STEPHEN BENWELL
BIBLIOGRAPHY − 2012 Blue Chip XIV: The Collectorsʼ Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, 2012 Ruth LEARNER, ‘Stephen Benwell, ceramicist.’ Australian art review, Issue 35, September-October 2012
2011 Blue Chip XIII: The Collectorsʼ Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, 2011
2010 John MCPHEE, 'Collection: Recent Works by Stephen Benwell', Artist Profile, Issue 13, 2010 Robert NELSON, 'The dated and discredited brought back with a twist', The Age, 28 March 2010 Margot OSBORNE, 'Bravura: 21st Century Australian Craft', Art Monthly Australia, Issue 227, March 2010 Danny LACY, ʻStephen Benwell: The Significance of Rubbleʼ , 2010 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award , exhibition catalogue, Shepparton Art Gallery, 2010 Kim DICKEY, ʻ Landscapes of Still Lifeʼ , 2010 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award , exhibition catalogue, Shepparton Art Gallery, 2010 Stephen Benwell: New Ceramics , exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2010
2009 Courtney KIDD, 'A disciplined eye', Australian Art Collector, Issue 47, January – March 2009 John McPHEE, ʻ Ceramic beefcake and other desires: The art of Stephen Benwellʼ , Art & Australia , Volume 47, Spring 2009
2008 Dr. Julia Jones, ʻ Australian Ceramic Storiesʼ , Australian Ceramic Stories , exhibition catalogue, Dubbo Regional Gallery, NSW, 2008
2007 Megan BACKHOUSE, 'Art around the galleries: Stephen Benwell', The Age A2, 17 November 2007 Luke MORGAN, ʻ Sighing over ruins: Stephen Benwellʼ, Stephen Benwell Recent Works , exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2007
2006 Stephen BOWERS, ʻ Essay and artist profiles – Stephen Benwellʼ , A secret history of blue and white – contemporary Australian ceramics, Asialink Centre of The University of Melbourne and JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design, 2006 Peter SCHMITT, Australische impressionen. Exhibiton catalogue at Galerie Rosenhauer, Gottingen.
2005 Robert NELSON, 'Arcadia all on the surface', The Age, 6 July 2005
2002 Roger TAYLOR, The dynamic of the vessel, World Sculpture News, Summer 2002 Penny WEBB, Craft: Stephen Benwell, The Age, Melbourne, 11 December 2002
2001 Paul SCOTT, Painted clay: graphic arts and the ceramic surface, A&C Black, England Bronwyn WATSON, Deutsche mark, exhibition review, Sydney Morning Herald, 12-13 May 2001 Barbara WELS, Stephen Benwell, Niagara Galleries, exhibition review, Craft Vol.32, Number 241
2000 Stephen BENWELL, Contemporary Australian ceramics, The Pottery Workshop, Hong Kong, exhibition catalogue Christopher MENZ, Craft from scratch, 8th Triennale Form and Matters, Museum fur Amngewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany Robert NELSON, Visual Arts: an ornament to its profession: ʻ90s ceramics, The Age, Melbourne, 26 January 2000 Paul SCOTT & Laura HAMILTON, The plate show, Collins Gallery, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, exhibition catalogue
1999 Robert REASON, The Sidney Myer Fund Ceramics Award: a decade in review, Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria
1997 Chris SANDERS, Within the tradition of vessel making, Ceramics: art and perception, issue 27, 1997 SHEPARTON ART GALLERY, Sidney Myer Fund international ceramics award 1997, Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria, exhibition catalogue
1996 Campion DECENT, ed., 1996 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Guide, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Limited, Newtown, Sydney Craig JUDD, Lascivious oposition; Stephen Benwell & David Pottinger: two ceramic artists, Object, 1/96 Craig JUDD, The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras review, Craft Victoria, Vol 26 Number 231 Bruce JAMES, In the shadow of a fabulous parade, Gay and lesbian Mardi gras festival, Visual art review, Sydney Morning Herald (undated) Christopher MENZ, Australian decorative arts: 1820s-1990s: Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery Board of South Australia, Adelaide Simon PLANT, Heat on clay; ceramicists reach new levels, Arts and entertainment, Herald Sun, Melbourne, 27 January Alex SELENITSCH, Antipots catalogue essay in Stephen Benwell and David Pottinger: two ceramic artists, Centre for Contemporary Craft, Sydney, exhibition catalogue
