With a career spanning almost three decades, leading South Australian glass artist Clare Belfrage has been announced as the 2018 JamFactory Icon for her detailed glass sculptures that marry blown forms with intricate line work.
This solo exhibition showcases Belfrage’s innovation of the ‘stringer’ technique in which she painstakingly applies stretched glass rods known as ‘stringers’ to her glass, creating a mesmerising surface that resembles textiles. The exhibition will tour to ten venues nationally after its display in Adelaide.
Clare Belfrage, Quiet Shifting (Russet and Orange), 2018, blown glass with cane drawing, sandblasted and pumice polished, 51 x 33 x 19cm. Photograph: Pippy Mount
Courtesy the artist and JamFactory, South Australia
JamFactory
Until 16 September 2018
South Australia
Tweed Regional Gallery
21 February to 5 July 2020
New South Wales
Gladstone Regional Art Gallery
18 July to 3 September 2020
Queensland
Redland Art Gallery
13 September to 18 October 2020
Queensland
Bega Valley Regional Gallery
9 November 2020 to 19 January 2021
New South Wales
Millicent Gallery
5 February to 20 March 2021
South Australia
