UNSW Galleries opening

Consuelo Cavinglia: Through The Door That Holds You

Sydney-based artist Consuelo Cavaniglia considers how we see and understand space. This exhibition presents Cavaniglia’s new body of work using glass, to extend her interests in colour and optics and create disorienting environments.

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Mel Douglas: Out of Line

Canberra-based artist Mel Douglas explores the potential and flexibility of glass as a material for drawing. The exhibition includes the installation Tonal value (1-9) 2019, which contemplates how objects can occupy and trace lines in space and the tonal transformations made possible through the viscosity of glass.

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Liam Fleming: Falling into Space

Liam Fleming is an Adelaide-based glassblower, artist and designer, this exhibition showcases a new body of work. Results from further experiments with cold-working techniques, giving over to chance in the workshop and a philosophical exploration of the kinds of objects and qualities afforded by the medium of glass, which can take on different behaviours and potentials during fire polishing, fusing and slumping.

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Louis Grant: awash

Louis Grant works between studio glass and interdisciplinary practice, exploring the potential of traditional craft skills to push the boundaries of glass making and contemporary sculpture. ‘awash’ brings together a collection of new and recent works in which Grant pairs back materials to their pure, honest form, allowing the glass medium to be both fragile and robust.

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Banner: Mel Douglas, ‘Affinity’ 2022. Kiln formed, compressed and cold worked glass. Image courtesy of the artist and Sabbia Gallery, Sydney.