Current Exhibition
“TAKING SHAPE: MOULDS AND FORMING”
“Taking Shape: moulds and forming”- Launched on 23rd January 2014
This latest exhibition explores glass artists whose work depends on forming methods- by exploring 3-dimensional form.
Some artists use moulds in their work as part of their process, or that have developed a way to shape and form glass in a particular way using moulding or tooling. The pieces in this glass exhibition will reflect the intentions that truly explore shape and form through the carefully considered part played in the production of a mould to realise a piece.
Moulds can be made from a variety of materials, from wood, paper to stainless steel, pottery, clay, or plaster and silica. Even found objects can be used such as tree bark, pieces of ceramic etc.
One of the subtle and intruiging aspects of the use of moulds in glassmaking is that the artist will put almost as much, if not more, energy and pasison into crafting the shape through the mould. The starting point is the shape created or carved by them.
This is a juried show as with all CGS shows.
24 artists were selected from a number of entries. Thank you so much to all those that submitted work.
Launched on:23rd January 2014
Artist:Georgia Redpath
Email:Simon Bruntnell
Description: Artist: Georgia Redpath
Revolution
Photographer: Simon Bruntnell
Details: Cast glass, wood, gesso (each 140 x 190 x 45mm)
The original models for these cast pieces were created from sheet cardboard - the shape of which can be seen inside the cast block. However, instead of recreating the model itself in glass, I have chosen to cast the negative space around the original shape. This creates an interior world of reflections and refractions, and lends a fractal quality to the work.
Contact: georgia@redpathglass.co.uk
Revolution
Photographer: Simon Bruntnell
Details: Cast glass, wood, gesso (each 140 x 190 x 45mm)
The original models for these cast pieces were created from sheet cardboard - the shape of which can be seen inside the cast block. However, instead of recreating the model itself in glass, I have chosen to cast the negative space around the original shape. This creates an interior world of reflections and refractions, and lends a fractal quality to the work.
Contact: georgia@redpathglass.co.uk
Contact: georgia@redpathglass.co.uk
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Sally Thompson
Email:Dave Usher
Description: Artist: Sally Thompson
'Caddis'
Photographer: Dave Usher
Details: 125mm x 60mm
‘Caddis’ has emerged through a combination of ideas - thoughts of the lost and discarded components of a manmade activity being fossilised alongside natural objects, ideas of the evolution of creatures that use camouflage and a memory I had about Caddis fly larvae. The larva is aquatic and collects whatever material it can from its surroundings to form an ornate and highly intricate protective case around itself.
From an initial investigation into seeing how manmade and natural elements could work together, I produced some samples that reminded me of fossils and it struck me that through the casting process we are creating ‘future fossils’.
‘Caddis’is a core cast using the lost wax technique. First I made a wax form around a plaster core and then covered it with wax elements cast from a selection of silicone moulds. A refractory mould was made around the finished wax model then the wax was steamed out.
My final outcome embodies personal memories, ideas and connections and forms the starting point of my investigations for the final major project of my degree.
I hope ‘Caddis’ evokes the viewer’s own thoughts and interpretations and would be interested to hear them
Contact: sally.thompson567@btinternet.com
'Caddis'
Photographer: Dave Usher
Details: 125mm x 60mm
‘Caddis’ has emerged through a combination of ideas - thoughts of the lost and discarded components of a manmade activity being fossilised alongside natural objects, ideas of the evolution of creatures that use camouflage and a memory I had about Caddis fly larvae. The larva is aquatic and collects whatever material it can from its surroundings to form an ornate and highly intricate protective case around itself.
From an initial investigation into seeing how manmade and natural elements could work together, I produced some samples that reminded me of fossils and it struck me that through the casting process we are creating ‘future fossils’.
‘Caddis’is a core cast using the lost wax technique. First I made a wax form around a plaster core and then covered it with wax elements cast from a selection of silicone moulds. A refractory mould was made around the finished wax model then the wax was steamed out.
My final outcome embodies personal memories, ideas and connections and forms the starting point of my investigations for the final major project of my degree.
I hope ‘Caddis’ evokes the viewer’s own thoughts and interpretations and would be interested to hear them
Contact: sally.thompson567@btinternet.com
Contact: sally.thompson567@btinternet.com
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Linda Banks
Email:Linda Banks
Description: Artist: Linda Banks - Orchid Stained Glass
Holly and berry lamp shade
Photographer: Linda Banks
Details: meter by 24cm deep. Created November 2013.
A stained glass lamp featuring individually hand cut holly leaves in rich dark green and glass 'berries' in red, brown and clear glasses. The shade was formed on a fibreglass mould using the copper foil technique, soldered together and the joints blackened with patina.
Contact: lindacbanks4321@hotmail.com
Holly and berry lamp shade
Photographer: Linda Banks
Details: meter by 24cm deep. Created November 2013.
A stained glass lamp featuring individually hand cut holly leaves in rich dark green and glass 'berries' in red, brown and clear glasses. The shade was formed on a fibreglass mould using the copper foil technique, soldered together and the joints blackened with patina.
