Now open - Charles Burnand Gallery presents ‘First Impression’ show celebrating glass and ceramics | London Design Festival
Now through till 30 September 2022
September 12, 2022
Photography by Sophia Spring
Charles Burnand Gallery for the month of September presents First Impression, a group show celebrating glass as a material in contemporary, collectible design with pieces from both established and emerging artists. An intimate curation of ceramic works sit alongside the glass pieces, referencing the differences across the mediums and celebrating emotional parallels.
This exhibition coincides with the UN’s International Year of Glass; a material that Charles Burnand Gallery has a long standing global reputation for championing in collectible design.
Established artists on show include CaCO3, Fredrik Nielsen, Joanna Manousis, Zac Weinberg and Dawn Bendick.
They are joined by emerging talent Binghui Song, Inger Sif Heeschen and Noa Chernichovsky who all graduated from the Royal College of Art this past summer.
“To be able to curate a show with glass artworks of this calibre and quality is a clear demonstration of how glass can be taken from the everyday and elevated to extraordinary levels. First Impression challenges the viewers perception of glass and is a true celebration of the fragility and strength of this age old medium” says Charles Burnand Gallery owner Simon Stewart.
Located in the heart of Fitzrovia’s art district the show will also run the duration of London Design Festival.
DAWN BENDICK – TIME ROCK STACK XV, 2022 - UNIQUE PIECE
Dichroic glass
Dawn Bendick is an artist working with time, light and multitone glass. Her project titled ‘Time Over Time’ considers how the changing properties of a material can signal the passage of time. The multitone glass is a colour changing material from which ideas about our relationship to natural light are communicated. She works with a combination of natural and artificial lights to trigger changes in the colour of this unusual and magical material. Her work is inspired by natural light and our intuitive ability to track time without technology. By tapping into our peripheral senses she questions how we can bring awareness to the change in seasons, atmospheric light and weather.
FREDRIK NIELSEN
An extensively trained glassblower who pushes the framework of his craft, Nielsen's work clearly speaks of his range of influences crossing from graffiti to pop music, the energy of which is deeply imbued in each eye commanding piece.
“I want the physical effort to be so big that I am creating a work that is competing with my own body. Everything that reaches this stadium of competition becomes important, then I have created a volume that is looking for the limits of body and mass.”
The raw expression he shares is a result of his direct competition with the forms he explores, the process but also the outcome after which we get to appreciate the depth of each piece. With his works housed both publicly and privately all over the world Nielsen is a true international man of glass.
CACO3 - MOVEMENTO 122 & 155-157, 2021 - UNIQUE PIECE
The works of CaCO3 appear as moving and undulating surfaces, in which the tesserae are of glass, sometimes coloured, gold leaf or marble. These small pieces in the first case start from a sheet of glass which the artist hand cuts small ‘strips’ which are then arranged and placed one at a time into a layer of wet cement mortar, mixed with oxide to obtain different chromatic shades. The tesserae may be arranged in many different ways and can themselves be different from each other; perhaps in the case of the glass, slightly undulating. Their varied appearance, due to the changes in the inclination with which they are set into the cement is able to generate numerous effects, of movement, of rotation, of modularity, of pulsation; for this reason CaCO3 mosaics often have optical values, experimenting unsuspected kinetic dimensions and an idea of dynamism thanks to particular compositional and technical procedures.
Movimento, 155, 156 & 157 uses glass that has 24 carat gold applied to the surface to one face of the glass and is arrange to present an ombre effect.
Movimento 122, uses glass that has white gold applied to the surface to one face of the glass and is arrange to present an ombre effect before sandblasting. As the viewer passes the artwork they are rewarded with a dynamic viewing experience.
MANBERG PROJECTS - AURUM, 2022 - UNIQUE PIECE
Cast glass
Manberg Projects was founded in 2021 by British / American artists Joanna Manousis and Zac Weinberg. Creating bespoke glass wall installations using digital and hand-made processes, traditional glass blowing, and casting methods are integrated with CNC milled moulds to create modular glass components that have infinite possibilities in configuration, colour and scale. Mirroring processes are utilised to transform blown and press-moulded details into dimensional reflective surfaces that respond to light and the environment that they inhabit. Celebrating symmetry, pattern, and form, Manberg Projects design and fabricate pieces that both accent and impact domestic and public spaces. All works are made in the United Kingdom and are exhibited internationally.
