The Japan Art History Forum (JAHF) The World of Hiroe Swen’s ceramic art: educational resources and a digital archive is now listed as a recommended digital resource on the Japan Art History Forum website. The Japan Art History Forum (JAHF) is...
2023 Appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) forsignificant service to ceramic art as a teacher and an artist. Hiroe Swen was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia Medal (AM) for significant service to ceramic art as a teacher and an artist on June 12,...
Meghen Jones, art historian in the US, speaks about the meaning of the digital archive of Hiroe Swen Meghen Jones is an Associate Professor of Art History in the School of Art and Design at Alfred University, where she teaches courses in material culture and...
Presentations at the public launch of‘The World of Hiroe Swen’s Ceramic Art: Educational Resources and a Digital Archive’. May 13, 2023, at Drill Hall Gallery, ANU, ACT, Australia Speakers and the timings are listed below. Terence Maloon Director, Drill Hall Gallery...
The world of Hiroe Swen’s ceramic art: digital archive launch and pop-up exhibition This pop-up exhibition at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery (Wednesday 3 May to Sunday 21 May) coincides with the launch of The world of Hiroe Swen, a digital archive, celebrating over 50...
Hiroe Swen: Australian Heroine!A context for her influential career Grace Cochrane Over more than 50 years, Hiroe (nee Takebe) Swen has been a major inspiration to those working in Australian studio ceramics, bringing a particular perspective that was unusual...
Hiroe Swen in Japan: pre-Australian years Chiaki Ajioka Early life to the 1950s Hiroe Swen was born in 1934 in Kyoto, as the elder of two daughters of the Takebe family.[1] For over a thousand years Kyoto was the centre of arts and culture, and the Takebe...
My encounter with Hiroe Swen Alan Watt I first came across Hiroe Swen’s work in 1968, when she was participating in an exhibition of leading ceramic artists in Australia at the National Gallery of Victoria1, Melbourne, which was coincidentally her first...
Hiroe Swen: Artist bio in brief Meredith Hinchliffe Hiroe Swen was born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1934. Since she was little, Hiroe was a curious and independent child. She remembers a day when she decided to skip kindergarten and went to play by the river with a...
