Contact me at janetta(at)iinet.net.au
Education
2012 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art), 1st Class Honours, RMIT University, Melbourne
2010-2011 Selected subjects, Arts Academy, University of Ballarat, Ballarat
2007 Bachelor of Arts (Ceramics) with Distinction, RMIT University, Melbourne
1984 Bachelor of Arts (Painting), RMIT University, Melbourne
Awards + Grants
2018 Winner, Klytie Pate Ceramic Award
2013 Australia Council Art Start Award
2012 Trudie Alfred Bequest National Ceramic Scholarship
RMIT University Ceramics Honours Award for Excellence
2011 Ceramics Victoria Award for Excellence
Stonehouse Award for Ceramic Excellence
2010 Brian McLennan Scholarship, Arts Academy, University of Ballarat
2008 Commendation Award, Envisage, Pat Emery Award, Ceramics Victoria
Commendation Award, Ceramics Victoria Sculptural Exhibition
2007 Northcote Pottery Ceramics Award for Excellence, RMIT University, Melbourne
Overseas Residencies
2023 Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan
2015 Fiskars Artist Collective, Fiskars, Finland
Australian Residencies
2025 School of Clay and Art, Melbourne
2014 South Hill Yellow House, New South Wales
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Shigaraki, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2021 Home Soil, Shopfront 342, Melbourne
2018 Into the woods, Mr Kitly, Melbourne
Group Exhibitions
2025 Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art 2025, Montsalvat Gallery, Melbourne
2024 Gosford Art Prize, Gosford Regional Gallery, New South Wales
North Queensland Ceramic Awards, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, Queensland
Melbourne Ikebana Container Award, Melbourne
2023 Great Outdoors, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
Small Works Art Prize, Brunswick St Gallery, Melbourne
2022 High Summer, Mr Kitly, Melbourne
2021 Every Artist Ever, Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton, Victoria
2020 Fishers Ghost Art Award, Sydney
North Queensland Ceramic Awards, Townsville, Queensland
Garland Magazine, The Gift of Time, online exhibition - https://garlandmag.com/loop/the-gift-of-time
2019 Bluestone Collection Exhibition: 10 years of collecting contemporary craft, Melbourne
2018 Klytie Pate Ceramic Award, Victoria
Landscape, 4 person group show, Narek Gallery, Bermagui, NSW
2017 Victorian Craft Award, Melbourne
Identity, Skepsi, Melbourne
Clunes Ceramic Award, Victoria
Glazed Turkeys and other treats from the Manningham Collection, Manningham Gallery, Melbourne
2016 New Primitives, Stockroom Gallery, Victoria
Distinctive, Skepsi@Montsalvat, Melbourne
The Cup Collaboration Exhibition, Melbourne
2015 KOTONA X, International Ceramics Exhibition, Studio Karin Widnass, Finland
Interplay, Australian Contemporary Ceramics, Skepsi, Melbourne
Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award, Melbourne
Victorian Craft Award, Melbourne
Clay for Nepal, International Fundraiser for Oxfam
Clunes Ceramic Award, Victoria
The Cup Collaboration, Melbourne
2014 Stanthorpe Art Festival, Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
The Course of Objects, Manly Art Gallery, Sydney
Quiet Conversations, Skepsi@Montsalvat, Melbourne
Back to the Table, Sturt Gallery, Sturt, NSW
Big Ceramics, Craft Vic, Melbourne
Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Melbourne
2013 One of 4 artists selected for Vitrify National Ceramic Award, Bett Gallery, Hobart
Expression of Self in Clay, Skepsi @ Monsalvat, Melbourne
Manningham Victorian Ceramic Award, Melbourne
Essentials for the Domestic Goddess Revisited, Whiteorse Artspace, Melbourne
RMIT Honours Endowment Travelling Scholarship Exhibition, Melbourne
2012 28th Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award, Queensland
Engaging Form, Skepsi @Monsalvat,, Melbourne
National Graduates Show, Australian Ceramics Triennale, Adelaide
