Meltwater, a Unique Woven Blue Glass Sculptural Centrepiece by Cathryn Shilling

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Meltwater, a Unique Woven Blue Glass Sculptural Centrepiece by Cathryn Shilling

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Meltwater is a unique clear glass sculptural centrepiece by the British artist Cathryn Shilling. Using chunky glass rods in steel blue, which are harder to source, Shilling weaves and layers these to beautiful effect. Being thicker than her usual glass, these take more firings as the canes are more prone to behaving erratically and rolling away. Therefore more patience is required to create every layer first, which are then finally stacked for the last firing. In the artist's own words; "For this piece I bring together strand upon strand of fine glass canes and then fuse them together so that they begin to look like a sheet of woven glass cloth. The vibrant surface of the piece moves and shimmers, exploiting the texture and light in surprising ways" Cathryn Shilling began her arts career as a graphic designer but went on to study glass after moving to Connecticut with her family. On returning to the UK she studied kiln formed glass at Kensington and Chelsea College and blown glass with Peter Layton at the London Glassblowing Workshop. She set up studio in London in 2007 from where she has gone on to create a huge body and variety of work. Shilling experiments with colour and technique to produce beautiful one off sculptures. Her innovative pieces push the glass beyond our usual comfort zones. With some sculptures, glass rods are woven together like fabric, mimicking the flexibility and movement of cloth. The apparent frailty of the glass is balanced by the strong dynamic forms, differing levels of light picking out layers of colour. With other works, bubbles are trapped in swathes of watery hues. Her colour palette and choice of forms are very much informed by the various natural states in which water is found: icebergs, waterfalls and whirlpools for example. Shilling’s work has been collected and widely exhibited internationally including: Ireland Glass Biennale 2019 at Dublin Castle The 3rd Session of China·Hejian Craft Glass Design & Creation Exhibition and Competition, Ming Shangde Glass Museum, Cangzhou City, Hebei Province, China 2019 TACTILE at Glazenhuis, Lommel, Belgium New Aquisitions 2017 at Glasmuseum Lette, Coesfield, Germany Peter Bremers & Cathryn Shilling: A Two Person Exhibition at Schiepers Gallery in Belgium The CGS Jubileum 20th Anniversary Exhibition at Etienne Gallery, Oisterwijk, Netherlands The Taos Art Glass Invitational New Mexico, USA BODYTALK at the Glasmuseet, Ebletoft, Denmark East-West Artists Exhibitions in Kyoto, Japan and London. She has exhibited at the British Glass Biennale in 2010, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2019 and in 2017 her collaboration with Anthony Scala won the Craft & Design Award. She has twice exhibited as a finalist in the Emerge Juried Kiln-glass Exhibition at Bullseye Projects, Portland, Oregon, USA. In 2013 Shilling won the international Warm Glass Artists Prize and has twice been nominated for the SUWA Garasuno-Sato Glass Prize and several times for the Arts & Crafts Design Award. In 2015 she was number 4 in the Glassation list of ‘The Most Game-Changing Female Glass Artists’ and number 25 in the Graphic Design Hub’s list of ‘The 30 Most Amazing Glass Artists Alive Today’. She was winner of the V&A’s ‘Inspired By’ award for glass in 2009.

Creator:
Cathryn Shilling (Artist)
Dimensions:
Height: 3.94 in (10 cm)Diameter: 16.54 in (42 cm)Length: 3.94 in (10 cm)
Style:
Organic Modern (In the Style Of)
Materials and Techniques:
Art Glass,Glass,Hand-Crafted
Place of Origin:
United Kingdom
Period:
2010-
Date of Manufacture:
2021
Production Type:
New & Custom(One of a Kind)
Estimated Production Time:
Available Now
Condition:
Seller Location:
London, GB
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1023023911302