REPRESENTED IN THE FOLLOWING COLLECTIONS

  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria

  • Collection of the Western Australian Institute (Curtain University) W.A.

  • Melbourne State College Collection (University of Melbourne)

  • Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Collection (RMIT University) Melbourne

  • Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria

  • Australia Council Collection

  • Victorian State Crafts Collection (now Regional Gallery, Hamilton, Victoria)

  • Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia

  • Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania

  • Western Australian Art Gallery, Perth, Western Australia

  • Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland

  • Australian National Gallery, Canberra, ACT

  • Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney, New South Wales

  • Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Victoria

  • Private and Institutional Collections in Australia, U.S.A., Canada, Japan and New Zealand

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1976 “Gippsland Images”, Regional Gallery, Sale
1976 “Landscape Images”, Jam Factory Gallery, S.A.
1977 Blackfriars Gallery, Sydney (solo)
1978 Blackfriars Gallery, Sydney. (solo)


AWARDS DISTINCTIONS AND GRANTS

1966 and 1967 RMIT Herwitz Prize for Jewellery Design, RMIT

1975 Australia Council Workshop Grant, Jewellery and Silversmithing

1976 Travel grant to visit Universities in USA, Canada and UK

1978 Australia /Japan Travel Grant to attend World Crafts Conference, Kyoto, Japan

1981 Post Graduate Award Scholarship

1987 Travel Grant UK and Europe

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The Herwitz Award for Jewellery 1969

“Award-winning graduates from RMIT in 1969 … Norman Creighton showing his hollow silver necklace. Creighton was actively involved in the radical Art/Craft Teachers Association of Victoria and the developing Crafts Councils throughout the seventies and in art education administration in the 1980s.” (Age 11 July 1969 quoted within “The Craft Movement in Australia: A History”, pp 182 ,by Grace Cochrane)


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1968 Graduate Show RMIT
1968 Industrial Design Council
1974 “3+1”, Georges Gallery, Melbourne. (group)
1974 “3+1”, Lord of the Rings, Sydney. (group)
1975 Crafts Alive 75, Craft Victoria, (selected), Myer, and 26 Vic. towns.
1975 Craft Australia, Canberra. (selected)
1975 “Australian  Jewellery”, Australia Council. (invited)
1975 “Small Images and New Concepts”, Fremantle Arts Centre, W.A. (invited)
1975 “Constructed Images”, Realities Gallery, Melbourne. (group)
1976 “Metals Invitational”, Gryphon Gallery, Melbourne State College
1976 “Metals Invitational”, Mornington Regional Gallery.
1977 Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne (group)
1977 Australian Crafts, Australia Council (travelling)
1978 “Clay:Silver”, Sale Regional Art Centre.
1978 Arts Victoria: Crafts.
1978 Western Australian Institute Invitational
1979 Invitation Craft, Jam Factory Gallery S.A.
1979 Tokyo International Jewellery Invitational, Japan (invited)
1980 Hastings Regional Art Centre, N.Z. (invited)
1980 Invited Gippsland Craftsmen, Sale Regional Art Centre.
1981 Batman Festival Art Prize, Launceston (invited)
1981 “Australian Crafts 1981”, Meat Market Crafts Centre, Melbourne.
1982 Australian Seen, Jam Factory Gallery, S.A. (invited)
1982 Crafts Council of Australia Gallery, Sydney (invited)
1982 “Games”, Jam Factory Gallery, S.A. (invited)
1982 “Collaboration: Silver and ?”, Beaver Gallery, Canberra
1982 Survey of Contemporary Australian Crafts, Queensland. Art Gallery
1982 Australian Silver, National Gallery of Victoria
1982 International Jewellery Invitational, Tokyo, Japan (invited)
1983 12 Australian Craftsmen, N.S.W. House, London.
1987 Eye Spy, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1988 Australian Decorative Arts, ANG, Canberra
1988 October Show, Latrobe Valley Art Centre, Morwell
1989 Eye Spy, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1990 Contemporary Australian Crafts, Art Gallery of Western Australia
2005 Tasmanian Craft Fair and Silver Exhibition


PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Victorian Society for Education through Craft. (Period as Chair)
Art Craft Teachers Association. (Period as President)
Committee, Crafts Council of Victoria. (Period as President)
Member, (Victorian Delegate) Crafts Council of Australia
Member, Crafts Board, Education Committee
Member, Arts Victoria (Crafts) 1978
Member, Victorian Council for the Arts
Former Board Director, Eastern Victorian Group Training (EVGT)
Former Management  Board Member, Gippsland East Local Learning and Employment Network
Former Board of Management Member, Lakes Entrance and Community Health Centre. (Ministerial Appointment)
Former Board Member (1995-1999), Heyfield Bush Nursing Hospital
Former Gippsland Campus representative on the Advisory Committee of the Monash University Centre for Rural Health, Latrobe Hospital (1997-1999)
Former Board Member, State Meat Market Craft Centre, Melbourne
Former Member of the Statutory Ministerial Advisory Committee, The Victorian Council for the Arts.
Qualified assessment member of the Australian Branch of ECIS (European Council of International Schools)

Professional exhibiting artist/designer/sculptor 1974-1990
Represented in public and private collections in Victoria and Australia

Co-owner/Director, Artworks Gallery and Studio, Nungurner, Victoria 1990-1997