gallery curator - craft victoria
From 2012 - 2016 Pryor Curated the annual exhibition program and key exhibitions within the Craft gallery space - structuring exhibition themes and critical discourse. Programming, managing and curating over 50 exhibitions over three gallery spaces in this time.
Anna Varendorff, Things to Play With, 2013
(solo exhibition)
Photograph: Isobel Knowles
Deanne Gilson, Indigo's Dreaming, 2016 black Irish clay, red, white and yellow ochre from my country, hair, jute, feathers.
Hero Worship curated by Hannah Presley + Debbie Pryor. Artists: Deanne Gilson, Janet Beckhouse, Jasmine Targett, Jenny Crompton, Kate Just, Lisa Waup, Chris Sun-Woong Bang.
Photograph: Domas Rukus.
Lauren Simeoni and Melinda Young, Unnatural Tendencies, 2012
Photograph: Anita Beaney
Troy Emery, From Far Away exhibition installation, 2014.
(solo exhibition)
Photograph: Anita Beaney
Jasmine Targett, Crumbling Ecologies, 2013
(solo exhibition)
Photograph: Anita Beaney
Will Heathcote, 20° S 135° E, 2014
(solo exhibition)
Photograph: Anita Beaney
Esther Stewart, Geometric Colour, 2013
(solo exhibition)
Photograph: Anita Beaney
Holy Grace, Shelter, 2013
(solo exhibition)
Photograph: Anita Beaney
Sarah crowEST, Tumbleweed Methodology, 2013
(solo exhibition)
Photograph: Anita Beaney
project manager / curator - victorian craft award
The inaugural Victorian Craft Award took place in August 2015, to coincide with the annual Craft Cubed Festival - Australia's only festival dedicated to the handmade.
This biennial exhibition featured 114 artists across four venues, with prizes awarded in five categories; Ceramics Award, Lynne Kosky Jewellery Award, Emerging Jeweller Award, Excellence Award and Public Choice Award.
Roseanne Bartley, 2015 mixed media interactive/performative work
Mayoral Chain exhibition. Artists, Alexi Freeman and Tessa Blazey, Anna Davern, Anna Varendorff, Claire McArlde, Kate Rhode, Marcos Guzman, Maree Clarke, Pennie Jagiello and Roseanne Bartley.
Claire McArdle
(solo exhibition)
Photograph: Anita Beaney
Victorian Craft Award, installation view.
Photograph: Anita Beaney