A name for entries for this yr’s competitors went out in January 2006. Candidates submitted work via an internet jurying service proper as much as the deadline of August 10.
This yr’s competitors was almost world. Submissions had been acquired from virtually 300 entrants from fourteen international locations situated on each continent besides Antarctica. In late August, a panel of three jurors undertook the large process of reviewing digital pictures of over 650 items, winnowing the sector to a bunch of forty ultimate works. Skilled high-quality pictures exhibiting extra particulars served their makers nicely. These pictures had been recognized with captions together with the artist’s title, title, dimensions and strategies used.
Finalists despatched their chosen items for set up within the Bullseye Useful resource Middle gallery and the jury gathered in early October to evaluation the assembled work. The three jurors for this yr’s competitors had been Jeremy Lepisto, Kirstie Rea and Dena Rigby. They carried out their duties with nice professionalism and collegiality and, after cautious consideration, they arrived at their selections, evaluating each bit for excellence of workmanship, design, and creativity. We thank them very a lot for serving to to make e-merge 2006 an inspiring assortment that displays the excessive requirements of immediately’s rising kiln-glass artist.
One thing to recollect a couple of juried exhibition is that it marks judgments made in a selected time and in a selected context, beneath specific constraints, and shouldn’t be taken as a everlasting judgment of the worth of an artist’s physique of labor. We encourage entrants who didn’t qualify as finalists this yr to proceed their efforts to make good work that can be supported successfully by skilled pictures, selection of show {hardware} and significant artist statements.
We thank the general public for its attendance on the opening ceremony on October 14. Over 2 hundred individuals got here, admired the exhibition and its particular person works, and voted for his or her favourite piece. The In style Prize was awarded primarily based on ballots solid that day.