White Hot highlights the works of eight internationally renowned and celebrated Australian glass artists, reflecting on a moment in time by considering contemporary practitioners who challenge the traditional ideas, methods, and materials of glass making.
Curators: Barbara McConchie, CraftACT; Ann Jackle, Canberra Glassworks; Sarah Bond, Asialink
Artists: Nadege Desgenetez, Wendy Fairclough, Deirdre Feeney, Jessica Loughlin, Tom Moore, Brenden Scott French, Itzell Tazzyman and Janice Vitkovsky.
Exhibition dates & venues:
Bangkok: 8 January - 30 January 2009, Silpakorn Gallery, Silpakorn University
Hanoi: 19 June – 28 June 2009, Vietnam Fine Art Museum
Taiwan: 24 July - 27 September 2009, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts
White Hot: contemporary Australian glass is presented in partnership with leading arts organisations Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre and Canberra Glassworks.
The invited artists, Nadege Desgenetez (ACT), Wendy Fairclough (SA), Deirdre Feeney (VIC), Jessica Loughlin (SA), Tom Moore (SA), Brenden Scott French (SA), Itzell Tazzyman (ACT) and Janice Vitkovsky (SA), all explore themes of narrative, nostalgia and challenge the notions of what glass can be.
In recent years, contemporary Australian glass artists have received unprecedented acclaim in the international arena. However, the focus has been more prevalent in the United States of America and Europe, rather than in Asia. White Hot celebrates the strength of Australian creative glass practice and industry with this dedicated glass exhibition, the first to be toured by Asialink through Asia, revealing the vibrancy and dynamism current within contemporary glass practice in Australia.
These eight artists demonstrate that whether it is expertly blown, meticulously engraved, production work or conceptual art, glass is a super-cooled mercurial substance that resists classification.