Cedar Prest

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Cedar Prest
Born1940  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
OccupationGlass artist  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Awards
  • Member of the Order of Australia (AM AUST DAY 1987. FOR SERVICE TO THE ART OF STAINED GLASS AND TO THE COMMUNITY PARTICULARLY YOUTH, Ms Cedar PREST, 1987)  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Website http://www.cedarprest.com.au/   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Cedar Prest AO is an Australian stained glass artist based in Maslin Beach, South Australia.

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Early life and education

She has a B.A. and Dip.Ed. from the University of Melbourne (1961) and also studied drawing at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School at night, then completed a post diploma in stained glass at Hornsey College of Art, London (1966). She received an Australia Council grant to study the contemporary architectural glass masters in Germany (1975) from which came a community glass project at Parks Community Centre in 1979–80.[ citation needed ]

Further study was undertaken in 2002–2003 on a Churchill Fellowship at the University of Creation Spirituality in Oakland, California. She then trained as a labyrinth facilitator at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, 2002 with a follow-up workshop in Chartres Cathedral in 2004.[ citation needed ]

Honours

Prest was made a member in the General Division of the Order of Australia in 1987 for service to the art of stained glass and to the community particularly youth. [1]

Works

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