Contact: lindacbanks4321@hotmail.com
Contact: lindacbanks4321@hotmail.com
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Fiona Wilkes
Description: Artist: Fiona Wilkes
Mytilus Filter
Sand Cast Mould Hot Glass
Mytilus Filter (2014) explores organic marine forms and
filtering systems using sculptural sand casting moulds techniques and hot glass. Dim H.5cm W. 26cm L.40 cm
Contact: www.saltglassstudios.co.uk
Mytilus Filter
Sand Cast Mould Hot Glass
Mytilus Filter (2014) explores organic marine forms and
filtering systems using sculptural sand casting moulds techniques and hot glass. Dim H.5cm W. 26cm L.40 cm
Contact: www.saltglassstudios.co.uk
Contact: www.saltglassstudios.co.uk
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Susan Sinclair
Email:Susan Sinclair
Description: Artist: Susan Sinclair
"Big Fish; Little Fish"
Photographer: Photo by Susan Sinclair
Details: two shallow vessels 125mm dia. by 27mm depth, and 255mm dia. by 50mm depth. made December 2013
two shallow vessels made with fused glass powder sheet, conjoined. Using ball moulds of different sizes allowed using one as the "foot" for the other as a compound form.
Contact: churchhouseart@yahoo.co.uk
"Big Fish; Little Fish"
Photographer: Photo by Susan Sinclair
Details: two shallow vessels 125mm dia. by 27mm depth, and 255mm dia. by 50mm depth. made December 2013
two shallow vessels made with fused glass powder sheet, conjoined. Using ball moulds of different sizes allowed using one as the "foot" for the other as a compound form.
Contact: churchhouseart@yahoo.co.uk
Contact: churchhouseart@yahoo.co.uk
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Becky Fairclough
Email:Becky Fairclough
Description: Artist: Becky Fairclough
Sakura bowl
Photographer: Becky Fairclough
shallow dish formed in hand carved mould to give 3d texture on the reverse of the dish.
Contact: becky@beckyfairclough.co.uk
Sakura bowl
Photographer: Becky Fairclough
shallow dish formed in hand carved mould to give 3d texture on the reverse of the dish.
Contact: becky@beckyfairclough.co.uk
Contact: becky@beckyfairclough.co.uk
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Heike Brachlow
Email:Ester Segarra
Description: Artist: Heike Brachlow
Syntax I
Photographer: Ester Segarra
Details: 2013. Three elements. Cast glass, ground, polished (moulds taken from silicone model)
Contact: heike.brachlow@network.rca.ac.uk
Syntax I
Photographer: Ester Segarra
Details: 2013. Three elements. Cast glass, ground, polished (moulds taken from silicone model)
Contact: heike.brachlow@network.rca.ac.uk
Contact: heike.brachlow@network.rca.ac.uk
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:cheryl wilson smith
Description: Artist: cheryl wilson smith
Frosty Balance
Details: Cast Frit
6x5x4x inches
Contact: cheryl@trysmith.com
Frosty Balance
Details: Cast Frit
6x5x4x inches
Contact: cheryl@trysmith.com
Contact: cheryl@trysmith.com
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Teresa Chlapowski
Email:Teresa Chlapowski
Description: Artist: Teresa Chlapowski
Don't Look Back
Photographer: Teresa Chlapowski
Details: 51 x 9 cm on slate base 2013
The piece is sand cast - the back panel has been poured in a hot shop with the back of a ceramic figure pressed into the sand to form the mould, whilst the front was also pressed into sand but fired in the kiln using Gaffer glass to get the red colour. The sculptural panel creates a 'door' into a possible past, whilst the red figure is standing away from it looking forward but still has regrets. "Footfalls echo in the memory,Down the passage which we did not take,Towards the door we never opened" T.S. Elliot
Contact: aquarelledesign@chlapowski.plus.com
Don't Look Back
Photographer: Teresa Chlapowski
Details: 51 x 9 cm on slate base 2013
The piece is sand cast - the back panel has been poured in a hot shop with the back of a ceramic figure pressed into the sand to form the mould, whilst the front was also pressed into sand but fired in the kiln using Gaffer glass to get the red colour. The sculptural panel creates a 'door' into a possible past, whilst the red figure is standing away from it looking forward but still has regrets. "Footfalls echo in the memory,Down the passage which we did not take,Towards the door we never opened" T.S. Elliot
Contact: aquarelledesign@chlapowski.plus.com
Contact: aquarelledesign@chlapowski.plus.com
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Fiona Bryer
Email:John Linnell
Description: Artist: Fiona Bryer
Amber Beach
Photographer: John Linnell
Details: 29.8 cm x 12.8 cm x 10 cm
Amber Beach - open cast lead crystal. Refractory mould with lost wax process, cold worked, silver leaf gilding, cherry wood base. Made November 2013.
Contact: fionabryer@btinternet.com
Amber Beach
Photographer: John Linnell
Details: 29.8 cm x 12.8 cm x 10 cm
Amber Beach - open cast lead crystal. Refractory mould with lost wax process, cold worked, silver leaf gilding, cherry wood base. Made November 2013.
Contact: fionabryer@btinternet.com
Contact: fionabryer@btinternet.com
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Bruno Romanelli
Email:Robert Hall
Description: Artist: Bruno Romanelli
Luna
Photographer: Robert Hall
Details: 48x31x6cm
Lost wax cast, polished glass
Contact: Bruno Romanelli 07958 555473
Luna
Photographer: Robert Hall
Details: 48x31x6cm
Lost wax cast, polished glass
Contact: Bruno Romanelli 07958 555473
Contact: 07958 555473
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREEmail:Richard Jackson
Description: Artist: Deborah Timperley
Dialogue at the Threshold - Contained dialogue
Photographer: Richard Jackson
Details: Black glass, clear glass, 23.5ct gold
Open cast textured black outer form with 23.5ct gold. Clear glass polished inset.
