Canberra Glassworks has announced the successful applicants for their 2024 Artist in Residence program, which invites artists from all career levels to immerse themselves in the facility, focusing on creating new works or researching techniques using glass.
The 2024 Artist in Residence program will support sixteen new residents across five programs: Artist in Residence, New Graduate, Writer in Residence, Access & Equity Residency, and Creative Fellowship. While at the Glassworks, artists will have full access to all kilns, the glass blowing studio, mould-making area, and all other technical facilities.
Kate Shierlaw, Parklands, 2023. Photograph: Michal Kluvanek. Courtesy the artist and Canberra Glassworks, Australian Capital Territory
The 2024 Artist in Residence recipients:
Hannah Gason (ACT) and Elliot Bastianon (ACT), who will use their residency to develop new work that will represent Canberra at Melbourne Design Fair 2025.
Glass artist Holly Grace (VIC) will collaborate with master instrument maker Kevin Bradley to explore the use of glass as a canvas for video projection and an acoustic device.
Kathy Elliott (NSW) will focus her residency on exploring new carving applications on blown glass forms.
Ceramicists Lynda Draper (NSW) and Janet Fieldhouse (QLD) from the Torres Strait will translate their practices in glass for the first time.
Elliat Rich (NT) will embark on a slow format residency of six months to experiment and develop samples and trials in glass. This will contribute to the creation of a series of new, innovative works to be showcased in Canberra, Melbourne, Darwin, and Queensland’s Gallery of Modern Art.
Celebrating the creative contributions of individuals with intellectual disabilities, the Glassworks Access & Equity Residency will welcome Guy Frederick, Thom Roberts, Skye Saxon, and Katrina Brennan (NSW) from Studio A. Their residency plans to highlight these artists’ impact on communities and the environment.
The New Graduate Residency offers the chance for emerging artists to spend time developing their work after graduating. In 2024, the artists include Kate Shierlaw (SA), University of South Australia, and Carman Skeehan (SA), JamFactory Associate program.
Spence Messih (NSW) will collaborate with a writer to create a new work for the Canberra Art Biennale as the Writer in Residence.
Canberra Glassworks Mentorship was awarded to Peter Nilsson (ACT), a master of cold glass, who will be exploring new processes in hot glass with glass blower Annette Blair.
As this year’s Art Group Creative Fellow, Josie Gluck (USA) will encourage and support the next generation of glass makers at Canberra Glassworks with her passion for skill sharing and teaching.
