AGRA Medallion Exhibition 2020
Last year I was surprized to be named runner-up in the Australian Artists of Excellence at AGRA, winning the Terry Collins Award. Part of the prize was a chance to participate in the annual Medallion Exhibition in late August of 2020.
In spite of Covid-19, I am still hoping this exhibition will proceed so have been working towards a body of work. Self-isolation has certainly helped concentrate the mind on drawing! I have chosen the theme of 'spoons' and have planned to do 20 works on A4 Land Bristol smoooth paper to be framed up to approximately A3 size.
Each spoon drawing incorporates the spoon and an image that relates to that spoon in a supportive composition. Accompanying the drawing will be a 'history' paragraph about the spoon. This paragraph will be a little story either based on truth or entirely imaginative. Hopefully I can arrange printing of a small A4 book/catalogue of the complete set and pars.
I have now completed 12 of the 20 spoons planned. This Sweet Spoon was lent to me by my good friend Meredith - and the story that accompanies it is based on some things she told me as well as my research into that particular spoon design.
Oh, btw, watch this space for my upcoming drawing challenge beginning April 27!
In spite of Covid-19, I am still hoping this exhibition will proceed so have been working towards a body of work. Self-isolation has certainly helped concentrate the mind on drawing! I have chosen the theme of 'spoons' and have planned to do 20 works on A4 Land Bristol smoooth paper to be framed up to approximately A3 size.
Each spoon drawing incorporates the spoon and an image that relates to that spoon in a supportive composition. Accompanying the drawing will be a 'history' paragraph about the spoon. This paragraph will be a little story either based on truth or entirely imaginative. Hopefully I can arrange printing of a small A4 book/catalogue of the complete set and pars.
I have now completed 12 of the 20 spoons planned. This Sweet Spoon was lent to me by my good friend Meredith - and the story that accompanies it is based on some things she told me as well as my research into that particular spoon design.
Oh, btw, watch this space for my upcoming drawing challenge beginning April 27!
Medallion Exhibition 2020 key dates
Exhibition: starts on Wed 5th August until Sunday 23rd August
Opening Sunday 9th August 2pm (TBC)
Deep Bowl Sweet Spoon – Rodd Australia
EPNS pattern ‘Jasmine’ 1960s
If you were married,
engaged or had an anniversary during the 1960’s in Australia, it is almost a certainty
that you would have received at least one set of Rodd ‘Jasmine’ sweet spoons.
Rodd’s Silverware had become a household name when prize products of ‘Jasmine’
spoons and canteens of silverware were given away on Bob Dyer’s popular TV game
show ‘Pick a Box’. The pattern was so popular that in 1961 Rodd was
commissioned to create a set of gold Jasmine spoons and forks as a wedding
present to the then Duke and Duchess of York.
But the design had a very
deep bowl and was not comfortable in the mouth. Small children especially found
the spoon difficult and they would often grasp the handle and lick the interior
of the spoon like an icy-pole. This, of course, would result in admonishments
by parents to ‘mind your manners and not eat like a savage’. Children hated
using the spoons. They came out for every special holiday and the mothers loved
them, believing them to be a mark of a higher class of person. Because, well,
they were used by royalty, weren’t they!
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