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James Renwick Alliance, US: Collected works

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"It was always a joy to meet with the collectors from the Renwick Alliance and to share their enormous knowledge about the arts and crafts". Andrea Hylands

Andrea Hylands

March 18, 2025
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This story is part of a series that provides students and collectors an image of a work by Andrea Hylands in the collection of museums or private collectors around the world.

Andrea Hylands’ sculptural ceramic works have been acquired by American collectors for many years and to 2010 when Andrea ceased making physical objects following the loss of her studio and all its contents along with her very old and beautiful home in Victoria that year. An international home to Peter and Andrea since the 1970s. Members of the James Renwick Alliance will remember their visit to the house and studio.

Among these collectors were members of the James Renwick Alliance whose enthusiasm for collecting we hold dear.

Private collection, New York

The James Renwick Alliance is a skilled and knowledgeable group of  American art enthusiasts, collectors, artists, educators, students and art professionals who share a passion for contemporary American craft. This generosity was also extended by members of the James Renwick Alliance through their collecting of Andrea Hylands work.

The James Renwick Alliance are committed to advancing scholarship, education and public appreciation of craft art as well as promoting individual achievements of excellence and innovation in the craft field.  The Alliance has provided more than $3 million for acquisitions, exhibitions, public programs, and publications to Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery – The USA’s showcase of contemporary American craft.

Press release from the Smithsonian Institute (part):

"Renwick Gallery (re)opens November 13, 2015 after major renovation of its national historic landmark building The Renwick Gallery, home to the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s craft and decorative arts program. The Renwick Gallery will open to the public following a comprehensive two-year renovation. The museum, located across from the White House at the corner of 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. in downtown Washington, D.C. will open with an updated interior aesthetic, carefully restored historic features and significantly upgraded, state-of-the-art infrastructure".

Gallery extension, one of three rooms to Andrea's house in Victoria. The original building was constructed in the 1850s gold rush period, early for this part of Australia. There were other buildings on this historic site and its extensive lands full of the nature of Australia
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