‘In the Studio With’ Kirstie Rea

In the Studio With is a series of artist talks held online. In our first session we will be having Kirstie Rea! Kirstie Rea is one of Australia’s most established and celebrated sculptural glass artists. Her works explore her relationship to outdoor spaces such as landscapes and the places of childhood memories. Kirstie plays with the sculptural possibilities contained within the medium of glass using a vocabulary of heat and gravity to create fluid abstractions. Teaching and exhibiting internationally and within Australia, Kirstie was awarded Honorary Life Membership of Ausglass in 2009.

I walk to stop, to be still.

A fluid stillness that plants my feet. They consider growing roots, a momentary transplant.

Between clouds, trees, boulders and a creek in a valley, the fragility of moments becomes transparent and tangible.

…Seemingly soft, fluid glass forms nest within, are held by or connected to a customised wall structure, abstracted from the ageless more static elements and spaces of place – rock, boulder, space between trees.

At the core of my practice lies the desire to seek an understanding of our often tenuous connections to place. Walking in places beyond urban environments, seeking solitude and distance, photography and writing have become tools to inform my making.

Kirstie Rea