White Hot: contemporary Australian glass
ARTISTS: Nadege Desgenetez, Wendy Fairclough, Deirdre Feeney, Jessica Loughlin, Tom Moore, Brenden Scott French, Itzell Tazzyman and Janice Vitkovsky.
CURATORS: Barbara McConchie, CraftACT; Ann Jackle, Canberra Glassworks; Sarah Bond, Asialink
White Hot: contemporary Australian glass is presented in partnership with leading arts organisations Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre and Canberra Glassworks.
White Hot highlights the works of eight internationally renowned and celebrated Australian glass artists, reflecting on a moment in time by considering contemporary practitioners who challenge the traditional ideas, methods, and materials of glass making.
The invited artists, Nadege Desgenetez (ACT), Wendy Fairclough (SA), Deirdre Feeney (VIC), Jessica Loughlin (SA), Tom Moore (SA), Brenden Scott French (SA), Itzell Tazzyman (ACT) and Janice Vitkovsky (SA), all explore themes of narrative, nostalgia and challenge the notions of what glass can be.
In recent years, contemporary Australian glass artists have received unprecedented acclaim in the international arena. However, the focus has been more prevalent in the United States of America and Europe, rather than in Asia. White Hot celebrates the strength of Australian creative glass practice and industry with this dedicated glass exhibition, the first to be toured by Asialink through Asia, revealing the vibrancy and dynamism current within contemporary glass practice in Australia.
These eight artists demonstrate that whether it is expertly blown, meticulously engraved, production work or conceptual art, glass is a super-cooled mercurial substance that resists classification.
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Nadege Desgenetez Big Blue Clouds 2007 blown glass dimensions variable Photographer: Jeffrey Curtis |
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Wendy Fairclough Still Life #6 2006 hand blown and sandblasted glass 38 x 156 x 65 cm Photographer: Grant Hancock |
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Deirdre Feeney She never really lived here 2008 glass and digital projection 24.5 x 18 x 31 cm Photographer: David McArthur |
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Jessica Loughlin Shift 3 2007 Kilnformed glass 87 x 79 x 4 cm Photographer: Grant Hancock |
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Tom Moore The Workers 2007 hot joined blown and solid glass, found tools (left) 65 x 20 x 15 cm and (right) 55 x 20 x 15 cm Photographer: Grant Hancock |
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Brenden Scott French Predator - the Great North Land 2007 Kiln formed, wheel engraved and painted glass Photographer: Grant Hancock |
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Itzell Tazzyman Revealing Our First Nature (TRANSCENDENCE I) 2007 production pine chair, glue, metal, glass 95 x 43 x 40 cm Photographer: Rob Little |
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Janice Vitkovsky Untitled 2004 Murrine glass, fused, kiln-formed 36 x 26 x 1 cm Photographer: Grant Hancock |
Exhibition dates & venues:
Bangkok: 8 January - 30 January 2009, Silpakorn Gallery, Silpakorn University
Hanoi: 19 June – 28 June 2009, Vietnam Fine Art Museum
Taiwan: 24 July - 27 September, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts