Ebony received the award for Outstanding Applied Arts Student at Monash University 2003.
In 2006 she completed a Graduate Diploma in Education of Visual Arts from the University of Melbourne.
Since graduating as a specialist art teacher, Ebony has worked in several colleges as Head of Department in both Victoria and Queensland, whilst continuing to exhibit and maintain her art practice, working with large-scale stoneware, slip casting and porcelain, as well as resin and printmaking.
A Master's graduate of the National Art School in Sydney, Ebony has been selected as a finalist in the annual Saint Cloche Gallery - "Little Things" Art Prize and the biannual Sydney Living Museum - Meroogal Women's Art Prize.
She has also been awarded the International Franz Rising Star Award for excellence in porcelain along with winning a Franz Rising Star Project Scholarship.
EDUCATION
2019 Masters of Fine Arts, National Art School, Sydney,NSW
2006 Graduate Diploma in Education, The University of Melbourne, VIC
2003 Bachelor of Applied Arts (Ceramics) (Honours) Monash University, VIC
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Artereal Gallery, Rozelle, Sydney
ART PRIZE FINALIST
2021 The 66thBlake Art Prize – Finalist (Collaboration with Louise Meuwissen)
2020 Meroogal Women’s Art Prize - Finalist
2020 North Queensland Ceramic Award – Finalist
2019 Franz Rising Star Project – Finalist
2019 Muswellbrook Art Prize – Finalist
2019 Beautiful Bizarre Sculpture Prize - Finalist
2018 Meroogal Women’s Art Prize - Finalist
2018 Little Things Art Prize – St Cloche, Sydney - Finalist
2015 Strand Ephemera Art Prize - Fringe Ephemera - Finalist
2003 The Mary and Lou Senini Student Art Award - Finalist
2003 CSA Sculpture @ St Kilda Botanic Gardens - Finalist
SOLO EXHIBITION
2020 Sad Birthday, Artereal Gallery, Sydney
2020 #OTT, Artereal Gallery, Sydney NSW – Online Exhibition
2004 The Ties That Bind - Yarra Sculpture Gallery, VIC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Clay Dynasty, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
2021 SPRING1883, Artsy.net, Represented by Artereal Gallery
2021 Ceramica Maxima, The Jamfactory, Adelaide
2020 IRL > URL, Artereal Gallery, Sydney
2020 Inside, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2020 Talismans, rafts Mementos, Modern Times, Brunswick, Melbourne
2020 Midnight Garden, International Group Show, Modern Eden Gallery,
San Francisco, USA
2020 The Vase and Flower Show, Curated by Sassy Park, 7 Clovelly Rd, Sydney
2020 Transcendence, Modern Times, Brunswick, Melbourne. In collaboration with
The Melbourne Design Festival and The National Gallery of Victoria
2020 The Backbone of Things, Curated by Glenn Barkley, Te Auaha Gallery, Wellington,
New Zealand. Exhibition as part of the Fired Up New Zealand Ceramics Festival
2020 The Raw and the Cooked, Delmar Gallery, Sydney
2019 Craft Victoria Members Showcase, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2019 Mars Gallery's Wearable Art Soiree, Mars Gallery, Melbourne
2019 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, National Art School, Sydney
2019 Artereal Pop Up Gallery, Sydney Fringe Festival , Paddington, NSW
2019 The Curiosities, Mailbox Art Space, VIC
2019 An Idea Needing To Be Made: Contemporary Ceramics, Heide Museum of Modern Art, VIC (Artwork included in the Wunderkammer as part of the collection of Curator Glenn Barkley)
2019 Enucleo: Subversive Clay – The Barn, Rosney Park, TAS
2019 Pushing Boundaries – Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2019 Muswellbrook Art Prize – Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre, NSW
2019 Nevertheless She Persisted, Artereal Gallery, Sydney
2018 Meroogal Women’s Art Prize, NSW
2018 Little Things Art Prize - St Cloche Gallery, NSW
2015 Strand Ephemera Art Prize - Fringe Ephemera, QLD
2014 Memory - Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, QLD
2003 The Mary and Lou Senini Student Art Award - McClelland Gallery, VIC
2003 CSA Sculpture @ St Kilda Botanic Gardens, VIC
2003 GRADUATE EXHIBITION - Monash University, VIC
2002 TRICYCLE - Monash University, VIC
2002 MUSE - Monash University Students Emerging - 69 Smith St Gallery
AWARDS
2019 N. E. Pethebridge Award, National Art School, Sydney
2019 Mansfield Ceramics Art and Perception Publishing Award,
National Art School, Sydney
2018 FRANZ RISING STAR AWARD - First place and Scholarship Award, Taiwan
2003 NORTHCOTE POTTERY PRIZE AWARD - Monash University, Melbourne
COLLECTIONS
Bega Valley Regional Gallery
Museum of Applied Arts, Powerhouse Museum
National Art School, Sydney
RESIDENCY
2019 FRANZ RISING STAR AWARD – Artist in Resident Jingdezhen, China July/Aug 2019
PUBLICATIONS
2020 Birthday blues: artists lose their marbles over life and death, John McDonald,
Sydney Morning Herald, 21 November, 2020
2020 What’s Next?, By Jaime Tsai, Art Collector Issue 94, October 2020
2020 Virtual Exhibition… The Nouveau Rococo, by Rebecca Freezer, Marmalade online, The Jam Factory, September 2020
2019 Piped Dreams, by Ebony Russell, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Vol 58 No 3, November 2019
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