Dr Marian Hosking is an educator, jeweller and silversmith. With the benefit of intensive practice she has developed a personal vocabulary in her work to express a specific vision and interpretation of the qualities of Australian light and landscape in the detail of botanical specimens. She uses the drill and jeweller's saw together with lost wax castings and favours the soft white sheen of silver, with its evasive highlights and shifting shadows.
She has held 16 solo exhibitions in Australia, and exhibited in Japan, Korea, India, Germany, The Netherlands, Canada, the UK and USA.
She has been an educator in her field for over thirty years, including at Monash University. She received her PhD in 2009 from Monash University, an MA and Diploma of Art: Gold and Silversmithing in 1970 from RMIT. She is committed to the promotion of and dialogue around contemporary jewellery and contemporary art practice.