1995 Belinda ARNOLD, Ceramics survey 1969 to 1995, from the permanent collection of Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, New South Wales, exhibition catalogue Louise DOYLE, The 1995 Bathurst art purchase: celebrating 40 years of the permanent collection, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, New South Wales, exhibition catalogue Shane KENT, Useless objects and real things, Victorian Ceramic Group, Melbourne, exhibition catalogue Joseph PASCOE, Stephen Benwell, catalogue essay in Delinquent angel: Australian historical, Aboriginal and contemporary ceramics, Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza, Italy, exhibition catalogue Joseph PASCOE, Auguri, auguri; some reflections on 20th century art, Australian ceramics and Italian culture, Craft Victoria, Volume 25 Number 230 QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, Selected Australian works: Queensland University of Technology art collection, QUT, Brisbane Christopher SANDERS, Exhibition and sale: Christopher Sanders, recent studio works, a potterʼs collection of studio ceramics, Christopher Sanders Ceramics, Clifton Hill, Melbourne, exhibition catalogue Alex SELENITSCH, Stephen Benwell – recent ceramics, Craft Victoria, Volume 25 Number 229, Spring 1995 Misato SHOMURA & Atsuko YAMAMOTO, Australian art 1940-1990 from the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan, and National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia, exhibition catalogue Chris Sanders, 'Stephen Benwell', Pottery in Australia, Vol. 34, No. 4,
1994 CRAFT AUSTRALIA, The art of the object: contemporary craft from Australia, Craft Australia, Sydney, exhibition catalogue GOLD COAST CITY ART GALLERY, Winners: National Gold Coast ceramic award winners 1982-1993, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, exhibition catalogue Robert BELL and others, The art of the object, contemporary craft from Australia, Craft Australia, Surry Hills, Sydney, 1994 John McPHEE, The Colin and Cecily Rigg craft award 1994, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, exhibition catalogue Joseph PASCOE, Stephen Benwell castles and shrines, Ceramics: art and perception No 15 1994 Peter TIMMS, Big little winners; Australiaʼs richest prize brings out the best in ceramic artists, Decorative arts review, Sun Herald, Melbourne, 26 July 1994 VICTORIAN CERAMIC GROUP, Then and now: clay fever ʻ94, Meat Market Craft Centre, North Melbourne, exhibition catalogue Jenny ZIMMER, The high ground, (Craft Victoria, Craft Arts) Gudrun KLIX, 'The art of the object', Craft Australia, Alec SELENITSCH, 'Stephen Benwell — recent ceramics', Craft Victoria, Spring, 1994 Joe PASCOE, 'Stephen Benwell — castle and shrines', Ceramic Art and Perception, No. 14, 1994
1993 Stephen BENWELL and John McPHEE, Stephen Benwell: Shrines and effigies, Craft Victoria, Fitzroy, Melbourne, exhibition catalogue Kim HORNBY, Duologue, an exhibition of the ceramic work of Stephen Benwell and Fiona Murphy, Whitefriars College, Melbourne, exhibition catalogue Sara LINDSAY & Diana WOOD CONROY, Clashing fragments, University of Tasmania, Hobart, exhibition catalogue Joe PASCOE, Stephen Benwell, Craft Victoria 23/220 March VISUAL ARTS/CRAFT BOARD, Vessel with lid, postcard, Visual Arts/Craft Board, 1993 Fellowship Recipient's postcard set, Australia Council, Sydney Jenny ZIMMER, Enter the world of gentle dreamers, Craft review, The Age, Melbourne, 13 October
1992 Grace COCHRANE, The crafts movement in Australia: a history, NSW University Press, Sydney, 1992 CRAFTS COUNCIL OF VICTORIA, VicHealth 1992 national craft award, Crafts Council of Victoria, Melbourne, exhibition catalogue CRAFTS COUNCIL OF VICTORIA, The market: kitsch and cultural production, Crafts Council of Victoria, Melbourne, exhibition catalogue Janet MANSFIELD, Pots and potters, Oz Arts magazine, Issue 3 Daniel McOWAN, Ninth R.M. Ansett art award, City of Hamilton Art Gallery, Victoria, exhibition catalogue Caroline MILEY, VicHealth 1992 National Craft Award, Craft Victoria Volume 22 Number 214 May/June Joe PASCOE, “This goes with that!”: a selection of ceramics, paintings and works on paper from the Shepparton Art Gallery collection, Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria, exhibition catalogue Peter TIMMS, Showy design and skill for skill's sake, Object, Winter Sue WALKER, ed., The woven language of the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, South Melbourne
