About Alice Whish

Lives and works in Sydney, New South Wales.

Alice Whish is an established and respected jeweller. In addition to being a maker of delicate and intricate works, she is involved in a number of community art projects. Currently, she is working with women from Northeastern Arnhem Land to raise the profile of Aboriginal women’s craft and their shell and seed necklaces, through exhibitions, exchanges and conferences.

She has presented solo exhibitions throughout Australia and New Zealand and has been an active participant in group exhibitions, nationally and internationally since 1984. Exhibitions include, Transformations: the language of craft, National Gallery of Australia, and Sighting the Past, Macleay Museum, Sydney University in 2005–2006, She has been selected to exhibit in the City of Hobart Art Prize 2006. Alice has work in private and public collections including the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston and the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.

Alice holds a Bachelor of Visual Art from Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney University, a Master of Art, Fine Art in Gold and Silversmithing from RMIT and a Master of Higher Education from the University of New South Wales.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007 confirmed	Exchange, Alice Whish, Mavis Ganambarr, Rose Mamuniny, Object Gallery, Sydney, NSW.
2007 confirmed	Body wear: Alice Whish, Mavis Ganambarr, Rose Mamuniny New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW.
2006	Hobart City Art Prize 2006, selected to exhibit, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS.
2005-2006	Sighting the Past: four contemporary jewellers respond to the Macleay Museums Collections, Sydney University, Sydney.
2005-2006	Transformations, the language of craft, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT.
2005	Place, Object Gallery and JMGA, NSW, Sydney
2005	Transposition, Craft Queensland, Brisbane, QLD.
2004-2006	Katherine Kalaf Gallery, Perth, WA.
2004	Transposition, JMGA NSW / Pyrmont Studios, Sydney, NSW.
2004-2005	Melding, JMGA NSW, Visions Australia, Touring Exhibition.
2003	Soap Box, Pyrmont Studios, Sydney, NSW.
2001-2002	Ozgold Award Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Gold Jewellery, curated by David Walker, toured Australia.
2001	Ways of Working, Metal elements of six countries: Japan, Korea, Australia, Germany, USA and Italy. Exhibited at the Setagaya Arts Centre Tokyo and the International Design Centre Nagoya, Japan.
2000	Lost in Space: art and technology, (NGA) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT.
1999	Shifting Currents, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW.
1998-2000	Australian Jewellery and Objects Today, curated by Dorothy Erikson. Gallery Tiller, Vienna, Austria, then toured Europe.
1998	National Craft Acquisition Selected Exhibition. Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.
1997-1999	Contemporary Wearables 97 Award Exhibition. Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, QLD. Toured Australia.
1997-1998	Maker’s Mark 20 year retrospective, Invitation exhibition, Melbourne, VIC, and Adelaide, SA.
1997-1999	Circles About the Body, curated by Doreen Melor and Ray Norman. Toured regional galleries around Australia.
1997	Australian Jewellery Designers in Japan, Australian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan and toured Japan.
1993-1994	The Art of Adornment, curated by Glenda King, a joint project of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Travelled to Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, Mitsubishi – Jisho ARTIU, Fukuoka, Japan, Laforet Museum Espace, Tokyo, Japan, Shinsegae Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea and National Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia. Also seen at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, TAS.
1989-1991	Australian Fashion: The Contemporary Art, curated by Jane de Teliga, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney, NSW. Travelled to The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. NSW, Marimura Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan and Shinsegae Department Store, Seoul, Korea.

Exhibitions solo

1999	Inland Celestial Memories, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW, Australia.
1997	Celestial Moments and Memories, Quadrivium Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
1997	Celestial Moments and Memories, Brisbane City Gallery, City Hall, Brisbane, Australia.
1997	MA-Show, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.
1991	Alice Whish at the Pyramid, Southland Museum, Invercargill, New Zealand.
1989	Blue Skies Over Neptune, Noko, The Australian Jewellery Designers Gallery, Sydney.