Mel Douglas

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.

Mel’s artistic practice explores the potential, versatility and flexibility of glass as a material for drawing. Awarded a PhD in 2020 for her practice-lead research investigating how studio glass can be understood through the aesthetics of drawing, she is a seasonal lecturer in the Glass Workshop at ANU as well as in major glass institutions in the US.

Mel’s work is held in the private collections and public institutions internationally, including the Corning Museum of Glass, New York; the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; the Ebeltoft Museum of Glass, Denmark; and National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT. She has received several major awards including the Tom Malone Prize 2020 and 2014, was a finalist of the Loewe  Craft Prize 2023, FUSE Glass Prize and receipient of Canberra Glassworks 2021 Art Group Creative Fellow. Her latest residencies have included Soneva Art and Glass in the Maldives (2025), Bullseye Glass, in Portland (2024), Pitsburgh (2022) and Biot in France (2023).

With her extensive knowledge and skill in glass, Mel has taught at Pilchuck USA, Canberra Glassworks, and Corning Museum of Glass New York.

Recently, her works have shown in Soneva Fushi (2025), Sabbia (2025), Tom Malone Prize (2025), FUSE Glass Prize (2024), Sydney Contemporary (2024), Sandra Ainsley Gallery Canada (2024), Canberra Museum and Gallery (2024), Pitsburgh Glass Centre (2022), and Caterina Tognon in Venice (2023).

Mel Douglas is represented by Traver Gallery in Seattle, Heller Gallery in New York, Sandra Ainsley Gallery in Toronto, Caterina Tognon in Venice and Sabbia Gallery in Sydney.

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