Sydney-based artist Alex Seton’s practice incorporates sculpture, photography, video and installation. Known for works that examine problematic concepts and ideas, giving them form; here, Seton revisits his series of glass installations created at Canberra Glassworks – each piece evoking the chandeliers that were ubiquitous in the entranceways of clubs and RSLs of post-World War II Australia.
A tribute to works made in Newcastle’s discontinued Leonora Glassworks, whose founders had made aircraft ‘bombsights’ at the ELMA lampworks, the title connects with Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five – a novel that includes Dresden’s WWII Allied firebombing.
Mosman Art Gallery
15 November 2025 to 1 February 2026
Sydney
Alex Seton, Still very much Alive in the Past, 2022, soda and boro glass, brass, plywood, LED panel, 210 × 67 × 67cm
Glass blower: Katie Ann-Houghton
Courtesy the artist and Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
