‘Chard’ Exhibition
Thursday 8 February – Sunday 10 March
Opening Saturday 10 February 4-6pm
These three artists, who collaborate together at Canberra Glassworks, are united in their desire to instil their chosen medium with ideas of transition and transformation.
‘When you travel to another continent to work and live there, what do you keep and what do you choose to leave behind?’ Peter Nilsson, 2023 As well as collaborating together at Canberra Glassworks since 2016, in casting (Ryan, NOT) and engraving (Nilsson), what unites these three diverse artists is their desire to instil their chosen medium with ideas of transition and transformation.
Hailing originally from the Netherlands (Ryan), Scotland (NOT) and Sweden (Nilsson), their work collectively explores the casting, inscribing and paring of culture. What is revealed is the alchemical process where the grit of one material (sand) becomes liquid then solid and transparent (glass) without losing its essential DNA, not unlike the chemical fermentation of grapes to wine. Does culture choose us or do we choose it? And how does this choice ultimately shape and transform us? This is an exhibition that asks us to name our poison.