10 x 10 x 11cm
Contact: Deborah Timperley
Dialogue at the Threshold - Contained dialogue
Photographer: Richard Jackson
Details: Black glass, clear glass, 23.5ct gold
Open cast textured black outer form with 23.5ct gold. Clear glass polished inset.
10 x 10 x 11cm
Contact: Deborah Timperley
Contact: Deborah Timperley
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Steve Robinson
Email:Steve Robinson
Description: Artist: Steve Robinson
"Storms Shell Island" - Triptych
Photographer: Steve Robinson
Details: Fused and slumped glass, coloured with enamels. Width 1480mm x height 650mm (made 2012)
I regularly use slumping to create three-dimensional relief in my work, and I achieve this with the use of saffil paper which I build up in layers to create a mould for my desired form. In this triptych I have used this technique in two distinct ways: the main panels have four flowing shapes running through them, which were achieved with long moulds on the bed of the kiln. Then on the top of the panels are over 70 shells. These have all been made individually, by creating mini shell shape moulds, and then slumping the glass into them (after colouring with enamels). After firing, each shell was cold-processed by grinding and polishing the edges to a beautiful finish on a series of diamond discs.
Contact: studio@vividglassart.co.uk
"Storms Shell Island" - Triptych
Photographer: Steve Robinson
Details: Fused and slumped glass, coloured with enamels. Width 1480mm x height 650mm (made 2012)
I regularly use slumping to create three-dimensional relief in my work, and I achieve this with the use of saffil paper which I build up in layers to create a mould for my desired form. In this triptych I have used this technique in two distinct ways: the main panels have four flowing shapes running through them, which were achieved with long moulds on the bed of the kiln. Then on the top of the panels are over 70 shells. These have all been made individually, by creating mini shell shape moulds, and then slumping the glass into them (after colouring with enamels). After firing, each shell was cold-processed by grinding and polishing the edges to a beautiful finish on a series of diamond discs.
Contact: studio@vividglassart.co.uk
Contact: studio@vividglassart.co.uk
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Cristina Ilinca
Email:Claudiu Ionescu
Description: Artist: Cristina Ilinca
Photographer: photo: Claudiu Ionescu
Details: Cast glass (lost wax), 18x17x16cm, 2009; Poschinger glass
Contact: cristina_c_i@yahoo.com
Photographer: photo: Claudiu Ionescu
Details: Cast glass (lost wax), 18x17x16cm, 2009; Poschinger glass
Contact: cristina_c_i@yahoo.com
Contact: cristina_c_i@yahoo.com
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Julia Webster
Email:Julia Webster
Description: Artist: Julia Webster
Elevate - foot and hands detail
Photographer: Julia Webster
Details: Mould blown glass installation and photographs
Clay mould blown glass sculpture. Detail of a seven glass piece suspended installation displayed with six A1 photographs taken of dancers in dynamic movement, by the artist. Made in 2012. Height of Elevate - foot and hands detail, approx. 70cm.
Contact: julia@glasszoo.co.uk
Elevate - foot and hands detail
Photographer: Julia Webster
Details: Mould blown glass installation and photographs
Clay mould blown glass sculpture. Detail of a seven glass piece suspended installation displayed with six A1 photographs taken of dancers in dynamic movement, by the artist. Made in 2012. Height of Elevate - foot and hands detail, approx. 70cm.
Contact: julia@glasszoo.co.uk
Contact: julia@glasszoo.co.uk
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:David Reekie
Email:David Reekie
Description: Artist: David Reekie
Conspire IV
Photographer: David Reekie
Details: July 2013, 34cm H x 26cm W x 11cm D - NFS
Conspire IV was originally modelled in clay and wax. The two body forms were modelled in clay leaving a tooled surface. The head and hand were then modelled separately in wax and then fitted into the clay bodies, this gives a nice contrast to the surface of the glass. Each figure was then invested in a casting material. Once set, the clay was removed and the wax steamed out, leaving a clean mould. The surface of the moulds was then painted with ceramic enamel colours, which fuse themselves to the glass when the pieces are fired in the kiln. This technique gives the glass a rich painterly quality.
Contact: www.davidreekie.com david.reekie@virgin.net
Conspire IV
Photographer: David Reekie
Details: July 2013, 34cm H x 26cm W x 11cm D - NFS
Conspire IV was originally modelled in clay and wax. The two body forms were modelled in clay leaving a tooled surface. The head and hand were then modelled separately in wax and then fitted into the clay bodies, this gives a nice contrast to the surface of the glass. Each figure was then invested in a casting material. Once set, the clay was removed and the wax steamed out, leaving a clean mould. The surface of the moulds was then painted with ceramic enamel colours, which fuse themselves to the glass when the pieces are fired in the kiln. This technique gives the glass a rich painterly quality.
Contact: www.davidreekie.com david.reekie@virgin.net
Contact: david.reekie@virgin.net
Details: July 2013, 34cm H x 26cm W x 11cm D - NFS
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Vivienne Jagger
Email:Vivienne Jagger
Description: Artist: Vivienne Jagger
Seedpod
Photographer: Photographer: Vivienne Jagger
Details: 500x200x80mm kiln formed; fused, slumped, coldworked and sandblasted .
this bowl explores the idea of a seedpod both in its shiny green underside and its pinker matt internal surface with the fragments of leaves and seeds incorporated into the glass - a memory of its past and future life.
