Exhibition
New Designers 2010 Highlights
This exhibition launched on the 14th of August 2010 shows highlights of graduates work from the New Designers Exhibition 2010, recently held in London. This show was was a selected exhibition and selection was made by invited artists.
Mmmammon! Printed and stained glass set in wood frames, 940mm high by 1120mm wide.Geoff Hall has drawn on Pop Art imagery and the anti-consumerist agenda of Adbusters to create Mmmammon! – a gently ironic take on the empty promises of contemporary consumer society.Mmmammon! takes the form of two framed stained glass windows set alongside one another. It features fired-on screenprinted and digital imagery adapted from ads. The two gothic panels individually take the appearance of church windows, but together echo the form of the McDonalds arch, suggesting the growing status of consumption as a new kind of religion.
Within this body of work I am interested in exploring the tension between reality and representation by constructing transitional, three-dimensional map-like objects.
Kiln-formed Glass and Metal, 240x70x320mm
Technique: Glass - Casting Black CeramicsSize: 22 x 25 x 8 cm
Fused strip cut glass which has been drop formed ,sandblasted and cold worked .Size approx 200mm x 125mm
The piece is made from kiln cast gaffer casting crystal, and was created as part of my final degree work at The University of Wolverhampton. With this piece I won both a CGS Highly Commended at New Designers, and also The Simon Bruntnell Prize for Excellence in Glass at my degree show.
2010Cast glassLinear colour blend using oxides of neodymium and praseodymium.
pieces are based on abstraction of traditional vessel forms and made form water-jet cut glass and oak.
Tanya Beasley 'Lustrous' Fused Glass with Metal Inclusions
The piece is made from kiln cast gaffer casting crystal, and was created as part of my final degree work at The University of Wolverhampton. With this piece I won both a CGS Highly Commended at New Designers, and also The Simon Bruntnell Prize for Excellence in Glass at my degree show.
2010Cast glassLinear colour blend using oxides of neodymium and praseodymium.
pieces are based on abstraction of traditional vessel forms and made form water-jet cut glass and oak.
Tanya Beasley 'Lustrous' Fused Glass with Metal Inclusions
Clear soda glass, kiln cast and coloured with metallic salts (copper, tin and iron compounds), machine screws. Two pieces, each 34 x 26 x 50 cm. May 20Inside Out0.
Exhibited at New Designers 2010. Purchased by Manchester Craft 'Special Collections'A tribute to women workers in both the textile mills of Northern England and in the home.