Jacqueline King

Jacqueline King

CREATIVE PRACTICE

Maker of dreams in glass. Utilising cold glass and warm glass techniques including copper foiling, leadlighting, stained glass, kiln formed glass and flameworked glass.

ARTIST STATEMENT

As a self taught glass artist who gathers inspiration from the wildish place between sleep and waking, I attempt to create what comes to me with no idea how sometimes...just faith and gratitude that my hands and mind continue to assist me to create what is seen or felt. My artistic vision is the exploration of the fragility & diversity of life, one aspect being our natural environment & the other in the more human realms of healing from trauma.

BIO

My work is shipped carefully all over the world and is featured in Best of Worldwide Glass Artists Vol 1, International Contemporary Master Vol VII. My work is held in regional commercial galleries and collections both private & public including the Dax Collection in Melbourne, the world’s 3rd largest collection of work by those who have experienced trauma.

Publications featuring my work and/or my story include:

Best of Worldwide Glass Artists Vol 1

International Contemporary Masters Vol VII

Australian Art Collector Magazine & Australian Artists Magazine

'In Touch' - 40 women artists of the Caldera

'Sharing the Un-shareable' Education Centre Against Violence NSW Government

Jacaranda Project Manual

National Rural Health Alliance Partyline #43

Awards include the Caldera Fellowship Award for Tweed Shire Council & Essential Energy in 2012, People’s Choice Award in artVision Victoria 2012, Highly Commended in the prestigious Mortimore Prize plus numerous smaller awards including the Bentley Art Prize NSW, Tenterfield Show NSW.

Invitational guest presenter for National Rural Health Conference Adelaide & Arts Activated National Conference Sydney.

Commercial Galleries/stockists with my work when available currently include

Sea Silks Gallery Ballina NSW

Coldstream Gallery Ulmarra NSW

Artists' Collective Studio Tenterfield NSW

Make It Tenterfield NSW

CONTACT

Via website or social media

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Greville Wilton

Greville Wilton

CREATIVE PRACTICE

Lead lighting

The interaction of light with the colours and textures of glass is ever changing and a constant fascination. My collaboration with Tanya Robertson-Cuninghame over the past thirty two years, is a partnership of Tanya's paintings and lead lights derived from those works.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My extensive travel through Europe and Asia was where my appreciation of handmade crafts was ignited. Once back home, I open Katoomba Centrecraft, a craft supply and Gallery business. I tried my hand at several different crafts, before attending a Community College course in lead lighting, the rest is history. For the past 50 years I have worked with many artists and designers, and completed numerous commissions. As we move into the 21st Century I fear that many of the skills associated with traditional crafts will be lost, as technology overwhelms us and it becomes more difficult to earn an income through the Arts. Computers can't make lead lights - YET!

RECENT EXHIBTIONS

Maitland Regional Art Gallery
The Makers Shed Glen Innes

CONTACT

wattlebend@skymesh.com.au
(02) 6734 7497

Peter Robertson

Peter Robertson

CREATIVE PRACTICE

stained glass and leadlight artist

ARTIST STATEMENT

I use traditional heritage skills and incorporate these with modern methods for extending the life and beauty of artworks.

RECOGNITION

EDUCATION/TRAINING
Forty years working with glass, initially falling in love with glass art while travelling the west coast of America in the late seventies. On my return to Australia I studied Art Glass techniques of Fusing, Slumping, Painting, Firing and Glass Sculpture at what is now the University of Southern Queensland.

EXHIBITIONS
I have been represented in various exhibitions with other artists in the New England Region.

AWARDS/COMMISSIONS
The 1992 winner of the Armidale Heritage Award working with glass, I have been commissioned by the Anglican Church Armidale, the Sacred Heart Church Inverell, the Armidale Cathedral and the Inverell Shire Council for works of art and restoration. I received a Bi-Centennial grant for restoration of the Anglican Church at Tingha.

Commissioned by the AMP Society for their Sydney "I am Australian" showcase to provide six panels depicting Australian culture (see sculptured page) and also by the NSW Canterbury Leagues Club and the NSW Rockdale ex services club to provide decorative artwork for their Restaurants and Bars.

Commissioned by the Toowoomba Chamber of Commerce to design and provide the Business Excellence Awards and the Carnival of Flowers Awards for 2008 and more recently commissioned by the Chinchilla Church of Christ to design and supply two Stained Glass windows for their new building and the Russian Orthodox Church at Kangaroo Point in Brisbane for a panel to match their Icons in the renovated Church.

TEACHING
Extensive teaching tours in the North West of New South Wales including the TAFE Colleges at Inverell, Boggabilla, Warialda Adult Learning, Inverell Adult Learning, Inverell Art Society, Manly Warringah Community College, The Armidale University Union Creative Arts School and Summer and Easter schools at the University of New England in Armidale.

CONTACT

peter@stainedglassworks.com.au
0400 562 050