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Etablissement créateur et designer MONICA L EDMONDSON
BACKNAS
SE 920 64 TARNABY
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Décoration intérieur
Petite Série (<100)
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After four years of studies at Canberra School of Art, Australian National University I have returned to Tarnaby in north Sweden, where I have established a hot / cold glass workshop and studio.
Most of my life I have lived in the cold; as a child during the long winter months above the Arctic Circle, in a town called Gallivare, as well as an adult during many years working with skiing and travelling between the northern- and southern hemisphere’s winters.
One of the reasons why I initially chose glass as a vehicle to express myself is because of its transparency and resemblance to the cold. Grinding, polishing, etching and engraving planes in transparent glass are techniques I use to explore "winter-qualities". So the winter, with its vast winter space and light, play an important part in my work.
And glass is brought to life by heat.
I use planes of colours, often evolving from my Sami heritage, as a metaphor to express a central part - the heart and fire of life. These planes are formed by "roll-up" and glass blowing in the hot workshop or by fusing and slumping in the kiln.
My hotworked, kilnformed and coldworked glass has been part of exhibitions nationally and internationally. Venezia Aperto Vetro 1998, Italy, SOFA New York 1999, USA and "Vessels" The International Exhibition of Glass 2000, Japan being world renowned.
I have work represented in permanent public collections at ex. the National Gallery of Australia, Museum of Design and Applied Arts Reykjavik Iceland, Ajtte Swedish Sami Museum Jokkmokk, National Swedish Public Art Council and Sami Parliament of Norway and Sweden. |
Technique
silkrayon, monofilament and glass
- photographer Asa Ramström
Dimensions
158 X 220 X 20 cm
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