curriculum vitae — Jane Bamford

ceramic artist/ designer + maker

@janebamford_ceramics

www.janebamford.com

PROFESSIONAL

2024-2027

Adjunct Researcher University of Tasmania School of Creative Arts and Media, Tasmania Australia

2024

Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Open Studio Residency, Maine USA

MBE, Mastery of Business and Empathy - Small Giants Academy

Australian Ceramics Association – Editorial Advisory Committee - Journal of Australian Ceramics - 6 months volunteer

2023

Hempcrete building - Australian Hemp Masonry Company

Permaculture - Milkwood

2022-25

Private Company Director

2015 -2021

Technician in Technology, The Friends’ School, Hobart, TAS

2014

Tutor in Ceramics (part time) for TCE students, The Friends’ School, Hobart, TAS (2014-15)

2013

Ceramics and Art Technician, The Friends’ School, Hobart, TAS (2013-21)

1998

Arts Facilitator Assistant – Jam Factory Ceramics Department - Ceramic Plates Project, Ernabella Arts Centre, Pitjantjatjara Homelands, via Alice Springs, NT

1997

Associate - Jam Factory Craft and Design Centre, Adelaide, SA

1996

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Ceramics Major), University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS (1994-96)

1993

To-En-Kai Pottery Studio – Student/Member, Hamamatsu City, Japan

GRANTS + AWARDS

2024

Special Judges Award from Judge Yokoyama Ikko, 13th Mino International Ceramics Competition, Japan

Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Open Studio Residency, Maine USA

2022

Climate Change Residency – Arid Recovery Wildlife Reserve, Roxby Downs, SA

Artist in Residency – University of Tasmania School for Creative Arts & Media, Hobart, TAS

2019

Science/Art Residency - University of Tasmania School of Creative Arts, Hobart, TAS

2018

Science/Art Residency – University of Tasmania School of Creative Arts, Hobart, TAS

SAM Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, Adelaide – Finalist 2020/2021

Design Tasmania Awards – Winner ‘Design for Impact’ Category - jointly with Commonwealth Scientific and industrial research organisation (CSIRO) 2019

SAM Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, Adelaide – Finalist 2018

Bay of Fires Art Prize, St Helens – Finalist 2017

Victorian Arts Centre & Walker Ceramics-Highly Commended 1996

University of Tasmania Faculty of Visual and Performing Arts - Deans’ Roll of Excellence 1995

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2024

13th International Ceramics Exhibition + Special Judges Award from Yokoyama Ikko, Mino, Gifu Prefecture, Japan

Tidal Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania

USED Utas – Poimena Gallery, Launceston, TAS

2022

Melbourne Design Fair, PRESENT – Design Tasmania, Melbourne, VIC

2021

Crafted Technology, JamFactory, Adelaide, SA

Clay Habitat, Kingborough Hub Gallery, Kingston, TAS

The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA

2020

The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA

2019

Presenters, Australian Ceramics Triennale Exhibition Hobart, TAS

Celebrating Ceramics, Handmark Gallery, Hobart, TAS

Holding place Making space, Cradle Mountain Wilderness Gallery, Cradle Mountain, TAS

2018

The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA

Dear kunanyi, The Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, TAS

The Sea Inside, Handmark Gallery, Hobart, TAS

2017

Bay of Fires Art Prize, St Helens, TAS

2013

Afloat, Handmark Gallery, Hobart, TAS

2011

Artfolio SPACE, Raffles Hotel, Singapore

2001

Swell, The Jam Factory Craft and Design Centre, Adelaide, SA

Minimal, Fusions Gallery, Brisbane, QLD

2000

19th Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award, Gold Coast, QLD

Queensland Potters Society Christmas Show, Brisbane, QLD

1999

Lifestyle Exhibition Craft Australia Boutique, David Jones, Sydney, NSW

1998

Strange Brew, The Jam Factory Craft and Design Centre, Adelaide, SA

1997

Christmas Follies, Greenhill Gallery, Adelaide, SA

Alice Springs Art Acquisition Exhibition, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT

Caboodle, The Jam Factory Craft and Design Centre, Adelaide, SA

1996

20th Annual Walker Ceramic Award Exhibition, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne, VIC

Despart Gallery 9th Annual Exhibition, Despard Gallery, Hobart, TAS

A Kind of Blue, The Bond Store, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS

1995

Kicking the Pig, The Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, TAS

COMMISSIONS

2024

CSIRO - Design production and supply 1500 Ceramic Artificial Spawning Habitat (ASH) for critically endangered Spotted Handfish recovery program

2021 – ongoing

Kangaroo Island Landscape Board – Design and production ceramic forms for regeneration of native oyster reef project

2019 - ongoing

CSIRO 2019 - Design production and supply 2500 Ceramic Artificial Spawning Habitat (ASH) for critically endangered Spotted Handfish recovery program

2018

CSIRO 2018 – Design production and supply 3000 Ceramic Artificial Spawning Habitat (ASH) for critically endangered Spotted Handfish conservation

COLLECTIONS

JANUS et Cie Collection, USA

and selected private and corporate collections in Australia

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS + SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

