About Felicity
Felicity Peters lives and works in Perth, Western Australia.
As an established and award winning jeweller she has work in
public collections in Australia and overseas. Felicity has been selected
into many overseas and national exhibitions and her work is featured
in a number of international and national publications.
Felicity’s practice consists of exhibition pieces, commissions
and small production ranges. Corporate and government commissions are
an important part of her work. Felicity is internationally recognised
for the skills and her development of the beautiful Korean technique
of Keum Boo, where pure gold sheet is fused to a sterling silver base.
Felicity, who is available for workshops in this technique, was the
Australian Adult educator in 2005.
In 2007 Felicity was awarded a three month Australia Council residency
in Rome. Her work is influenced by architecture, Etruscan history,
the landscape, travels and her personal philosophies.
Felicity has been awarded one of two Creative Development Fellowships
by the Government of Western Australia and the Department of Culture
and the Arts. This top award will allow Felicity to create new work
for solo shows in Poland and London, travel to Poland to give lectures
and workshops as a special guest during the 30th anniversary celebrations
of the Silver Art Gallery at Legnica, attend workshops to learn new
skills and collaborate with a manufacturing jeweller on a JewelCad
program.
Whilst in Poland Felicity will be part of an international workshop
with a Dutch, a Russian jeweller and two German jewellers. The five
will explore amber and create pieces, in the amber town of Gdansk.
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Resume
Born in South Africa,
arrived Perth Western Australia in 1966
1986 B.A. Craft (Major Jewellery/Metalsmithing)
Curtin University of Technology
1982-2007 Part time lecturer Curtin, Tafe and CAE
Affiliations
2001-2003 Editor of Lemel - Jewellers and Metalsmiths
Group of Australia (JMGA) national magazine
1995-1997 Visual Arts Crafts Peer Assessment
Panel ARTSWA
1994 Awarded Fellow of Crafts Council of Western
Australia for contribution to Craft and Education
1991-1992 National Chairman Jewellers and
Metalsmiths Group of Australia
1991-1992 Co-ordinator Connections 92 3rd International
and 7th Biennial Conference JMGA
1990-1994 President of Jewellers and Metalsmiths
Group of Australia-W.A. Inc
Awards/Grants
2009 Creative Development Fellowship Department
of Culture and the Arts Government of Western Australia
2007 2nd Prize National Award Contemporary Wearables 2007
ArtsWA Development grant for solo show and booklet
Visual Arts Board Australia Council
- three month Rome residency
2006 Artflight grant ArtsWA to attend Lesley Craze
exhibition, presentation at ACJ conference London
2005 Australian Adult Educator of the Year,
Finalist 2005 Memento Awards, QLD
2004 ArtsWA Artflight grant to attend Collect 2005,
International Art Fair V&A Museum London
Australia Council grant $20,000
Outstanding tutor award - West Australian Adult Learners week
2002 Open Award National Contemporary
Jewellery Award, Griffith Regional Gallery, NSW
1994 Western Australian Dept for the Arts
Project grant
1991 First Prize-Australian Customs Service
Award, Fremantle
1990 Second Prize National Earrings Exhibition
Rox Award-Modern Classics, Sydney
1986 Winner National Graduate Metal Award JMGA
Collections
2007 Toowoomba Art Gallery, QLD
2004 Alice and Louis Koch Collection, Switzerland
2002 Griffith Regional Gallery, NSW
1997 Art Gallery of Western Australia
1996 Museum and Art Gallery of NT, Darwin;
Alice Springs Craft Acquisition, Alice Springs, NT
1994 City of Perth Art Collection WA
1993 Toowoomba Art Gallery QLD
1991 Australian Customs Collection Fremantle, WA
1990/86 Curtin University of Technology, WA
1988 Orange Regional Gallery NSW, Holmes A
Court Collection
Selected Commissions
2007 Ministry for Culture and the Arts
2007/2006 Bluescope Steel Commemorative Awards
2005 TV Logies gifts for nominees
2002/2000 Christ Church Grammar School
1998 State Living Treasures Award - Min. for
Culture & the Arts
1997 Evans and Tate; Corporate Gifts for Wesfarmers Ltd
1996 Articles selected for WA Premier’s
Gifts
Commissioning Project
1994 Three articles selected for the WA Premier’s
Gift Commissioning Project; Perth College, Perth
1993 Dressed to Kill - 100 Years of Fashion
The National Gallery Canberra |
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Solo Exhibitions
2009 Felicity Peters - from Australia
Gallery of Silver Art Legnica Poland
2007 2 Stroke + Gallows Gallery, Perth
2004 Old House New Home and other Journeys, Gallows
Gallery, Perth
1996 Some days are diamonds Artplace,
Perth
1990 Contemporary Jewellery Gallery, Sydney
Two Person Shows
1988 Beyond the Surface, Contemporary
Jewellery Gallery, Sydney
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
Decadence Gallery of Silver Art Legnica Poland
Escape to Vilnius
Meno Nisa Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2008
Cherish Artisans Qld
Wonderlust Art Gallery of WA
In the Making Craft Victoria
Within Without Zu Gallery Adelaide
2007
Transit 3, BSR Academy Rome
Contemporary Wearables (Selected) Toowoomba Regional
Gallery, QLD
50 Brooches (Selected) Artisans, QLD
2006
Lesley Craze Architecturally Inspired (Invited)
Electrum 35th Anniversary exhibition (Invited)
2005
Collect International Art Fair V & A Museum London,
represented by Lesley Craze Gallery London,
Contemporary Wearables QLD (Selected),
Alice Springs Craft Exhibition (Selected),
Designers from the West Katherine Kalaf
Birthday Party Silver art exhibition Gallery of Art Legnica
Poland
2004
Contemporary Wearables Toowoomba,
Lesley Craze 20th Anniversary,
Design from Down Under Boston/Washington
2003
Contemporary Wearables
Toowoomba Regional Gallery, QLD
2002
Mine own executioner (Invited) Mundaring Arts Centre, WA
Ozgold International/National touring exhibition (Selected)
Australia-Korea Foundation’s Tenth Anniversary Celebration
Seoul, Korea
2001
Commitment Craft West Gallery, Perth, WA
Alice Springs Craft Award, Alice Springs, NT
2000
Dame Nancy Buttfield Inaugural Award (Invited) Adelaide
City of Perth Craft Award Craft West Gallery, Perth, WA
Selected for national exhibition Australia 2000 as part
of Australia Week. Lesley Craze Gallery London
1999
City of Perth Craft Award Craft West Gallery, Perth
Contemporary Wearables Toowoomba, QLD/Work selected
to tour in 2000
1998-1986
Selected other group exhibitions, National and International
Represented Electrum Gallery, Lesley Craze Gallery
London, Alternatives Gallery Rome, Breathing Colours Sydney, Makers
Mark Melbourne, FORM Centre for Contemporary Craft and Design, Aspects
of Kings Park, Gallows Gallery Perth, Art Gallery of WA.
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