14 Jun 2024 | Heritage Reproductions
NSW Parliament House External Lights The NSW Parliament collections department contacted the Canberra Glassworks to restore 2 of their outdoor lights which were mounted outside of the Legislative Council Chamber originally in 1856. Over the years, the lights were...
6 Jun 2024 | Uncategorized
Media Release 31 May 2024 Exhibition opening NYARU Robert Fielding 11 May to 21 July 2024 Co-curated by Erin Vink & Aimee Frodsham in partnership with Mimili Maku Arts Artist Talk Wednesday 5 June at 4pm, opening event at 5pm Canberra Glassworks invites the media...
9 May 2024 | Re-imagining TV Screens
Coming in 2025 This project has paved the way for research into the development of glass tiles and bricks made from recycled glass. This project has been designed to use the waste glass which is generated by the build industrial, this includes windows, bannisters and...
8 May 2024 | Re-imagining TV Screens
Recycled bottles. Launched at Canberra Glassworks in November 2023 The Conversion Range by Glassblower Katie-Ann Houghton was created exclusively for Canberra Glassworks. Repurposing mass-produced wine bottles into a hand-made jug and glass set, from 100% recycled...
8 May 2024 | Re-imagining TV Screens
Sandcast glass. Launched at Melbourne Design Fair in May 2023. Yuwaalaraay wirringgaa Lucy Simpson is Creative Director and Principal Designer/Maker behind Gaawaa Miyay, a First Nations design studio inspired by country, relationships and notions of continuity and...
8 May 2024 | Studio Tenant
Dutch born, Luna Ryan is an established glass artist and Glassworks Studio Tenant specialising in cast glass. Luna Ryan first visited Australia in 1981 from the Netherlands during a journey discovering parts of the world other than Europe.Initially, Luna attended...
8 May 2024 | Studio Tenant
Jacqueline Bradley is an an established artist and Glassworks Studio Tenant with a new practice in glass. Jac explores a physical and visceral relationship to the outdoors through sculpture, installation and assemblage. She investigates the ways human and non-human...
7 May 2024 | Studio Tenant
US born Robert Schwartz is a mid-career glass artist, Glassworks Studio Tenant and teaching artist specialising in glass blowing. Rob’s work explores the properties of glass, to activate a dialogue between natural phenomena and the man-made. He received his...
2 May 2024 | 2024 Artist-in-Residence
As a Torres Strait Islander woman, acknowledging the traditions of navigation, living off the sea and the land, and women’s traditional practices such as weaving body adornments for ceremony. The work that represents Janet looking at the way confluence of cultures is...
2 May 2024 | 2024 Artist-in-Residence
Kathy Elliott is a glass carver and has been working with glass since 1991. Her work is usually made in collaboration with her husband Benjamin Edols, a glass blower. In the course of their working life they have worked in shared studios, public access facilities and...
2 May 2024 | 2024 Artist-in-Residence
Based on Thirroul (Wollongong NSW), Lynda Draper is an artist and educator who primarily works in the ceramic medium. Her practice explores the intersection between dreams and reality, shaped by fragmented images from her surrounding environment, recollected memories,...
2 May 2024 | 2024 Artist-in-Residence
Elliot Bastianon is a designer and artist based in Canberra. He has a diverse material palette and attempts to extrapolate the most from everyday things around him; often combining materials in ways that he hopes will direct his practice down a path not often taken....
