29 Jan 2024 | Glass Blowing Artist, Studio Tenant
Tom Rowney is an established glass artist specialising in glass blowing based at Canberra Glassworks. With over thirty years’ experience in the field, Tom is renowned as one of the most accomplished glass blowers in Australia. His practice is based on learning,...
29 Jan 2024 | Glass Blowing Artist, Studio Tenant
Nadina Geary is a mid-career glass artist and Glassworks Studio Tenant specialising in blown and cold worked glass. A graduate from the ANU School of Art Glass Workshop, her creative practice began in textiles, fashion and graphic design. Nadina’s work explores themes...
29 Jan 2024 | Cold Working Artist, Glass Blowing Artist, Kiln Forming Artist, Studio Tenant
Mel Douglas is an established glass artist and Glassworks Studio Tenant with an extensive practice across several glass workshops including cold worked, kiln formed and blown glass. Her artistic practice explores the potential, versatility and flexibility of glass as...
29 Jan 2024 | Studio Tenant
Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello is an established glass artist and Glassworks Studio Tenant with an extensive practice across several glass studios. Originally from Adelaide, Jenni is of Aboriginal (Southern Arrernte), Chinese, Anglo-Celtic descent. Her work can...
29 Jan 2024 | 2023 Artist-in-Residence, Kiln Forming Artist, Neon Artist, Studio Tenant
Rose-Mary Faulkner is an emerging and Glassworks Studio artist specialising in kiln formed and cold worked glass. Her artistic practice explores the perspective of the body from unique and subjective lines of sight often through the soft and layered medium of decal...
29 Jan 2024 | 2024 Artist-in-Residence, Kiln Forming Artist, Studio Tenant
Hannah Gason is a mid-career glass artist and Glassworks Studio Tenant specialising in kiln formed and cold worked glass. Hannah’s art practice is an exploration of the subtle changes and rhythms of the everyday, such as gradual shifts in light and repeating patterns....
24 Jan 2024 | Artwork Fabrication, Blowing & Hot Casting, Flame Working
Yuwaalaraay artist, Lucy Simpson has worked alongside Canberra Glassworks on three major projects between 2020 and 2023. The first was the public artwork Galuma-li for Bloomberg, curated by Carriageworks and fabricated by Canberra Glassworks. During a week-long...
24 Jan 2024 | Architectural Elements, Blowing & Hot Casting
325 Mushroom coloured glass blocks were commissioned by architectural product manufacturers, Axolotl, Sydney, for installation as a design feature in a banquette in a private residence. The Glassworks team was asked to create a custom ‘mushroom’ coloured glass block....
24 Jan 2024 | Architectural Elements, Grinding & Finishing, Kilns & Fusing
Designer and sculptor Oliver Tanner approached Canberra Glassworks in 2021 to make custom bubble sheet glass for a bronze door. The door, an internal screen for a private residence, was cast out of bronze and craned into the building. The Canberra Glassworks team...
24 Jan 2024 | Architectural Elements, Blowing & Hot Casting, Tom Rowney
April PhillipsMoments series2023 The Moment series were fabricated for Memphis Now , a collaborative group exhibition of print and glass shown at Canberra Glassworks at the end of 2023. Artist, April Phillips (Wiradjuri-Scottish) worked with glass blower Tom...
19 Jan 2024 | Exhibitions Past 2024
Showing 13 January to 25 February 2024 Built Geologies is inspired by terraforming, a concept which literally translates to “Earth-shaping”. This is a process that aims to modify the atmosphere, temperature, surface topography, or ecology of a planet, moon, or other...
19 Dec 2023 | Exhibitions Past 2023
Judi Elliot Drew Spangenberg April Phillips Kate Benazi Gibson Karlo Showing 19 Oct to 16 Dec 2023 This co-curated group show draws on the visually extravagant design movement that was derived by the Memphis Group. Deeply rooted in 1980s Italian architecture,...
