Collections / Awards

Solomon started her career as a sculptor in London. She graduated from Chelsea College of Art and Design with an Honours Degree specialising in sculpture in 1995. Her first UK exhibitions were in ‘Freedom Space’ in Soho, Brixton, Chelsea and ‘Canezero Park’, Wimbledon. Solomon exhibited Transmutation’ in Australia’s Sculpture by the Sea’ 2000 show. The judges awarded her the Young Sculptors Award with an Honourable Mention. This piece was greatly admired by Mr John Fairfax, who invited Solomon to come and look at his private residence and see if there was an appropriate location for ‘Transmutation within his gardens. The work was sold to Fairfax and installed later that year.
A year later Solomon’s work reached a new level. Again exhibiting in the Australian Sculpture by the Sea. The piece, ‘Sooth, was perhaps one of the most popular pieces. The site specific sculpture was awarded the Art Gallery of New South Wales Directors Choice’ chosen by Edmund Capon.
Sooth’ was published in many papers and magazines and was invited to be re-exhibited in The Art of Flowers Sydney, and Sculpture from the Sea travelling exhibition, and was finally placed on the catalogue front cover of Sculpture by the Sea 2002. Sooth was sold to two distinguished art collectors in Sydney Australia - Kim Hardy & Irene Miller - and was installed in their private residence by the sea in Pearl Beach in early 2003.

In 2002 Solomon was accepted for The Woollahra Sculpture Prize, Sydney. This is a well respected indoor sculpture exhibition with thirty finalists selected from over two hundred and fifty applicants. Solomon was awarded sculpture prize finalist for the work Intwosides.
In 2003 Solomon was awarded a place at the Art Omi artist residency in Ghent, New York. She produced three major works Isis, Osiris’ and Earthbound. Osiris’ was sold, becoming part of the private collection of Harry Newton. Earthbound was donated to the extensive Art Omi collection, to become part of their ongoing on-site sculpture park.
On Solomons return to Australia in 2003 the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) gave her the NSW Artists Marketing Scheme grant to help develop an online portfolio of work and produce this web site.

Solomon was a judge on the 2009 sculpture panel for the New York Foundation for the Arts Sculpture Fellowship awards. The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) was founded in 1971 to empower artists at critical stages in their creative lives. In 2009, 134 NYFA Fellows were chosen from among over 3,600 applicants in eight categories including Crafts, Digital/Electronic Arts, Film, Interdisciplinary Work, Nonfiction Literature, Poetry, Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts, and Sculpture. The Fellows were selected by judging panels, which were assembled with representatives from each artistic discipline. NYFA's Artists' Fellowships are financed by the New York State Council on the Arts as well as private foundations.







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