Physical Things

Physical Things

9th April - 3 May 2025

Building on my series of scent bottles, fruit, and still-life compositions, these works are an invitation to pause and reflect.

Glass, with its duality of fragility and resilience, is a medium that mirrors life itself. Through the interplay of vibrant hues, fluid forms, and craftsmanship, I aim to evoke delight and curiosity with beauty through form, texture, and translucency.

Each piece is a dialogue between tradition and innovation, paying homage to the craft of glassblowing while seeking new expressions. This body of work is a celebration of my enjoyment of the process, the tactile connection between creator and material, the sensory, and the ephemeral—the elements that make life a rich, shared experience. We all can learn about ourselves through the labor of making physical things.

SABBIA GALLERY

www.sabbiagallery.com . Director Anna Grigson

609 Elizabeth St, Redfern, NSW, 2016, AUSTRALIA +61 2 9361 6448 .

gallery@sabbiagallery.com

Tues to Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat 11am to 4pm

Still Alive + Mobile

Opening Night

Wednesday 1st February 2023 6 - 8pm

Please join the Director Anna Grigson and the artists for the launch of our 2023 exhibition program and the opening night to our newest exhibitions, Still Alive + Mobile by Nick Mount and From Snow to Sand by Ulrica Trulsson

We are pleased to have Frank Howarth AM PSM, Glass Collector, Chair NSW Heritage Council and Board Member The Australian Design Centre Sydney, to launch the exhibitions at 6.45pm

RSVP Essential by Tuesday 31 January on +61 2 9361 6448 or gallery@sabbiagallery.com

SABBIA GALLERY

www.sabbiagallery.com . Director Anna Grigson

609 Elizabeth St, Redfern, NSW, 2016, AUSTRALIA +61 2 9361 6448 .

gallery@sabbiagallery.com

Tues to Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat 11am to 4pm

Nick Mount, Nightingale in repose # 100123, 2023, blown glass, cane, surface worked, assembled, Corten base, 220 h x 750 w x 230mm d. Photo Pippy Mount

HOT GLASS - Nick Mount

OPENS 16 NOVEMBER 2019 - 2 FEBRUARY 2020

Exclusive to Gippsland Art Gallery, 'Hot Glass' marks Mount’s return to a region he once called home.

Nick Mount is one of the world’s leading glass artists. Born in Adelaide, Mount lived and worked in Gippsland from 1972 to 1984, during which time he established Victoria’s first hot glass studio, Budgeree Glass. A leading figure in Gippsland’s ‘Craft Revolution’ of the 1970s, he remains an inspirational figure within the region.

Hot Glass showcases works from the last decade, including many never before seen in Australia, this is an unmissable opportunity to experience the extraordinary art of Nick Mount.

OPENING CELEBRATION
FRIDAY 15 NOVEMBER 6.00PM

Monday - Friday

9.00am - 5.30pm

Saturday - Sunday

10.00am - 4.00pm

GIPPSLAND ART GALLERY

70 Foster Street
Sale VIC 3850
Australia

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The Hot Shop MASTERS OF GLASS 2019

Sabbia Gallery is pleased to present The Hot Shop, the 24th edition of its annual Masters of Glass exhibition series. Each year Australia’s most influential and innovative artists working in glass are invited to exhibit in this greatly anticipated show.

For the 2019 exhibition Sabbia Gallery’s curator Anna Grigson has selected artists that primarily create their glass artwork in the hot shop. The exhibition presents works that concentrate on the highly skilled glass making techniques of blowing or hot sculpting, and all the diverse processes that are developed and achieved in the hot shop.

The exhibition also brings attention to and explores the importance of the integral relationships between the artist and their assistants in the making process.

Featuring Clare Belfrage, Annette Blair, Mel Douglas, Ben Edols & Kathy Elliott, Brenden Scott French, Holly Grace, Jenni Kemarre Martiniello, Nick Mount & Nick Wirdnam.

www.sabbiagallery.com

MAIN GALLERY AND GALLERY TWO 30 January - 23 February 2019

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http://www.bgcglassstudio.com

Demonstration. Thailand Art Glass Festival 2018. BGC Glass Studio., Buengyeetho, Thanyaburi, Pathumthani, Thailand November 22 - 31, 2018

Sabbia Gallery

MAIN GALLERY AND GALLERY TWO 31 January - 24 February 2018

SKETCH – MASTERS OF GLASS 2018

Many artists, irrespective of their choice of medium, will create a number of sketches as a means to realise their ideas and design their next work of art.

