Marian Hosking
Marian Hosking (VIC) is a highly respected jeweller and silversmith with her work held in collections here in Australia and internationally.
Marian’s unique style showcases the beauty of Australian light and landscape in her botanical designs that focus on celebrating and raising awareness of Australia’s unique plants and animals. Her practice explores themes such as place, perception, memory, and heritage. One of her sources of inspiration is Brachychiton, a nationally important tree that is also known as Kurrajong and “bottle tree.”
Australian Design Centre’s exhibition Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft – Marian Hosking: Jewellery toured nationally from 2008 to 2010.
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Listen to the podcast interview on Object: Stories of Craft and Design with Marian Hosking here.
Marian Hosking is represented by Gallery Funaki.
Marian is an educator, jeweller and silversmith. With the benefit of intensive practice she has developed a personal vocabulary in her work to express a specific vision and interpretation of the qualities of Australian light and landscape in the detail of botanical specimens. She uses the drill and jeweller's saw together with lost wax castings and favours the soft white sheen of silver, with its evasive highlights and shifting shadows.
She has held 17 solo exhibitions in Australia, one in Seoul (2006) and one in Tokyo (2000). She has participated in over 60 group exhibitions in Australia, Europe, the United States, Korea Japan and Asia. Her work is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, all State Galleries in Australia, the Hiko Mizuno College of Jewelery collection, Tokyo and Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland. She is represented in Australia by Gallery Funaki, Melbourne in Europe by Galerie Ra, Amsterdam and in Canada by Noel Guomach. She has been an educator in her field for over thirty years, including at Monash University, Melbourne and RMIT University. She received her PhD in 2009 from Monash University, an MA from RMIT University in 1996 and a Diploma of Art- Gold and Silversmithing in 1970 also from RMIT. In the early 1970’s Marian studied for three semesters at the Fachhochschule fuer Gestaltung in Pforzheim, Germany. An active member of jewellery and craft organizations she is committed to the promotion of and dialogue around contemporary jewellery and contemporary art practice.
Brachychiton
Throughout Marian's practice, she has made work to celebrate and raise awareness of Australia’s unique plants and animals, and to foster connection between the made object and the self; themes of place, seeing, making, meaning, memory, and family — and of natural and national heritage — all are threads woven through her work, teaching and research. Brachychiton is a nationally important tree. Also known as Kurrajong and ‘bottle tree’ the brachychiton is an important and iconic plant.
Brachychiton Vessel, 2011
925 silver $6,000
Brachychiton Necklace, 2024
925 silver, timber
$2,200
Image top: Marian Hosking, Brachychiton Vessel, 2011 and Brachychiton Necklace, 2014. Photo: Courtesy of the Artist
