| Glass Crafts and Drawing Exhibition The exhibition will open on the 17th May with a series of talks by Peter Layton, Angela Thwaites, Max Jacquard and Matthew Durran, outlining their own unique approaches to this fascinating art medium. Exhibitors include: Marie Worre Hastrup Holm, Yoshiko Okada, Bruce Marks, Matthew Durran, Layne Rowe The
first ever large-scale exhibition of Glass Art in St Ives brings the
cream of the UK’s glass practitioners to the light and spacious
surroundings of the Mariners Church. Curated by Arthur Hancox of the
Plumbline Gallery this exhibition explores the diversity of techniques
and personalities at the cutting edge of the contemporary glass scene.
From the hypnotic fields of dichroic shadows in wall works by East
Anglian artist Chris Wood, to the meadows of childlike flowers adorning
the bowls of London based Marie Worre Hastrup Holm; the show boasts an
incredible range of both media and artistic expression. Click here for Pictures from the Opening of the Exhibition |
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 "Divide and separate" |
 "Don't box me in" Yoshiko Okada |
 "Beerpot" Bruce Marks |
 "Yellow Bloomin' Bowl" Marie Worre Hastrup Holm |
.jpg) "018" Matthew Durran |
 "Scarify" Layne Rowe |
 "Torso" Max Jacquard |
 "Fenders" Max Jacquard |
 "Libra" Simon Moss - Peter Layton |
 "Strange Fruit" by Peter Layton |
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It is now over 40 years since Harvey Littleton first melted glass in an old oil drum and gave birth to the modern Studio Glass movement. The palette for creating with glass in a small studio is now firmly established. Today’s artists working with glass are striving to leave behind the limiting label of Craft and to see their work ranked alongside paintings and sculpture made with more traditional media such as oil paint and bronze. Much of today’s glass art is concerned with more than just function and decoration and in fact can be said to be connected by one overriding concern – ‘the action of the light on the object’ and in turn ‘the interaction of the object with the space’. Many of the glass objects in this show use reflection and refraction as compositional devices: Yoshiko Okada’s contemplative faces gaze at reflections on the surfaces of the polished blocks they inhabit. Anthony Scala’s exquisite sculptures are a myriad of jewel like effects making their true form a puzzle to be deciphered while Sally Fawkes’ impressive Optical blocks act almost like paintings in light, their surfaces as fields of brilliant reflective texture or windows to an internal world. Some of the artists here are combining glass with other media, Max Jacquard combines blown glass with natural coir rope to create objects that would not look out of place in a St Ives Boat Yard whilst Matthew Durran removes the glass altogether, leaving us a sumptuous coloured imprint of glass exposed on photographic paper. The Art of Glass covers several generations of artists from mature practitioners such as Louis Thompson, Sue Nixon and Angela Thwaites whose work and teaching have influenced many new converts to glass ; artists firmly established in their careers such as Rick Jackson and Keiko Mukade (recently showing at the Tate St Ives) and rising stars from the younger generation such Fiaz Elson, Joseph Harrington, Sabrina Cant and Hanna Facey .The veteran of all being Peter Layton who was part of the first wave of UK artists experimenting with glass in the late sixties. Peter promotes a host of younger artists as part of his famous studio and gallery in London Bridge. Included here are glass-blowers Bruce Marks and Layne Rowe and kiln-former Lucy Swift. Peter continues to innovate in his own work presenting a glass and felt installation as well as a series of sculptural dialogues, a collaboration with Simon Moss.
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