Artist Talk: Emily Parsons-Lord & Nick Burridge

ABOUT

Join us Friday 23 June 2023 from 4.30PM as we learn more about the experiments, exhibitions and creations our Artists in Residence are working on during their visit to Canberra Glassworks.

This artist talk will be held at Canberra Glassworks and there will be an opportunity to chat with the glass community in the last half hour after the talk. Everyone is welcome and there are absolutely no silly questions. We are all here to learn.

THE ARTISTs

Emily Parson-Lord
Previously based in Warrane (Sydney), Emily Parsons-Lord is an emerging visual and performance artist based in Naarm (Melbourne). Their practice is concerned with air and explosions, materials of the climate crisis that speak to both the invisibility and the spectacle of collapse.

"Glass and the process of making glass has an affinity with my practice with air and explosions. Glass can form at the impact site of meteorites, bombs, or volcanoes, recording moments of explosive states of transition, extreme intensity. The application of heat can reconfigure simple elements, such as silicon, into intricate and delicate objects that record the process of their making."

Nick Burridge
Based in Naarm (Melbourne), Nick Burridge explores the complex relationship between industrialisation and nature. His practice, driven by material science and experimentation, uncovers hidden narratives and metaphors within various materials. Throughout his residency, Nick aims to refine and expand upon his unique processes involving volcanic rock, lava, and obsidian. By creating sculptures that merge the languages of volcanics and structural engineering, he draws parallels between the constructed geologies of the construction industry and the powerful forces of volcanoes, exemplifying world-building and the creation of new land.

This residency will offer Nick "the opportunity to be surrounded by and work with the extremely knowledgeable people at the Glassworks... I can be so much more ambitious and productive in this project considering the experimental nature of the work I’ve been doing."

Image: Emily Parsons-Lord ' Things Fall Apart'. Courtesy of the artist.