Born in Adelaide, South Australia 1952
EDUCATION
1975 Studied glass in USA and Europe with the assistance of Crafts Board Grant
1972-74 Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education. Non diploma course in Visual Arts
1970-71 South Australian School of Art
1969 St. Peters Collegiate, Adelaide, SA. Completed Year 12 Education
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008 Museum of Glass, Visiting Artist, Tacoma, WA
2003 Tasmanian School of Art, Lecture, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
2001 Australia’s Visual Arts/Crafts Board, Three-year appointment
2000 Galerie Handwerk, “At the Edge. Australiasche Glaskunst”, Lecture, Munich, Germany
Appointed Pilchuck Glass School International Council
1999 Brisbane City Gallery, Guest Lecture, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
11th Biennial Ausglass Conference, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia
1998 Tokyo International School of Glass Art, Slide Lecture, Japan
Appointed to the Board of Craftsouth, Adelaide, SA, Australia
1997 Arts Tasmania, Technical Consultancy, TAS, Australia
1996 Jam Factory Craft & Design Center, Convenor, one-week workshop by Lino Tagliapietra, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Curtin University Clay & Glass Department, Technical Consultancy, Curtin University, WA, Australia
The Adelaide Society of Collectors, Inc., Guest Speaker, Chapman Hall, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Tricia Allen Glass Studio & Workshop Craft Centre, East Gippsland Glass Event, “Blow-in”, Lakes Entrance, VIC,
Australia
1994-97 Jam Factory Craft & Design Centre, Appointed Head of the Glass Workshop, Adelaide, SA, Australia
University of South Australia, Hot glass demonstration with Clare Belfrage, Underdale, SA
1992 Jam Factory Craft & Design Centre, Hot glass demonstration with Nick Wirdenham, Adelaide, SA, Australia
1991 Began new Glass Art studio in Norwood, SA, Australia
1989 Curated “President’s Choice Exhibition”, Ausglass Conference
1988 Restructuring of Budgeree Glass and relocation into a manufacturing facility in Port Adelaide. Appointed Managing
Director of Budgeree Glass Pty Ltd. responsible for design and product development
Lecture, Commission for the future, Adelaide, SA, Australia
1987-89 Hot glass demonstration, Byron Bay, NSW, Australia
Elected President of Ausglass
1981 Temporary position in the Sculpture Department Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education, Churchill, VIC, Australia
Demonstrated at Ausglass Conference. Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Glebe Glass Workshop. Guest Artist, Glebe, NSW, Australia
1980 Researched glass in California with the assistance of a grant from the Crafts Board of the Australia Council
1978 Hot glass demonstration at the Meat Market Craft Centre with Eva Almaberg, visiting Swedish Glass Artist for “Crafts
VIC 1978”
1977 Fired up first private studio One Off in Gippsland, VIC, Australia
Tutor, Ceramics Department of Caulfield
Institute of Technology. Established hot glass studio
1974 Toured VIC & Tasmania demonstrating blown glass with Richard Marquis sponsored by the Crafts Board of Australia
and Crown Corning
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Me and Bob William Traver Galleries, Seattle, Washington State, USA
Bob JamFactory Studio Works Retail Gallery, Adelaide, SA, Australia
2009 Nick Mount Recent Work in Glass Artisan, Fortitude Valley, Qld, Australia
Nick Mount KIRRA GALLERIES Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia
2008 Whispering Domes and Other Recent Work, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006 Indigo, Sabbia Gallery, Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia
2005 Nick Mount, Thomas R. Riley Galleries, Cleveland, OH
Nick Mount Glass, JamFactory Gallery, Adelaide, SA, Australia
2004 Un Nouveau Souffle, Ambassade d'Austraile, Paris, France
2003 Nick Mount, Thomas R. Riley Galleries, Cleveland, OH
2002 Nick Mount @ 50, BMGART, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Nick Mount, Thomas R. Riley Galleries, Kirkland, WA
2001 Compilation, Quadrivium, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2000 Nick Mount, BIJ Zielst Goed Wonen Middelharnis Zuid, Holland
1999 Fabricated Vessels, BMGART, North Adelaide, SA, Australia
Nick Mount Glass, Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
1998 New Glass, Makers Mark, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Nick Mount, Galerie L., Hamburg, Germany
1997 The artist formerly known as lucky, Beaver Galleries, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Les Grands Fabliers, BMGART, Aedalaide, SA, Australia
