2020 Winners

Best of Sh ow

Winner - Marina Villani

$1000.00 Sponsored by AusGlass

The Fishing Lesson: For many the Bellawein region is more than seascapes. It is the place of pilgrimage where the family as a unit creates the memories of belonging. "The Fishing Lesson" is just such a memory in the making. Father and son bonding; sharing time, passing on knowledge.

Axess Glass Collaborative Acquisitive Award

Winners: Glenda MacNaughton & Cinnamon’s Art

$2500.00 sponsored by Axess Glass

For Nature’s Sake: This sculpture is inspired by the beauty and biodiversity of nature's flora and a desire to call attention to its fragility as climate change wreaks havoc on biodiversity and strips its away.

Bellawein Award

Winner - Marina Villani

$700 sponsored by Ocean Grove Barwon Heads Lions Club

The Fishing Lesson: For many the Bellawein region is more than seascapes. It is the place of pilgrimage where the family as a unit creates the memories of belonging. "The Fishing Lesson" is just such a memory in the making. Father and son bonding; sharing time, passing on knowledge

Bellawein Award

Highly Commended - Diane Schofield

$125 sponsored by The Rotary Club of Drysdal

The future look of the Bellarine: Inspired by the over-development of towns around the Bellarine Peninsula. From a pleasant, semi-rural area, our beautiful Bellarine has become a focus for developers who are creating areas of "Little boxes ... that all look the same". Have we learnt nothing from Pete Seeger? Over-Development is forcing changes on the unique Bellarine identity, with little future value. These new areas of 'little boxes', with their roofs almost touching, often poorly made, hence little chance of longevity. This is why my mosaic ‘town' is roughly built and jammed together, with little appeal, while set in pleasant surroundings.

Functional Award

Winner - Diane Schofield

$500.00 sponsored by Glassfusing

Bird song in the garden:

Functional Award

Highly Commended - Fiona Horne

$125.00 sponsored by The Rotary Club of Drysdale

Three Bottles: My mother was a potter and when I was a child, I loved the earthy plates, bowls and cups she made that we used every day. These glass pots take me back to that time and are in a way a tribute to the influence she has had on my art.

Sculptural Award

Winner - Lucy Cleary

$500.00 sponsored by Stockdale & Leggo

What comes next? If we are not too late: This piece explores the effects of climate change. The first piece shows the bright colours and life we now know, as they slowly fade away. The second piece is more hopeful, 'If we are not too late'. Colour and life are starting to return. The emphasis is on 'If'. Only if we act now will it be not too late.

Wearable Award

Winner - Glenda MacNaughton

$500.00 sponsored by Beaders Guild Geelong & Festival of Glass

Sapphire worlds: Inspired by recently discovered giant planets called super-Earths whose composition is rich in the chemical building blocks for sapphires. Astronomers believe their rocky surfaces are littered with shimmering sapphires. My hand-blown glass spheres are used to evoke these far away shimmering sapphire worlds and they are framed by geometric bead-woven components to represent their chemical building blocks.

Wearable Award

Highly Commended - Fiona Horne

$125.00 sponsored by The Rotary Club of Drysdale

The Possessive Dragon: I like to imagine a world without humans making a mess of things, and in which dragons, rule and keep everything in balance. As we all know, dragons love their treasure and when I was making implosion reef pendants the other day, one flew into my studio and took possession of one of the more brightly coloured ones. He refused to give it back and so has been allowed to stay.

Novice Award

Winner - Roxy Van Bereven

$200.00 sponsored by the Silvan Family

Deep-Sea: Based on a necklace I saw at the Festival I created my own interpretation. During the 4-day Glass Jewellery Lab Program with Davide Penso we were challenged to design and create a jewellery piece. The piece I created challenged my knowledge gained from the Geelong Beaders Guild, and incorporated new skills learnt from Davide. The necklace is a deep-sea type, representing the complexity and mystery of the deep.