FUSE Glass Prize

Presented by JamFactory, the FUSE Glass Prize is a non-acquisitive biennial prize for Australian and New Zealand glass artists. The winner of the FUSE Glass Prize will receive a cash prize of AU$20,000. In addition, the winner of the David Henshall Emerging Artist Prize will receive AU$5,000 cash and a professional development opportunity at JamFactory valued at a further AU$5,000.

Since it was established in 2016, the FUSE Glass Prize has become the most prestigious platform for celebrating and supporting outstanding glass artists from Australian and New Zealand.

18 Finalists (12 Established Artists and 6 Emerging Artists) will be selected as part of an exhibition at JamFactory, Adelaide before touring to the ANU School of Art & Design Gallery, Canberra .

The biennial FUSE Glass Prize and FUSE Glass Residency continues to be predominately funded through private philanthropy and sponsorship with ongoing support from the Carrekers alongside Dr Pamela Wall OAM and Dr Ian Wall AM (1931-2022), David McKee AO and Pam McKee, Diana Laidlaw AM, Susan Armitage, Nicholas Linke OAM Maia Ambegaokar and Joshua Bishop. The David & Dulcie Henshall Foundation continue to generously support the Emerging Artist Category of FUSE through the David Henshall Emerging Artist Prize.

Emerging Finalists: Racquel Austin-Abdullah (Vic), Jordan Benson (Vic), Bradley East (SA), Bindi Nimmo (SA), Isobel Waters (SA), April Widdup (ACT)
Established Finalists: Gabriella Bisetto (SA), Annette Blair (NSW), Dominic Burrell (NZ), Christine Cathie (NZ)
Mel Douglas (ACT), Nicholas Folland (SA), Holly Grace (NSW), Jessica Loughlin (SA), Nick Mount (SA), Kirstie Rea (NSW), Tom Rowney (NSW), Janice Vitkovsky (SA)

Bindi Nimmo, No Grown Ups Allowed, 2025, Image: Connor Patterson

Quiet Geometry

Quiet Geometry brings together works from seven artists across multiple disciplines that explore the subtle power of line, form, and spatial order. Through measured compositions, this exhibition demonstrates how geometry can be both method and expression. Each work invites close attention, revealing a quiet language of balance, precision, and intentional design.

Exhibitors: Peta Berghofer, Liam Bryan-Brown, Bradley East, Lucy Hearn, Manon van Kouswijk, Peta Kruger, Lisa Lapointe.

Bradley East, In Search of Stillness, 2026, blown, coldworked and engraved glass, dimensions variable, Photo: Connor Patterson

Nadege Desgenetez

JamFactory and partner Carrick Hill present the 2026 FUSE Glass Artist Residency Exhibition showcasing Melbourne based glass artist Nadège Desgenétez

Awarded biennially in alternate years to the FUSE Glass Prize, the FUSE Glass Artist Residency aims to create significant opportunities for established, mid-career artists working in glass. Valued at more than $20,000 the residency provides studio access in JamFactory’s Glass Studio and a solo exhibition at Historic House Museum and Garden, Carrick Hill.

Nadege Desgenetez's work is inspired by her experience of migration, and the ways in which feelings of connection to, and dislocation from place can coexist. Her recent sculptures in glass and mixed media explore how to relay and mediate embodied experiences of inter-relation and distance. Abstract blown glass forms merge body and tree, soft and hard, flow and stillness... Surfaces, colours and reflections echo natural phenomena. Desgenetez draws on the movement of her body in making, the processes of glass blowing, combined with mirroring, carving, polishing, and sanding to find ambiguous forms and mine the optical and tactile qualities inherent to the medium. The works seek to engage the viewer physically, to be encountered, through shifting reflections and dynamic display. Most recently, following the disruptions of the COVID years, Desgenetez became interested in the contemporary primacy of sight, notably in the ways in which screens and lenses mediate our encounter with the natural world, and each other, near and far.

Nadege Desgenetez, Orb, 2018. Photo courtesy of the artist.