Textures, markings and scars are key features of the work and come together to create complex surfaces. I use the patterns of nature, the geographical terrain, physical aspects of the landscape, archaeological layering, incised and scribbled lines, laceration, graffiti and decay. The media I use ranges from clay and plaster to paint and canvas to digital imaging.
My concern for the living world, my physical environment and the relationship between people and nature are a result of living in many varied cultures. My early schooling was in Iran, where my father worked in the oil industry. My early life in this ancient culture of extraordinary creativity, art and craft, expressed architecturally and domestically, influenced my own creativity. Later, at art college in the UK, my influences became European and included artists such as Lucie Rie, Hans Coper and Lucio Fontana.
Living in Australia, a country of extraordinary beauty and fragility, with its deserts and rainforests and its many endangered animals and birds, now creates a major influence on my work. A few years ago I investigated the nature and beauty of fossil remains and used this information symbolically in an exhibition entitled Fragility & Extinction. More recently I have developed a series of new work around the theme of the container as a burial form.
Education
Medway College of Art, UK; Latrobe University in Bendigo and completed her Masters at Monash University in Melbourne in 1994
Honorary positions, memberships and other professional activities
Proprietor, creative cowboy films and curiousdodo publishing;
President Craft Victoria 96-2000;
Member International Academy of Ceramics Geneva;
Senior Lecturer, Monash University 1986-97.
Selected Awards
Best contemporary film, Ateliers d’art de France, FIFAV Montpellier, 2010
Gold Medal, Faenza, Italy 2005
Honorable Mention, International Ceramics Award, Mino, Japan 2005
Arts Victoria project leadership grant, 1999
Australia Council for the Arts, visual arts/crafts project grant 1998
3rd, 4th, 5 & 7th International Ceramics Competition 1992/5/8, 2005
Kutani, Ishikawa, Japan 1996
Grand Prize, Vallauris, France 1992
Selected Exhibitions
White Heat, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, NSW, Australia, 2009
Qujiang International Exhibition Centre, Xi'an, China, 2008
10 Days on the Island, International Festival, State Library and Contemporary Art Gallery, Alice in Wonderland, Hobart, Tasmania, 2007
4th World Ceramic Biennale, Korea 2007
The 7th International ceramics Competition Mino, Japan (Honorable Mention) 2005
54th International Competition of Ceramic Art, Faenza Italy, 2005 (Gold medal)
Ware & Tear, Hillgrove, Castlemaine, 200
IAC Members’ Exhibition, IAC 2004 General Assembly
World Ceramic Exposition Foundation Icheon City, Korea, August 2004 (acquired)
John Dent, Robert Jacks, Andrea Hylands, Temple Gallery, Sorrento, Vic, 2004
The Sixth Taiwan Golden Ceramics Award, Taipei County Yingo Ceramic
Museum, 2001-2002 (acquired)
Biennale Internationale de Ceramique d'Art, Vallauris,
France, 92, (Grand Prize winner) and 2002
Mapping the Landscape, Hillgrove, Castlemaine, 2001
Exhibition for the Renwick Alliance Smithsonian Institute, Hillgrove, Castlemaine, 2000
Jam Factory Gallery, Adelaide, Andrea Hylands, Recent Works, 2000
Faenza 51st Ceramic Competition, Italy, 99-2000
Loes and Reinier International Ceramics, Amsterdam, Holland, 2000
Galerie Oritilles-Fourcat, Paris 2000
Presiding Officer Craft Prize, Parliament House, Canberra, 1999
The Australian Tactile Art Prize, Customs House, Sydney, 1999
Hermans Art Award, Span Galleries, Melbourne, 1999
SOFA Chicago, 98;
Mino, Japan 98; 95; 92
Fragility & Extinction, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 1994
Inaugural Colin and Cecily Rigg, National Gallery, Melbourne, 1994
Andrea Hylands, Bendigo Art Gallery, 1993
Selected Collections
International Ceramic Art Museum, Faenza, Italy
Melbourne University, Margaret Lawrence Collection, Melbourne, Australia
World Ceramic Exposition Foundation Icheon City, Korea
Musee National, Picasso Museum, Vallauris
Taipei County Yingo Ceramic
Museum, 2001-2002 (acquired)
Perc Tucker Gallery, Townsville, Queensland
Museums and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
Gold Coast Arts Centre, Gold Coast, Queensland
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland
Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria
International Museum of Ceramic Arts, Vallauris, France
Kasahara Town Office, Tofu-Gun, Gifu-Pref., Japan
Showa Elementary School, Tajimi City, Gifu-Pref., Japan
Castlemaine Art Gallery and Museum, Castlemaine, Victoria
Shepparton Art Gallery, Shepparton, Victoria
Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Manly, NSW
Steps Gallery, Meat Workers Union, Carlton, Victoria
City of Box Hill, Victoria
Represented in many public and private collections around the world including collections in Korea, UK, USA, Australia, Italy, Holland, Germany, France and Japan.
Selected Publications
Published in books and magazines in China, Taiwan, France, Italy, Japan, UK, USA, Australia.
What they say – critical writing
And after we have lavished many words on the intractably beautiful objects, they will remain just as remote from language as they are close to formal perfection’
Dr Robert Nelson – writer and critic
'But one would also have to add beyond the undeniable erudition, proficiency and creativity of Hylands’ work, that this is also work that thinks'
Dr Justin Clemens – writer and critic
'Andrea is a professional of international standing, a member of the Monash community of whom we should justly be proud’. ’The works of Andrea Hylands in this exhibition attain the Monash standard of excellence
Dr Mal Logan – Vice Chancellor and President Monash University
'They (the works) are always surprising, not only for their sheer technical brilliance,
but for their extreme originality'
Dr Jenny Zimmer – writer and art publisher Macmillan Publishing
Photography by Andrew Barcham
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