Isabella Kullmann

Isabella came to glass late, after a career in publishing. As a relative novice to the discipline she questions existing practices, and in particular, the use of materials and the very model of the workshop itself.

In her MPhil research project she speculates on an alternative glass practice. Describing it as a ‘diffuse’ practice. One which is not grounded in a workshop, but instead remains flexible, moving on and off site.

She advocates a light and fluid approach to making, where facilities are rented as and when required, and precision engineering is accessed via digital networks.

These digital technologies are expanding the creative possibilities for applied arts but as the lockdown demonstrates there is still a need for real spaces to make physical work. The work shown here is an early set of samples which explore multiple bubbles within a single blown form. Viewed from above, the internal structures resemble a bronchial tree with separate superimposed chambers emanating from its central core or spine. Seen sideways these chambers may be read as closed bubbles, while the solid areas of the object appear hollow.

Contact: Isabella.Kullmann@networ k.rca.ac.uk