Archives: Artists

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

My most recent project is our studio move to a historical building within the Red House Glass cone. I will be transforming artist representation from being predominantly online to a being shown in physical gallery too. Blowfish gallery plans to run events and exhibitions alongside a hot glass blowing studio in which myself Bethany Wood and my partner Elliot Walker will be producing contemporary glass art and sculpture

Fused glass functional pieces sold at craft markets in the UK and France.
My most recent Market was in Wells Christmas Market.

Scholarships:
SZTE:
• May 10, 2018. Sófi scholarship, Outstanding Trustee’s Award
• Scholarship recipient of the New National Excellence Program in the
2018/19 academic year – to support the research program
• 2018/19 National Higher Education Scholarship.
• March 26, 2019. Sofi scholarship, Gold Degree.
MOME:
• Scholarship recipient of the New National Excellence Program in the
2021/22 academic year – to support the research program

On the one hand, this project is about how we can rethink the process of
reducing the amount of waste. On the other hand, about how to transform
the original waste glass, how we can make this changed, new material
visible. To explore how beautiful and surprising surfaces and textures can
be created from them, in artistic works, design products and architectural
elements. In my planning, my goal is to create a design in which I tried to
take the aspects of sustainable development into account, and in order to
protect the ecology, I preferred planning for the entire production cycle.
Vision:
Creating design products that not only decorate your home, but also use
waste during their production, which protects our planet from the
incineration of useless waste and the emission of carbon dioxide!
Mission:
Conscious selective collection of architectural glass waste and its secondary
life in valuable DESIGN products.
Base value:
Creation of handmade, sustainably designed contemporary industrial art,
design products, architectural elements from architectural glass waste.