![]() ![]() It hence comes as no surprise that she spent a year in Italy working under glass artist Pino Signoretto, became the youngest Master Gaffer at Steuben Glass, and even taught at the Corning Museum of Glass. With over 20 years of experience under her belt, considering she found her calling at the tender age of 14, Brenna Baker Brown is undeniably one of the most skillful, innovative blowers in the industry. There is a dialogue between the things we hold and use every day and our bodily needs and functions.” Furthermore, we should mention that the New York resident wants to keep her craft small-scale so as to maintain sustainability and not lose its personal touch. “I am also a performance artist, and so I am often thinking about how glassware is a character in our daily script. “I am constantly thinking about forms and function, but I often have to sketch with the material itself in order to understand and physicalize my design concepts,” Grace once explained. You can actually purchase some of their (often made-to-order) pieces through the business’ website and help them gain further experience they first stepped foot into the industry in 2014. This place is where they let their specialization in multi-functional, performative, and collaborative glasswork shine, especially with the open use of their bright, humorous style. The glass needle is separate.īoth will be auctioned on the 5th July, on our website, with a reserve price of £2,700.A post shared by Grace Whiteside to their whereabouts, from what we can tell, Grace is a Brooklyn-based artist who serves as the proud founder of an independent creative company called Sticky Glass at the moment. ![]() They measure approximately 40cm high and 15cm wide. This serves as a thank you for the extraordinary effort and sacrifice made on our behalf, by healthcare workers in all of the capacities they worked in during the Pandemic.Įlliot has made two pieces titled The Threads Connecting Us. To be launched on 5th July - on the 73rd anniversary of the founding of the NHSĮlliot Walker, star and winner of the Netflix Blown Away Series II, has created two glass sculptures to auction to raise funds for the Healthcare Workers’ Foundation. ![]() Limited Edition piecesĮlliot has provided us with three Limited Edition versions of his creation, which he has titled Threads.Įach of the three editions has a different colourway with its own circular glass base and each version will be an edition of only 25.Įlliot will sign, title, and inscribe the edition number on every stunning sculpture. We're delighted that Elliot has made three limited edition versions of Threads, which are available to purchase exclusively through London Glassblowing. It takes an incredibly rare talent to envisage something of this calibre and only a sculpting virtuoso like Elliot to be able to make them, as these glass sculptures are really complex and extremely difficult to make. The final addition of the needle to complete the piece also refers to our fervent hope that the vaccination will help to relieve the current, but necessary restrictions we are all living under.” Elliot Walker Having each layer added to the spool by a different, and long missed friend, gave the process the feeling of community and collective endeavour that I feel reflects the past year’s events. “The idea of making a spool of thread allowed me not only to reference the various emotional reactions to the pandemic, through the use of colour, but also gave me the opportunity to add an element of performance art into the process. Members of the gallery team viewing this in person, were invited to hold the blowing iron in order to apply molten coloured glass while it was wound around the spool as it rotated on the glassmaker’s bench. In front of three cameras and live-streamed to over 1000 people world-wide, Elliot created an especially large spool which was an enormous challenge to make. The added instruction was that this should reference the NHS during the Pandemic. ‘Collective Endeavour: In the Face of Adversity’. The challenge that London Glassblowing chose, to set Elliot, was This is our first blog and what better way to start, than with news about Elliot Walker!Įlliot Walker, winner and star of the Netflix programme, Blown Away 2, was set a challenge by London Glassblowing Studio to create a sculpture in celebration of the incredible work done by our NHS during the Pandemic. ![]()
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