Limited Edition piecesĮlliot has provided us with three Limited Edition versions of his creation, which he has titled Threads.Įach of the three editions has a different colourway with its own circular glass base and each version will be an edition of only 25.Įlliot will sign, title, and inscribe the edition number on every stunning sculpture.

We’re delighted that Elliot has made three limited edition versions of Threads, which are available to purchase exclusively through London Glassblowing. It takes an incredibly rare talent to envisage something of this calibre and only a sculpting virtuoso like Elliot to be able to make them, as these glass sculptures are really complex and extremely difficult to make. The final addition of the needle to complete the piece also refers to our fervent hope that the vaccination will help to relieve the current, but necessary restrictions we are all living under.” Elliot Walker Having each layer added to the spool by a different, and long missed friend, gave the process the feeling of community and collective endeavour that I feel reflects the past year’s events. “The idea of making a spool of thread allowed me not only to reference the various emotional reactions to the pandemic, through the use of colour, but also gave me the opportunity to add an element of performance art into the process. Members of the gallery team viewing this in person, were invited to hold the blowing iron in order to apply molten coloured glass while it was wound around the spool as it rotated on the glassmaker’s bench. In front of three cameras and live-streamed to over 1000 people world-wide, Elliot created an especially large spool which was an enormous challenge to make. The added instruction was that this should reference the NHS during the Pandemic. ‘Collective Endeavour: In the Face of Adversity’. The challenge that London Glassblowing chose, to set Elliot, was He remembers feeling unprepared but says that, overall, the experience was surreal and fun.This is our first blog and what better way to start, than with news about Elliot Walker!Įlliot Walker, winner and star of the Netflix programme, Blown Away 2, was set a challenge by London Glassblowing Studio to create a sculpture in celebration of the incredible work done by our NHS during the Pandemic. Walker says his process for getting onto Blown Away was “rigorous,” and included a questionnaire, application video, and two interviews. “This includes four years of study, eight years working for a class studio in central London and a contemporary lighting company while simultaneously running my own business as an artist, and during the last four years, building and running my own glass studio,” Walker says. Walker, who studied glassmaking in the Historic Glass Quarter in Stourbridge, a town in the West Midlands, England, has been working with glass for about 13 years. Especially when making artwork, not all ideas pay off in financial terms so it’s great to have access to such an incredible facility and the freedom to try out new ideas.” “Testing is a huge part of the process and as glassmaking is very expensive, the costs of testing can be huge. “The residency has been a great opportunity for me to test out some ideas for a new sculpture,” he says. Walker created a dung beetle rolling a large ball of recycled objects. Walker won a 10-day residency at PGC for his work on episode four, which challenged contestants to inspire people to think about the environment.

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