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.
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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.
Krista Israel (1975, The Netherlands) is an artist who explores the boundaries between the material and the immaterial through her mixed-media sculptures using glass. Her body of work invites reflection on vulnerability, safety, and transformation within our contemporary society. Israel’s “glass fur” – thousands of thin glass threads that appear sharp but are surprisingly soft – symbolizes this paradoxical interplay of protection and fragility. Her pieces range from playful animals to hybrid beings, intertwining humor with existential themes. Glass serves as a medium to capture the fluidity of experience, memory, and perception. Light, reflection, and refraction open a window to deeper, both personal and collective, truths. Israel’s work not only displays visual power but also the philosophical depth that characterizes her sculptures. She confronts the viewer with the fragility and beauty of existence and challenges us to reconsider the everyday as a living, meaningful experience. Her sculptures offer a perspective on the everyday and create space for dialogue about contemporary life.
Peter has begun to work with glowing powders to add another dimension to his traditional and modern designs.
Recent work, the Morphology collection, is based on the wonder to be found in the extraordinary complexity of life. My ideas and concepts evolved through the investigation of cells as the building blocks which occur in all living organisms. Experimenting with line and form using thermal processes to morph simple shapes enabled me to discover how interactions between light and colour play within and around my glass sculptures.
Recently I have been experimenting with engraving on the surface to add a different dimension and the addition of Gold Leaf to enhance a decorative surface.
My passion is stained glass mosaics of British wildlife and Pet Portraits which I undertake on commission.
I was inspired by the monasteries of Lindisfarne and Jarrow, which were major Christian centres in the 7th and 8th centuries. These communities brought the scriptures to life for devotees through both written Gospels and stained-glass windows.
This project explores the story of glass in the Northeast, as inspired by the Lindisfarne Gospels. The work comprises twelve pages, representing key moments in the history of glass in Sunderland—from its origins to its growth as a local craft, industrialisation, and eventual decline. I combine illumination and stained-glass—two endangered heritage crafts—to celebrate and preserve this rich cultural narrative.