Contact: Vivienne Jagger: viviennej@me.com
Seedpod
Photographer: Photographer: Vivienne Jagger
Details: 500x200x80mm kiln formed; fused, slumped, coldworked and sandblasted .
this bowl explores the idea of a seedpod both in its shiny green underside and its pinker matt internal surface with the fragments of leaves and seeds incorporated into the glass - a memory of its past and future life.
Contact: Vivienne Jagger: viviennej@me.com
Contact: Vivienne Jagger: viviennej@me.com
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Yury Vassilev
Email:Nikolay Cincarski
Description: Artist: Yury Vassilev
Black Temples - 3
Photographer: Nikolay Cincarski
Details: 33 cm x 17 cm x 6 cm
Mold melted glass
Contact: manager@yuryvassilev.com, www.yuryvassilev.com
Black Temples - 3
Photographer: Nikolay Cincarski
Details: 33 cm x 17 cm x 6 cm
Mold melted glass
Contact: manager@yuryvassilev.com, www.yuryvassilev.com
Contact: manager@yuryvassilev.com
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Dan Bowran
Email:Ester Segarra
Description: Artist: Dan Bowran
I Stand Corrected
Photographer: Ester Segarra
Details: Hotshop, Coldshop, Kiln formed, Mould making
Dan Bowran
I Stand Corrected – 2013
Hotshop, Coldshop, Kiln formed, Mould making.
While studying an MA at Royal College of Art in London I have been exploring ways of working with glass that aim to extend the relationship between humans and glass. I use a non-hierarchical selection process to develop this relationship. Promoting ways that don’t relegate artefacts of the glass making such as moulds to the past, and present them as integral elements of the final forms.
Furthering these ideas has led to techniques that allow the glass to become a mould for itself.
Contact: http://www.offtheplinth.com
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREI Stand Corrected
Photographer: Ester Segarra
Details: Hotshop, Coldshop, Kiln formed, Mould making
Dan Bowran
I Stand Corrected – 2013
Hotshop, Coldshop, Kiln formed, Mould making.
While studying an MA at Royal College of Art in London I have been exploring ways of working with glass that aim to extend the relationship between humans and glass. I use a non-hierarchical selection process to develop this relationship. Promoting ways that don’t relegate artefacts of the glass making such as moulds to the past, and present them as integral elements of the final forms.
Furthering these ideas has led to techniques that allow the glass to become a mould for itself.
Contact: http://www.offtheplinth.com
Artist:Max Lamb
Email:Dr F Wilkes
Description: Artist: Max Lamb
Ebb Arenicola 'Many Bristle Series (2013)
Photographer: Dr F Wilkes
Details: Ebb explores marine worm formations (Plaster & Rubber Moulds & Kiln Casting Glass)
Ebb - Arenicola 'Many Bristle Series explores marine worm formations through plaster, rubber & quartz mould making & Kiln Casting Glasma Glass techniques Dim: H 7cm x Dia 50cm
Contact: info@saltglassstudios.co.uk
Ebb Arenicola 'Many Bristle Series (2013)
Photographer: Dr F Wilkes
Details: Ebb explores marine worm formations (Plaster & Rubber Moulds & Kiln Casting Glass)
Ebb - Arenicola 'Many Bristle Series explores marine worm formations through plaster, rubber & quartz mould making & Kiln Casting Glasma Glass techniques Dim: H 7cm x Dia 50cm
Contact: info@saltglassstudios.co.uk
Contact: info@saltglassstudios.co.uk
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Catherine Brown
Email:Catherine Brown
Description: Artist: Catherine Brown
Bend and mend
Photographer: Catherine Brown
Details: Kiln formed glass with thread
Glass sculpture that has been sandblasted and kiln formed, with bound and stitched thread.
Contact: Catherine Brown
Bend and mend
Photographer: Catherine Brown
Details: Kiln formed glass with thread
Glass sculpture that has been sandblasted and kiln formed, with bound and stitched thread.
Contact: Catherine Brown
Contact: Catherine Brown
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Crispian Heath
Email:Own
Description: Artist: Crispian Heath
Bird
Photographer: Own
Details: 7 X 35 X 13cm
Cast glass, varying dimensions.
Contact: mail@crispianheath.com
Bird
Photographer: Own
Details: 7 X 35 X 13cm
Cast glass, varying dimensions.
Contact: mail@crispianheath.com
Contact: mail@crispianheath.com
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Tony Roberts
Email:Tony Roberts
Description: Artist: Tony Roberts
Reaching for the sky - sandcast recycled early 19thC glass
Photographer: Tony Roberts
Details: 36 Free-standing sand-cast glass outdoor sculptures, 1m to 2m high.
These sculptures are made from recovered old window glass. colours are largely produced during the casting by metals and Frits applied in the kiln. They always seem brighter than their immediate environment, an effect created by reflection and diffraction created by indentations in the hand-made sand mold prepared individually for each piece.
Contact: Tony Roberts, 01691 683667 (Shropshire)
Reaching for the sky - sandcast recycled early 19thC glass
Photographer: Tony Roberts
Details: 36 Free-standing sand-cast glass outdoor sculptures, 1m to 2m high.
These sculptures are made from recovered old window glass. colours are largely produced during the casting by metals and Frits applied in the kiln. They always seem brighter than their immediate environment, an effect created by reflection and diffraction created by indentations in the hand-made sand mold prepared individually for each piece.