These sketches over time as a collective are an important element of the artists practice. They present a fascinating insight into the manner in which the artist approaches their art and the work that is created.

When an artist works in a two-dimensional form such as painting, the progression from sketch to canvas for example can often be easily referenced.

When you consider three-dimensional art, specifically artworks created in glass, the transition from sketch to final artwork differs completely. The artist must think about the artwork in the round and how best to utilise the elements of form, scale, surface, light, colour, reflection and refraction.

Sabbia Gallery is pleased to present SKETCH, the 23rd edition of its annual Masters of Glass exhibition series. Some of Australia’s most influential artists in glass have been invited to exhibit. The exhibiting artwork is a response to the process in which each artist works, from sketch to final art form.

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LUMINOUS: TOM MALONE PRIZE 2003-2017 - Art Gallery of Western Australia

Our annual showcase of contemporary Australian glass

Glass is one of the most exciting and dynamic art forms in this country. It is a uniquely captivating medium, capable of almost endless transformation. Glass provides a perfect vehicle for the exploration of a range of themes, from the personal to the observational, and Australian makers are some of the world leaders in the medium. 

Now in its fifteenth year, the Tom Malone Prize is a highly respected and eagerly anticipated event for contemporary Australian glass artists. 


An acquisitive prize, each year’s winning entry becomes a part of the State Art Collection. Since its inception, it has facilitated the entry of significant glass works by winners Gabriella Bisetto, Nick Mount, Jessica Loughlin, Clare Belfrage, Benjamin Sewell, Kevin Gordon, Charles Butcher, Cobi Cockburn, Deirdre Feeney, Brian Corr, Tom Moore and Mel Douglas into the State Art Collection.

The Tom Malone Prize 2017 brings together many of Australia's best glass artists. Featuring this year's 10 

short-listed artists: Marc Leib, Jamie Worsley, Kevin Gordon, Blanche Tilden, Lisa Cahill, Brenden Scott French, Richard Whiteley, Tom Moore, Silvana Ferrario and Jenni Kamarre Martiniello. 

The exhibition includes this year’s shortlist, including the winner, and the works from all past winners of the Prize.

PALMER MUSEUM OF ART

January 31st - April 30th 2017
A KALEIDOSCOPE OF COLOR: STUDIO GLASS AT THE PALMER
Oben Abright, "Sam III," 2007, mold-blown glass, cast glass, and oil paint. Collection of Bette and Arnold Hoffman.
Oben Abright, Sam III, 2007, mold-blown glass, cast glass, and oil paint. Collection of Bette and Arnold Hoffman.
Interest in contemporary glass on the part of collectors, galleries, and museums has grown exponentially in recent years, more than a half century after the founding of the studio glass movement in the early 1960s. Thanks to the generosity of numerous donors, the Palmer Museum of Art is poised to become one of the preeminent destinations for studio glass on the East Coast.

A Kaleidoscope of Color highlights newly acquired works from the remarkable studio glass collection of Bette (’58) and Arnold Hoffman (’57). Recent gifts from Audrey and Norbert Gaelen (’47) and Julia K. Muller and Earl K. Shreckengast (’72) will also be featured, as well as a selection of pieces from private collections, including promised gifts from Barbara Palmer, and Bill (’60) and Honey Jaffe.

Represented will be an international roster of glass artists working today including Therman Statom, Lino Tagliapietra, Martin Janecky, Tobias Møhl, Etsuko Nishi, Oben Abright, Daniel Clayman, Hiroshi Yamano, John Kiley, Dante Marioni, Nick Mount, Richard Marquis, Youko Sano, and many others.

PALMER MUSEUM OF ART
The Pennsylvania State University
Curtin Road
University Park,
PA 16802  USA

http://palmermuseum.psu.edu/exhibitions/upcoming/kaleidoscope-color-studio-glass-palmer