Ruby Victoria Pilven
Education
2003-2008 Ballarat High School (Ballarat)
2009-2013 Double Degree of Bachelor of Visual Arts/Bachelor of Business (Monash University, Caulfield)
2016-2017 Master of Teaching (Secondary) (Federation University, Ballarat)
Exhibitions
2008 VCE TOP ARTS, National Gallery of Victoria
2008 Next Generation exhibition, Art Gallery of Ballarat
2008 The Flanagan Art Prize, Ballarat
2009 The Flanagan Art Prize, Ballarat
2010 The Flanagan Art Prize, Ballarat
2010 Space 22 joint Exhibition, Ballarat
2011 Space 22 joint Exhibition, Ballarat
2010 “An intimate space for art from near and far”, Made Gallery, Daylesford
2010 Clunes Ceramic Award Exhibition, Clunes
2010 “Over the Wall”, Monash University, Prato, Italy
2010 “Print, Paper and Porcelain Exhibition”, Made Gallery, Daylesford
2011 Odyssey Exhibition, Space 22, Ballarat
2011 Clunes Ceramic Award, Clunes
2011 Flanagan Art Exhibition, Ballarat
2011 Monash University Graduation Exhibition, Caulfield
2012 Entry 12 Exhibition Brunswick Arts, Brunswick
2012 “Threshold Projects”, Screen Space, Melbourne
2012 “Threshold Projects”, Wallflower Photomedia Gallery, Mildura
2013 “Community & Context”, MADA Gallery, Melbourne, Caulfield
2013 Clunes Ceramic Award, Clunes
2013 Ceramics Victoria, Just Because, Melbourne
2014 Still Firing at 45, Fresh Clay, Melbourne
2015 Stepping Up, Canberra
2015 Northcote Pottery SMALLpieces window display artist, Melbourne
2015 Clunes Ceramic Award, Clunes
2016 Clay - book launch and exhibition, Sydney
2017 Clunes Ceramic Award, Clunes
2018 Golden Plains, joint exhibition with Peter Pilven at Post office Art Gallery, Ballarat
2019 Skepsi Exhibition at Yarra Valley estate as part of Ceramic Conference Victoria
2019 Agendo Art Prize (hosted by Camberwell Grammar School)
2020 The Golden Pantomime, joint exhibition with Madeleine Cruise at the Art Gallery of Ballarat
2020 Encounters, Skepsi, Box Hill
2021 eARTH, St Arnaud Railway Station Gallery, St Arnaud
2021 Knick-knacks, Cube8r Gallery, Fitzroy
2022 A New Generation, Gallery J on Lincoln, SA
2022 Nice Mug, group exhibition, Brunswick street gallery
2023 The Great Takeaway, Craft Lab 2023, Ballarat
2023 Bowie BB, group exhibition, Honey bones Gallery, Melbourne
Awards
2007 Studio Art Acquisition prize
2007 Awarded Scholarship from Ladies Art Association
2008 Awarded “Arts and Culture Award” in New Generation exhibition
2011 Emerging Artist Award – Ceramic Clunes Exhibition
2011 Rossdale Paper Award
2019 Agendo Art Prize (first prize winner recipient of $10,000)
Publications
2008 Artwork displayed on the front cover of the VCE and VCAL administrative handbook
2011 The Australian Ceramics Journal edition 51 April
2011 Monash University Grad Show Exhibition catalogue
2014 1000 Beads (International)
2014 Ceramics Victoria edition
2016 Clay Contemporary Ceramic Artisans by Amber Cresswell Bell
2022 Pottery Making Illustrated, Creating Colouful Wrap Vases, August 16, 2021.
Memberships
2013 – present The Australian Ceramics Association
Collaborations
2015 Radical yes shoes
2015 National Gallery of Victoria - NGV Design store. Masterpieces from the Hermitage: The Legacy of Catherine the Great
2015- 2018 Anthropologie (USA)