1991 ANON, Gold Coast ceramic art award, Craft Arts Number 22 Mary Lou JELBART, Potters display high skills, Craft, The Age, Melbourne, 11 October, exhibition review VICTORIAN TAPESTRY WORKSHOP, Victorian Tapestry Workshop: our success, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, South Melbourne, promotional brochure
1990 CERAMICS MONTHLY, Stephen Benwell and David Potter, News and retrospect column, Ceramics Monthly, Columbas, Ohio, USA, March GOLD COAST CITY ART GALLERY, Ninth national Gold Coast ceramic award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, exhibition catalogue Mary Lou JELBART, Craft suffers as financial difficulties curtail activities, The Age, Melbourne, Exhibition review, 2 January VICTORIAN CERAMIC GROUP, Potter of the month, Stephen Benwell, Newsletter, Victorian Ceramic Group, No.219 August
1989 ANON., Romance goes from the tip, News, Shepparton, 15 August 1989 Robert BELL et al, Perth international crafts triennial, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, exhibition catalogue Mary Lou JELBART, The mug-thrower nowhere in sight, The Age, Melbourne, 19 December, exhibition review Elaine MILLER, The St Kilda collection; catalogue of artworks acquired by the City of St Kilda 1980-1988, St Kilda City Council, Melbourne, promotional brochure Anna MOLAN et al, Heidelberg and heritage: two visions of Australia - one hundred years apart: a memorial to Lloyd Rees (1895 – 1988), Wilderness Society, Melbourne, exhibition catalogue Joe PASCOE, Benwell and Potter ceramics exhibition, Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria, exhibition catalogue Joe PASCOE, Stephen Benwell and David Potter ceramics, Craft arts Number 18
1988 CRAFTS COUNCIL OF VICTORIA, English Speaking Union Stuart Devlin Award 1988, Crafts Council of Victoria, Melbourne, exhibition catalogue John McDONALD, Art review, Sydney Morning Herald, 10 December John McPHEE, Australian decorative arts 1900 – 1985, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, exhibition catalogue Christopher MENZ, Australian decorative arts 1985 – 1988, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, exhibition catalogue Daniel THOMAS ed, Creating Australia 200 years of art 1788 – 1988, International Cultural Corporation of Australia, Art Gallery Board of South Australia
1987 Peter CORLETT, Personal views: an exhibition of smaller sculptures, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne, exhibition catalogue Victoria HAMMOND, Australian ceramics, Shepparton Art Gallery Janet MANSFIELD, Fire & earth: contemporary Australian ceramics, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney, exhibition catalogue Martina MARGETTS, Sand surf and ceramics, Crafts, No. 85 March/April Carol MORTON, Stephen Benwell workshop on decoration, Newsletter, Victorian Ceramic Group, No.185 April Ross SEARLE, 1987 North Queensland ceramic awards, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, Queensland, exhibition catalogue Sigrid WARNE, Surrounded by art from an early age, Diamond Valley News, 2 June Chris WATSON & Michael CRAYFORD, The 1986 ceramic award, Crafts Council of Australia, Sydney, exhibition catalogue
1986 AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL GALLERY, Recent acquisitions of contemporary Australian art, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, exhibition catalogue Peter HAYNES & Russell WAY, First national ceramic award, Canberra School of Art Gallery, exhibition catalogue Kim MARTIN, Ceramics to stretch the imagination, The Age, Melbourne, 15 October, exhibition review Lyn WILLMOTT, Stephen Benwell: in cameo, Craft Victoria 10/86 Michael YOUNG, A decade of craft, Regional Galleries Association of New South Wales, exhibition catalogue
1985 Anne FLANAGAN & Margaret KIRKWOOD, Evolution of style: the decorative spirit in Australian contemporary crafts: Ornamental sources, Craft Centre Gallery, Sydney, exhibition catalogue GEELONG ART GALLERY, Two collections: the Gordon Jackson and Mayfair collections of contemporary Australian ceramics John McDONALD, Function abandoned to the decorative spirit, Sydney Morning Herald, exhibition review, 30 August Shan SMALL, Flexible paper: a pure art medium, Sun Herald, Sydney, Be crafty column, 25 August
