Avital Sheffer

AVITAL SHEFFER

Born 1954, arrived in Australia 1990
Member of the International Academy of Ceramics

Education

2004 Diploma in Ceramics – TAFE Lismore NSW
1989 Diploma in Classical Homoeopathy – Israel

Solo Exhibitions

2024  Memory And Desire – Anthea Polson Art, Qld (April)
2023  Filia – Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK
2021  Vessel And Verse – Anthea Polson Art, Qld
2019  Terra Profunda – Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London UK
2018  Orchard Of Time – Artvisory, Melbourne
2018  Solo Exhibition – Tansey Contemporary, Denver Colorado
2017  The Generous Vessel – Anthea Polson Art, Gold Coast
2017  Wanderlust – Beaver Galleries, Canberra
2016  Terra Entera – Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
2015  Intimate Distance – Stephanie Hoppen Gallery, London UK
2015  Lines Of Descent – Anthea Polson Art, Gold Coast
2014  Terra Oculta – Stephanie Hoppen Gallery, London UK
2013  Confluence – Anthea Polson Art, Gold Coast
2012  TerraForma – Gadfly Gallery, Perth
2012  Life Of Form – Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
2011  New Ceramic Sculptures – Beaux Arts Bath, Bath UK
2011  Terra Memoria – Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne
2011  Mother Tongues – Beaver Galleries, Canberra
2010  Peregrinations – Gadfly Gallery, Perth
2010  Continuum – Anthea Polson Art, Gold Coast
2009  Origins – Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne
2009  Deep Earth – Touring exhibition to Regional Galleries 2009/10
2009  Terra Anima – Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
2008  Terra Intima – Beaver Galleries, Canberra
2008  Avital Sheffer; New Work – Thomas R. Riley – Cleveland, Ohio, USA
2007  Avital Sheffer: New Work – Salmon Galleries, Sydney
2007  Jane Sauer Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2006  Unearthed II – Salmon Galleries, Sydney
2006  Lismore Regional Gallery
2005  Unearthed I – Beaver Galleries, Canberra

Two person exhibitions

2004  Under the Dome -Tweed River Regional Art Gallery
2004  Avital Sheffer & Margaurite Josephson – Mura Clay Gallery, Sydney

