Elizabeth Swinburne is a British artist who currently lives and works in Amsterdam. She is a highly respected artist, educator and curator whose career spans more than 20 years. Her work has been exhibited throughout Europe, the United States, South America and Japan and is represented in major international collections including V&A, London; Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf; Hokkaido Museum, Japan; and the Museum of Applied Arts, Prague. In 2003 and 2006 her work was included in the Corning New Glass Review.  In 2005 she was awarded the Joel Philip Myers prize at the International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa.

Her most recent work explores ideas of subtle progression and growth. By using multiple forms to create larger objects, ideas of repetition and the individual within the mass are created. The final forms really begin to suggest growth and movement. The succulent forms have an organic but almost alien energy. It is the surface or ‘skin’ that is important. The objects, which are a combination of free blown and kiln casting techniques, have a fluidity and ‘glassiness’ that is usually only associated with molten glass.




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