Archives: Artists

2022
TG Transitions in Kiln-formed Glass –Touring various USA sites until late 2023
Its all in the Technique –National Glass Centre, Sunderland
European Glass Prize 2022- Coburg, Germany
Solo inaugural artist exhibition “Journeys and Horizons” Stourbridge Glass Museum
British Glass Biennale
Collaborations, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, co-curator and exhibitor
40years National Glass Centre Sunderland
2021
American Glass Society Conference
Toyama Glass Prize –Japan
Heijen Glass Competition, China

I achieved an MA (Distinction) in Glass from the University of Sunderland in 2022 and my final work ‘Hybridity. Do not ask’ was acquired for the permanent collection at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens. My work has been selected for many exhibitions including the British Glass Biennale 2024, and in 2023 I was awarded a residency at the National Glass Centre by the Glass Society which resulted in ‘Past and Future’ and an artist development bursary by Firstsite, East Anglia’s Contemporary Art Gallery, to make a body of work around the word ‘enough’.

I am enjoying playing with colour and the different ways you can apply and use it. I am currently focusing on glass wear and getting the shape right for wine glasses, tublers, etc. In the future I want to go back to making some larger pieces, and to really experiment with form to translate what I want to the viewer.

I work with glass fusing and create jewellery, home accessories and sculpture. I have in the past year been awarded a commission with Burn The Curtain theatre company in Exeter to create a large glass outdoor sculpture I named ‘The glass Quilt’ which was created having worked alongside the community to develop a patchwork of different ideas reflecting Exeter’s green spaces. I also sell my work in small galleries in Teignmouth, Bovey Tracey, Torquay and Exeter.

Lately, designed and build an amusement park for cognitive challenged kids, 3 art installation

In new project, I continue to use a combination of my photography and glass materials to achieve a particular visual effect. As a glass artist I am trying to push the boundaries of combining photography and glass, and as a photographer I am exploring the boundaries of photography in both flat and three-dimensional presentations. I think this is what the Territory project has brought to my mind, and I will continue to use these techniques to create more beautiful works.

My panel “Very Fresh Fish” was selected for the British Glass Biennale 2022. Opening the double doors of the cabinet sets in motion the fish on the slab as a bug-zapper kills flies.

The Glass Furnace is Turkey’s largest and best-equipped glass and art center. On the shore of the Riva river, the campus has given its back to the green nature in a creative and serene atmosphere.To be the center of all the glass related works and make glass art one of the basic art branches in our country. The Glass Furnace, which was originally designed as a glass studio but soon became a world-class glass center, continues its uninterrupted training and production activities. The Glass Furnace, where it has a glass collection including examples from contemporary glass, takes care to realize its education and production activities in the most creative, efficient and effective way possible. Field trips with elementary and middle schools, special shows, new year and spring festivals, daily, weekly and two-week workshops, daily tours, special events for companies and groups are organized, as well as open to curious visitors at any time.