2024

Regional Arts Australia - Creative Summit, Keynote Speaker, Canberra

Slow Clay -- International Residencies, Speaker and Panel, Melbourne

2023

Women in Conservation -Tasmanian Land Conservancy interview with Jane Hutchinson

National Science Week, Multibiciplinary Collaboratio for habitat an Spiecies support, Little penguins Tas. and SA - Dr P Marker, HIVE gallery, Ulverstone

2022

Presenter - Women in Design Symposium – Of Care – Adaption of an Art Practice. Art/Design, Science and Philanthropy, Design Tasmania, Launceston, TAS

Presenter and panellist - Blue Water Summit 2022 (streamed to USA) - Adelaide Creative Design and the Marine Environment -The collaboration of art, science and philanthropy (and on panel with Professor Gretta Pecl , Tony Bartrum of Kangaroo Island Dolphin Watch), Blue Water Institute, Adelaide, SA

Presenter and panellist - Australian Ceramics Triennale 2022 - Adaption of an Art Practice - What am I making and Why, in the Anthropocene (and on panel with Dr Julie Bartholomew and Dr Kate Dunn UNSW), Alice Springs, NT

Presenter - Beneath the surface/Threatened Species talk 2022 - Adaption of an Art Practice - Multi-disciplinary Collaboration for habitat and species support (Co presenting with Associate Professor Neville Barratt IMAS, Dr Cayne Layton IMAS, Dr Beth Strain IMAS), Wild Island Gallery, Hobart

Artist Talk and Workshop –Big Biodiversity Day - Ross, TAS

Presenter - Joint Arid Recovery and JamFactory Climate Change Residency 2022 - Multi-disciplinary Collaboration for habitat and species support, Arid Recovery Wildlife Reserve Research Station, Roxby Downs, SA

Presenter - Art Forum 2022 - Multi-disciplinary Collaboration for habitat and species support - Adaption of an Art Practice support, University of Tasmania Centre for the Arts and Media, Hobart, TAS

2021

Presenter - Kangaroo Island Wildlife Carnival – In conversation with Margi Prideaux (publisher Stormbird Press), Kangaroo Island, SA

Visiting Artist presentation - Biodiversity and Clay, 2021 - Kingston High School, Kingston, TAS

Floortalk - Clay as Habitat, (Co-presenting with Dr Diane Colombelli-Negrel - Flinders University), Jam Factory, Adelaide SA

2020

Floortalk - Spotted Handfish spawning habitat and clay, (Co presenting with Dr Tim Lynch, CSIRO), Tasmanian Museums and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS

2019

Presenter - Australian Ceramics Triennale - Clay as Marine Spawning Habitat, CSIRO Spotted Handfish Recovery Program PW1, Hobart, TAS

Artist Talk and Workshop - Big Biodiversity Day - Ceramics as marine spawning habitat, Ross, TAS

Visiting Artist Presentation - Biodiversity, The Friends' School, Hobart, TAS

Visiting Artist presentation - Spotted Handfish, The Friends’ School, Hobart, TAS

Visiting Artist presentation - Spotted Handfish Conservation Project, The Friends’ School, Hobart, TAS

2018

Presenter - SOCA Arts Forum – Clay as Habitat for the critically endangered spotted handfish, University of Tasmania Centre for the Art & Media, Hobart, TAS

Presenter - Coast2Coast Marine Conference - Clay as Habitat- Spotted Handfish Restoration, Australian Coastal Society, Grand Chancellor Hotel, Hobart, TAS

GALLERY REPRESENTATION BIBLIOGRAPHY

Handmark Gallery, Hobart, TAS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2022

Jobe, K. (2022). Conservation through clay. Signals Magazine - Australian National Maritime Museum, 138 (Autumn), 13-17. https://issuu.com/anmmuseum/docs/signals138_pages/s/16395256

2021

Jobe, K. (2021). Artist making sculptures for little penguins. The Monthly. (Summer). https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2021/december/1638277200/keely-jobe/artist-making-sculpture-penguins#mtr

2020

Bamford, J. & Lynch, Dr T. (2020). Tasmanian’s spotted handfish. Signals Magazine - Australian National Maritime Museum, 131 (Winter), 14-19. https://issuu.com/anmmuseum/docs/signals131_spreads

2019

Gill, N. (2019). Crafting a ceramic habitat for a handfish. In Nogrady, B (ed). The Best Australian Science Writing 2019, p29. ISBN: 9781742236407

Molloy, F. (2019). Marine Science jobs can be creative too! Careers with STEM, (April 1), 14. https://careerswithstem.com.au/marine-science-jobs-creative/#gsc.tab=0

2018

Gill, N. (2018). Handcrafted Habitat. The Monthly. (July), 19.

Taylor-Graham, D. & McKinnon, J. (2018). Holding Space Making Place. Garland Magazine, (11). https://garlandmag.com/article/holding-space-making-place/

Gill, N. (2018) Handfish Crafted Habitats. CSIRO Double Helix Magazine, (26), 8.