Bronte Cormican-Jones is an emerging contemporary artist and writer working on Garrigal and Darramurragal land, Sydney, Australia. She recently graduated with first-class Honours from Sydney College of the Arts, where she studied Sculpture. She is currently undertaking a studio residency at Eramboo Artist’s Environment and has recently completed the Fuse Glass Blowing Residency at the JamFactory, Adelaide. Bronte will undertake a Graduate in Residence program at Canberra Glassworks later this year.
In her visual arts, she often explores the field of spatial practice through sculpture, installation, performance and documented works. She is drawn to the architectural materials of glass, timber, steel, and bricks, and her work investigates the ways that these industrial materials behave in the gallery space. She is interested in our physical responses to the infrastructure around us, and she understands the material of glass to be a lens that frames perception and our interaction with space. It is the transparent membrane which windows, doors (and in contemporary architecture often walls) are constructed from.
Bronte’s practice is interested in the ways in which glass can be both reflective and transparent, and can both hold and refract light, and she plays with these properties within her work as a way of researching visual perception, disorientation and direction. Her recent work explores relationships between architecture and the body, reframing our understanding of our own reflections in glass and mirrors.
Bronte’s artwork is about moving and pausing which offers an opportunity for shifting perspectives. It warns viewers of limitations that come with experiencing the world through sight and praises an embodied understanding of space.