Alison Lowry
Glass Artist and Mixed Media Designer
028 9061 5227
[email protected]
www.alisonlowry.co.uk
Alison Lowry is an emerging maker, specializing in glass. Her work is contemporary and innovative; employing traditional and modern techniques to produce a wide variety of one-off sculptural pieces.
After gaining a First class Honours degree at the University of Ulster she went on to win first prize in the glass category at the RDS Craft Competition in 2009 and also won The Glass Society of Ireland’s Award in the same year. She has exhibited widely in Ireland, and her work is currently held in the University of Ulster’s Permanent Works of Art Collection.
She is inspired by the challenge of translating textiles into glass, “As an artist I am interested in textiles, especially clothing. Fabric preserves the essence of its maker; it can act as a vessel for memory and leaves a trace of the wearer as it physically contacts their body”.
Her current body of work was inspired by an embroidered christening robe that has been in her family for nearly a hundred years. The original wearers of this robe are now dead and the most recent wearer is only a year old. Through this work she examines her family links and ties to the past. She also tries to convey how fragile and delicate life is and how the states of birth and death can be similar.
She states,"My work is about the process of making and I use materials and techniques that I feel ‘fit’ what I am trying to say. My fascination with glass stems from its ability to convey artistic expression. I feel the contradictions inherent in glass- fragile/hard, delicate/robust complement what I am saying about the nature and complexity of the human condition"
After gaining a First class Honours degree at the University of Ulster she went on to win first prize in the glass category at the RDS Craft Competition in 2009 and also won The Glass Society of Ireland’s Award in the same year. She has exhibited widely in Ireland, and her work is currently held in the University of Ulster’s Permanent Works of Art Collection.
She is inspired by the challenge of translating textiles into glass, “As an artist I am interested in textiles, especially clothing. Fabric preserves the essence of its maker; it can act as a vessel for memory and leaves a trace of the wearer as it physically contacts their body”.
Her current body of work was inspired by an embroidered christening robe that has been in her family for nearly a hundred years. The original wearers of this robe are now dead and the most recent wearer is only a year old. Through this work she examines her family links and ties to the past. She also tries to convey how fragile and delicate life is and how the states of birth and death can be similar.
She states,"My work is about the process of making and I use materials and techniques that I feel ‘fit’ what I am trying to say. My fascination with glass stems from its ability to convey artistic expression. I feel the contradictions inherent in glass- fragile/hard, delicate/robust complement what I am saying about the nature and complexity of the human condition"
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