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| When
I first moved to Somerset I went to visit the Neil Wilkin glass studio
in Frome, and was transfixed by what I saw there. They were making work
for Peter Brehmens, vast fluid forms that look like undersea creatures.
I was fascinated by the choreography of the workers, like a sophistocated
dance ritual in celebration of fire or a complex balancing act where all
could go wrong at any moment. Furniture making is slow and premeditated,
similar to engineering. Glass has to be done spontaneously and the makers
relationship to the material was entirely different to anything I had
experienced before. Alice Eyre made these pieces for me, and working closely together we experimented, trying out colours and rolling the gloopy hot glass in carborundum powder. The surface cools and wrinkles, becoming rock like in look - quite unlike glass. Once out of the leer the pieces were cut and polished. This was a hugely liberating experience, combining my ideas with the skill of others giving me further insight into my ongoing investigation in to the nature of objects. |
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