Contact: Tony Roberts, 01691 683667 (Shropshire)
Contact: 01691 683667
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Edmond Byrne
Email:Ester Segarra
Description: Artist: Edmond Byrne
Emotion Landscape
Photographer: Ester Segarra
Details: Emotion Landscape
Mould blown glass using sodium silicate sand as a mould material. Patterns and texture are easily formed in the sand when soft, but it then hardens when exposed to CO2.
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREEmotion Landscape
Photographer: Ester Segarra
Details: Emotion Landscape
Mould blown glass using sodium silicate sand as a mould material. Patterns and texture are easily formed in the sand when soft, but it then hardens when exposed to CO2.
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Artist:Georgia Redpath
Email:Simon Bruntnell
Description: Artist: Georgia Redpath
Revolution
Photographer: Simon Bruntnell
Details: Cast glass, wood, gesso (each 140 x 190 x 45mm)
The original models for these cast pieces were created from sheet cardboard - the shape of which can be seen inside the cast block. However, instead of recreating the model itself in glass, I have chosen to cast the negative space around the original shape. This creates an interior world of reflections and refractions, and lends a fractal quality to the work.
Contact: georgia@redpathglass.co.uk
Revolution
Photographer: Simon Bruntnell
Details: Cast glass, wood, gesso (each 140 x 190 x 45mm)
The original models for these cast pieces were created from sheet cardboard - the shape of which can be seen inside the cast block. However, instead of recreating the model itself in glass, I have chosen to cast the negative space around the original shape. This creates an interior world of reflections and refractions, and lends a fractal quality to the work.
Contact: georgia@redpathglass.co.uk
Contact: georgia@redpathglass.co.uk
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Sally Thompson
Email:Dave Usher
Description: Artist: Sally Thompson
'Caddis'
Photographer: Dave Usher
Details: 125mm x 60mm
‘Caddis’ has emerged through a combination of ideas - thoughts of the lost and discarded components of a manmade activity being fossilised alongside natural objects, ideas of the evolution of creatures that use camouflage and a memory I had about Caddis fly larvae. The larva is aquatic and collects whatever material it can from its surroundings to form an ornate and highly intricate protective case around itself.
From an initial investigation into seeing how manmade and natural elements could work together, I produced some samples that reminded me of fossils and it struck me that through the casting process we are creating ‘future fossils’.
‘Caddis’is a core cast using the lost wax technique. First I made a wax form around a plaster core and then covered it with wax elements cast from a selection of silicone moulds. A refractory mould was made around the finished wax model then the wax was steamed out.
My final outcome embodies personal memories, ideas and connections and forms the starting point of my investigations for the final major project of my degree.
I hope ‘Caddis’ evokes the viewer’s own thoughts and interpretations and would be interested to hear them
Contact: sally.thompson567@btinternet.com
'Caddis'
Photographer: Dave Usher
Details: 125mm x 60mm
‘Caddis’ has emerged through a combination of ideas - thoughts of the lost and discarded components of a manmade activity being fossilised alongside natural objects, ideas of the evolution of creatures that use camouflage and a memory I had about Caddis fly larvae. The larva is aquatic and collects whatever material it can from its surroundings to form an ornate and highly intricate protective case around itself.
From an initial investigation into seeing how manmade and natural elements could work together, I produced some samples that reminded me of fossils and it struck me that through the casting process we are creating ‘future fossils’.
‘Caddis’is a core cast using the lost wax technique. First I made a wax form around a plaster core and then covered it with wax elements cast from a selection of silicone moulds. A refractory mould was made around the finished wax model then the wax was steamed out.
My final outcome embodies personal memories, ideas and connections and forms the starting point of my investigations for the final major project of my degree.
I hope ‘Caddis’ evokes the viewer’s own thoughts and interpretations and would be interested to hear them
Contact: sally.thompson567@btinternet.com
Contact: sally.thompson567@btinternet.com
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Linda Banks
Email:Linda Banks
Description: Artist: Linda Banks - Orchid Stained Glass
Holly and berry lamp shade
Photographer: Linda Banks
Details: meter by 24cm deep. Created November 2013.
A stained glass lamp featuring individually hand cut holly leaves in rich dark green and glass 'berries' in red, brown and clear glasses. The shade was formed on a fibreglass mould using the copper foil technique, soldered together and the joints blackened with patina.
Contact: lindacbanks4321@hotmail.com
Holly and berry lamp shade
Photographer: Linda Banks
Details: meter by 24cm deep. Created November 2013.
A stained glass lamp featuring individually hand cut holly leaves in rich dark green and glass 'berries' in red, brown and clear glasses. The shade was formed on a fibreglass mould using the copper foil technique, soldered together and the joints blackened with patina.
Contact: lindacbanks4321@hotmail.com
Contact: lindacbanks4321@hotmail.com
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Fiona Wilkes
Description: Artist: Fiona Wilkes
Mytilus Filter
Sand Cast Mould Hot Glass
Mytilus Filter (2014) explores organic marine forms and
filtering systems using sculptural sand casting moulds techniques and hot glass. Dim H.5cm W. 26cm L.40 cm
Contact: www.saltglassstudios.co.uk
Mytilus Filter
Sand Cast Mould Hot Glass
Mytilus Filter (2014) explores organic marine forms and
filtering systems using sculptural sand casting moulds techniques and hot glass. Dim H.5cm W. 26cm L.40 cm
Contact: www.saltglassstudios.co.uk
Contact: www.saltglassstudios.co.uk
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Susan Sinclair
Email:Susan Sinclair
Description: Artist: Susan Sinclair
"Big Fish; Little Fish"
Photographer: Photo by Susan Sinclair
Details: two shallow vessels 125mm dia. by 27mm depth, and 255mm dia. by 50mm depth. made December 2013
two shallow vessels made with fused glass powder sheet, conjoined. Using ball moulds of different sizes allowed using one as the "foot" for the other as a compound form.
