The Lathe Riders brought cold work into the limelight at this year’s Glass Art Society conference in Berlin. For the first time in history, cold work got centre stage as the opening demo at a GAS conference.
“At the Tip of the Wheel”
Glass Exhibition at The Glass Factory, Boda Glasbruk, Sweden.
23 June – 20 October 2024
Glass Art Society Conference Members Exhibition, Berlin 2024
Scrolling through the abyss of my digital addiction frustrates me. I need to un-frame my mind. This unrelenting pressure to ‘create content’ is driving me up the wall. Maybe I’ve found a way to do it.
Lathe Riders is an international collaboration of cold workers specifically focussing on their Cold Shop Studio and Cold Working Techniques.
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.