Emma Camden - Filling the void

Emma Camden

Filling the Void

6 - 17 October 2012

You are warmly invited to meet Emma at the opening; 

Tuesday 6 October,  5.30 - 7.00pm

Emily Siddell & Stephen Bradbourne

Emily Siddell - Crocheted Black Wire & Fused Glass

 'Link' a collaborative show by Emily Siddell and Stephen Bradbourne is on until the 28th April.  The exhibition features sole work as well as collaborative pieces by Emma and Stephen; where Stephen has blown glass vessels around Emily's beaded forms.

"Both of our separate practices share similar concerns - The adornment of objects,   surface decoration, detailed repeat pattern and intricate linear assemblage. These new collaborative pieces demonstrate and explore the links between our individual techniques and ideas.
Blown murrine vessels incorporate detailed linear decoration as an integral part of the work.
Fine crocheted kete utilise a mesh like wire structure with glass adornment applied as a separate exterior layer.
The new beaded bowls have a wire and glass adornment that is partially fused onto the surface during the blowing process, creating an interplay between the surface decoration and the clear glass vessel."

Emily Siddell & Stephen Bradbourne, 2012

Emily Siddell & Stephen Bradbourne - Beaded Vessels

Stephen Bradbourne - Murrine Leaf

Emily Siddell & Stephen Bradbourne - Link

Emma Camden - The Girl Inside my Head

Today is the last day of our current shelf show, 'The Girl Inside my Head', featuring four beautiful pieces of cast glass by Emma Camden.  These sculptural works are inspired by the memories of a friend, and provided an opportunity for Emma to try some new experimental designs.  

Emma Camden, 'Hollow'

 

Emma Camden, 'Chaos'

Emma Camden, 'Light '

Emma Camden, 'Flyer'

New Work by Christine Cathie

Christine Cathie has some stunning new pieces in the gallery.  From her 'O-Void' collection, they are an evolution from her ribbons, continuing the same simple elegance and bringing a sense of movement to the glass.

O-Void  - Lime

" I want to keep a sense of the lost wax process in my work - some of the initial stages of working with warm flexible wax strips, building them up to alarger form that works with variations in thick and thin. The works of Alexander Calder and Barbara Hepwoth have been an influence with these forms."
- Christine Cathie, 2011

O - Void Red

New Work from Stephen Bradbourne

We now have in stock three beautiful blue vessels from glass blower Stephen Bradbourne. 
 

Stephen Bradbourne - Double Blue Incalmo

The two bottles have been made using the Incalmo technique.

This technique was developed by Venetian master glassblowers approximately 500 years ago and has traditionally been used to create horizontal bands of colour in blown glass.

The process involves making  'cups' of coloured or patterned glass which are connected together. 

Stephen Bradbourne - Triple Blue Incalmo

A hole is then pierced on the side of the assembled cups and attached to another blow pipe.The artist then gathers more glass and forms the piece into the desired shape.

Incalmo is a technically complex and physically demanding technique to use. The artist must be a proficient glass blower and dedicated to the process in order to master it.

Stephen Bradbourne - Blue Marrine

Stephen's bowl is made using the Murrine process.

" Murrine technique begins with the layering of colored liquid glass, which is then stretched into long rods called canes. When cold, these canes are then sliced in cross-section, which has the layered pattern." (wikipedia).

Dominic Burrell - Geophysics

Glass artist Dominic Burrell is our second exhibition for the year.  Geophysics opens on Tuesday 8th March and will run till the 19th March and will feature his distinctive multi-coloured blown glass forms that are reminiscent of illustrative cutaways of the Earth's crust.  You are warmly invited to meet Dominic at the preview on Tuesday from 5.30 - 7.00pm.

AVID Artists at the Dowse

The Dowse Art Museum in Lower Hutt currently has a small show highlighting the history and development of glass in New Zealand.  'Light Stones' features 3 AVID artists, John Edgar, Lyndsay Patterson and Elizabeth McClure, and will be running until the 27th March 2011.  

John Edgar - Glass Stone

Lyndsay Patterson - Landscape Vessel

Elizabeth McClure - Staccato 1

Layla Walter - Solo Exhibition in the States

Glass caster Layla Walter has just opened her forth solo exhibition at America’s top glass venue, William Traver Gallery.

"The show is a harvest from my work over the last 15 years. Including the woven series, flower and bird works in glass. It is also a reflection of living in my home, with the garden at a point of fruition, full of fruiting plants and trees. On the eve of becoming a mother it is wonderful to be at a point of nourishment and collection. Much of the detail in the work is drawn from the garden, including black fig and chrysanthemums”.

Also, just in time for Christmas Layla has sent us a couple of her amazing bowls, the 'Black Robin'and the 'Woven Bowl'.

Layla Walter - (L) Open Bowl -Woven Interior  (R) Black Robin

Beautiful new work from David Murray and Emma Camden

Gatherer, polished wave top in cobalt blue by David Murray

Small Cross, hyacinth cast glass  by Emma Camden

Work has just arrived in the gallery from Emma Camden and David Murray - check out these wonderful cast glass sculptures at AVID Gallery

Claudia Borella at Bowen House

Glass artist Claudia Borella, is part of a Whanganui Artists show  which is currently on at the newly refurbished gallery at Bowen House. Organised by the Whanganui MP, Chester Borrows, the show hopes to highlight the outstanding quality of art that is emerging from Whanganui, and expose the artists to the varied crowds that pass through Parliament.    The exhibition is open 9am til 5pm weekdays until November 12.

For more details on Claudia's 'Boat Form - Transference 18' click here.

Claudia Borella's 'Boat form - Transference 18' on show at Bowen House

Stephen Bradbourne vase to enter Wallace collection

Stephen Bradbourne's 'Black Mosaic' vase has been aquired by James Wallace and is to enter into his prestigious collection. Mr Wallace is one of the most prolific collecters of  New Zealand art and this will be the second piece of Stephens in his collection.

To see more of Stephens work available at AVID click here.

To read more about James Wallace and his collection click here.

Stephen Bradbourne's Black Mosaic Vase

Glass blowing - Stephen Bradbourne blows a murrine glass vase