🔥 Please join us for a Glass Flameworking Demonstration with Tom Moore, Winner 2024 FUSE Prize & Emeirely Nucifora-Ryan, Winner David Henshall Emerging Artist Prize followed by a Q&A with the artists.

The demonstration will include two unique approaches to flameworking with Tom and Emeirely, both alumni of the ANU School of Art & Design.

Tom will showcase the intricate and colourful elements of the figurative vessel forms that comprise his work Dandy Lion Among the Antipodes, a humorous and deeply researched take on craft history. Tom notes, ‘the objects demonstrate respect for and dedication to ancient decorative techniques developed in Venice.'

Emeirely will be bending a hollow circle out of glass, recreating the ritual steps she repeated daily over seven months to create her work Processed.

Flameworking is the heating of rods and tubes to sculpt and blow glass, and is a new subject being taught in the ANU School of Art & Design. It offers potentials for glassmaking with a lower environmental impact as well as small-scale independent designer-maker practice.

Following the demonstration, please join us for the launch of the FUSE Glass Prize. Learn more.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Tom Moore is a glass artist based in Adelaide. His time is divided between working within the hot glass community at JamFactory, from his own home studio and at the University of South Australia as an Adjunct Research Fellow, where he is undertaking practical investigations in glass focusing on hybridlife-forms, humour and the anthropocene. Moore’s work has been featured in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney;Gallery Of Modern Art, Brisbane; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. He was the focus of JamFactory’s ICON series in 2020, which was celebrated through a major national touring exhibition, Abundant Wonder, and has received a number of awards for his glass artworks

Born on Gadigal land (Sydney) and raisedon Ngunnawal and Ngambri land (Canberra), Emeirely Nucifora-Ryan completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) at the Australian National University’s School of Art & Design in 2018. In 2019, Nucifora-Ryan participated in Richard Wheater’s Neon Green Futures Masterclass at the Canberra Glassworks where she developed her passion for neon. Although her practice uses a variety of materials, Nucifora-Ryan is drawn to glass, as she finds a sense of wonder in the properties of glass through its ability to refract, reflect, and transmit light. The inert nature of glass allows it to house noble gases and through the process of cold cathode lighting (CCL) it can create a variety of effects. In this demonstration watch Emeirely Nucifora-Ryan as she bends a circle of glass, recreating the steps that she took to create her work Processed, July 2023. "My work 'Processed' was seven months of creating a circle a day. The work submitted to FUSE Glass Prize was the month of July, 2023. Each spot on the calendar month that is left blank is a day when a circle was broken, or when life got in the way and I was unable to make a circle."

Image: Emeirely Nucifora-Ryan working in studio. Photo: Tom Glassey.