Dante Marioni Demo Workshop
Event description
Dante Marioni and Ben Edols Glassblowing Demo Workshop
We are very pleased to present a demo workshop with Dante Marioni and special guest Ben Edols, teaming up for a thrilling 3 days of glassblowing at Eamonn Vereker Glass Studio Norwood.
Free Event - Registration essential
When:
12-14 April 2024
Daily 9am-4pm
Where:
Eamonn Vereker Glass Studio Norwood
87 Sydenham Road Norwood South Australia 5067
But Wait There's More!
Friday Night: Slide talks by Dante and Ben/Exhibition Launch/Food Trucks
Sunday Night: Pizza Party
Daily: Refreshments available for purchase, Coffee by Coffee in Common, Beer By Mismatch Brewery, Food Trucks
Why?
Because its a good idea.
About Dante
Dante Marioni burst onto the international glass scene at the age of 19 with a signature
style that has been described as the purest of classical forms executed in glass by an
American glassblower. His amphoras, vases, and ewers are derived from Greek and Etruscan
prototypes, yet they are imaginatively and sometimes whimsically reinterpreted. His
impossibly elongated, sinuous shapes are made with bright and saturated contrasting
colors.
Marioni’s sophisticated glass objects evoke the rich tradition of classical Mediterranean
pottery and bronzes, and of Marioni’s training in centuries-old Venetian glassblowing
techniques with some of the greatest masters in contemporary glass.
The son of American studio glass pioneer Paul Marioni, Dante Marioni was raised in a family
of artists that includes two well-known uncles, painter Joseph Marioni and conceptual artist
Tom Marioni.
For Marioni, making objects is about the art of glassblowing rather than the creation of glass
art, the process rather than the result. Marioni’s elegant works are the brilliant record of his
on-going relationship with and exploration of this material.
About Ben
Benjamin Edols has been blowing glass since 1987. He received his BA from Sydney College
of the Arts and went on to successfully complete a postgraduate diploma at Canberra
School of Art in 1992. Since that time Ben has travelled to work alongside colleagues in
America, Italy and Japan. Ben has given glassblowing workshops at Pilchuck Glass School,
The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, Toyama Institute of Glass Art, Niijima Glass
Centre, The Jam Factory and Sydney College of the Arts.
As one of the most successful artistic partnerships in Australia, the glass of Ben Edols and
Kathy Elliott has received international recognition. Over the last thirty years, they have
collaborated on artwork that has inspired many through its beautiful and compelling use of
colour, form, pattern and light. They have created some of the finest bodies of glass art both
within Australia and overseas in that time.
The artwork of Edols and Elliott has been exhibited worldwide, and has been acquired for
some of the leading international public and private art collections including the Victoria
and Albert Museum in London, The Museum of Art and Design in New York, The Toyama Art
Museum in Japan, the Corning Glass Museum in New York and the National Gallery of
Australia in Canberra.