JANETTA KERR-GRANT, BIO + CV
Interconnections between landscape, atmosphere, mood and memory are at the heart of Janetta’s ceramics practice. She makes robust elemental ceramic vessels painting, drawing and marking the surface to express an emotional response to place.
Janetta graduated with Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Honours from RMIT University in 2012, and in 2013 was awarded an Australia Council Grant to establish her practice.
Career highlights include being awarded artist residencies at The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in Japan (currently on hold) and the Fiskars Artist Collective in Finland. In 2018 she won the Klytie Pate Award and held a solo show at Mr Kitly based on her experiences in the Finnish forests. Her work is regularly shown in group exhibitions around the country. She was a recipient of the Trudie Alfred Bequest National scholarship and her work is held in the Bluestone Collection of Contemporary Craft, the AIR collection, Finland and the Manningham
Art Gallery.
EDUCATION
2012 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art), 1st Class Honours, RMIT University, Melbourne
2010-2011 Selected subjects, Arts Academy, University of Ballarat
2007 Bachelor of Arts (Ceramics) with Distinction, RMIT University, Melbourne
1984 Bachelor of Arts (Painting), RMIT University, Melbourne
AWARDS + GRANTS
2018 Winner, Klytie Pate Ceramic Award
2013 Australia Council Art Start Award
2012 Trudie Alfred Bequest National Ceramic Scholarship
2012 RMIT University Ceramics Honours Award for Excellence
2011 Ceramics Victoria Award for Excellence
2011 Stonehouse Award for Ceramic Excellence
2010 Brian McLennan Scholarship, Arts Academy, University of Ballarat
2008 Commendation Award, Envisage, Pat Emery Award, Ceramics Victoria
2008 Commendation Award, Ceramics Victoria Sculptural Exhibition
2007 Northcote Pottery Ceramics Award for Excellence, RMIT University, Melbourne
RESIDENCIES
2020 Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan (postponed due to the Corona virus)
2015 Residency, Fiskars Artist Village, Finland
2014 Residency, South Hill Yellow House, New South Wales
EXHIBITIONS
2020 Fishers Ghost Art Award, Sydney
2020 North Queensland Ceramic Awards, Townsville
2020 Garland Magazine, The Gift of Time, online exhibition - https://garlandmag.com/loop/the-gift-of-time
2019 Bluestone Collection Exhibition: 10 years of collecting contemporary craft, Melbourne
2018 Into the woods, solo show, Mr Kitly, Melbourne
2018 Klytie Pate Ceramic Award, Victoria
2018 Landscape, 4 person group show, Narek Gallery, Bermagui, NSW
2017 Victorian Craft Award, Melbourne
2017 Identity, Skepsi, Melbourne
2017 Clunes Ceramic Award, Victoria
2017 Glazed Turkeys and other treats from the Manningham Collection, Manningham Gallery, Melbourne
2016 New Primitives, Stockroom Gallery, Victoria
2016 Distinctive, Skepsi@Montsalvat, Melbourne
2016 The Cup Collaboration Exhibition, Melbourne
2015 KOTONA X, International Ceramics Exhibition, Studio Karin Widnass, Finland
2015 Interplay, Australian Contemporary Ceramics, Skepsi, Melbourne
2015 Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award, Melbourne
2015 Victorian Craft Award, Melbourne
2015 Clay for Nepal, International Fundraiser for Oxfam
2015 Clunes Ceramic Award, Victoria
2015 The Cup Collaboration, Melbourne
2014 Stanthorpe Art Festival, Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
2014 The Course of Objects, Manly Art Gallery, Sydney
2014 Quiet Conversations, Skepsi@Montsalvat, Melbourne
2014 Back to the Table, Sturt Gallery, Sturt, NSW
2014 Big Ceramics, Craft Vic, Melbourne
2014 Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Melbourne
2013 One of 4 artists selected for Vitrify National Ceramic Award, Bett Gallery, Hobart
2013 Expression of Self in Clay, Skepsi @ Monsalvat, Melbourne
2013 Manningham Victorian Ceramic Award, Melbourne
2013 Essentials for the Domestic Goddess Revisited, Whiteorse Artspace, Melbourne
2013 RMIT Honours Endowment Travelling Scholarship Exhibition, Melbourne
2012 28th Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award, Queensland
2012 Engaging Form, Skepsi @Monsalvat,, Melbourne
2012 National Graduates Show, Australian Ceramics Triennale, Adelaide
2012 Flanagan Art Prize, Ballarat
2012 Benchmark, Post Office Gallery, University of Ballarat, Ballarat
2012 As Above, So Below, Graduate Exhibition, RMIT Object Based Practice, Melbourne
2011 Energy, early career ceramicists, Skepsi @ Malvern, Melbourne
2011 Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award, Melbourne
2011 Toyota CSG Emerging Artist Award
2011 Mary and Lou Senini Student Art Award, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin
2011 Stonehouse Gallery, Warrandyte
2011 Benchmark, Post Office Gallery, University of Ballarat
2011 The Eye, Graduate Exhibition, Mining Exchange, University of Ballarat
2010 UB Ceramics, Post Office Gallery, Ballarat
2009 Perspective, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2008 Envisage, Pat Emery Award, Melbourne
2008 In the Making, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2008 Land and Water: Ceramics Victoria Sculptural Exhibition, Herring Island, Melbourne
2007 Mary and Lou Senini Student Art Award, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin
2007 Pat Emery Award, Paynter Gallery, Bendigo
2007 RMIT Graduate Show, Skepsi Gallery, Melbourne
2007 RMIT School of Art Faculty Gallery Ceramics Exhibition
COLLECTIONS
Fiskars Collection, Finland
Bluestone Collection, Australia
Manningham Art Gallery Collection, Victoria
Private Collections Australia and America
COMMISSIONS
2019 Koskela Design Store, Sydney
2019 Tableware commission, Victoria Lynn
2018 Koskela Design Store, Sydney
2016 Commission, Coffee Roasters, Sensory Lab