Flanagan Art Prize, Ballarat
Benchmark, Post Office Gallery, University of Ballarat, Ballarat
As Above, So Below, Graduate Exhibition, RMIT Object Based Practice, Melbourne
2011 Energy, early career ceramicists, Skepsi @ Malvern, Melbourne
Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award, Melbourne
Toyota CSG Emerging Artist Award
Mary and Lou Senini Student Art Award, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin
Stonehouse Gallery, Warrandyte
Benchmark, Post Office Gallery, University of Ballarat
The Eye, Graduate Exhibition, Mining Exchange, University of Ballarat
2010 UB Ceramics, Post Office Gallery, Ballarat
2009 Perspective, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2008 Envisage, Pat Emery Award, Melbourne
In the Making, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
Land and Water: Ceramics Victoria Sculptural Exhibition, Herring Island, Melbourne
2007 Mary and Lou Senini Student Art Award, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin
Pat Emery Award, Paynter Gallery, Bendigo
RMIT Graduate Show, Skepsi Gallery, Melbourne
RMIT School of Art Faculty Gallery Ceramics Exhibition
Board roles
2022-2019 Board Director, The Australian Ceramics Association
Collections
Artist in Residence Collection, Fiskars, Finland
Bluestone Collection of Contemporary Craft, Australia
City of Manningham Art Collection, Victoria
Private Collections Australia and America
Commissions
2019 Koskela Design Store, Sydney
Tableware commission, Victoria Lynn
2018 Koskela Design Store, Sydney
2016 Commission, Coffee Roasters, Sensory Lab
Presentations / Invited speaker
2025 Guest artist talk, School of Clay and Art, Melbourne
2021 Guest presenter and coordinator for 4 part online series hosted by The Australian Ceramics Association
2018 Guest presenter and panelist on artist residencies, The Australian Ceramics Association
2015 Artist talk, Fiskars Artist in Residence, Finland
2011 Artist talk, Energy, Early Career Ceramicists, Skepsi@Malvern
Publications
2018 Feature article, Finding Places by Roisin O'Dwyer, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, 57#2, p.28-32
Landscape at Narek Gallery shows beauty that lies in the land, Albert McKnight, Bega District News, 15
November
2016 Ceramic Matchmaking by Janetta Kerr-Grant, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, 55#3, p.82-83
Interplay: review by Morag Fraser, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, 55#1,p.32-38
2015 Feature: Painterly Ceramics, InsideOut Magazine, Dec 2015
2014 Quiet Conversations: Exceptional Australian Ceramics, Skepsi@Montsalvat, Anna Maas, p.33
A dialogue about tableware, Journal of Australian Ceramics, 53#2, p.56-58
2013 Expressions of Self: Australian Ceramics Excellence, Skepsi@Montsalvat, Anna Maas, p.28
2012 Feature, The tabletop’s chequered past, profile, Megan Backhouse, Saturday Extra, The Age, July 28
Engaging Form, Exemplary Australian Ceramics, Skepsi@Montsalvat, Anna Maas, p.24
Trudie Alfred Bequest Scholarships, Journal of Australian Ceramics, 51#1, p.6
National Education Pictorial Survey, Journal of Australian Ceramics, 51#2, p.67
Work featured in Inside Out Magazine (Jan), House and Garden (May), Country Style (Aug)
2011 MastercChef cookbook, Two Asian Kitchens, Adam Liaw, Random House, Sydney
In the Kitchen with Adam Liaw, Journal of Australian Ceramics, July
Flat Out, Journal of Australian Ceramics, 50#2, p.48
Sweet as Honey, Sunday Life, Sunday Age, July31
Nudeln Selbst Gemacht. Cornelia Schinhar, lGraefe und Unzer, Germany
2010 With Plate Expectations, Epicure, The Age, November 16
My tableware is also featured in: Gourmet Traveller, Belle, InsideOut, Country Style, Home Beautiful
Professional Memberships
Member, The Australian Ceramics Association
Member, National Association for the Visual Arts
Member, Craft Victoria