We are off to Belgium this month to take part in an exhibition, teach a workshop and do production work in the glass studio of the ‘Glazen Huis’ in Lommel, Belgium. The exhibition, named ‘Tenuous Tenacity’, is a survey of contemporary Canadian glass. It is curated by Jeroen Maes, coordinator of the Glazen Huis, and Brad Copping, president of Glass Art Association of Canada.
Other Canadian glass artists in the exhibition include: Brad Copping, Jocelyne Prince, Katherine Gray, Rika Hawes, Sue Rankin, Karli Sears, Tyler Rock, Rachel Wong, Carole Pilon, Catherine Hibbits, Ione Thorkelsson, Brad Turner, Michele Lapointe, John Paul Robinson, and recent Governor General’s Saidye Bronfman award winner Kevin Lockau.
From the ‘Glazen Huis; website - ’A glass cone, 30 m high, towers above the town centre of Lommel in an almost transparent way. A 6 m high glass box and an underground floor accommodate exhibition rooms on three levels around the cone. The exhibition rooms of the basement and the ground floor are in direct contact with the glass atelier. The architect and engineering office ‘Philippe Samyn en Partners’ have designed a building where spatial perception, art and its production live together in symbiosis and, in this way, form an inseparable entity.
Here is a photo looking up the cone.
Click HERE to link to the Glazen Huis
As well as showing in the exhibition, we are teaching a 5 day glassblowing workshop titled ‘Function Speaks’. We will also spend 6 days producing three new designs in the Glazen Huis studio. These designs will go also go into production when we return, and be available on our website as well as at select locations in Toronto.
Here are our preliminary drawings of the new work, themed around the ‘Great White North’.
