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Glass is a new exploration for me, an extension of my experience in clay. The language in glaze technology has given me an understanding of glass properties, other than that it has thrown me a complete curveball.
I’ve started using bottles. Cutting, breaking and melting. Wondering where this is leading.
Bit by bit I’m learning and now after 2 years of experimenting I’m almost up to the first rung.
The main focus of my artistic research is the exploration of the flexibility in my own thinking and re-evaluation of matters, related to human behavior: needs, habits, wishes, and hopes.
I aim to challenge the norms of human nature and society. I approach these topics through the exploration of both folk and modern cultures: the world of symbols, metaphors, proverbs and tales, expressing wisdom and morality.
I am constantly in search for analogies, interconnecting stories and plots. I see myself as a visual anthropologist of a modern-day time. I mainly use glass as my medium as I find it to have almost mysterious properties, such as transparency and visual illusions, thus it is a perfect material to make my ideas manifest. Glass is poignant in its delicateness but equally captivating in its strength.
Emergence was a collaboration with myself, Australian artist Mark Eliot and New Zealand Model Anita Springfield. Taking Da Vinci’s idea that the human body reflects nature’s design, we created Emergence. This work utilises a slumped glass human torso as a landscape, with a flame-worked forest that draws inspiration from the book, The Hidden Life of Trees. The work combines glass and pumice (volcanic rock).
A graduate of the Certificate III in Glass and Glazing (Designed Glazing) and a current student of the Diploma of Visual Arts (Glasswork) at Melbourne Polytechnic, My Imaginary Heart also teaches workshops in leadlight and copper foil technique. Their glass art installation “Sunflowers; repeating” is currently on view as part of the 2025 Grace: Women in Glass exhibition at the Australian Centre for Glass Design until September 27.
I continue to teach, challenge, and learn. My latest project I continue to use airbrushing, silk-screening, and penning techniques, but now I am using these processes on fused and slumped glass to make functional bowls.