1996 Recent Works, Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1993 Pagliaccio, Plates & Popolo, Distlefink, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia
1992 Artworks Gallery, Nungurner, VIC, Australia
1986 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Bonython - Meadmore Gallery, North Adelaide, SA, Australia
1982 JamFactory, St. Peters, SA, Australia
1981 Distlefink Gallery, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia
1980 JamFactory, St. Peters, SA, Australia
Solander Gallery, Yarralumla, ACT, Ausralia
1978 Latrobe Valley Regional Art Gallery, Morwell, VIC, Australia
1977 The Crafts Centre, South Yarra, VIC, Australia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 MASTERWORKS IN MINIATURE KIRRA GALLERIES Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia
Winter Sabbia Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, Australia
teapots! 4th Invitational Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2009 Looking Forward Traver Galleries, Tacoma, Washington State, USA
Vessles and Visions Barossa Living Gallery, Tanunda, SA, Australia
Glass Art Kingfisher Gallery, West Perth, WA, Australia
2008 The Sum of the Parts. Masterworks Gallery Ponsonby, Auckland New Zealand
SOFA New International Exposition of Sculpture, Objects & Functional Art, Chicago, USA
2007 SOFA Chicago, IL
Wide View, Masterworks Gallery, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand
Castalia, Gallery O Perth, WA, Australia
Desire, Sabbia Gallery, Surry Hills, NSW, Australia
International Glass Exhibition, Art Gallery Collections, Surfers Paradise, QLD, Australia
2006 Australian Glass, Sandra Ainsley Gallery, Toronto, Canada
SOFA Palm Beach, FL
Art London, Royal Hospital Chelsea, London, UK
The Roaring Fourties, Chappell Gallery, New York, NY
2005 BMG ART, Adelaide, SA, Australia
SOFA Chicago, IL
2004 2004 Ranamok Glass Prize, touring exhibition, ANU School of Art Gallery, Cairns Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie
Hastings Regional Gallery, Riddock Art Gallery, Flinders University City Gallery, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
SOFA Chicago, IL
Something Different - Australian Glass, Glass Pyramid Gallery, Budapest
2003 SOFA Chicago, IL
Glass Vessel: An International Invitational, Kentucky Art & Craft Gallery, Louisville, KY
Tom Malone Prize, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
2002 Material Culture, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Facets of Australian Glass, Leo Kaplan Modern, New York, NY
DIALOGUE Stephen Procter and Friends, Quadrivium, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Less is More/Less is a Bore, Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2001 GlassState, JamFactory, Adelaide, SA, Australia
SOFA Chicago, IL
Ranamok Glass Prize, Volvo Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Glass Art in Australia, Quadrivium, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2000 At the Edge - Australian Glass Art, touring exhibition, Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane, QLD; Object, Australian Centre
for Craft and Design, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany
Vessels, Koganezaki Glass Museum, Koganezaki Crystal Park, Japan
1999 GAS International Expo 2, Tampa, FL
Australian Studio Glass, Lisbon, Portugal
alla maniera Veneziana, JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design Purple Space, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Presiding Officers' Acquistivie Craft Prize, Parliament House, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Creative Australia, Osaka, Japan
1998 Aperto Vetro - Esposizione, Internazionale Del Vetro Contemporaneo, Venice, Italy
1997 Australian Glass, Gallerie Rob van den Doel, The Hague, The Netherlands
Internationale Handweksmesse Munchen, Portrait der Meister, Winner of the Bavarian State Prize, Munich, Germany
1996 City of Hobart Art Prize, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, TAS
National Art Glass Collection, touring exhibition, City Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW; JamFactory Craft & Design
Centre, Adelaide, SA; Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, TAS; Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, TAS; City Hall
Art Gallery & Museum, QLD; Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, NSW,
Australia
1995 Celebrate!, Twenty-one years, JamFactory, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Ausglass, Galerie L, Hamburg Germany
SOFA Miami, FL
1994 The Art of the Object in South America, Municipal Gallery, Montevideo, Uruguay; Australian Embassy in Buenos