1984 4th National Ceramic Conference, Bulletin, National Gallery Society of Victoria, June
1983 Bruce ANDERSON, The first North Queensland ceramic awards, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, Queensland, exhibition catalogue Linda DOHERTY, Exhibition celebrates Mattara, exhibition review, Newcastle Herald, 18 August John McPHEE, Australian decorative arts: the past ten years, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, exhibition catalogue Kay MORRISSEY, Stephen Benwell, Craft Australia 1983/1 Charles PETTINGER, A variety of forms, exhibition review, Newcastle Herald, 25 August Pamela ROBSON, The trend that says advance Australia!, The Australian, 28 August
1982 CRAFTS COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA, Crafts: the Australian experience, Crafts Council of Australia, Sydney, exhibition catalogue CRAFTS COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA, The 1982 Mayfair ceramic award exhibition, Crafts Council of Australia, Sydney, exhibition catalogue Ken HOOD, Contemporary Australian ceramics, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, exhibition catalogue Terence MALOON, Craft for artʼs sake at the Rocks, Sydney Morning Herald, 16 January 1982, exhibition review John McPHEE, Australian decorative arts in the Australian National Gallery, Australian National Gallery, Canberra Margaret RICH, Ceramics in Victoria, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria, exhibition catalogue
1981 Craft Australia vol 2 pp 41 – 46 CRAFTS COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA, The bowl - Asian zone, Crafts Council of Australia, Sydney, exhibition catalogue CRAFTS COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA Gallery, Stephen Benwell and Bronwyn Kemp, Crafts Council of Australia Gallery, Sydney, exhibition catalogue Sylvia and Debbie HALPERN, July workshop, Newsletter, Victorian Ceramic Group, No.128 August Judith van REE, Australian pottery: animal imagery, in Animals and animism in Australian art and other essays, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Gallery, Melbourne, exhibition catalogue
1980 CRAFTS BOARD OF THE AUSTRALIA COUNCIL, Recent ceramics an exhibition from Australia, Crafts Board of the Australia Council, Sydney, exhibition catalogue CRAFTS COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA GALLERY, Mayfair ceramic award 1980, Crafts Council of Australia, Sydney, exhibition catalogue Maria PRENDERGAST, Artists at home; a man with pot-ential, Australian Home Journal, February Craft Australia vol 4 p.15
1979 AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL GALLERY, Some recent acquisitions of Australian art, Australian National Gallery at Canberra Theatre Centre Gallery, Canberra Ted GREENWOOD, Flights of imagination and humor, Melbourne, newspaper exhibition review, 17 October
1978 David BRADSHAW, Collection pieces: Australian crafts 1970 – 1977, Victorian Ministry for the Arts, Melbourne, exhibition catalogue CRAFTS BOARD OF THE AUSTRALIA COUNCIL, Australian crafts: a survey of recent work, Crafts Board of the Australia Council, exhibition catalogue CRAFTS COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA GALLERY, 2nd Mayfair ceramic award, Crafts Council of Australia, Sydney, exhibition catalogue WARRNAMBOOL ART GALLERY, Six Victorian potters: Robert Allan, Stephen Benwell, Neil Bruce, Vic Greenaway, John Hubbard, Ian Sprague, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria, exhibition catalogue
1977 COMUNE DI FAENZA, 35th Concorso internazionale della ceramica dʼarte, Comune di Faenza, Faenza, Italy, exhibition catalogue
1976 CRAFTS BOARD OF THE AUSTRALIA COUNCIL, Australia wood + clay, Crafts Board of the Australia Council, Sydney, exhibition catalogue
1975 Dennis COLSEY et al, Crafts Victoria ʻ75: a survey of contemporary Victorian crafts, Craft Association of Victoria, Melbourne, exhibition catalogue
Undated MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE, Foundation fine art collection, Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, promotional brochure Peter TIMMS, Off the wall, Decorative arts review, Herald Sun, Melbourne Image and Vision, Australia Council (review of Benwell & Potter exhibition, ʻ...interest lies beneath the surface...ʼ)