Contact: churchhouseart@yahoo.co.uk
"Big Fish; Little Fish"
Photographer: Photo by Susan Sinclair
Details: two shallow vessels 125mm dia. by 27mm depth, and 255mm dia. by 50mm depth. made December 2013
two shallow vessels made with fused glass powder sheet, conjoined. Using ball moulds of different sizes allowed using one as the "foot" for the other as a compound form.
Contact: churchhouseart@yahoo.co.uk
Contact: churchhouseart@yahoo.co.uk
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Becky Fairclough
Email:Becky Fairclough
Description: Artist: Becky Fairclough
Sakura bowl
Photographer: Becky Fairclough
shallow dish formed in hand carved mould to give 3d texture on the reverse of the dish.
Contact: becky@beckyfairclough.co.uk
Sakura bowl
Photographer: Becky Fairclough
shallow dish formed in hand carved mould to give 3d texture on the reverse of the dish.
Contact: becky@beckyfairclough.co.uk
Contact: becky@beckyfairclough.co.uk
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Heike Brachlow
Email:Ester Segarra
Description: Artist: Heike Brachlow
Syntax I
Photographer: Ester Segarra
Details: 2013. Three elements. Cast glass, ground, polished (moulds taken from silicone model)
Contact: heike.brachlow@network.rca.ac.uk
Syntax I
Photographer: Ester Segarra
Details: 2013. Three elements. Cast glass, ground, polished (moulds taken from silicone model)
Contact: heike.brachlow@network.rca.ac.uk
Contact: heike.brachlow@network.rca.ac.uk
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:cheryl wilson smith
Description: Artist: cheryl wilson smith
Frosty Balance
Details: Cast Frit
6x5x4x inches
Contact: cheryl@trysmith.com
Frosty Balance
Details: Cast Frit
6x5x4x inches
Contact: cheryl@trysmith.com
Contact: cheryl@trysmith.com
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Teresa Chlapowski
Email:Teresa Chlapowski
Description: Artist: Teresa Chlapowski
Don't Look Back
Photographer: Teresa Chlapowski
Details: 51 x 9 cm on slate base 2013
The piece is sand cast - the back panel has been poured in a hot shop with the back of a ceramic figure pressed into the sand to form the mould, whilst the front was also pressed into sand but fired in the kiln using Gaffer glass to get the red colour. The sculptural panel creates a 'door' into a possible past, whilst the red figure is standing away from it looking forward but still has regrets. "Footfalls echo in the memory,Down the passage which we did not take,Towards the door we never opened" T.S. Elliot
Contact: aquarelledesign@chlapowski.plus.com
Don't Look Back
Photographer: Teresa Chlapowski
Details: 51 x 9 cm on slate base 2013
The piece is sand cast - the back panel has been poured in a hot shop with the back of a ceramic figure pressed into the sand to form the mould, whilst the front was also pressed into sand but fired in the kiln using Gaffer glass to get the red colour. The sculptural panel creates a 'door' into a possible past, whilst the red figure is standing away from it looking forward but still has regrets. "Footfalls echo in the memory,Down the passage which we did not take,Towards the door we never opened" T.S. Elliot
Contact: aquarelledesign@chlapowski.plus.com
Contact: aquarelledesign@chlapowski.plus.com
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Fiona Bryer
Email:John Linnell
Description: Artist: Fiona Bryer
Amber Beach
Photographer: John Linnell
Details: 29.8 cm x 12.8 cm x 10 cm
Amber Beach - open cast lead crystal. Refractory mould with lost wax process, cold worked, silver leaf gilding, cherry wood base. Made November 2013.
Contact: fionabryer@btinternet.com
Amber Beach
Photographer: John Linnell
Details: 29.8 cm x 12.8 cm x 10 cm
Amber Beach - open cast lead crystal. Refractory mould with lost wax process, cold worked, silver leaf gilding, cherry wood base. Made November 2013.
Contact: fionabryer@btinternet.com
Contact: fionabryer@btinternet.com
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Bruno Romanelli
Email:Robert Hall
Description: Artist: Bruno Romanelli
Luna
Photographer: Robert Hall
Details: 48x31x6cm
Lost wax cast, polished glass
Contact: Bruno Romanelli 07958 555473
Luna
Photographer: Robert Hall
Details: 48x31x6cm
Lost wax cast, polished glass
Contact: Bruno Romanelli 07958 555473
Contact: 07958 555473
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREEmail:Richard Jackson
Description: Artist: Deborah Timperley
Dialogue at the Threshold - Contained dialogue
Photographer: Richard Jackson
Details: Black glass, clear glass, 23.5ct gold
Open cast textured black outer form with 23.5ct gold. Clear glass polished inset.
10 x 10 x 11cm
Contact: Deborah Timperley
Dialogue at the Threshold - Contained dialogue
Photographer: Richard Jackson
Details: Black glass, clear glass, 23.5ct gold
Open cast textured black outer form with 23.5ct gold. Clear glass polished inset.
