C.V.

KARLA WAY

Born:          1973, Sydney NSW
Lives:          Melbourne, Vic

EDUCATION
2001            Diploma in Engineering (Gold and Silversmithing), NMIT, Melbourne
2005-2008  Bachelor of Arts(Fine Arts) with Honours in Gold and Silversmithing, RMIT, Melbourne

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007          Filippo Raphael Fresh! Award Exhibition, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
                   Wonderenamel, First Site Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne
2008          W. E. McMillan Collection Exhibition, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne
                   Skin ‘n Bones, Collaboration with Nathan Gray, Bus Gallery, Melbourne
                   International Graduation Show, Gallerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands

                   It’s Got Legs, School of Art Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne

                  Siemen’s RMIT Fine Art Scholarships Exhibition
2009           Jewellery Topos, Gallerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands
                  Hatched, PICA, Perth

                  Design Now!, Object Gallery, Sydney and Melbourne Museum
                  Perspective:City/Country, Craft Victoria, Melbourne

                  Precious Pendants, Object Gallery, Sydney

2010           Figment, EG Etal, Melbourne

                  RE:Production, Gaffa Keeper Gallery, Sydney

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008         Terra Incognita, City Library Niches, Melbourne

2010         Bad Beasts Do Not Harm Me (with Natalia Milosz-Piekarska), Craft Victoria, Melbourne (UPCOMING)


PRIZES:AWARDS 
2005         Debbie Sheezel Award for Enamelling
                 Koodak Award for Top First Year Student

2006         Koodak Award for Top Second Year Student

2007         Wolf Wennrich Award for Gold and Silversmithing

2008         Wolf Wennrich Award for Gold and Silversmithing


WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
2007/08     W. E. McMillan Collection, RMIT, Melbourne

PUBLICATIONS
2007          Robert Baines, Topos Nochos, RMIT University Gold and Silversmithing
2008          Robert Baines, Show Me the Colour of Your Jewellery, Ten Thousand Hours, RMIT University   Gold and Silversmithing
2008          Galerie Marzee (ed.), International Graduation Show 2008, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen
2009          Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (ed.), Hatched National Graduate Show 2009, PICA, Perth
2009          500 Plastic Jewellery Designs, Lark Books
2009          Janice Breen Burns, Hot Designs of the Times, The Age Newspaper,2Jan2009
2010          Emma Whiffen, Fallen Magazine, Issue 04, March 2010