|
Nicole
Ayliffe
Nicole
Ayliffe graduated with 1st class Honours from the
South Australian School of Art, University of South
Australia in 2005. She has gained recognition in many
art awards, including being selected as finalist in
the Ranamok Glass Prize 2005 & 2006, the Waterhouse
Natural History Art Prize 2006 and Young Glass International
2007 in Ebeltoft, Denmark. She has also been the recipient
of the Vicki Torr Online Gallery Prize 2007 and her
work has been published in the New Glass Review, Corning
Museum of Glass, New York 2006 & 2007. She has
recently exhibited her work internationally including
'Art Taipei', Taiwan and SOFA, Chicago, and in February
2007 at COLLECT in the Victoria & Albert Museum,
London.
Nicole's
current series of work is titled 'Optical Landscapes'.
The optical qualities of glass serve as an ongoing
foundation for development within these works. The
thickness of the form gives the illusion of space,
creating an optical lens. The black and white photographic
images reference the Australian landscape, and are
highlighted by the refraction of light through the
glass form.
The
Optical Landscape series are hot blown, then cut and
polished. The gel medium photograpic image is then
applied after the piece has been coldworked. The gel
medium process is where a photographic image is embeded
into the gel medium. This gel is then coated onto
the back surface of the glass form.
|
