{"id":2501,"date":"2025-06-11T09:59:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T23:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wardill.com\/?p=2501"},"modified":"2025-06-11T09:59:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T23:59:35","slug":"oam-for-robert-baines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wardill.com\/?p=2501","title":{"rendered":"OAM for Robert Baines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Congratulations to Emeritus Professor Robert Baines for his Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the General Division in the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours List.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert was honoured for his service to the creative arts, particularly as a jeweller, and to education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Arts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeweller and Artist Goldsmith, over 50 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Researcher, archaeometallurgy and Bronze Age gold works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exhibitions include \u2018Fake News and True Love: Fourteen Stories by Robert Baines\u2019,  Museum of Arts and Design, New York, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exhibitor, since 1977.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RMIT University, School of Art<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emeritus Professor, Design and Social Context, current.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former Professor, Art, Gold and Silversmithing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Recognition include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senior Research Fellowship, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (x4).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Designated Klassiker der Moderne (Modern Classic, Schmuck, Munich Jewellery Week, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft, Australian Design Centre, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friedrich Becker Prize, Germany, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bayerischer State Prize, Germany, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cicely and Colin Rigg Craft Award, National Gallery of Victoria, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Churchill Fellowship Study, 1979.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

@robert__baines <\/p>\n\n\n\n

@rmit_gold_and_silversmithing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photography by @joannemanaritiphotography<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Baines & Kathryn 1995, RMIT School of Art, Melbourne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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