Precious Beasts – Carving Crystal Idols
Precious Beasts is an ongoing series of carved sculptural idols, loosely related to prehistoric representations of animals and magical creatures of fantasy.
Inspiration
The 7 Glass Wonders
The United Nations declared 2022 the International Year of Glass. Countless events, and activities across the globe took place throughout the year, celebrating glass in all its glory — from science, sustainability, industry and technology, to art, history and culture.
Woman and Man, two parts of a whole
In his book, Prehistoric European Art (1968), Walter Tobrügge discusses this specific Palaeolithic sculpture, suggesting: “If the work was, indeed, intended so to combine two motifs in a single object, like a puzzle picture, then it supplies evidence that the purpose of most early art was magical.”
Telescreens – a phenomenological experiment?
Continuing my exploration of digital vs. analogue experienced lives, I have constructed small sculptures as an experiment in phenomenology called Telescreens. These sculptures explore tangible experiences within the digital dystopia of our global lockdown and isolation.
Bohemian and the Freedom to do what you want.
A sluice of possibilities opened at this first international cold workers get-together! Through sharing, doing and conversing we explored the juncture between tradition and craftsmanship, and the freedom to do what you want.
2019 – New Glass Now
It is truly a proud moment to be recognised on this grand international platform for contemporary glass, to be one of the voices intertwining the world of glass and future, twenty-first century art.
Pocket Lenses II & Notes on past works
Pocket Lenses developed over years. They have become an analogue synonym of our digitally engaged society. Lenses were a natural conclusion to the work I do. Sculpting solid (and sometimes blown) glass by grinding and polishing I invoke light to do crazy things. Light is all around us. It is the substance (or wave) that informs us of our surrounding, bouncing off everything we see.
Pocket Lenses
This idea of an alternate reality inside your pocket is not new. Most of us are aquatinted with that digital version – the dumbfone.
Ngwenya Glass Workshop 2017
One of my highlight of 2017 is to have been part of Ngwenya Glass’ renowned workshop again. The last time I was in the the Kingdom of Swaziland to make glass was 2010, for the VuvuAfrica project to celebrate South Africa’s Soccer World Cup and previous workshops.