Amelia Burke is a contemporary hot glass artist, specialising in Glass Cane and Murrine work to create her wall art and vessel forms inspired by the microscopic details of the natural world. Trained in Hot Glass at Manchester Metropolitan University, Amelia has worked across the country at glass studios, including her own family-run studio, E&M Glass.
Her practice is based on the close study of details of the natural world, such as butterfly wings and fern fronds, redrawing them, scaling them up greatly, and reinterpreting them in the hot glass to create evocative glassware. Amelia's focus is broad, based on a visual compendium of natural subjects such as bamboo, water or butterflies. She analyses everything, from the flow of its form down to the cellular details, reinterpreting the elements she finds using hot glass as her medium to create intricate glass art. Patience and Amelia’s contemporary glass go hand in hand. The detail she aims to create in her work is time consuming but necessary to the process.
