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Using my glass blowing experience, I have developed a process for glass blowing with recycled bottles. I start with a red-hot bottle preheated in an electric kiln. Using my innovative tooling I precisely grasp it without damage and further heat and shape it in the glory hole. Using glass blowing techniques I transform the rigid glass containers into highly reflective organic shapes. The viewer will have a new appreciation and perspective experiencing upcycled glass bottles as sculptural art and may rethink everyday actions taken in this throwaway society.

Angela collaborated with sculptor Holger Lonze to make a Bronze and fused glass artwork ” Winterfields” for “The Garden” show curated by Alison Ospina and exhibited in Skibbereen #WestCorkCreates with 40 artists and at The BlueHouse Gallery Schull

Commercial installations include 4 steel and fused glass artwork panels for The Murphy Group HQ in London illustrating the work that they do in a series of 48 fused glass plates mounted on the 4 steel panels which were laser-cut as part of the design

Angela paints artworks to commission and painted 32 acrylic paintings for UK Specialist Hospital in Emerson’s Green NHS treatment centre in UK where Brady Mallalieu architects were involved in the main design works. These were mainly abstract landscapes inspired by the Irish coastline.
Recent works are working with a fashion house on glass jewellery originals for #LondonFashionWeek 2023

I work solely to commission using any glass technique I think relevant to the commission and location in hand which could include screen printed ceramic enamels, traditional leaded stained glass, laminated films, acid etch and french embossing, slumped glass, dichroic, sandblast and anything else that I haven’t yet learned about!

My work in sculptural glass intrigues me as it challenges the capabilities of kiln forming by relying on volume, shape, and gravity to create dimension. They celebrate the details that can be achieved with an intension and with time given to working in the kiln. The ethereal qualities of glass married with the fascinating science of its behaviour is endlessly intriguing. I am thankful for the ability to share my visual expression. My work ranges from miniature sculptures to large public installations. All with an optimistic look at our interconnectedness with our environment.

I have spent the last few years working at understanding fused glass and the opportunities and constraints of this technique, recently I have been inspired by the glass techniques of Mark Pieser and Matthew Szosz, and the methods they developed to manipulate a stream of molten glass directly from a furnace. Studying these methods through the jaundiced eye of the internet I have begun to experiment with a gas furnace.
My latest piece, “AMPHORA of Light and Shade”, was inspired by these techniques, panels of glass were produced directly from the gas furnace in the vitrigraph manner, then fused on a bed of silica, before slumping on a ceramic fibre board mould. The shaped panels were then assembled to form the final.

Made from recycled bottle glass, the heating and control of the stream to produce panels for slumping provides many challenges.

In my project “What I find on the beach” I reuse old window glass and bottle glass. I kilncast objects inspired by all those strange things you may find on the beach