Christel MORTIER
FRANCE
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My works beginings were nature and time. My "beach rocks" are molded with paper, and assembled one to another to form a circle, for example.
"This paper is special because it keeps it's form, an also keeps it's whiteness. I love paper,it can be stapled, transformed, molded; I love it's fragile side.
This paper is a special paper used normally to protect artwork during tranportation."
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Christine CATHIE
NOUVELLE ZELANDE
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Born in Wellington, New Zealand, Christine Cathie trained as a graphic artist and subsequently developed a highly successful career in graphic design.
Her new pieces ASCEND continue to play with glass's capacity to hold it's form across a curve. From a solid grounded base that rises to a slender, curving apex, the color and luminosity of the glass allows the viewer to suggest their own interpretation of the form.
Her WING is softly curved on one side, gently tapering to a curved feathered edge on the other, and delicately balanced to catch the light from all angles.
Cathie's distinctive work has been exhibited widely in New Zealand and Australia. She has been a finalist in the prestigious Australian Ranamok glass prize for three consecutive years since 2002.
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CURTISS BROCK
USA
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The way light and glass interact with one another has always interested me, therefore many of my pieces change color or cast beautiful shadows when placed in direct light. I try to work directly with the interaction between light and manipulated glass that causes shadows as beautiful forms themselves.
In the Stone Vessel series I try to create a tranquil mood through simplicity while still building tension. The exterior of the glass forms resembles stone, and the tension is created by placing saw cuts in the sides and shearing off the tops, revealing the colors and layers of the glass body. The cuts are carefully placed according to the shadows of light they cast. The cuts also seem like scars left by the hotworking and coldworking processes.... The real purpose of these pieces is visual stimulus and experience.
The Stone Groupings series is focused more on natural forms and their interdependency. My aim is not to reproduce nature, but to draw from the colors, textures and forms of nature. In these pieces I use handblown opalescent glass to create work that looks like solid stones. When light passes through them, they emit a unexpected glow that reveals their transparency.
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Deborah CHARITY
ENGLAND
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« My work experience as an interior Designer has heavily influenced the emphasis on composition in my paintings - it's contents, colour and space between objects.
My painting technique is achieved with a loose brush and a varying weight of paint, together with the beautiful fluidity of the paint used.
Describing my work as "investigative energy", my focus is on an alive movement with the atmosphere and mood that a painting evokes. I use references from photographs taken of my garden in the summer to trigger the shape and textures that eventually achieve the composition I commit to the canvas. The background medium (pure colour pigment paint) enables a subtle colour transition throughout the day's changing light.
The light reflecting qualities of the Chinese lacquer, together with a laying technique creates a tactile three dimensional effect on the painting."
Deborah Charity lives in Edenbridge, England. She studied commercial graphics (1992 at South Cheshire College, Cheshire, U.K.) and landscape design and amenity horticulture (1994 at Reaseheath College of Agriculture, Cheshire, U.K.). During this time, she won an important award for a commercial garden project.
Deborah has exhibited extensively in England including a permanent collection displayed at her home studio in Kent.
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Eva VLASAKOVA
CZECH REPLUBLIC
Jenny SMITH
NOUVELLE-ZEALANDE
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Textures, folds and colors of silk translated into glass to evoke the textures and patterns in our environment, to convey the timeless nature of these ever-recurring patterns and the sense of inevitability they evoke.
Jenny has participated in many exhibitions throughout New Zealand, and is rapidly gaining an internetional reputation, with exhibitions in several Australian cities, and in the USA. In her "Silk Road: Patterns of Time" series, jenny developes geometric shpes with abstract patterns which are interpreted in different ways by the viewer, from refracted, achieving a stunning effect.
In 2005, Jenny was among a small number of New Zealand artists selected as finalists in the prestigious Ranamok Glass Prize in Australia.
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Jonathon MCMILLAN
USA
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« Growth » is a series of sculptural works that respond to the intuitive process of coil building with clay and primitive tools. I use visual sources like architecture, plant life and the human body (to name just a few) to create works with abstract references. These forms begin with no planning, and literally grow in layers from the bottom up. The time between each layer necessary for structural integrity allows for consideration and decision-making that respond directly to the work as it is made.
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Julie DENTON
UK/SUISSE
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Currently Julie Anne is completing her PhD in glass techniques and their conceptual applications, from a
distance at the National Glass Centre in conjunction with Durham University. Her bespoke design
items are inspired by the European aesthetic concerning form and function. The impact of her work is felt
across Europe and further afield.
