INSPIRED

Morgan Stockton 4 years ago
Venue:
62-66 Bermondsey Street, London, SE1 3UD
Contact:
gallery@londonglassblowing.co.uk
Link:
Dates:
31-05-2019 to 15-06-2019
Description:

Members of the Contemporary Glass Society (CGS) will show work inspired by “an object of personal significance” for a juried exhibition. Many of the country’s foremost glass artists will be presenting dynamic new and original pieces.

My inspiration for Coiled 2 was the Rotunda being built in 1963. Birmingham’s architectural, industrial and manufacturing heritage informs my work conceptually and aesthetically, using a restricted colour palette of greys to bring this to the foreground.

To create my work, I use an experimental approach to traditional cage blowing. I am actively investigating my personal heritage within Birmingham as well as my grandparents’ histories with the materials that we share a passion for and how this influences my practice. My grandfather worked at Metal Spinners Birmingham and my great-grandfather was a glassblower for Chance Brothers and Company, once a leading glass manufacturer and pioneer of British glassmaking technology in Smethwick, Birmingham.

Coiled 2

Blown glass with steel grid wire

INSPIRED