Upper Glass

Being such a demanding medium glass can quite often be bound by its technical attributes rather than its artistic intent. Process often becomes a significant part of the finished product to a degree where the concept or an ability to convey an idea is eclipsed by technical trickery.
Emma Camden and David Murray successfully span the bridge between practical expertise and artistic concept which pulls their work in a direction which is far beyond the vessels and bowls that have previously been associated with glass.

Emma Camden is an English glass artist, based in New Zealand.
She studied glass at the University of Sunderland in England, where she gained a BA (hons), before immigrating to New Zealand.
Her work has won major national and international awards and she was the first New Zealand artist to win the RFC Glass Prize.
She has exhibited widely and in recent years been invited to present exhibitions in New Zealand, Australia, Demark, America and Hong Kong as well making numerous contributions to group exhibitions.

Currently a full-time glass artist, David Murray came to the medium from a background in slip-cast ceramics. He studied at the School of Art, Otago Polytechnic and has recently attended workshops by many of the leading New Zealand and international glass artists. Murray’s work is highly sought after for both exhibition and collection and is held in public collections internationally. In 2003 he was awarded the premier award in the Ranamok Prize for contemporary glass.