Selected invitational and group exhibitions

2023  Ceramics In A Fragile World – Byron School Of Art, Mullumbimby, NSW
2023  Art Market San Fransisco – Represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
2023  Palm Beach Modern and Contemporary Art Fair – Represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
2022  Build/Rebuild: Northern Rivers Ceramics, After The Floods – Lone Goat Gallery, Byron Bay, NSW
2021  Clay Dynasty – Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
2021  Art Paris – Represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
2021  Eye Of The Collector – Represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
2021  London Original Print Fair – Represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
2021  The Open Art Fair – Represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
2020  Art Paris – Represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
2020  Art Aid Gippsland – Gippsland Art Gallery, VIC
2020  BAM Bushfire Charity Art Auction – Northern Rivers, NSW
2019  The Shape Of Things – Anthea Polson Art, QLD
2019  North – Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
2019  Share My Table – Australian Ceramics Tienniale, Hobart Tasmania
2019  Transversalidades En Ceramica Contemporanea – Museo del Cantir, Argentona Spain
2018  Little Treasures – Anthea Polson Art, QLD
2018  LAPADA, London – Presented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London UK
2018  Collect, London – Presented by Tansey Contemporary, Santa Fe USA
2018  Small Works, Beaver Galleries, Canberra ACT
2018  Palm Beach Art Fair – Presented by Tansey Contemporary, Santa Fe USA
2017  Ceramic Revisions IIA – May Space, Sydney
2017  Accolade – Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Sydney
2016  International Academy Of Ceramics Members Exhibition – Museo del Disseny, Barcelona
2016  Melbourne Art Fair – Represented by Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne
2016  Mir Zehnen Do – Glen Eira Gallery, Melbourne
2016  LA Art Show – Represented by Tansey Contemporary, USA
2016  La Femina – Grafton Regional Art Gallery
2015  SOFA Chicago – Presented by Tansey Contemporary, Santa Fe NM, USA
2015  Well Red – Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
2015  Unconventional Conformity – Tansey Contemporary, Santa Fe NM, USA
2015  Choice – Beaver Gallery, Canberra
2015  Collector’s Choice – Lasting Impressions, Kenilworth
2014  Quiet Conversations – Skepsi @ Montsalvat
2014  The Object Devine – Lauraine Diggings Gallery, Melbourne
2014  Quiet Conversations – Skepsi on Swanson, Melbourne
2014  Australian Ceramics – Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne
2012  Ceramics Now – Bucharest, Romania
2012  Enduring Forms – Aptos Cruz Gallery, Adelaide
2012  Art Platform, Los Angeles – Presented by Gaffer Gallery, Hong Kong
2012  Sculpture 24 – Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
2012  Byron Bay Writers Festival Sculpture Show
2011  The 60th Blake Touring Exhibition 2011/2012
2011  8 Days Before Christmas Our Artists’ Special Christnas Show, Anthea Polson Art, Qld
2011  Fairytales In Fairyland – Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW
2011  Sculpture 23 – Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
2011  The New York Arts Of Pacific Asia Show – Presented By Cavin Morris Gallery, New York
2011  30 To Collect – Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2011  Confined Excitement – Pleasures Of The Void – Cavin Morris Gallery, New York
2010  Time + Place – Cudgegong Gallery, Gulgong, NSW
2010  Art Event – Jewish Museum of Australia – NVG International, Melbourne
2010  Down Memory LAne – Framed Gallery, Darwin
2010  9th Festival In Ceramics – Demonstrators Exhibition – University Of Ballarat Post Office
Gallery, Victoria
2010  The Space Between – Aptos Cruz Gallery, Adelaide
2010  44th General Assembly – International Academy of Ceramics Members Exhibition –
Cite de la Ceramique, Sevres France
2010  On Paper, In Time and In Others’ Minds – Art Piece Gallery, Mullumbimby NSW
2010  Sculpture 22 – Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
2009  The 58th Touring Blake Prize Exhibition 2009/10
2009  40 x 40 Special First Christmas Show Anthea Polson Art, Qld
2009  Egyptian Treasures: Arts of the Pharaohs – The Australian Museum, Sydney
2009  Friends of Bezalel Art Exhibition – Arthouse Hotel, Sydney
2009  Heated Words – Fusions Gallery, Brisbane
2009  White Heat – The Australian Ceramics Association’s Biennial Exhibition 2009 Manly Art
Gallery and Museum
2009  Sculpture 21 – Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
2009  Brisbane Grammar School Art Show
2009  NCECA Special Exhibition: Clay – Cervini Hass Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
2009  FEHVA Art Exhibition & Auction
2009  Here/Now – Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne
2009  Our Most Easterly Edge – Fusions Gallery, Brisbane
2009  Palm Beach 3, Presented by Thomas Riley galleries, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
2008  SOFA Chicago – Presented by Thomas Riley galleries, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
2008  Sculpture 20 – Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
2008  Ceramicos – Waywood gallery, Byron Bay
2008  Palm Beach 3, Presented by Thomas Riley Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
2008  COLLECT- Victoria & Albert Museum, London, GB, Presented by Raglan Gallery, Sydney
2008  FEHVA Art Exhibition & Auction
2007  Palm Beach 3 – Presented by Thomas Riley galleries, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
2007  Art London – Presented by Raglan Gallery, Sydney
2007  SOFA Chicago, Presented by Thomas Riley galleries, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
2007  FEHVA Art Exhibition & Auction
2006  SOFA New York, USA – Presented by Jane Sauer Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2006  SOFA Chicago, USA – Presented by Beaver Galleries
2006  Chrysalis – Lismore Regional Art Gallery
2006  ConVerge – Victor Mace Fine Art Gallery, Brisbane and touring to Regional Galleries to
2008
2006  Hand Made – J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, Florida, USA
2006  FEHVA Art Exhibition & Auction
2005  SOFA Chicago – Presented by Beaver Galleries
2005  FEHVA Art Exhibition & Auction
2004  Fusions Graduate Award Exhibition, Brisbane
2004  Gold-Coast International Ceramic Award
2004  Graduating Students Award Exhibition – Inner City Clayworks Sydney

