| Education | |
| 1992 | Bachelor of Arts (Visual), Sydney College of the Arts, Workshop Head: Maureen Cahill |
| Selected Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2009 | Light Marks, William Traver Gallery, Seattle Studio Glass, Beaver Galleries, Canberra, Act |
| 2008 | Ben Edols, Kathy Elliott, Masterworks Gallery, Auckland New Zealand |
| 2007 | Evolve, Sabbia Gallery, Sydney, NSW Ben Edols Kathy Elliott, William Traver Gallery, Tacoma USA Edols & Elliott, Kirra Gallery, Melbourne Vic |
| 2006 | Studio Glass, Beaver Galleries, Canberra Act |
| 2005 | 'Autumn' William Traver Gallery, Seattle WA USA |
| 2005 | 'Autumn' William Traver Gallery, Seattle WAS |
| 2004 | 'Recent Work' deVera New York, NY USA |
| 2003 | 'Cultivate II' Quadrivium, Sydney NSW |
| 2002 | 'Cultivate' William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA USA |
| 2001 | 'Botanicals' De Vera, San Francisco, USA Blaze, Quadrivium, Sydney NSW 'Benjamin Edols and Kathy Elliott New GLass' Distelfink at Nellie Castan, Melbourne Vic |
| 2000 | Light Erosion, Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, NY, USA 'Dissolve' William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA USA 'Flux' Bullseye Gallery, Portland OR, USA |
| Selected Group Exhibitions |
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| 2009 | In Paradise, Manly Museum and Art Gallery, Manly Furnace, Contemporary Australian Art Glass, Tasmanian Craft Fair, Tasmania Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London Ranamok Glass Prize, Travelling Competitive exhibition Vision Realized, Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh Art in Glass, Framed Gallery, DarwinLooking Forward, William Traver Gallery, Seattle USA |
| 2008 | Gesture and Cadence, Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh USA Womens Glass Invitational, Dane Gallery, Nantucket, MA, USA Surface Exploration, Kirra Galleries, MelbourneIn Essence, Sabbia Gallery, Sydney Ranamok Glass Prize, Travelling competitive exhibition |
| 2007 | Smartworks, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Mastery in Contemporary Glass, Gaffer Studio Glass and Starcap Galleries, Singapore Ranamok Glass Prize, Travelling competetive exhibition Tom Malone Glass Prize, Western Australian Art Gallery, Perth |
| 2006 | 'Collect' Victoria and Albert Museum, London UK 'New Masters' New Glass, Sabbia Gallery, Sydney NSW |
| 2005 | 'Collect' Victoria and Albert Museum, London UK 'Sabbia' The Next Chapter, Sabbia Gallery, Sydney NSW 'World Glass' William Traver Gallery Tacoma, WA 'Glass Lovers Weekend' Sandra Ainsley Gallery, Millville NJ 'Seeds of Light' Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra ACT |
| 2004 | 'Sydney Style' Sydney Opera House Sydney, Sydney NSW 'Marioni, Edols Elliott, New Work' Masterworks Gallery, Auckland New Zealand |
| 2003 | 'Hot Glass 2003' Axia Modern Art, Melbourne Vic 'Canberra Glass 2003' Beaver Galleries, Canberra ACT 'The Glass Vessel' Kentucky Museum of Arts and Design, Lousville KY, USA '20/20 Vision' Museum of American Glass, Millville, NJ, USA |
| 2002 | 'Benjamin Edols Kathy Elliott and Tom Rowney' at 'Studio Glass' Beaver Galleries, Canberra ACT 'Global Glass' Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, Illinois USA 'Niijima Glass Exhibition' TEPCO Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo Japan '25 Years' William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA US. 'Australian Glass' Masterworks Gallery, Auckland New Zealand |
| 2001 | 'Lino Tagliapietro e amici' Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA, USA 'Transparent Things' ANG touring exhibition, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, NSW |
| 2000 | 'International Craft Triennale' Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt Germany 'At the Edge' Galerie Handwerk, Munich Germany 'National Glass Centre' Sunderland UK 'Desire' Quadrivium, Sydney, NSW |
| Fellowships & Awards | |
| 2003 | Australia Council Grant |
| 1998 | Resource Finance Corporation Glass Prize |
| 1995 | Australia Council Grant and Pilchuck Glass School Scholarship |
| Collections | |
| Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK ~ Auckland Museum, New Zealand Toyama Art Museum, Japan American Craft Museum, ~ Chrysler Museum of Art, USA Devonport Art Gallery, TAS ~ Powerhouse Museum, NSW Queensland Art Gallery, QLD ~ National Gallery of Australia, ACT American Glass Museum, USA Wagga Wagga National Glass Collection, NSW Art Gallery of South Australia ~ National Gallery of Victoria, Vic Glasmuseum Alter Hof Herding, Coesfeld Lette, Germany Parliament House Collection, ACT Government House Collection, Sydney NSW The Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI, USA The Denver Art Museum, Denver ~ USA The Carnegie Museum of Art, PA, USA |
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| Publications | |
| The Sydney Magazine August 2007 Issue # 52, Australian Art Review November 2007 Issue # 15, Australian Glass Today, Margot Osborne, Wakefield Press Object No. 42 2003; Lino Issue No. 3 2003; House and Garden, May, 2003; Domain Sydney Morning Herald, 10th April, 2003; VETRO Magazine December. 2002 no.16; Artists in Glass, Dan Klein, Miitchell Beazley, 2001; I.D. Magazine, Novembe, 2001; Sydney Morning Herald,’ Metropolitan’ pg. 8, 22-23 September, 2001; Flux, Exhibition Catalogue; Australia + Germany International Craft Triennale 2000 Exhibition catalogue; At the Edge Australian Glass Art, Exhibition Catalogue; National Gallery of Australia, Developing the Collection, Acquisitions 1997-1999, N.G.A.1999; Contemporary Australian Craft, Exhibition Catalogue, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art,1999; Craft Arts International, No.47; Arte, August 1999; Neues Glas, 3/98; New Glass Review, No’s 17,18,19,21; Aperto Vetro ‘98, Exhibition Catalogue, Editrice Arsenale,1998; The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa ‘98, Exhibition Catalogue, 1998; Latitudes: Bullseye Glass in Australia, Exhibition Catalogue,1998; Australian Glass - 10 Artists, Exhibition Catalogue,1998; Craftsman House, 1997 |