MAX JACQUARD - LOST LOVES WREATH, 2006 - UNIQUE PIECE
Glass
Award winning designer, including first prize at the 2016 Glass Biennale, Max Jacquard found the relative freedom of glass and ceramics early on in his practice. Highly experienced in a wide range of glass working techniques Jacqaurd pushes the boundaries of expectations as to what’s possible from this material. Whilst his own works have developed he has been instrumental in forming collaborations and organising exhibitions.
Jacquard is currently focussed on taking on a range of challenging sculptural and architectural projects alongside being a regular feature at exhibitions. Such as his recent commission for the Tower of London. When not creating himself he regularly leads short courses across the UK and Europe, at places such as The Glass Hub, Frome, Somerset and Bildwerk, Fraunau, Germany.
BINGHUI SONG - PSYCHEDELIC FLUID, 2022
Metal bismuth, Glass
A Chinese artist with strong ties to traditional craft and experience across a variety of mediums, Binghui Song’s work explores the antagonistic relationships throughout her life. The emotions within Song’s works comes through in waves, similarly those which metaphorically roll over her coral like works. Her jewellery, illustration and sculpture have been recognised by more than twenty awarding bodies, such as the Theo Fennell Design Award and the IDA Design Award. Graduating from the Royal College of Art this year, following on from education in both Tianjin and Tokyo.
ZAC WEINBERG – SEARCH/PARTY, 2018 – UNIQUE PIECE
Blown cut glass, vintage flashlights, LED, powder coated steel, brass
Zac Weinberg’s projects address the systems by which we interpret and allocate status to objects. His glass and mixed media works have been exhibited internationally in venues including, The Sculpture Center, OH, The Agnes Varis Art Center, NY, Glassmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark and Glasenhuis, Belgium. Weinberg received a BFA from The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2009 and an MFA in Sculpture from The Ohio State University in 2015. Weinberg has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Kanik Chung Legacy Fellowship from MassArt and an Individual Excellence Award through the Ohio Arts Council. Weinberg is currently a Fulbright at The National Glass Centre, UK.
CERAMICS
NOA CHERNICHOVSKY – FACING THE PLENTY, 2022
Ceramic sculpture, earthenware
Noa Chernichovsky’s work is based on a constant awareness of her immediate surroundings. She examines the network of associations that is created around objects and their fragments, tying together their inherent narratives. Her work aims a spotlight on the everyday physical things that we often overlook, and she reconstructs them into hybrid volumes. Her sculptures are composed of many elements, each with its own context and cultural value. As in a collage, these elements accumulate into a larger, overall image that holds its own various identities. She combines many different ceramic techniques that include thrown parts, hand-building and slab moulding, blended with non-ceramic materials and ready-mades. Chernichovsky sees herself as a “sampler” of surfaces and forms from the physical world. Although the subjects of her work are mundane, they are conveyed in a language that is over-the-top, with elaborate textures and patterns to produce a final image full of energy.
INGER SIF HEESCHEN – THE STONES, 2022
Glazed earthenware, underglaze screen print
Inger Sif Heeschan is a interdisciplinary artist, whose research through cultural objects and artefacts, explores the notions of origin and progress. Having grown up on a Danish island containing remnants of an iron age settlement, Heeschen was introduced to the archaeological skill of bringing together fragments in order to craft new narratives through connections, something which is clearly evident in her diverse body of work today.
“My main aim - with a subtle sense of anarchism - is to create objects that meander across time.”
Through her ranging residency experiences, Heeschen has imbued the notion of responding to new surroundings in her pieces.
ABOUT SIMON STEWART and CHARLES BURNAND GALLERY
Founded in 2009 by Simon Stewart, Charles Burnand Gallery is an internationally renowned Gallery and Studio with a reputation for representing established and emerging designers and artists from around the world. Charles Burnand Gallery’s ethos is forged out of curiosity for design and materiality; an understanding that world-class collectable design is a process which takes time - the time to consider details, develop, research, the time to make. We search for and represent artists who share this ethos.
With a wealth of knowledge for materials and cutting-edge technology the Charles Burnand Studio has become an invaluable resource and go-to destination for designers, architects and collectors who wish to commission bespoke, unique, collectable design; appreciators of the finest materials, innovation and time-honoured techniques.
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