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Alison is so thrilled to have been selected as a finalist in the prestigious Robert Foster National Metal Prize 2026, with her recent work: 10 Spoons 10 Days.
The National Robert Foster Metal Prize exhibition showcases outstanding contemporary metalwork, highlighting how imagination, skilled making, thoughtful design and material exploration can shape the ways we see and engage with the world around us.
The National Robert Foster Metal Prize exhibition is presented in partnership by Craft + Design Canberra and F!nk + Co Director Gretel Harrison, with thanks to the Tall Foundation.
Finalists: Alison Jackson, Ash Allen, Bic Tieu, Diane Appleby, Flynn Parker-Greer, Kenny Yongsoo Son, Kirsten Haydon, Lindy McSwan, Melinda Young, Nicholas Burridge, Oliver Smith, Radka Passianova, Rebecca Selleck, Robert Wuldi, Sean O’Connell
Location |Craft + Design Canberra, Level 1, North Building, 180 London Circuit, City ACT 2601
Opening Hours | Wednesday – Saturday | Noon – 4pm
Exhibition Dates| 5 Nov - 12 Dec 2026
Entry | Free
10 Spoons 10 Days
Artist Statement
10 years after creating my body of work titled 10 vessels 10 days I have wanted to revisit this fast-paced yet rhythmic approach to making, setting aside 10 days to create from start to finish 10 highly individual sculptural spoons. This time around, these 10 days have been split up over weeks instead of consecutively. This variation speaks to the many changes the last 10 years has brought including moving interstate, building a workshop, becoming a mother. All in all, many big shake ups to life. Just as I did with 10 vessels 10 days, I see each spoon as a three-dimensional sketch. A work in progress developing in my hands as I make it. Adding to, changing, developing as I go. Starting somewhere and ending up somewhere else. More often than not, landing in an unexpected place. There is something captivating in this unexpected magic. One day sparks ideas for the next, and so it flows, a familiar rhythm at the bench, my hands know what to do.
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