A modern Australian enamel brooch by Allan Heywood
Price range: Sold
A slightly unusual modern addition to the Collection but such is the quality of the enameller and enamelling, I wanted to share this item. This butterfly brooch is fully marked to the reverse for Allan Heywood, 1992. Allan Heywood (1946- 2010) was one of Australia’s, indeed the world’s, great enamellers and a fuller biography I have extracted from the internet is in “additional information” below.
This brooch is made of enamel and silver on copper, with a pinned clasp to the reverse. Inscribed in the counter enamel is Heywood’s name date and location, Skipton, Victoria, Australia.
The brooch is in perfect condition and a good size.
See this link for more information on Allan Heywood and his work.
Maker: Allan Heywood
Designer: Allan Heywood
Date : 1992
Marks: Inscribed to reverse
Material: Copper, silver, enamel
Condition: Excellent
Size: 4.5 cm tall, 4 cm wide
Weight: NM
Additional Information
Allan B. Heywood was born in 1946 in Melbourne Australia, and he lived for over 20 years in Skipton Victoria, Australia. A full-time
enameller he worked chiefly in cloisonne and related techniques. Allan Heywood’s work his been included in such Exhibitions as the
International Exhibition of Enamelling Art, Tokyo JAPAN; International Exhibition of Miniature Art, Toronto CANADA; Guild of
Craft Enamellers ENGLAND; Pacific Enamelling Symposium USA; “Focus on Fire” USA; “Kunstverein Coburg” Germany; And numerous Australian exhibitions including the Alice Craft Award, C.C.N.T., National Enamel Exhibition, Sydney; National Craft Acquisition Award,
C.C.N.T, Wildlife Art Society of Australasia; and the Australian Society of Miniature Art Among others.
Heywood was the recipient of many Awards, including Grand Prize Winner, Sixth International Exhibition of Miniature Art; 2nd
Prize Third International Exhibition of Miniature Art Toronto Canada; Joint Winner P. H. Wolfe Cloisonne Cup Guild of Craft
Enamellers England; Winner of the Chairman’s Rose Bowl for the Outstanding Exhibit Guild of Craft Enamellers England; 1st prize,
open enamelling Special Prize; best metalwork exhibit Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria, Australia; Inaugural C.A.S.C.A.W.P. award for cultural achievement in the visual arts Shire of Hampden Australia; 1st prize decorated metalwork, enamel Ian McIntyre Memorial Award Australian Natives Association Award.
Several of Allan Heywood’s works reside in the collection of the Museums & Art Galleries of Australia’s Northern Territory including “Waratah
Plate” Alice Craft Acquisition, and “The Miraculous Ascension of Clianthus Formosus” National Craft Acquisition Award, Darwin. And
additional works reside in collections in Australia, Bulgaria, West Germany, Spain, France, Italy, England, The Netherlands, Scotland,
South Africa, the U.S.A., Japan, Israel and Canada.
| Period | Modern |
|---|---|
| Material | Silver |