Featured Image: Tim Edwards, Ellipse #8 2021, Glass, blown and wheel cut,47 x 38 x 0.8cm.Courtesy:the artist. Photography: Grant Hancock

2022 marks the 20th year of the Tom Malone Prize.

The Art Gallery of Western Australia’s Tom Malone Prize is a highly respected national event for contemporary Australian glass artists. It has played an integral role in the Gallery’s acquisition of works by Australia’s most inspiring, innovative and accomplished artists working with, and sculpting glass. An acquisitive prize, each year’s winning entrant is awarded $15,000 while their work becomes a part of the WA State Art Collection.

The 2022 exhibition features the works of: Ruth Allen (VIC); Chick Butcher (NSW); Matthew Curtis (NSW); Tim Edwards (SA); Wendy Fairclough (SA); Laurie Fossier-Mills (WA); Brenden Scott French (SA); Marcel Hoogstad Hay (SA); Rita Kellaway (SA); Gerry King (SA); Peter Kovacsy (WA); Nick Mount (SA); Jessica Murtagh (SA); Emma Varga (NSW) and Janice Vitkovsky (SA).

In celebration of the Tom Malone Prize’s twentieth anniversary, the 2022 finalist works are being shown alongside each winning work across the nineteen years of the Prize.