Concept, Context, Connection with Carrie Fertig
11th – 15th April 2016
Cost: £696
This concept-driven skills class will use clear borosilicate flameworked glass for the development of ideas: gaining and changing meaning from context; and using components as a tool of connection.
Beginning with solid glass rods and moving quickly to blowing sculpture from multiple tubes, we will cover methods to increase scale including hand torch use for large-scale work.
A solid grounding in technique will give students the ability to manifest their ideas in a variety of scales. The Lybster landscape will provide opportunities for site-specific installation work. Personal histories will provide a base for the development of using flameworked glass as a means of engagement and connection.
There will be several slide talks including one on glass and performance, historic and contemporary flameworking, and crowdfunding, as the class desires. Hands-on instruction in building your own studio and studio safety will be detailed.
About the Artist.
Carrie Fertig uses borosilicate glass as the main material in her practice of performance, film, installation, and sculpture. She creates sonic and visual environments for transformative experiences. Sometimes working on a monumental scale, her practice explores the potential of flameworked glass as a means of connection and engagement. She teaches in universities in the United States and Europe, and regularly at North Lands Creative Glass in Scotland. In 2010 she founded Torcher Chamber Arkestra, an experimental interdisciplinary platform combining fire, glass, music, and electronics.
Narrative Sculpture: Through printmaking and pate de verre
30th May – 3rd June 2016
Cost: £696
This workshop led by Karen Akester offers an introduction to open mould casting and and pate de verre: a fantastic process which allows vibrant and precise colour application.
Taking inspiration from folktales, poetry, storytelling, you will create your own narrative sculptures. Through demonstrations, drawing, printmaking and discussion we will explore colour and glass paste application, translating your prints and drawings into small wax models. From these we will make refractory mould’s which we paint and pack with glass powders and frits. The fired glass pieces will be cold worked and assembled to create your finished sculptures. Your prints will be stitched and bound to create your accompanying ‘storybook’.
Students should bring with them: a sketch-book, some source material (photographs, images, objects, sketches etc), a fine paint brush. modeling tools, lino cutting tools, glass files for fine detailing and some drawing materials.
Contemporary Glass Painting and Layering with Jeff Zimmer
6th - 10th June 2016
Cost: £672
This is a course about creating three dimensional images on glass using both traditional and photographic approaches. We will exploit the transparency of glass and layer techniques and images to collage and create a sense of space. We will use hand painted enamels, photo-sensitive sandblast resists and printed transfers.
Our experience will be enhanced through discussions and presentations. We will also discuss how creating a 3-D image affects its content and our experience of it.
The course will be of interest to individuals looking to expand their practice into a new dimension. Those with experience of image-making on glass will learn to see their work in a new way; while those new to painting on glass will learn the both the basics of the craft and novel applications.
NORTH LANDS CREATIVE GLASS
Quatre Bras
Lybster, Caithness KW3 6BN, United Kingdom
+44 (0)1593-721229
northlandsglass.com