Aires, Argentina; Instituto Cultural Las Condes, Santiago, Chile
The Australian Glass Show, Contemporary Art NIKI, Tokyo, Japan
Nick Mount & Liz Williams, John Nowland Design, Adelaide, SA, Australia
1993 Origins and Originality, Ausglass Members Show, Canberra, ACT, Australia
The Adelaide Tibet Human Rights Exhibition, Art Images, Norwood, SA, Australia
1991 Three Dimensional Art Today, Aptos Cruz Gallery, Stirling, SA, Australia
1989 St. Peters Collegiate Art Exhibition, St. Peters, SA, Australia
PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS AND COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia, Australia
Geelong Gallery
Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Australia
Ararat Regional Art Gallery
The Gordon Institute Collection
Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences
Sale Regional Art Gallery
Latrobe Valley Schools Art Foundation
State Gallery of Western Australia
Art Bank
The Power House Museum
The New Federal Parliament House
State Craft Collection, Melbourne
The Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2007 ARTSA, Government of South Australia
Residency, Kent State University, College of Arts, Kent, OH
2006 Residency, Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts, College of the Arts, Japan
2004 ARTSA, Government of South Australia
2003 ARTSA, Government of South Australia
Tom Malone Prize, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
2001 South Australia's Living Artist's Week monograph, initiated by the SALA Week committee, published by Wakefield
Press, with the assistance of Arts South Australia
ARTSA. Arts Assistance grant for the production of a catalogue for a major one-person exhibition in Seattle, USA, in
May 2002
2000 Artist in Residence, Canberra School of Art, Canberra, ACT, Australia
1999 Fellowship, Visual Arts/Crafts Fund, Australia Council
1997 Visual Arts/Crafts Fund, Australia Council
Artist in Residence, University of South Australia, Underdale, SA, Australia
Artist in Residence, California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA
1996 Quick Response Grant, Visual Arts/Crafts Fund, Australia Council
Recipient of the Gold Medal, Bavarian State Prize, Germany
1993 Arts Project Assistant Grant, Crafts Board, Australia Council
1986 Apprenticeship Assistant Grant, Crafts Board, Australia Council
1984 Relocation and Establishment Grant, Crafts Board, Australia Council
1983 First Prize, Glass Section, Stirling and District Council Art and Craft Award, SA, Australia
Award in the Glass and Ceramics Section, Inaugural English Speaking Union Stuart Devlin Award
Apprenticeship Assistance Grant, Crafts Board, Australia Council
1982 Apprenticeship Assistance Grant, Crafts Board, Australia Council
1981 Apprenticeship Assistance Grant, Crafts Board, Australia Council
1980 Crafts Board, Australia Council. Grant to study in a private glass studio in the USA
1975 Crafts Board, Australia Council. Grant to study glass in the USA and Europe
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2007 The Studio, "Form and color", Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
2006 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, "Searching for a useful form or two", Deer Isle, ME
2005 Pittsburg Glass Center, "More time in the glory hole", Pittsburg, PA
2004 The Studio, "Combining cane and pure form", Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
Kanaz Forest of Creation, "Murrini", with Dick Marquis, Fukui, Japan
2003 Penland School of Crafts, "Keep the material moving", Session 3, Penland, NC
Pilchuck Glass School, "Designing the glory hole", Session 1, Stanwood, WA
2001 Kanaz Forest of Creation, workshop, Fukui, Japan
Red Deer College, two-week workshop, Summer School of Visual Arts, AB, Canada
Pilchuck Glass School, "Intermediate blown glass", Session 2, Stanwood, WA
2000 The Sudio, two-week workshop, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
Glass School Kramsach, workshop and demonstration, Austria
Red Deer College, two-week workshop, Summer School of Visual Arts, AB, Canada
1999 Pilchuck Glass School, "Designing the glory hole", Session 4, Stanwood, WA
1998 Niijima Glass Art Center, GAS in Seto, post conference two-day workshop, Japan
Glass House Wertheim, four-day workshop, Germany
1997 Centre des Metiers du Verre du Quebec, Montreal, Canada
Sheridan College of Glass Studio, Toronto, Canada
Harbourfront Centre, two-day workshops, International Creators '97, Toronto, Canada
1996 QLD Glass Artists Association, "Advanced Hot Glass", Eumundi, Queensland
Sydney College of the Arts, two-day workshop, Rozelle Campus, NSW, Australia