Competitions, Awards, Residencies

2024  Finalist – Muswellbrook Art Prize, NSW
2021  Finalist – BAM Art Prize, NSW
2020  Presenter – The Ceramic Congress 2020
2019  Panellist, Australian Ceramics Triennale, Hobart
2019  Selected Artist – International Ceramic Biennale GICB19 Korea
2018  Masterclass Presenter, The Australian Ceramics Association
2017  Finalist – Muswellbrook Art Prize, NSW
2014  Awarded – Australia Council for the Arts, Skills and Arts Development grant, Barcelona studio
2012  Finalist – Gold Coast International Ceramics Award
2012  Finalist –  Wilson Visual Arts Award
2012  Winner – Byron Arts Classic, First Prize For Sculpture
2012  Finalist – Stanthorpe Art Festival, Qld
2011  Artist In Residence – The Israel Museum, Archeology Wing, Jerusalem Israel
2011  Finalist – The Blake Prize
2011  Finalist – Manning Art Prize
2011  Highly Commended – Muswellbrook Open Art Prize
2011  Travelling Scholarship Prize – Noosa Regional Gallery
2011  Finalist – Prometheus Visual Arts Award
2011  Finalist – Burnie Print Prize
2010  Finalist – Ergon energy CQ Ceramic Award
2010  Artists Residency – SODA Freemantle WA
2010  Acquisition Award – Stanthorpe Art Festival
2009  Elected for membership of the International Academy of Ceramics – Geneva
2009  Finalist – The Blake Prize
2009  Finalist – Manning Art Prize
2009  Finalist – IV International Biennial of Ceramics, Talavera de la Reina, Toledo, Spain
2009  Finalist – Prometheus Visual Arts Award
2009  Highly commended – Muswellbrook Open Art Prize
2009  Finalist – Burnie Print Prize
2008  Winner – Border Art Prize
2008  Awarded – Australia Council for the Arts, New Work grant (established artists)
2008  Finalist – The Sidney Myer International Ceramic Award
2006  Awarded – Australia Council for the Arts, New Work grant (emerging artists)
2006  Finalist – Gold-Coast International Ceramic Award
2005  Awarded – Honorary mention, 3rd Internat’l Competition, World Ceramic Biennale, Korea
2005  Awarded – Josephine Ulrich Award for Excellence, Gold-Coast International Ceramic Award
2004  Finalist – Gold Coast International Ceramic Award
2003  Finalist – Gold-Coast International Ceramic Award
1999  Awarded – Special Mention, Thursday Plantation Sculpture Show, Ballina NSW

Collections

National Gallery of Australia
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Artelier d’Art de France, Paris
Museo de Caintir, Argentona Spain
Jewish Museum of Australia
Manly Art Gallery and Museum
Bendigo Art Gallery
Art Gallery of Ballarat
Southern Downs Regional Art Collection, Stanthorpe
Gold Coast City Art Gallery (now HOTA)
Shepparton Art Gallery
Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie
Tweed River Art Gallery
Grafton Regional Gallery
Silversea Cruises Art Collection
Ceramics Victoria Permanent Collection
Brisbane Grammar School Art Collection
The Russell Berrie Foundation, USA
The Charles Bronfman collection, USA
Various corporate and private collections Australia, USA, UK

