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George Piercy & Anita Laurence |
About George Piercy
George Piercy was born in Bendigo, Victoria in 1977 and is now living in North East Victoria with his partner Alice, 9 year old daughter Billie and newborn son Jackson. George is an experienced ceramic artist, having completed a Diploma of Ceramic Art & Design at Bendigo Regional Institute of TAFE in 1997 and a bachelor of Visual Arts in Ceramics at LaTrobe University, Bendigo in 1999. After completing his degree he worked as an apprentice for master ceramicist Graham Wilke at QDOS gallery in Lorne Victoria for two years, prior to opening his own art gallery. George opened The Muse Gallery of Milawa in 2003 and began developing an on-site ceramic studio which was completed in 2006.
Since opening the Muse Gallery, George has curated 24 solo & group exhibitions and has steadily created ceramic sculpture for regular gallery sales and commissions. He is currently working on creating a body of work to be used as his first solo exhibition at the Muse Gallery.
George has become an active and recognised member of the art community in the North East where he has
lived since 2002 when he was the artist in residence at Wangaratta TAFE. It was while doing this work that George met the owner of the Milawa Cheese Factory complex who offered him the space to create an Art Gallery and ceramic studio. He was awarded ‘Wangaratta Junior Businessperson of the Year’ by the Wangaratta Rotary Club in 2004, and has since been requested to be the judge for the Wangaratta Jazz Festival ‘Jazz Art’ award and become a member of the Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery Acquisitions Committee.
lived since 2002 when he was the artist in residence at Wangaratta TAFE. It was while doing this work that George met the owner of the Milawa Cheese Factory complex who offered him the space to create an Art Gallery and ceramic studio. He was awarded ‘Wangaratta Junior Businessperson of the Year’ by the Wangaratta Rotary Club in 2004, and has since been requested to be the judge for the Wangaratta Jazz Festival ‘Jazz Art’ award and become a member of the Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery Acquisitions Committee.George has been involved in a number of group exhibitions, including graduate exhibitions at Bendigo TAFE and Bendigo LaTrobe University, ‘Ignition’ at the Old Fire Station in Bendigo, the ‘Hyperclay’ and ‘Clayfeast’ exhibitions at the International Ceramic conferences in Gulgong, NSW, and locally at the invitational group exhibition at Dinner Plains High Country Art Exhibition and King Valley Art Show where his sculpture received highly commended. George exhibited with Graham Wilke while working at QDOS gallery in Lorne, and was part of a group exhibition ‘Generation X-Posed’ at the Muse Gallery of Milawa in 2008.
Throughout George’s career and studies, he has attended a number of ceramic workshops and conferences. While working as an apprentice with Graham Wilke he travelled to New Zealand to attend conferences and assisted with demonstrations in workshops. George has conducted a functional pottery workshop at the ‘Across the Arts’ forum, an Egyptian paste workshop at the Wangaratta TAFE jewellery department, and has taught private tuition in wheel-throwing in his studio.  Curriculum Vitae - George Piercy | downloads: 101 | type: pdf | size: 265 kB |