1995 Pilchuck Glass School, "Strictly Murrini", with Richard Marquis, Stanwood, WA
1993 Pilchuck Glass School, Teaching Assistant with Dante Marioni and Lino Tagliapietra, Stanwood, WA
1992 Pilchuck Glass School, Teaching Assistant with Bertil Vallien and Norman Courtney, Stanwood, WA
University of South Australia, part time position teaching a Technical Session to final year glass students, Underdale,
SA, Australia
1987 Pilchuck Glass School, Teaching Assistant with Paul Marioni, Stanwood, WA
1985 Pilchuck Glass School, Teaching Assistant with Richard Marquis and Therman Statom, Stanwood, WA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2007 The News Tribune/Soundlife, Section E., Friday, November 2
TITTOT, Tittot Co.ltd Taiwan. No 18/Fall/09 2007
2006 The Adelaide Advertiser, June 14
2005 "Prize shows Australian craft in a glass of its own", The Australian, April 29
Osborne, Margot. Australian Glass Today, Wakefield Press, SA, Australia
"Adelaide's heart of glass", The AGE, May 10
"Through the glass ceiling", The Adelaide Review, May 13-26
"Heart of glass", Adelaide Matters, Issue 57, April
"Art Society in Australia", Object, Issue 45, May/June
2004 The AGE, July 28
L'Australie en France, Janvier 2004, Numero 19. Ambassade D'Australie, Australia France Foundation
2003 The Columbus Dispatch, July 20
2002 Osborne, Margot. Nick Mount Incandescence, Wakefield Press, SA, Australia
Hinchcliffe, Meredith. "Nick Mount", Vetro Anno, No. 14
Artonview, National Gallery of Australia, Issue No. 29, Autumn
The Canberra Review, April 6
Cochran, Grace. "Scents and Sensibility", GLASS, Urban Glass, April, NY
Bell, Robert. "Material Culture: Aspects of Australian Craft and Design", National Gallery of Australia, Canberra,
Australia
2001 Archdale, Susan. "Artist at the Top of the Glass", The Adelaide Advertiser, August 6
Masterworks Sally Milner Publishing
Archdale, Susan. "Grant for US Study", The Adelaide Advertiser, Sept. 25
Craft Arts International, Issue 52
2000 The Courier Mail, QLD, April 22
Suddeutsche Zeitung, Sept. 7
"Art Seen", The Courier Mail, April 22
Craft Arts International, Issue 50
Johnson, Nick. "Portugal Hosts Australian Glass", Craft Arts International, Issue 48
1999 Object Magazine, February
Brisbane News, Brisbane, QLD, June 9
Courier Mail, Brisbane, QLD, July 10
Fitzpatrick, Kirsten. "At the Edge, Australian Glass Art", catalogue essay, Brisbane City Council
1998 SA Crafts, Autumn Issue 1, front cover
Lyngaard, Finn. The Story of Studio Glass, International Science & Art Publishers, Rhodes, Copenhagen, Denmark
Craft Arts International, Issue 44
Edwards, Geoffrey. "Art of Glass: Glass in the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria", National Gallery of
Victoria and Macmillan Publishers, Melbourne, Australia
1997 The Western Australian, May 1
The Post, WA, April 26
The Adelaide Advertiser, Aug. 12
Vogue Living, June/July Issue
1996 The Adelaide Advertiser, Aug. 27
The Adelaide Advertiser, Jan. 4
The Adelaide Advertiser, Sept. 3
1995 Ioannou, Noris. "Australian Studio Glass. The movement, its makers and their art", Craftsman House
The Adelaide Advertiser, Sept. 5
Australian Gift Guide, Oct./Dec. Edition
1994 Redgum Premiere Issue, Summer No. 1
The Adelaide Advertiser, Sept. 22
1993 Craft Victoria Bulletin
Neues Glas, Feb.
Bendigo Advertiser, Community Focus, April 5
1992 The Crafts Movement in Australia: A History by Grace Cochran
Museart, Canberra, ACT, Aug.
1991 Personal Success, March, No. 21
The Adelaide Review, Nov.
1990 Spring Newsletter, Hyatt Regency Adelaide
SA in Business, Cover, Vol. 5 No. 4
1989 The Adelaide Advertiser, Sept. 1
The Adelaide Advertiser, Feb. 26
Ioannou, Noris. Cultural Brokers
1988 Woman's Day, Oct. 4
Manufacts, Vol. 1. No. 1, SA Centre for Manufacturing Pty Ltd.
1987 Appleton, Marie. Made in Adelaide, Savvas Publishing
Eastern Suburbs Messenger, Dec. 9
1986 The Adelaide Advertiser, Nov. 5
The Adelaide Advertiser, April 1
1985 First International Design Year Book, Thames & Hudson, Europe, Abbeville Press, USA and Japan
The Burnside Messenger, May 22
1984 South Australian Crafts
Moult, Alan. Craft in Australia, Reed Publishing
Glass in the Modern World. National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
1983 Vogue Living, Feb./March Edition
1982 Mercury, Oct. 23
The Adelaide Advertiser, Oct. 13
Australian Gourmet, Dec.
House and Garden, Nov.
Craft Tasmania, Nov.
The National Times, Oct. 18
1981 Vogue Living, Dec./Jan.
1980 "Clear Thinking", Belle Magazine
The Melbourne Sun, Dec. 9
1979 The Australian, May 2
The Melbourne Age, Nov. 21
1978 The Melbourne Age, Nov. 27
The Melbourne Age, Nov. 17
1974 The Adelaide Advertiser
