Ceramics

Sam Gold announced as WINNER in Wollongong Art Prize
06
Dec

Sam Gold announced as WINNER in Wollongong Art Prize

Congratulations to Sam Gold who has announced as the WINNER of the Wollongong Art Prize 2025!

Judged by Dr Kristen Sharp, Gold's winning work explores care, fluidity, and resilient storytelling. The large-scale hand-built stoneware sculpture, finished with enamel, uses coiling and layering to resist fixed edges, carrying collective stories and asserting presence.

Wollongong Art Prize is an acquisitive national prize, open to all Australian artists. Now reimagined for a new generation, the competition invites submissions from artists working across all mediums. With a strong emphasis on accessibility, inclusivity, and community engagement, the prize seeks to showcase the breadth and vitality of contemporary art practice.

The finalist works will be on display at Wollongong Art Gallery from today until Sunday 1 March 2026.

Once again we congratulate Sam and all the other finalists!

Sam Gold, Lungs swollen with warmth from the mouths of exploding stars, 2024-25, stoneware and enamel, 150 x 190 x 18 cm. Photography by Connor Patterson

Hugo Michell Gallery Opening: Kate Just | Fiona Roberts
17
May

Hugo Michell Gallery Opening: Kate Just | Fiona Roberts


Please join us for the launch of Kate Just’s ‘50 Rules for Making Art’ and Fiona Roberts’ ‘Hereafter’ at Hugo Michell Gallery on Thursday 23rd May from 6-8pm, with an artist talk with Kate Just at 6pm to launch her accompanying publication.
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Kate Just
50 Rules for Making Art

‘50 Rules for Making Art’ is a series of 50 brightly coloured, hand knitted, square panels of text. About this series, Kate shares: “The rules look like knitted post-it-notes or reminders to self. The texts are in my own handwriting. I drew each text onto a knitting grid before stitching each panel. This series was made during the year I turned 50. While knitting, I reflected on the number of years I’ve lived and the many lessons I’ve learned about making art.”
Artist talk with Kate Just at 6pm to launch her accompanying publication.
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Fiona Roberts
Hereafter

‘Hereafter’ explores humanity's eternal quest for psychological and physical safety, manifested through the interplay of symbolism, superstitions, rituals and belief systems. Drawing upon symbolic representations of life and existence beyond, Roberts explores the profound existential inquiries that have plagued human consciousness throughout history.

Selected work by Fiona Roberts in her solo exhibition 'Hereafter', 2024.

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Hugo Michell Gallery are proud to partner with Bird in Hand Winery for this opening event.

Please join us in celebrating the launch of these two exhibitions!

Hugo Michell Gallery acknowledges the Kaurna people as the traditional custodians of the Adelaide region, and that their cultural and heritage beliefs are still as important to the living Kaurna people today.