Artist and glass sculptor Spike Deane is the winner of the 2025 Australian Fairy Tale Society Award.

This is the fourth straight year Deane’s contributions to the Society have been recognized by the AFTS community with award nominations. The citation says:

Spike is or has been –

• Creator of our beautiful Award sculpture
• Graphic designer of nearly all our conference documents, social media banners, and slides
• Website Wizard and the person who designed it to look beautiful, unique, and meaningful
• Executive Committee member in the early struggling years of the Society
• Ring Leader of the Canberra Fairy Tale Ring for many popular years
• Ezine Committee Member and contributor
• Anthology Committee member and contributor
• Founding Member #62
• Creator of Kathleen Jenning’s gift as Keynote presenter in our 2020 Magic Mirrors conference
• and the only (and best!) fairy tale glass artist in Australia

The Society takes great pleasure in recognising some of the achievements and qualities of Spike Deane who has contributed so much to our community and we hope that many of you will join us for the official Award ceremony.

Deane’s co-nominee was Alyssa Curtayne.

The award will be presented during the last session of the Society’s Sydney conference on June 15.

[Based on a press release.]