Take a look at our new window display of glass works, showcasing both the decorative and the functional. These pieces light up a room, reflecting and refracting, bouncing beautiful colour-speckled beams around a space.
Spot Joseph Harrington's Range II, a melting ice form standing tall, Michael Ruh's delicate collections of coloured glasswear, available in matching sets, Amelia Skachill Burke's painterly hot-glass works in sunset shades, Charlie Burke's complexly patterned sliced orbs and Samantha Sweet's multi-functional still-life assemblages.
Joseph Harrington, Range II, 2024
Joseph Harrington interprets landscapes through exploration of material. He focuses on rugged coastlines, looking at erosion as a spectacle of discovery and generation of form, revealing a sense of the history and movement of a place. The work is produced using his ‘Lost Ice Process.’ Using salt to sculpt ice as a one-off ephemeral model to take a direct cast from. The textures this provides and the transient nature of the creative process reflects the erosion and sense of time he represents in the landscape. There is a roughness from the initial cast that is ground polished and refined to its final finish, revealing the internal structures of the glass and creating facets and flat planes to redefine the essence of the made against the organic surface.
Michael Ruh, Juice Glass - Orange, 2019
Michael Ruh, Juice Glasses - Moss, 2020
Glass blower Michael Ruh makes handcrafted, understated functional ware and lighting which tells a story of line, colour, texture and shape. It is a delight to use and live with Ruh’s work: over time, the complexity of each piece is gradually revealed. Individual objects are finely made using tools that Ruh has created in order to uniquely embellish each piece of glass.
Charlie Burke, Ice Cobalt Triptych, 2024
Charlie Burke, Lime Pair Axons Series, 2024
Charlie Burke's main subject matter follows brain patterns and thought functions. The electricity of thought and the transference of information between pathways in the brain serves as an inspiration for the movement of the pieces.
Amelia Burke, Lycaeninae Bottle, 2024
Amelia Burke, Lycaeninae Platter, 2024
Amelia Burke, Lycaeninae Vessel, 2024
Amelia Burke, Miletinae Flat Bottle, 2024
Amelia Burke, Morpho Menelaus, 2024
Amelia Burke, Miletinae Round Bottle, 2024
Amelia Skachill 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. 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.
Samantha Sweet, Glass Ring, Pear and Bowl Set, 2023
Samantha Sweet, Glass Ring, Pear and Bowl Set, 2023
Samantha Sweet makes glass by hand, aiming to create objects which are more personal, relatable and enjoyable to use. Ultimately, we all want to buy things that we won’t throw away. By combining traditional making skills with modern design she intends to make pieces that can be treasured for many years.
Work by Joseph Harrington, Michael Ruh, Amelia Skachill Burke, Charlie Burke and Samantha Sweet is available in our Marylebone Gallery and online at caagallery.org.uk.
