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Sue Lorraine

Sue Lorraine

Born: 1955, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Media: Objects, jewellery and design

Current: Current partner /co-founder; Gray Street Workshop, Adelaide, South Australia (est 1985)

Professional Experience

Work

2008-21
Grant Officer, Arts South Australia. Partner Gray Street Workshop

2007-08
Chair of Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia (JMGA) SA Inside/Out 2008 International Conference Committee.

1999-2008
Creative Director, Metal Design, JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design, South Australia.

1997
Visual Arts/Craft Fund, Australia Council, Barcelona – 4 months residency.

1992
Fluxus Contemporary Jewellery Workshop, New Zealand – 3 month residency.

1985
Founded Gray Street Workshop, Norwood, SA with Catherine Truman and Anne Brennan.

1982-83
Workshop 3000, studio space and traineeship, Melbourne, Victoria.

 

Selected Exhibitions since 2002

** Denotes solo and/or major shows

2020
Vessel | Harts Mill, Port Adelaide.

2019
Measured ** | Gallery Funaki, Melbourne.

2018
Aurora Australis | Galerie Noel Guyomarch, Montreal.
The Language of Things | The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

2017
Precisely** | Spare Room Gallery, RMIT Melbourne.
Precisely ** | Gray Street Workshop Gallery, Adelaide.

2016
Theatre of Detail – Gray Street Workshop celebrates 30 years ** | The National, Christchurch, NZ.
Theatre of Detail – Gray Street Workshop celebrates 30 years ** | ATTA Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand.

2015
Theatre of Detail – Gray Street Workshop celebrates 30 years ** | Gray Street Workshop Gallery, Adelaide.
Theatre of Detail – Gray Street Workshop celebrates 30 years ** | Airspace Projects, Sydney.
Theatre of Detail – Gray Street Workshop celebrates 30 years ** | Funaki Project Space, Melbourne.

2013-14
Designing Craft/Crafting Design: 40 Years of JamFactory | Touring show, Gallery One, JamFactory Adelaide.

2013
Fictional Science (with Catherine Truman)** | Galerie Ra, Amsterdam.
Unexpected Pleasures: the Art and Design of Contemporary Jewellery | Design Museum, London.

2012
Cabinet ** | Gray Street Workshop Gallery, Adelaide.
Unexpected Pleasures: the Art and Design of Contemporary Jewellery | National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

2011
Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor | Artisan Gallery, Craft Queensland, Brisbane, three year national tour
GRAY STREET @ BILK | Gallery Bilk, Canberra.

2010
By Example | Museum of Arts and Crafts, Itami, Japan.

2009
Stick insects | Soda and Rhyme, Adelaide.

2008
Uncurated miscellany ** | JamFactory Studio Works, Adelaide.

2007
Spirited Away | Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide.

2006
Found in Translation ** | Gallery Funaki, Melbourne.

2005
Signs taken for wonders, Gray Street Workshop celebrates 20 years** | Galerie Ra, Amsterdam.

2004
Craft South’s Inside SAM’s Place  | Mammal Gallery, South Australian Museum, Adelaide.

2003
Light Black** | National Craft Research Institute, Taiwan, Taipei.
Light Black** | Asialink tour, Japan, Tokyo and Kyoto.
Light Black** | JamFactory Gallery, Adelaide.

2002
Circling the Square ** | Asialink touring exhibition program, Brunei.
Material Culture | National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

 

Find out more

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Represented

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Robert Holmes a Court Collection, Perth, WA
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, TAS
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW