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Oct 31 - Nov 3
Mel Douglas | TONAL VALUE (1-9) | 3216
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TONAL VALUE (1-9) | 32163
TONAL VALUE (1-9) | 32163, 2019
blown, cold worked, and engraved glass
38"h x 195"w x 19"d
$100,000
DEPTH AND DISTANCE II (GRAY) | 32169
DEPTH AND DISTANCE II (GRAY) | 32169, 2019
glass drawings on paper
35.75"h x 35.75"w
$3,500
DEPTH AND DISTANCE II (CORAL) | 32170
DEPTH AND DISTANCE II (CORAL) | 32170, 2019
glass drawings on paper
35.75"h x 35.75"w
$3,500
DEPTH AND DISTANCE II (TAUPE) | 32171
DEPTH AND DISTANCE II (TAUPE) | 32171, 2019
glass drawings on paper
35.75"h x 35.75"w
$3,500
DEPTH AND DISTANCE II (PINK) | 32172
DEPTH AND DISTANCE II (PINK) | 32172, 2019
glass drawings on paper
35.75"h x 35.75"w
$3,500
DEPTH AND DISTANCE II (YELLOW) | 32173
DEPTH AND DISTANCE II (YELLOW) | 32173, 2019
glass drawings on paper
35.75"h x 35.75"w
$3,500
CLOSE IMPRESSIONS, EEL GREEN WITH GREY | 32182
CLOSE IMPRESSIONS, EEL GREEN WITH GREY | 32182, 2018
blown glass with cane drawing, hand sanded, and polished
23.25"h x 8"w x 8"d
$7,800
CLOSE IMPRESSIONS, EEL GREEN WITH GREY | 32181
CLOSE IMPRESSIONS, EEL GREEN WITH GREY | 32181, 2018
blown glass with applied shards, hand sanded, and polished
17.25"h x 13"w x 4.75"d
$8,200
IN DEEP, BLUE AND ORANGE | 32184
IN DEEP, BLUE AND ORANGE | 32184, 2019
blown glass with cane drawing, hand sanded, and polished
18"h x 14"w x 4.75"d
$9,000
IN DEEP, OCEANA AND GREEN | 32183
IN DEEP, OCEANA AND GREEN | 32183, 2018
blown glass with cane drawing, hand sanded, and polished
17"h x 15"w x 5.5"d
$8,000
QUIET SHIFTING, GREEN AND ORANGE | 32186
QUIET SHIFTING, GREEN AND ORANGE | 32186, 2019
blown glass with cane drawing, hand sanded, and polished
22.5"h x 12"w x 8"d
$10,800
QUIET SHIFTING, BLUE AND BROWN | 32189
QUIET SHIFTING, BLUE AND BROWN | 32189, 2019
blown glass with cane drawing, hand sanded, and polished
23"h x 12.25"w x 7.5"d
$10,800
QUIET SHIFTING, PURPLE AND GOLD | 32193
QUIET SHIFTING, PURPLE AND GOLD | 32193, 2019
blown glass with cane drawing, hand sanded, and polished
25.2"h x 15.75"w x 7.8"d
$14,000
QUIET SHIFTING, GREEN AND GOLD | 32194
QUIET SHIFTING, GREEN AND GOLD | 32194, 2019
blown glass with cane drawing, hand sanded, and polished
12"h x 9"w x 4.75"d
$5,000
DUO #2 | 32206
DUO #2 | 32206, 2019
ceramic, hair, glass
11"h x 9"w x 7"d
$2,200
GREEN JAR | 32200
GREEN JAR | 32200, 2018
ceramic, hair, metal
60"h x 17"w x 17"d
$5,800
PINE-APPLE | 32201
PINE-APPLE | 32201, 2018
ceramic, glaze bit, fur, hair, metal
17"h x 9"w x 8"d
$2,800
NOTHING #3 | 32207
NOTHING #3 | 32207, 2017
ceramic, fiber, metal
16"h x 10"w x 10"d
$2,800
UP IS BETTER THAN DOWN | 32204
UP IS BETTER THAN DOWN | 32204, 2018
ceramic, hair, fly-fishing materials
5.5"h x 5"w x 3"d
$1,250
FABULOUS | 32215
FABULOUS | 32215, 2018
ceramic, hair
6"h x 5"w x 3"d
$1,250
CHAOS | 32208
CHAOS | 32208, 2018
ceramic, hair
8"h x 5"w x 4"d
$1,250
PLOP | 32198
PLOP | 32198, 2016
ceramic, hair
36"h x 28"w x 18"d
$4,200
LOLP | 32199
LOLP | 32199, 2016
ceramic, glaze, underglaze, hair
37"h x 24"w x 11"d
$3,500
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  • TONAL VALUE (1-9) | 32163, 2019
    blown, cold worked, and engraved glass
    38"h x 195"w x 19"d
    $100,000
  • DEPTH AND DISTANCE II (GRAY) | 32169, 2019
    glass drawings on paper
    35.75"h x 35.75"w
    $3,500
  • DEPTH AND DISTANCE II (CORAL) | 32170, 2019
    glass drawings on paper
    35.75"h x 35.75"w
    $3,500
  • DEPTH AND DISTANCE II (TAUPE) | 32171, 2019
    glass drawings on paper
    35.75"h x 35.75"w
    $3,500
  • DEPTH AND DISTANCE II (PINK) | 32172, 2019
    glass drawings on paper
    35.75"h x 35.75"w
    $3,500
  • DEPTH AND DISTANCE II (YELLOW) | 32173, 2019
    glass drawings on paper
    35.75"h x 35.75"w
    $3,500
  • CLOSE IMPRESSIONS, EEL GREEN WITH GREY | 32182, 2018
    blown glass with cane drawing, hand sanded, and polished
    23.25"h x 8"w x 8"d
    $7,800
  • CLOSE IMPRESSIONS, EEL GREEN WITH GREY | 32181, 2018
    blown glass with applied shards, hand sanded, and polished
    17.25"h x 13"w x 4.75"d
    $8,200
  • IN DEEP, BLUE AND ORANGE | 32184, 2019
    blown glass with cane drawing, hand sanded, and polished
    18"h x 14"w x 4.75"d
    $9,000
  • IN DEEP, OCEANA AND GREEN | 32183, 2018
    blown glass with cane drawing, hand sanded, and polished
    17"h x 15"w x 5.5"d
    $8,000
  • QUIET SHIFTING, GREEN AND ORANGE | 32186, 2019
    blown glass with cane drawing, hand sanded, and polished
    22.5"h x 12"w x 8"d
    $10,800
  • QUIET SHIFTING, BLUE AND BROWN | 32189, 2019
    blown glass with cane drawing, hand sanded, and polished
    23"h x 12.25"w x 7.5"d
    $10,800
  • QUIET SHIFTING, PURPLE AND GOLD | 32193, 2019
    blown glass with cane drawing, hand sanded, and polished
    25.2"h x 15.75"w x 7.8"d
    $14,000
  • QUIET SHIFTING, GREEN AND GOLD | 32194, 2019
    blown glass with cane drawing, hand sanded, and polished
    12"h x 9"w x 4.75"d
    $5,000
  • DUO #2 | 32206, 2019
    ceramic, hair, glass
    11"h x 9"w x 7"d
    $2,200
  • GREEN JAR | 32200, 2018
    ceramic, hair, metal
    60"h x 17"w x 17"d
    $5,800
  • PINE-APPLE | 32201, 2018
    ceramic, glaze bit, fur, hair, metal
    17"h x 9"w x 8"d
    $2,800
  • NOTHING #3 | 32207, 2017
    ceramic, fiber, metal
    16"h x 10"w x 10"d
    $2,800
  • UP IS BETTER THAN DOWN | 32204, 2018
    ceramic, hair, fly-fishing materials
    5.5"h x 5"w x 3"d
    $1,250
  • FABULOUS | 32215, 2018
    ceramic, hair
    6"h x 5"w x 3"d
    $1,250
  • CHAOS | 32208, 2018
    ceramic, hair
    8"h x 5"w x 4"d
    $1,250
  • PLOP | 32198, 2016
    ceramic, hair
    36"h x 28"w x 18"d
    $4,200
  • LOLP | 32199, 2016
    ceramic, glaze, underglaze, hair
    37"h x 24"w x 11"d
    $3,500
  • About
    Mel Douglas

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Douglas has worked as an independent studio artist since graduating from the Canberra School of Art, Australian National University in 2000. Since 2008 she has been a sessional lecturer and is currently a PhD Candidate in the Glass Workshop at the ANU. Both public institutions and private collections around the world, including the Ebeltoft Museum of Glass, Denmark, National Gallery of Australia, Australia and the Corning Museum of Glass, New York, have collected Douglas’s work. She has received several major awards including the Ranamok Glass Prize in 2002, the International Young Glass Award in 2007 from Ebeltolft and the Tom Malone Prize 2014.

Objects and drawings are often thought of as two separate entities. My work explores and interweaves the creative possibilities of this liminal space, where the form is not just a substrate for drawing; but a three-dimensional drawing itself.

Using the unique qualities of the material, and the rich potential of mark making on and with glass, I am using line as a way to inform, define and enable three-dimensional space.

Her delicate, subtle work comes from the slow and considered process of engraved mark making. This process of mark making is influenced by the objects physical and linear relationships. Douglas’ mastery of her craft is highly regarded and has earned her many awards including the 2014 Tom Malone Prize, 2007 International Young Glass Award, Ebeltolft, as well as the 2002 Ranamok Glass Prize.

 

  • Clare Belfrage

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Inspired by experiences in the natural world for many years now, Clare Belfrage has forged an international reputation for her distinguished work with detailed and complex glass drawing on blown glass forms.

She has maintained a vibrant practice for thirty years. She has been an active part of artists’ communities, particularly in Adelaide and Canberra, including the glass based studio blue pony, of which she is a founding member, the JamFactory Glass Studio in Adelaide and, Canberra Glassworks where she played the pivotal role of Creative Director from 2009 to 2013.

Clare has had a long involvement in education and has lectured in the glass programs at the University of South Australia, SA, and Ohio State University, USA and Curtin University, WA. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of South Australia. She has also taught numerous workshops throughout Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and the United States.

In addition to Australia, Clare regularly exhibits in North America, Europe, Hong Kong, and New Zealand. Her work has been recognized for its innovation and originality and in 2005 and, 2011, she was awarded the Tom Malone Glass Prize by the Art Gallery of Western Australia. In 2016 she was awarded the inaugural FUSE Glass Prize for Australian and New Zealand glass. In 2018 Clare was the South Australian Living Artist Festival feature artist and subject of the festival’s annual monograph, Rhythms of Necessity, written by Kay Lawrence and Sera Waters.

Clare’s work is represented in major public collections including National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Corning Museum of Glass, USA, Museo do Vidro, Marinha Grande, Portugal, Tacoma Museum of Glass, USA, National Art Glass Collection, Wagga Wagga, ArtBank, NSW, Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Museum and Art Gallery of Tasmania and Northern Territory Museum.

  • Ling Chun

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I have a drive, a lust and greed for color.

My ceramic forms are “playgrounds for glaze,” and I like to challenge the rules and roles of ceramics by disassociating the material from its stereotypical or culturally accepted uses. Removing still-hot pieces from the kiln, I apply liquid glazes to the surface creating a sizzling sound and a haze of steam until the glaze sticks. It is an intuitive process that emerges through multiple firings and layers of glaze. The work is born of the spontaneous dripping, sliding, running, climbing and crawling that occurs; the movement of the material is my medium.

The use of hair—which I see as a metamorphosis of the clay—serves as an extension of the ceramic process and also transgresses the permanence of clay, resetting the boundaries of ceramics reflected by cultural standards. My work also addresses my transitional stage between multiple cultures and languages through the complex layering of materials onto my ceramic sculptures. I believe contemporary ceramics will serve as a latter-day artifact of our current acknowledgment of cultural identity. It is a material strongly connected with history but never limited just to its heritage—a new age of ceramics will be one where style is no longer restricted to the old forms.

Ultimately, I desire to invite others into my side of the spectrum and to learn and study about how ceramics is more than just clay.

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