10 x 10 x 11cm
Contact: Deborah Timperley
Contact: Deborah Timperley
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Steve Robinson
Email:Steve Robinson
Description: Artist: Steve Robinson
"Storms Shell Island" - Triptych
Photographer: Steve Robinson
Details: Fused and slumped glass, coloured with enamels. Width 1480mm x height 650mm (made 2012)
I regularly use slumping to create three-dimensional relief in my work, and I achieve this with the use of saffil paper which I build up in layers to create a mould for my desired form. In this triptych I have used this technique in two distinct ways: the main panels have four flowing shapes running through them, which were achieved with long moulds on the bed of the kiln. Then on the top of the panels are over 70 shells. These have all been made individually, by creating mini shell shape moulds, and then slumping the glass into them (after colouring with enamels). After firing, each shell was cold-processed by grinding and polishing the edges to a beautiful finish on a series of diamond discs.
Contact: studio@vividglassart.co.uk
"Storms Shell Island" - Triptych
Photographer: Steve Robinson
Details: Fused and slumped glass, coloured with enamels. Width 1480mm x height 650mm (made 2012)
I regularly use slumping to create three-dimensional relief in my work, and I achieve this with the use of saffil paper which I build up in layers to create a mould for my desired form. In this triptych I have used this technique in two distinct ways: the main panels have four flowing shapes running through them, which were achieved with long moulds on the bed of the kiln. Then on the top of the panels are over 70 shells. These have all been made individually, by creating mini shell shape moulds, and then slumping the glass into them (after colouring with enamels). After firing, each shell was cold-processed by grinding and polishing the edges to a beautiful finish on a series of diamond discs.
Contact: studio@vividglassart.co.uk
Contact: studio@vividglassart.co.uk
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Cristina Ilinca
Email:Claudiu Ionescu
Description: Artist: Cristina Ilinca
Photographer: photo: Claudiu Ionescu
Details: Cast glass (lost wax), 18x17x16cm, 2009; Poschinger glass
Contact: cristina_c_i@yahoo.com
Photographer: photo: Claudiu Ionescu
Details: Cast glass (lost wax), 18x17x16cm, 2009; Poschinger glass
Contact: cristina_c_i@yahoo.com
Contact: cristina_c_i@yahoo.com
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Julia Webster
Email:Julia Webster
Description: Artist: Julia Webster
Elevate - foot and hands detail
Photographer: Julia Webster
Details: Mould blown glass installation and photographs
Clay mould blown glass sculpture. Detail of a seven glass piece suspended installation displayed with six A1 photographs taken of dancers in dynamic movement, by the artist. Made in 2012. Height of Elevate - foot and hands detail, approx. 70cm.
Contact: julia@glasszoo.co.uk
Elevate - foot and hands detail
Photographer: Julia Webster
Details: Mould blown glass installation and photographs
Clay mould blown glass sculpture. Detail of a seven glass piece suspended installation displayed with six A1 photographs taken of dancers in dynamic movement, by the artist. Made in 2012. Height of Elevate - foot and hands detail, approx. 70cm.
Contact: julia@glasszoo.co.uk
Contact: julia@glasszoo.co.uk
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:David Reekie
Email:David Reekie
Description: Artist: David Reekie
Conspire IV
Photographer: David Reekie
Details: July 2013, 34cm H x 26cm W x 11cm D - NFS
Conspire IV was originally modelled in clay and wax. The two body forms were modelled in clay leaving a tooled surface. The head and hand were then modelled separately in wax and then fitted into the clay bodies, this gives a nice contrast to the surface of the glass. Each figure was then invested in a casting material. Once set, the clay was removed and the wax steamed out, leaving a clean mould. The surface of the moulds was then painted with ceramic enamel colours, which fuse themselves to the glass when the pieces are fired in the kiln. This technique gives the glass a rich painterly quality.
Contact: www.davidreekie.com david.reekie@virgin.net
Conspire IV
Photographer: David Reekie
Details: July 2013, 34cm H x 26cm W x 11cm D - NFS
Conspire IV was originally modelled in clay and wax. The two body forms were modelled in clay leaving a tooled surface. The head and hand were then modelled separately in wax and then fitted into the clay bodies, this gives a nice contrast to the surface of the glass. Each figure was then invested in a casting material. Once set, the clay was removed and the wax steamed out, leaving a clean mould. The surface of the moulds was then painted with ceramic enamel colours, which fuse themselves to the glass when the pieces are fired in the kiln. This technique gives the glass a rich painterly quality.
Contact: www.davidreekie.com david.reekie@virgin.net
Contact: david.reekie@virgin.net
Details: July 2013, 34cm H x 26cm W x 11cm D - NFS
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Vivienne Jagger
Email:Vivienne Jagger
Description: Artist: Vivienne Jagger
Seedpod
Photographer: Photographer: Vivienne Jagger
Details: 500x200x80mm kiln formed; fused, slumped, coldworked and sandblasted .
this bowl explores the idea of a seedpod both in its shiny green underside and its pinker matt internal surface with the fragments of leaves and seeds incorporated into the glass - a memory of its past and future life.
Contact: Vivienne Jagger: viviennej@me.com
Seedpod
Photographer: Photographer: Vivienne Jagger
Details: 500x200x80mm kiln formed; fused, slumped, coldworked and sandblasted .
this bowl explores the idea of a seedpod both in its shiny green underside and its pinker matt internal surface with the fragments of leaves and seeds incorporated into the glass - a memory of its past and future life.
