15 August – 31 August 2024
about the exhibition
Glass artists Benjamin Edols and Kathy Elliott have been working in partnership since their first joint exhibition at the de Vera Gallery, San Francisco in 1993. Their collaborative works involve a two-stage process of hot and cold glass techniques. After Benjamin has blown the vessels, Kathy cuts the glass on a lathe, using stone and diamond wheels, to create an organic surface of lines and planes. Both artists see their collaborative work as being more than the sum of two ideas. Kathy explains: “For us, glass is a medium for colour and light as well as an opportunity to explore design and we try to use these uplifting elements in ways that are original.” Ben and Kathy’s ethereal glass sculptures are inspired by close observation of the natural world, in particular their response to the shapes, textures, colours and fluidity of leaves, seed pods, blades of grass and succulent fruit.
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