AMANDA SIMMONS New Works for SOFA Chicago 2014 with Craft Scotland
DAHLIA UNIVERSE
SOFA Chicago with Craft Scotland
For this years SOFA Chicago, exhibiting for the second year with Craft Scotland I continued my investigations into gravity forming and started to explore printmaking as a way to think through designs in glass.
In the Gravity Works series I wanted to stretch and distort the shape of the vessel to the extreme whilst still keeping some form of practical use as ‘space drinking vessels’; imagining drinking a wee dram in space without gravity.
Dahlia Universe – a body of work based on the information coming back from Voyager 1 and 2 during their travels through the universe. Movement and expansion, investigating the biological theory of convergence and whether this could relate to ideas of a growing universe.
In the studio, starting point to Dahlia Universe. New colours and previous forms influencing new work (July 2014)
Printmaking studies, working through ideas of layering marks and colours onto paper before working with glass powders.
Mark making through powdered glass layered directly onto the kiln shelf.
Dahlia Universe II – Large kilnformed glass platter 2014
Orange Space Drinking Vessels (Gravity Works Series) 2014
Detail of Orange Space Drinking Vessels (Gravity Works Series) 2014
Yellow Space Drinking Vessels (Gravity Works Series) 2014
Yellow Space Drinking Vessels (Gravity Works Series) 2014
Dahlia Universe I – Medium kilnformed glass platter 2014
Dahlia Universe II – Medium kilnformed glass platter 2014
Light through a glass platter (Dahlia Universe) 2014
Dahlia Universe III – Medium kilnformed glass platter 2014
Dahlia Universe – Large kilnformed glass vessel 2014
Dahlia Universe Duo – Large kilnformed glass vessels 2014
Dahlia Universe – Large kilnformed glass vessel 2014
Top layer of powdered glass in progress
Work in progress – Glass discs to form large kilnformed platters 2014
Dahlia Universe I – Large kilnformed glass platter 2014
Dahlia Universe III – Large kilnformed glass platter 2014
Dahlia Universe IV – Medium kilnformed glass platter 2014
Finished design drawn into a powdered layer 2014
Voyager I – Large folded kilnformed glass platter 2014
Voyager I – Large folded kilnformed glass platter 2014
Voyager Campaign Set – Medium kilnformed glass platter, four drinking vessels and one carafe 2014
www.amandajsimmons.co.uk www.craftscotland.org.uk www.sofaexpo.com SOFA Chicago 7 – 9 November 2014 Craft Scotland Stand 723 Group talk In Conversation – Jeff Zimmer, Choi Keeryong and Amanda Simmons Saturday 8th 4pm