Contact: Vivienne Jagger: viviennej@me.com
Contact: Vivienne Jagger: viviennej@me.com
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Yury Vassilev
Email:Nikolay Cincarski
Description: Artist: Yury Vassilev
Black Temples - 3
Photographer: Nikolay Cincarski
Details: 33 cm x 17 cm x 6 cm
Mold melted glass
Contact: manager@yuryvassilev.com, www.yuryvassilev.com
Black Temples - 3
Photographer: Nikolay Cincarski
Details: 33 cm x 17 cm x 6 cm
Mold melted glass
Contact: manager@yuryvassilev.com, www.yuryvassilev.com
Contact: manager@yuryvassilev.com
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Dan Bowran
Email:Ester Segarra
Description: Artist: Dan Bowran
I Stand Corrected
Photographer: Ester Segarra
Details: Hotshop, Coldshop, Kiln formed, Mould making
Dan Bowran
I Stand Corrected – 2013
Hotshop, Coldshop, Kiln formed, Mould making.
While studying an MA at Royal College of Art in London I have been exploring ways of working with glass that aim to extend the relationship between humans and glass. I use a non-hierarchical selection process to develop this relationship. Promoting ways that don’t relegate artefacts of the glass making such as moulds to the past, and present them as integral elements of the final forms.
Furthering these ideas has led to techniques that allow the glass to become a mould for itself.
Contact: http://www.offtheplinth.com
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREI Stand Corrected
Photographer: Ester Segarra
Details: Hotshop, Coldshop, Kiln formed, Mould making
Dan Bowran
I Stand Corrected – 2013
Hotshop, Coldshop, Kiln formed, Mould making.
While studying an MA at Royal College of Art in London I have been exploring ways of working with glass that aim to extend the relationship between humans and glass. I use a non-hierarchical selection process to develop this relationship. Promoting ways that don’t relegate artefacts of the glass making such as moulds to the past, and present them as integral elements of the final forms.
Furthering these ideas has led to techniques that allow the glass to become a mould for itself.
Contact: http://www.offtheplinth.com
Artist:Max Lamb
Email:Dr F Wilkes
Description: Artist: Max Lamb
Ebb Arenicola 'Many Bristle Series (2013)
Photographer: Dr F Wilkes
Details: Ebb explores marine worm formations (Plaster & Rubber Moulds & Kiln Casting Glass)
Ebb - Arenicola 'Many Bristle Series explores marine worm formations through plaster, rubber & quartz mould making & Kiln Casting Glasma Glass techniques Dim: H 7cm x Dia 50cm
Contact: info@saltglassstudios.co.uk
Ebb Arenicola 'Many Bristle Series (2013)
Photographer: Dr F Wilkes
Details: Ebb explores marine worm formations (Plaster & Rubber Moulds & Kiln Casting Glass)
Ebb - Arenicola 'Many Bristle Series explores marine worm formations through plaster, rubber & quartz mould making & Kiln Casting Glasma Glass techniques Dim: H 7cm x Dia 50cm
Contact: info@saltglassstudios.co.uk
Contact: info@saltglassstudios.co.uk
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Catherine Brown
Email:Catherine Brown
Description: Artist: Catherine Brown
Bend and mend
Photographer: Catherine Brown
Details: Kiln formed glass with thread
Glass sculpture that has been sandblasted and kiln formed, with bound and stitched thread.
Contact: Catherine Brown
Bend and mend
Photographer: Catherine Brown
Details: Kiln formed glass with thread
Glass sculpture that has been sandblasted and kiln formed, with bound and stitched thread.
Contact: Catherine Brown
Contact: Catherine Brown
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Crispian Heath
Email:Own
Description: Artist: Crispian Heath
Bird
Photographer: Own
Details: 7 X 35 X 13cm
Cast glass, varying dimensions.
Contact: mail@crispianheath.com
Bird
Photographer: Own
Details: 7 X 35 X 13cm
Cast glass, varying dimensions.
Contact: mail@crispianheath.com
Contact: mail@crispianheath.com
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Tony Roberts
Email:Tony Roberts
Description: Artist: Tony Roberts
Reaching for the sky - sandcast recycled early 19thC glass
Photographer: Tony Roberts
Details: 36 Free-standing sand-cast glass outdoor sculptures, 1m to 2m high.
These sculptures are made from recovered old window glass. colours are largely produced during the casting by metals and Frits applied in the kiln. They always seem brighter than their immediate environment, an effect created by reflection and diffraction created by indentations in the hand-made sand mold prepared individually for each piece.
Contact: Tony Roberts, 01691 683667 (Shropshire)
Reaching for the sky - sandcast recycled early 19thC glass
Photographer: Tony Roberts
Details: 36 Free-standing sand-cast glass outdoor sculptures, 1m to 2m high.
These sculptures are made from recovered old window glass. colours are largely produced during the casting by metals and Frits applied in the kiln. They always seem brighter than their immediate environment, an effect created by reflection and diffraction created by indentations in the hand-made sand mold prepared individually for each piece.
Contact: Tony Roberts, 01691 683667 (Shropshire)
Contact: 01691 683667
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREArtist:Edmond Byrne
Email:Ester Segarra
Description: Artist: Edmond Byrne
Emotion Landscape
Photographer: Ester Segarra
Details: Emotion Landscape
Mould blown glass using sodium silicate sand as a mould material. Patterns and texture are easily formed in the sand when soft, but it then hardens when exposed to CO2.
TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HEREEmotion Landscape
Photographer: Ester Segarra
Details: Emotion Landscape
Mould blown glass using sodium silicate sand as a mould material. Patterns and texture are easily formed in the sand when soft, but it then hardens when exposed to CO2.
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