In the Media
2024
Australian Financial Review
The Allure of Collectable Glass
Have we reached peak ceramic? This designer is a forging a new path with glass.
“I’d been working with ceramic for some time, and was loving it,” saysdesigner Martyn Thompson, “but I feel like ceramic has become incrediblypopular. So, glass offered me the possibility to experiment and shift the conversation somewhat.”
Written by Stephen Todd Design Editor
14 Mar 2024
Arts/Edit issue 39
Artist Profile: Robert Fielding
Mimili man and multi-media artist Robert Fielding lives and breathes art, even when he’s dreaming. With the blessing of his community Elders, he keeps their stories alive through his contemporary and experimental practice. Now, as Canberra Glassworks’ artist-in-residence, he is turning his hand to glass.
Written by Zali Morgan
Art Monthly Australasia
Exhibition review of ‘Robert Fielding: NYARU’
Robert Fielding’s exhibition ‘NYARU’ at the Canberra Glassworks is a powerful showcase of culture, innovation and reclamation. Fielding is a celebrated multi-disciplinary artist of Pakistani, Afghan, Western Arrernte and Yankunytjatjara heritage and lives in the Mimili Community in the remote Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in South Australia.
Written by Tina Baum, Gulumirrgin (Larrakia)/Wardaman/Karajarri, Senior Curator, First Nations Art at the National Gallery of Australia.
18 Jul 2024
Australian Financial Review
BEST IN GLASS: Ultra-luxe pyjamas, Wedgwood dog bowls and other unexpected delights
Tidying up in his Canberra pub King O’Malley’s one night, Peter Barclay’s appreciation for the colour of an empty Bombay Sapphire gin bottle led to a lightbulb moment. Why not upcycle it into a vase? Jacqueline Knight of Canberra Glassworks and glassblower Katie-Anne Houghton agreed to give it a go, designing a steel mould that not only softens the gin bottles into octagon shapes but retains their unique hue and original embossing. Sapphire vase, $220, with all proceeds going to the Glassworks and its artists.
2 August 2024
Art Guide
Exhibition Review: Mosaic artists mobilising for Afghan women
Since 2021, mosaic artists around the world have been working together to draw attention to the plight of Afghan women under Taliban rule. Initiated by the Tunisian mosaic artist Bady Essid Jaballah, the community project sees artists contribute small glass mosaic squares, which are joined to make a scarf. Over 1,200 artists from 46 countries have contributed their work.
Australian Arts Review
Winners of prestigious 2024 FUSE Glass Prize announced
Canberra Glassworks and Adelaide’s JamFactory have announced the winners of the 2024 FUSE Glass Prize.
Originally from the ACT, Moore is based in Adelaide, SA, working in blown glass between JamFactory, University of SA as Adjunct Research Fellow, and his home studio. His recent touring exhibition, JamFactory ICON Tom Moore: Abundant Wonder, was shown at Canberra Museum and Gallery late 2022.
15 May 2024
Riotact
Emerging Canberra glass artist cracks it with prestigious national award
Emeirely Nucifora-Ryan said her award-winning work, Processed, took more than seven months to create. She made the piece using a collection of glass tubing all made by hand, bending them to create a series of circular tubes which she filled with an inert gas. She worked in her home studio as well as using the facilities of the Canberra Glassworks.
Emeirely, an honours graduate of the Australian National University School of Art and Design, created her artistic practice in neon after she participated in Canberra Glassworks Neon Green Futures Masterclass with Richard Wheater.
18 May 2024
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2023 Highlights in the Media
Australian Financial Review
Why glass is the material of the moment in homewares
Alchemist Ben Edols has produced a series of exquisite works for Sydney interior designer Alexandra Kidd’s inaugural Prima collection.
Says Frodsham: “We’re in the business of creating beauty out of the mostrudimentary materials, whether that be sand at the very beginning of theprocess or waste glass as we put it back into the economy.”
Written by Stephen Todd Design Editor
11 November 2023
ArtsHub
Do we still value skill in arts education?
In the wake of years of deskilling in art schools and eroding TAFE offerings, where does skill sit today?
An exhibition that celebrates skill, above all other concerns, is Canberra Glassworks’ Aventurine Spirit, by the organisation’s Technical Director, artist Tom Rowney.
Written by Gina Fairley, ArtsHub’s National Visual Arts Editor of Australia
18 Apr 2023
Art Collector
Quiet work makes a statement at Vicki Torr International Year of Glass Prize
The Vicki Torr International Year of Glass Prize, presented by Canberra Glassworks and AUSGLASS, has been won by local artist Annette Blair for her work A Quiet Afternoon in May 2022. The artist was also presented with the People’s Choice Prize for the same work.
‘This piece shows Annette Blair’s technical brilliance in hot glass sculpting, surface treatment, scale, and conceptual rigour. It is so wonderful that Annette is based in Canberra, her skills place her on an international level’.
Written by Erin Irwin
10 Feb 2023
Artist Profile issue 62
Mel Douglas
The glass scene in Australia is rumbling, swelling. A jolt of new energy pulses through its crystalline veins as many contemporary artists are starting to think more about glass as an accessible, experimental material.
Mel Douglas has been at the forefront of this glass scene for almost three decades. Working out of the Canberra Glassworks – a studio that has piloted innovations in Australian glassmaking – her practice explores the flexibility of glass as a material for drawing and mark-making, stretching the boundaries of what drawing is, and what it can be.
Written by Elli Walsh
Art Collector
Melbourne Design Fair set to turn heads this May
Melbourne Design Week’s main event, the Melbourne Design Fair, looks to be even bigger and better in its second year.
Other highlights include presentations from the Australian Tapestry Workshop, JamFactory, Canberra Glassworks, Yarrenyty Arltere Artists from the Northern Territory presented by Agency, and Design Tasmania.
Written by Erin Irwin
20 Mar 2023