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w: cherieplatenglassart.com

i: @cherieplatenglassart

fb: Cherie Platen Glass Art

Artist Statement

My inspiration is through my travels, where I seek out the craftsmen and artists in the “works of old glass masters”. More and more I am drawn to the fine and fragile work found in the Glass Museums of Italy, Germany and Russia and the techniques employed to achieve these intensely beautiful gifts presented to the world through centuries past.

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w: louisgrantcreative.com

i: @louisgrantcreative

Artist Statement:

Louis Grant is an emerging artist whose practice explores the paradox of the queer self, searching for an authentic queer voice between the exaggerated ‘performance of self’ and the suppression of ‘true self’. Grant’s work presents a deconstruction of process, not of personality. It focuses on methods of unbecoming, unmaking and undoing through the ‘queer art of failure’ to strip back the performance of self to find an authentic, raw and nuanced voice. Through this deconstruction of process, the artist begins to create a material voice that, much like his queer self, is outside the norm.
Grants 2019 graduating body of work, played with the viewers’ assumptions of glass as a material in our built environment. The work takes the form of small scale, rectangular pastel coloured glass slabs, the layering of colours creating compositions that push and pull. The distilled colour and exposed ‘flaws’ of the slabs reveal subtle deviations in precision. Nominally the slabs appear identical, but they are all hand-made, focused around touch, the tactility of surface that results from different processes and the subtle narrative sensibility that comes from this. The inherent idiosyncrasies guide the viewer to an awareness of the idiosyncrasies inherent within themselves.

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w: ritakellaway.com

i: @rita_kellaway

Artist Statement:

Inspired by ancient mountain and rock formations, I aim to utilise the materiality of glass to evoke sensations of wonder in the representation of geological forms and imagery.
Through kiln-forming and casting, I explore the opportunities afforded by manipulating coloured powdered glass, in combination with compatible sheet glass, to create both organic and controlled marks that simulate rock forming processes. I focus on harnessing the colour reactions that occur between sulphur-based glass and lead and copper-based glass to provide additional dimension and depth.

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i: @glassand_

Artist Statement:

I have been lampworking with soft glass for a number of years, expanding my practice into blowing soft glass on a mini blowpipe over the last two years. I also work with borosilicate tubing to blow glass forms and vessels.

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i: @markpenneyglassartist

fb: Mark Penney - Glass Artist

Artist Statement:

Using facial expression to explore different narratives within sculptural objects has been a part of my practice for the past few years. Each work has its own hidden story which is in some way expressed at least in part by the face assigned to it. I am fascinated with the idea that glass can mimic other materials in look and texture and this also lends itself to the story i am trying to express in the sculptures.

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w: jessicamurtagh.com.au

i: @vintagemurtagh

Artist Statement:

I am an Australian artist based in Adelaide, South Australia. Studying at the University of South Australia, I am currently completing a Master of Design (Contemporary art) with a primary focus in blown glass.
With a background in graphic design, many of my works incorporate complex and detailed illustrations and patterns combined with glass blowing techniques such as Swedish overlays and cameo glass. My process begins with a digitally drawn illustration which I transfer onto glass. The design is then sandblasted and engraved.
My current practice incorporates three main themes: the natural world, pattern work, and pieces with a narrative. A particular focus of my work is nature, often inspired by botany but increasingly on the more dramatic events in nature driven by climate change. My narrative work is pre¬dominantly in cameo style, drawing inspiration from historical artefacts from ancient Athens but reflecting our contemporary, technologically driven lives.

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i: @dan.denardis

Artist Statement:

I am a young emerging Adelaide-based artist whose work is continually inspired by the otherworldly tales of wonder I grew up listening to during my childhood, and the magic I continually find in my everyday life. Strange creatures, swirling combinations of colour, an obsession with texture - a desire to express a glimpse into a strange world beyond our own that surpasses the mundane façade of the ordinary. I create with the aim to inspire and create a sense of intrigue for the viewer – to make something people want to get up close to and stare at. The unique characters I create exist as an extension of myself and allow me to express what exists within, and hopefully act as a point of question for those who view it.

