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Living right on the coast, the sea and ocean life is often my inspiration, whether it be water or marine life based. A recent request from a local restaurant for Mackerels started me on a path of studying our local sustainable fish and sea life and reproducing them in Glass. Giant flowers are also another of my favourites as is anything I can make with all the excess glass I have from my weekly workshops!
María is Uruguayan and lives in Montevideo. She has a degree in Biological Sciences. She studied art at the National School of Fine Arts and attended José María Pelayo’s sculpture workshop.
She studied glass sculpture in Italy with Silvia Levenson and in Argentina with Karina Del Savio.
Her works are present in private collections in Miami, Washington, Marbella, Chicago, New York, Oslo, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Punta del Este, Bulgaria, China, Japan and José Ignacio.
In 2024 she is selected to exhibit her work in the Second International Biennale of Material Contemporary Art in China
In 2023 she is selected by the Toyama Glass Art Museum in Japan to exhibit her work in the museum in Toyama in 2024.
In 2022 she was selected by the Corning Museum of Glass to be included in the publication New Glass Review 42 and also to participate in the First International Biennale of Contemporary Material Art in China, exhibiting her work in Beijing.
In 2022 she was also selected to attend the Ibero-American Congress of Women in Glass, Artists and Scientists, in Madrid, Spain, and exhibits her work at the MAVA, Museum of Glass Art in Alcorcón. She was also invited to give a lecture about her work at the First Glass Art Biennale in Costa Rica.
In 2019 she was selected to participate in the International Glass Biennale in Sofia, Bulgaria.
In 2013 she was selected by the Chelsea International Fine Arts Competition to be present with her work in an exhibition at Agora Gallery, New York.
Between 1993 and 2024 she has participated in several individual and group exhibitions.
My recent project includes building a lampworking studio to teach myself a new skill and I have started making and selling lampworked jewellery online and at craft events.
I am currently working with fused glass and blown glass, finding a way to combine the two in the hot shop. Combining the processes are important to me, as I want to see how far I am able to push what I am designing.
My current work is exploring what a birdwatcher sees. By using symbolism to sculpt blown glass to capture how a bird watcher identifies a bird, using shape, size, form and colour. This is a collection that will be produced for my degree show at De Montfort University, Leicester
By looking to my past and my rural upbringing, I explore the complex ties that bind us to past generations, traditions and the physical landscape. My interaction with materials and objects of the rural landscape become creative catalysts stirring memories as they move through my hands. Universal themes of identity, belonging, and place can be found within my work – my sites of memory.
Kilformed glass became a large part of my recent degree show. I used the qualities of glass to convey the disappearance of rural traditions and skills from Irish culture and history. Using both cast glass and pate de verre, the objects created highlight the fragile nature of memory, history and cultural identity.
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The ever-changing life of the land, in particular that of Israel, where I was born, and that of my present home in Northern California, inspires me. As an immigrant, I search for connection between the land and my internal landscape of memory. These landscapes, simultaneously intimate and vast, come together in my work.
Hope, loss, memory and the fleetingness of time are recurring themes in my work. I strive to create intimate spaces that speak of our emotional existence and this ephemeral journey that is life: to tell a story of fragility and strength, vulnerability and resilience.
I have exhibited in 2021 and 2022 at the Mall Galleries in Pall Mall, London, in the annual exhibitions of the Society of Marine Artists. All items were sold.
I also sell at local South London markets such as Merton Abbey Mills and Streatham Village.
In 2022 I took part in the Streatham Festival exhibiting glass art in the craft shop, Creative Soul and in the central library.