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Carbon Orange

Creator: Elliot Walker
Offered by: Vessel Gallery

Description
Carbon Orange is one of the British artist Elliot Walker's ongoing body of unique still life artworks. These compositions have the poise of classical paintings. Symbols of domestic life are carefully balanced with the transient. Luscious exotic fruits and foods are bisected revealing their richly colored interiors, these will never decay but are permanently held in this fleeting moment.

Each unique component is painstakingly created from glass and although in the artist's vision there is a set way these should be displayed, Walker also invites the individual to reposition the pieces as they choose. Each installation is placed upon their own black pool of glass, a base in which the artwork is housed.

As one of a handful of glassblowers in the world who focus solely on a technique called 'Massello', it takes extreme dexterity, speed and precise temperature control to sculpt and master the molten glass. Combining a novelist’s ability for storytelling with his astonishing array of skills, Walker literally sculpts his glass, creating artworks that are the essence of curiosity, inviting the viewer closer.

In the artist’s own words; “The process of coaxing a complex form out of the liquid glass is unlike working with any other material. The pieces are not cast, carved or ground into shape, but modeled from a cooling liquid so that until the very last second the sculpture is a moving living entity, frozen in time as the glass sets”

After graduating from Bangor University with a psychology degree, Elliot Walker discovered glass. With its vast spectrum of color and texture, its ability to mimic other materials, it provided Walker with the ultimate palette to create his three dimensional compositions and sculptures.

He then went on to gain his Masters Degree in Applied Arts from Wolverhampton University and has been awarded the Frederic Stuart Memorial Fund by the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers. He has exhibited extensively within the UK with his work represented within the Broadfield House Museum collections.

Elliot Walker is one of the UK’s finest rising glass stars and in his relatively short glass blowing career, has already become one of the most active and inspiring artists of his generation.

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Period:	New
Materials:	Handblown and sculpted glass
Condition:	New.
Creation Date:	2020
Styles / Movements:	Contemporary, Art Glass, Studio Craft
Patterns:	Abstract, Handmade, Textured
Incollect Reference #:	372871

Dimensions

W.	13.78 in;	H.	15.75 in;	D.	11.42 in;
W.	35 cm;	H.	40 cm;	D.	29 cm;

Message from Seller:

The Authority on Contemporary Art Glass & Ceramics | Specialising in Museum quality Sculptural Artworks and Lighting. GALLERY: 114 Kensington Park Rd London | W11 2PW +44 (0) 207 727 8001 info@vesselgallery.com

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