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North Lands Creative Glass
Master Classes 2010: Session 2| Glass is not a usual material at all for me, but the prospect of working in glass is one I find extremely exciting. Glass has some intrinsic affinities with clay. Both are composed largely of silica which is essential to the firing process, and FORM is a common word in both disciplines. It is therefore exciting that in this project form and forming glass will be the central theme. Each of us in the group will make unique objects and art in either blowing and/or cold glass techniques during our time together at North Lands. Through observation, absorption and the process of abstraction we will be able to record memories and extract these to reproduce when making the shapes and forms we wish to realise. Our experiments may end up being not more (but also not less) than a serious reflection on the journey we choose to take, during our time together at North Lands. |  |
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Expert technicians will be our source of knowledge and will guide and assist us in the use of glass materials. Among them James Maskrey, artist facilitator, hot glass technician and visiting lecturer at The University of Sunderland, himself a talented artist and glassblower, will be working with Magdalene and her students to help realise their ideas in hot glass. Drawing for glass design and glass making seems so specific! I am much looking forward to learning how to make myself understood in and through the sketches I will need to arrice at during this session! |
| Very much in the tradition of sculptors such as Brancusi and Arp, Magdalene Odundo searches tirelessy for perfect form within her highly personal artistic idiom. Magdalene's exceptional pieces are hand-built, primarily using the coiling technique. Magdalene grew up in Kenya and settled in Britain in 1971. She was trained as a graphic designer before she turned to clay. In Africa and New Mexico she studied the ways women produce pottery, using techniques of hand-building and firing that are thousands of years old. She completed a Masters degree at the RCA and is now Professor of Ceramics at the UCA in Farnham. Her work has been shown worldwide and is included in numerous museum collections |  |
Enquiries
North Lands Creative Glass
Accommodation, bookings and general information:
Quatre Bras, Lybster
Caithness, KW3 6BN
SCOTLAND
Lorna MacMillan: Telephone: +44 (0)1593 721 229 Fax: +44 (0)1593 721 850
e-mail: info@northlandsglass.com
