More Congratulations Rose-Mary
Congratulations again to Rose-Mary Faulkner.
Hot on the heels of her being accepted as one of forty six finalists in the EMERGE
2018 International Glass Competition - as reported here last month - Rose-Mary has
now won a major prize in a different competition.
The Wagga Wagga Art Gallery’s acclaimed National Emerging Art Glass Prize
(NEAGP) is a biennial competition launched in 2010, and was established to reward
and promote innovation and excellence in contemporary glass within the emerging
sector.
The NEAGP is open to students from universities across Australia and artists that are
within five years of emerging from their studies.
Rose-Mary was a finalist in the NEAGP in 2016 but has gone one better this year.
She was announced as the 2018 winner at the official launch of the exhibition on
Friday 4 May.
As the winner, Rose-Mary will receive an all expenses paid masterclass study trip to
North Lands Creative Glass in Scotland and $4,000 prize money, in exchange for the
acquisition of her work for the National Art Glass Collection, to be held alongside
Australia’s most acclaimed and significant glass artists.
The 2018 NEAGP entries will remain on display at the National Art Glass Gallery until
29 July 2018 – and for the first time will also travel to Griffith Regional Art Gallery from
18 August to 23 September 2018. If you’ve never seen the art glass collection at the
Wagga gallery it is well worth a trip to see it.
If you wish, you can follow Rose-Mary’s achievements on Instagram at https://
www.instagram.com/rfaulkner.artist/.
Will we be congratulating Rose-Mary here again after the EMERGE 2018 Internation-
al Glass Competition winner is announced on 23 June 2018?
And, finally, congratulations also to the proud parents and grandparents - Peta-Gai
and Mark Faulkner, Robin Bennett and June Faulkner.
St Margaret’s News
8
May 2018