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Marianne SPOTTSWOOD
USA
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La conjugaison du verre et du métal est, me semble t'il, l'achèvement d'un équilibre "Yin- Yang" dans lequel le verre jouerais le rôle féminin. Le métal introduit une certaine tension et semble contrôler la pièce mais jamais totalement; le verre lutte en permanence.
Diplômée des Beaux-Arts, (Académie Julian et Regent ST. Polytechnique à Londres) Marianne Spottswood a dirigé sa propre maison de couture à NewYork pendant une dizaine d'années en y associant une équipe française.
Au début des années 80, elle découvre l'Art du Verre à la célèbre Pilchuck Glass School de Seattle au contacts de grands maitres internationaux du verre contemporain: Toots Zinsky, Klaus Mojë, Paul Marioni, Clifford Rainey, Dana Zamecnikova et Marian Karel, parmi d'autres.
A la même époque elle rejoint le Pratt Institute de NY ou elle se familiarise avec le design. Elle crée des objets et du mobilier.
Elle poursuite ses recherches sur le verre à l'Urban Glass pendant une dizaine d'années. Ces passages successifs dans les meilleurs institutions aux États-Unis lui ont permis d'acquérir et d'exprimer des capacités de création dans ses sculptures contemporains en verre.
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Marianne SPOTTSWOOD GOBBLETS
FRANCE
Mireille MINGARELLI
FRANCE
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Mireille MINGARELLI vit et travaille à Paris. Elle est diplômée de l'Ecole des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg en 1984 ou elle apprend la céramique et ses techniques. Depuis peu, elle se désintéresse de l'objet fonctionnel pour aller vers la sculpture et le détournement d'objets. Ses dernières séries intitulées « SM, Scandale M » et « Scandale corsé » se définissent comme un conte à la fois provocant et poétique où la femme est le personnage central et la séduction omniprésente ; au-delà de la toute puissance des apparences, le corps, sanglé, n'en a pas moins ses limites le contraignant à son enfermement conscient et inconscient
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Morgan ZAWIS
USA
NEAL DROBNIS
USA
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Inspired by nature and ancient artifacts, Neal Drobnis creates glass sculpture in an exciting combination of the cast and blown glass techniques, reinterpreting a tradition of glass forming used by the Romans over three thousand years ago...
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PETER LAYTON
GREAT BRITAIN
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In many of my series the colour fields, tones and patterns are painstakingly built up in layers, one over another to achieve the rich and varied effects I strive for ; rather like applying differing kinds of brushstrokes in painting. The colours come in various forms; powders, granules, canes, shards or concentrated rods, which can be used to create areas of texture and/ or juxtaposed with swathes of contrasting or complimentary solid or patterned colour.
The method of application therefore, depends on the desired effect and may involve pick-ups from the marver, or intricate trailing. The various methods can be mixed, manipulated and/or distorted in a gestural fashion. Sometimes the piece is rotated by transferring the trailed parison to a second perpendicular blowing iron to change the pattern axis from a horizontal to a vertical emphasis.
Peter Layton, one of the pioneers in studio glass in Britain, is not only producing new and original work, he has also fostered and encouraged more young aspiring artists in his London Glassblowing Workshop than any other studio....
Acknowledged for the significance of his contribution to the studio glass movement, he was instrumental in setting up the Glasshouse in Covent Garden, establishing a glass department at the Hornsey College of Art (Middlesex University) and in 1976 the London Glassblowing Workshop as well as being one of the founders, along with Sam Herman, of the Contemporary Glass Society in 1997.
He has made major art pieces as well as many public art commissions and is present in prestigious collections all over the world.
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PILAR ALDANA-MENDEZ
COLOMBIA/ SPAIN
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Born in Bogata Colombia, Pilar Aldana Mendez lives and works in Barcelona, Spain since 1985. She creates monumental sculptures in specific sizes that adapt to certain places and installations using glass, stone, wooden effects, light and sound. More than 30 of her sculptures can be found exhibited in natural sites and in open air museums in Europe, Africa, and in America.
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REBBECA HARTMAN
AUSTRALIA
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My work is guided by the human body and how we interact with our surroundings.
The human form physically expresses emotions through body gesture and posture. These gestures are often a result of external influences and how the body mostly reacts to these incidents instinctively and unconsciously.
In my most recent work my aim has been to emulate the pure and innocent nature of embryonic and f½tal forms.
To capture this seemingly serene environment where human form is free to grow, free from outside influences ; protected and safe. Free to be virtuous and naïve, untouched by outside emotions, unmoved by the outside world and all that it entails.
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SYLVIE BELANGER
CANADA
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