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

FUSE Glass Prize

Congratulations to the winner of the FUSE Glass Prize
Annette Blair and the winner of the David Henshall Emerging Artist Prize Isobel Waters!

Presented by JamFactory, the FUSE Glass Prize is a non-acquisitive biennial prize for Australian and New Zealand glass artists. Since it was established in 2016, the FUSE Glass Prize has become the most prestigious platform for celebrating and supporting outstanding glass artists.

18 Finalists (12 Established Artists and 6 Emerging Artists) have been selected for the exhibition now showing at JamFactory, Adelaide until 5 July  before touring to the ANU School of Art & Design Gallery, Canberra.

Featuring 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)

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.

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.

People’s Choice Award

Vote for your favourite artwork in the 2026 FUSE Glass Prize exhibition and Win!

Visit the FUSE Glass Prize exhibition at JamFactory Adelaide, scan the QR code and select your favourite artwork for your chance to win this amazing prize.

One lucky winner will receive:

- an overnight stay in a Luxury King Room for two, along with a breakfast buffet at Garçon Bleu at Sofitel Adelaide

 - a $500 JamFactory Gift Voucher

FUSE Glass Artist Residency
Nadège Desgenètez: This Body, Echoes

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.

Nadège Desgenétez'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. Desgenétez 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.

Nadège Desgenétez, Orb, 2018. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Tjunkaya Tapaya OAM: Nyuyuntja stoking of the fire, keeping the fire alive

Nyuyuntja – stoking of the fire, keeping the fire alive, celebrates the life and work of Tjunkaya Tapaya OAM (1947 – 2025). As a senior Anangu elder, and ‘deep culture woman’, Mrs Tapaya was one of the most accomplished artists associated with Australia’s longest running and highly acclaimed Aboriginal Art Centre, Ernabella Arts.

This exhibition showcases a selection of artworks made in the final years of Mrs Tapaya’s life, which highlight her confidence as a creator and storyteller, alongside the purpose and passion inherent to her practice. Nyuyuntja features works across ceramics, batik, painting and tjanpi weaving. Central to the exhibition is a significant new artwork honouring the Kunkarungkalpa Tjukurpa (Seven Sisters creation story). Combining Tjanpi weaving with ceramics, it has been finalised after Mrs Tapaya’s passing by her collaborators at Ernabella Arts and Tjanpi Desert Weavers.

Tjunkaya Tapaya: Nyuyuntja – stoking of the fire, keeping the fire alive is JamFactory’s ICON exhibition for 2026. Through Nyuyuntja, we honour Mrs Tapaya’s great contribution to Aṉangu culture and her incredible legacy — one that keeps the fire burning for Aṉangu — and generously shares it with audiences.

The exhibition will be launched at JamFactory Adelaide as part of SALA Festival before travelling to JamFactory Seppeltsfield. It is accompanied by a 124-page monograph with contributions by Anne Thompson and Adele Sliuzas.

Tjunkaya Tapaya: Nyuyuntja – stoking of the fire, keeping the fire alive is presented in partnership with Ernabella Arts and is supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

Exhibitors: Tjunkaya Tapaya OAM
And collaborators; Imiyari Adamson, Mukayi Baker Winton , Jennifer Connelly, Jacinta Heffernan, Atipalku Intjalki, Sylvana Kenny, Imuna Kenta, Jennifer Kulyuru, Daisybell Kulyuru, Michelle Lewis, Lynette Lewis, Madeline Marshall, Alison Milyika Carroll, Janice Stanley, Carlene Thompson, Marissa Thompson, Vivian Thompson, Janet Tjitayi, Katrina Tjitayi and Margaret Winton 

Tjunkaya Tapaya OAM: Nyuyuntja stoking of the fire, keeping the fire alive exhibition, Image: Connor Patterson

Jessica Murtagh: in the garden of eden, Honey

In the garden of Eden, honey presents a new body of blown glass works by Tarndanya-Adelaide artist Jessica Murtagh that celebrates the beauty, complexity and abundance of the natural world. Inspired by the flowing forms of the Art Nouveau movement and the rich decorative traditions of stained glass, the exhibition features large-scale rondels and sculptural works adorned with intricate botanical imagery.

Through engraving, sandblasting and subtle applications of precious metal leaf and glass enamel, Murtagh creates layered compositions that shift with changing light and perspective. Leaves, flowers and trailing vines emerge across transparent surfaces, inviting viewers to look closely and discover hidden details within the imagery. Drawing on a lifelong love of gardening and an appreciation for ornament and beauty, Murtagh explores the enduring appeal of botanical imagery and the ways light can animate and transform a surface. 

Jessica Murtagh, Golden Gingko III (detail), 2024, blown glass, 24k gold leaf, sandblasted and engraved, Photographer: Jesse Reagon