2013

Plata Radical
Cultural Corporation Las Condes
Santiago Chile

Joia Territorio Arte
Instituto Tomie Ohtake
São Paulo Brazil

My practice explores the features and surface of the body.  I am intrigued by the transitional relationship between the body and the object, natural aging processes and the way the body assimilates external influences and embellishments over time. 

The main intent behind my work is to invite examination of articles allowed into intimate space, to encourage the viewer to reassess and reconsider the jewellery object in direct relation to the body and to promote expanded definitions of jewellery.

Tiffany Parbs born in Nuriootpa, South Australia
           
Education:
1994-97 Advanced Diploma in Applied and Visual Arts North Adelaide School of Arts, Adelaide
1989-91 Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies University of SA, Adelaide

Collections:
Modern Jewellery Collection, National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh UK

Selected Grants and awards:
2012 Skills and Arts Development, London Studio Residency, Australia Council Visual Arts Board
2010 Ashington Mentorship Scheme, Helpmann Academy, mentor to Ewa Skoczynska
2007 Skills and Arts Development, Australia Council Visual Arts Board, VACF Fund
2005 Craft-in-Site, small grant program, Craft Victoria
2004 Arts Development Program:  New Work Creation, Arts Victoria
2002 Craftsouth Emerging Artist Mentorship, Australia Council VACF Fund and Craftsouth | Landscapes and Backgrounds (collaboration with Greg Fullerton), NSW Ministry for the Arts
2001 Project Assistance (Emerging Artist), Arts SA | New Work (Emerging Artist), Australia Council Visual Arts Board,   VACF Fund

Solo exhibitions:
2013 gloss, ACME Project Space, London UK
2008 cosmetic, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2005 embellish, 23 Sherman Galleries, Sydney
2002 probe, Craft Victoria, Melbourne

Selected group exhibitions:
2012-2013 Unexpected Pleasures, curator Susan Cohn, Design Museum, London UK
2012 Unexpected Pleasures, National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne Australia and Design Museum London UK | Tough Love, AEAF Adelaide
2011 Open Mind, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea | Salon Vert, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2010 By Example, The Museum of Arts & Crafts, Itami, Japan | Extreme Beauty, Glassel School of Art  Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA | Broadcast Yourself, as part of the Embassy Gallery submission for No Soul For Sale: A Festival of Independents, Tate Modern, London, UK
2008 Refashioning the Fashion, Object Australia Centre for Craft and Design, Sydney
2007 Fire, Fire, The Narrows, Melbourne | Goldmember, The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh Scotland
2006 Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne | Make the Common Precious, Centro Cultural Estacion Mapocho, Santiago Chile | City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart
2005 Expiration, Project Space RMIT University, Melbourne | Make the Common Precious, Craft Victoria, Melbourne | Shades of Gray: Gray Street Workshop 1985-2005, JamFactory Contemporary Craft & Design, Adelaide
2004 Design Down Under; Jewelry from Australia & New Zealand, Australian Embassy, Washington DC USA
2003 Cities of Silver and Gold, Craft ACT Craft & Design Centre Canberra | Fuse, Ivy Hopes Melbourne
2002 8th Anniversary Holiday Invitational Exhibition, OXOXO Gallery, Baltimore Maryland USA | Going Underground, in conjunction with Greg Fullerton, site specific installation, Broken Hill New South Wales
2001 City of Perth Craft Award, Craft West Gallery, Perth
2000 three point landing, Atrium Gallery Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Scotland

Professional experience:
2007 Artist in Residence, School of Jewellery, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, University of Central England, UK
2004 Gerd Rothmann Workshop, JMGA Jewellery Conference, Melbourne
2003-04 Mentorship and Assistant to Susan Cohn, Workshop 3000, Melbourne
2001-02 Artist in Residence, Metal Design Studio JamFactory Contemporary Craft & Design, Adelaide
2000 Artist in Residence, Silversmithing and Jewellery Department Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, UK

Publications:
2012 Susan Cohn, Unexpected Pleasures: the Art and Design of Contemporary Jewellery, Skira Rizzoli New York
2011 Liesbeth Den Besten, On Jewellery,  Arnoldsche Art Publishers Stuttgat Germany
2010 Miquel Abellán, Dreaming Jewelry, Monsa Publishing  Barcleona  Spain | Kate Fuller ‘Conceptual cosmetics, Barossa Living Summer 2010
2006 New Directions in Jewellery II (2006), Black Dog Publishing London | Sunday Arts, ABC Television, April 16 2006
2005 Craft Unbound: Make the Common Precious (2005), Thames & Hudson Australia | Alex McDonald, ‘skin deep’, State of the Arts Jul-Sept 05 | 500 Bracelets (2005), Sterling Publishing New York
2004 1000 Rings: inspiring adornments for the hand (2004), Sterling Publishing New York