarsh Prize.
Erin’s work explores dualities of collective and personal, individual and universal, interior and exterior. Using repeated simplicity to create complexity, she aims to make work that invites contemplation. Erin explains:
“I am interested in the cycles, seasons, routines, and repetitive daily events of life that occur around us. These repetitive events affect our experiences, they structure our identities and create the complexities of our personal stories. I use repetitive, linear mark making, and the transparent glass vessel as a canvas to create complex layered patterns. This creates a moiré effect, which causes the viewer to see shape, movement and energy, in addition to the line and form of the vessel itself”.
Erin’s work has been acquired by Australia's National Art Glass Collection, the European Museum of Modern Glass in Germany and the Kaplan-Ostergaard Glass Collection at Palm Springs Art Museum.
Erin and her husband and two daughters recently relocated from her studio space in in Queanbeyan NSW where she also ran a glass company to the Noosa hinterland area. They have exciting plans to build a new and sustainable hot-glass studio so Erin can continue to develop her work
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Loop, Studio Glass by Erin Conron, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
2013 To and Fro, Studio Glass by Erin Conron, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, South Australian Museum
2017 Hindmarsh Prize, Canberra Glassworks
Refraction, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
Revolve, Canberra School of Art
2015 Diplomacy:Translations in Glass, Canberra Glassworks
2014 City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
The Tree, Canberra Glassworks
On Flame, Modern Glass & Ceramics from the collection of the Otto Waldrich family,
European Museum of Modern Glass, Coburg, Germany.
2013 Canberra Glass 2013, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
Sunshine Coast Art Prize 3D, Noosa Regional Gallery
Ensemble, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
2012 The Ins and Outs of Space, M16 Artspace
2011 The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, S.A Museum and National Archives
Drink! Canberra Glassworks
Erin Conron and Linzie Ellis, M16 Artspace
Kaleidoscope, Sydney College of the Arts
2009 Limited Lines, Canberra Glassworks
Talente, International Young Design Exhibition, Munich, Germany
2008 Salute IV: Sabbia’s Stable, Sabbia Gallery, Sydney
Canberra School of Art Graduating Student Exhibition, ANU School of Art
Layer: Reflections on Place, Canberra Glassworks
Ranamok Glass Prize, national touring exhibition, Australia
Cowra Festival Art Awards, Cowra Regional Gallery
Collections
Permanent display, European Museum of Modern Glass, Coburg, Germany
Australian National Art Glass Collection, Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery
Kaplan Ostergard Glass Collection, Palm Springs Art Museum, CA, USA
Otto Waldrich family, private collection
Professional Positions, Awards and Activities
2018 Winner, Queanbeyan City Art Prize
Finalist, Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize
2017 Finalist, Hindmarsh Prize, Canberra Glassworks
2014 Finalist, City of Hobart Art Prize
2013 Finalist, Sunshine Coast Art Prize
2012 Winner, McGrath Emerging Artist Award, Capital Arts Patrons Organisation
Recipient of Thomas Foundation Residency at Canberra Glassworks
2011 Highly Commended, Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize
Finalist, Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize
2010 State Representative for Ausglass, Australian Glass Artists Association
Selected Artist, New Glass Review, Corning Museum of Glass, NY USA
2009 Finalist, Talente, International Design Competition, Munich, Germany
2008 Finalist, Ranamok Glass Prize, national touring exhibition Australia
Winner, National Gallery of Australia Emerging Artist Award
Winner, Acquisition Award, Canberra School of Art Graduating Exhibition
Winner, Kugler Award for Innovation at Ausglass Conference Exhibition
Technical Assistant to Jessica Loughlin spring master class
Transition: Idea to Object Canberra Glassworks
Tutor, assistant and studio tenant at Canberra Glassworks
2007 -2012 Co-ordinator Ausglass Conference Exhibition