Category: Awards

I won 1st Prize for Best lampworked Bead Set in the annual New Zealand Glass Beadmakers Glass Bead Competition. I created Picasso. All up the concept and design took about 2 months of effort. I learnt how to make a marionette in clay and then transferred the skills to sculpt each individual component so the […]

1st Prize – Wearable Glass, Royal Easter Show Art Awards April 2010. Open to artists of all ages, amateur and professional, the Royal Easter Show Art Awards is New Zealand’s largest open art competition. With a total prize pool of over $40,000 and a wide range of categories open to artists of all levels of experience and expertise, the […]

Second Prize 2009 Bead Arts Award. In 2009 I entered their annual bead competition and claimed 2nd place. Interweave (publisher of Step by Step Beads magazine) is one of the USA’s largest art and craft media entities with businesses in magazine and book publishing, interactive and social media, television and video programming, directories, and events for craft […]

Check out the lovely pic of Megan Alatini performing the South African national anthem at the Rugby 2009 Tri-Nations final. She is dressed in a gorgeous traditional South African outfit. She must have been excetionally inspiring as the Springboks won the game. I gifted the necklace to Megan as I’m sure it was a stronger […]

I won the first place in the NZGBA annual bead competition held at Annie Rose in Whangarei with my bead of Earth called Fragile. The theme for the competition was ‘translation – translate your world’. Each bead takes approximately 3 hours from start to finish. I made, broke and mangled 8 separate worlds before the final success. The bead […]

I took months to design my piece, I eventually decided on learning new techniques. My approach was to use the competition to test my skills and push the boundaries. The competition was being judged on technical ability so I approached it as such. I chose techniques I had no experience in, the implosion bead as […]