Selected publications

Ceramics – An Atlas of Forms by Glenn Barkley, publisher: Thames & Hudson
Tanversalidades en Ceramica Contemporánea Museo de Cántir, Argentona, Spain
The Journal of Australian Ceramics 60 years special edition 61 #1
Focus: Function and Art, an interview.
Byron Arts Magazine issue 20 – Avital Sheffer, an interview by Nadine Abensur.
La Revue de la Céramique et du Verre, by Caroline Coiffet, Avital Sheffer – D’un Contimemt A Un Autre Issue 236 January 2021
White Paper by: By Marta Martinez: Avital Sheffer, de cerámica, vidrio y caligrafía
Art Collector Magazine Issue 82 2017 pg 78-79 Not To Be Missed – Avital Sheffer The Generous Vessel by Ashley Crawford
Intersection Art and Life, by Kevin Wallace.  Published: Beatrice Wood Centre For The Arts
Canberra Times, August 17 2017 Vessels with magisterial demeanor by Kerry Anne Cousins
The Journal of Australian Ceramics volume 56 #2 2017 Cross Cultural Intersections by Jane Denison
Subversive Ceramics (Bloomsbury Publication) by Claudia Clare.
The Canberra Times, 5 April 2014.  Vessels Carry Elegant Interplay Of Culture, Language And Form by Peter Haynes
The Pot Book (Phaidon publication) by Edmund de Waal and Claudia Clare
500 Prints On Clay juried by Paul Andrew Wandless, Lark Crafts publication 2013
The Blake Book – Art, Religion and Spirituality in Australia by Rosemary Crumlin
Ceramic Review issue 253 – Excavating Language: Avital Sheffer, Beaux Arts Bath Exhibition Review, by Claudia Clare
Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum 17 March 2012.  Open Gallery – Life Of Form by Lynne Dwyer
Ceramics Monthly, June, July, August 2011, Exposure
Australian Yoga Journal Issue 11, 2011 – Creative Release, by Sascha Wyness
Canberra Times 17 Feb 2011 – Fusing Form and Decoration, Exhibition Review by Kerry-Anne Cousins
Ceramics Art and Perception issue no. 80, 2010 – Of the Temporal and the Siritual, Works by Avital Sheffer, by Inga Walton
Ceramic review, UK issue no.243, 2010 – Deep Earth – A present past/a continuous present, by Loiuse Martin Chew
The Age, 12/11/2009 Visual Art by Dylan Rainforth
Ceramic Review, issue 240, Gallery Review
The Australian Jewish News, 10 November 2009 Exhibition Review, by Dalia Sable
The Journal of Australian Ceramics, issue no. 48#2 2009 – White Heat: Australian Ceramics
Association Biennial Exhibition
Ceramics Monthly October 2009 – exhibitions: Avital Sheffer
The Journal of Australian Ceramics, issue no. 48#1 2009 – Avital Sheffer Body of work, by Ann
McMahon
Craft Arts International, issue no. 72, 2008 – New works by Avital Sheffer, by Pollyanna Sutton
Art London 2007 catalogue
Ceramics Art and Perception, issue no. 67, 2007 – ConVerge: The Strength of a Region, by
Grace Cochrane
SOFA Chicago 2006 catalogue
Craft Arts International, issue no. 66, 2006 – 24th Gold Coast International ceramic award, by
Gordon Foulds
ConVerge Catalogue, 2006 – Northern Rivers Touring Ceramic Exhibition
Chrysalis Catalogue, 2006 – The Emergence of Northern Rivers Artists, by Louise Martin Chew
Craft Arts International, issue no. 64, 2005 – Tradition to Modernity, by Gordon Foulds
Ceramics Art and Perception – issue no. 60, 2005 – New Vessels, ancient Voices, by Steven
Giese
The Journal of Australian Ceramics 43#2 2004 – images
The Journal of Australian Ceramics 43#3 2004 – images