My current body of work is comprised of a series of sculpted glass heads - each unique in its appearance and surrounded by myth and magic. When they come to life in the hotshop without any pre-planning, they emerge with their own personalities, stories, legends - each appearing "human but not quite", and leaving the pondering viewer wondering whether the figure before them is demon, deity, or something not of this world.

i: @blissfully_trapsuutjie

Artist Statement:

Bermi is currently doing her Honours at ANU. She examines the relationship between Pattern, Digital Technology and Glass. Her work reveals the existing relationship between technology, material and nature, by combining Pattern, Glass and Digital Technology. She developed a methodology that designs a structure from geometric patterns and lattices. The Glass Sculpture she creates grew a single shape into an aesthetically pleasing and visually complex structure. She uses colour to enhance the simple Pattern that creates the complex forms of her glass sculptures. The glass pieces are cut using an abrasive waterjet cutter. They interlock using a system of notches and follow a strict pattern, that has the potential to continue growing, as Bermi adds more glass components to them.

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i: @nick.doran.adams

Artist Statement:

One of my earliest memories are the early 8-bit visuals found in computer gaming consoles such as Nintendo Gameboy and playing games like Super Mario Land and Pokémon. The simplicity of these early 8-bit visuals fascinated me and continues to do so. Characters and objects from these games have a unique aesthetic due to the limitation of processing power of the machines they were run on.
There were two principle paradigms for rendering images onto a screen, raster and vector. I base my works using imagery generated through raster rendering as it is the more familiar method for drawing onto a screen; an electron rapidly sweeps every line in sequence forming a gridded image, and line by line a picture is assembled.
I create these images using a gridded format, cutting long strips of coloured sheet glass, stacking them into a square mould. This method is reminiscent of the way these images were originally created, layer by layer, pixel by pixel. It is a way of merging recent gaming technology using glass as the material to create a contemporary piece of art. The process of using multiple glass tiles of a single image and duplicating that image to construct a larger work draws parallels with the style of gaming I reference known as Tile-Based Video Games.
I can reconstruct iconic characters from these original games then generate patterns using these tiles to create artworks that either reference the game itself, or the screen in which they are played on.
In my most recent works I use egg and sphere shapes. While the sphere references shapes found in these early games. The eggs referencing the idea of ‘Easter Eggs’, a term used when referencing something while ‘hiding’ it in plain sight. By creating physical eggs covered in images I am asking the viewer to study the surface and discover the pop-cultural imagery.

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i: @vickysmallart

Artist Statement:

Vicky Small has lived in the south-west of Western Australia for 10 years. She works in warm glass from a purpose-built studio in her home and is particularly drawn to using glass powder and fritt. Her work focuses on the environment and the effects of climate change and she is interested in how complex scientific messages can be conveyed through art. The colours, patterns and textures of the pristine environment of the south-west provides inspiration for her sculptural and functional works. Vicky holds a Bachelor of Art (Fine Art and Visual Culture) from Curtin University and has continued to study under international artists including Aesa Bjork, Amanda Simmons, Alicia Lomne and Ann Petters.

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w: baileydonovanglass.com

i: baileydonovanglass

Artist Statement:

Adelaide-based emerging artist, Bailey Donovan, works predominantly in blown and cast glass. Currently furthering his study of visual arts at the University of South Australia, Bailey aims to deepen his understanding of glass and break the limits of the material. Under the tutelage and guidance of Gabriella Bisetto, Bailey has studied glass abroad in Venice, as well as under various glass artists at the Corning Museum of Glass and the world-renowned JamFactory. By continuing to work as a production-based artist and a student at the University of South Australia, Bailey combines the ideas of design and functionality with the socio-cultural issues that surround him to create powerful design-based works.

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