11/05/2024
A big congratulations to Tom Moore, winner of the 2024 FUSE GLASS PRIZE. All finalists work will be on display at the Australian Design Centre in October 🗓️
🔁 2024 FUSE GLASS PRIZE WINNER // JamFactory is thrilled to announce that the winner of the 2024 FUSE Glass Prize is South Australian-based glass artist Tom Moore.
This biennial non-acquisitive prize for Australian and New Zealand glass artists is Australasia’s richest prize for glass. It provides a platform for artists to push themselves and their work to new limits and focuses public attention on the importance of glass as a medium for contemporary artistic expression.
"This group of glass characters are the result of continued exploration into representational blown glass. They are influenced to varying degrees by vessel-making traditions, making particular reference to historical figurative bottles...These objects demonstrate respect for and dedication to ancient decorative techniques developed in Venice. I am grateful to have had the opportunity to learn and practice these methods and am conscious of how lucky and unlikely it is to be working in this way on this land. The antipodean nature of glassmaking in this country is central to the reason that I make characters with their legs in the air. Of course, I also find them delightful companions.”
📷 Tom Moore, Dandy Lion among The Antipodes, 2023, Photo: Grant Hancock; Tom Moore, 2024, Photo: Saige Prime
