Joseph Harrington
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ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Joseph Harrington is a sculptor working in cast glass living and working in Caterham, Surrey. He gained a BA in Ceramics and Glass at Buckinghamshire University College (2002) and went on to graduate with an MA in Ceramics and Glass from the Royal College of Art in 2006. He won ‘Best in Show’ at the 2017 British Glass Biennale and a gold medal at the Bavarian State Prize 2018. He has work in public collections, including the V&A Museum, London, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk Virginia and Manchester Metropolitan Special Collections Museum. Joseph has exhibited both nationally and internationally including a 2013 solo exhibition 'Landscape Portraits' at Bullseye Gallery, Portland USA and frequently exhibits at ‘Collect’ art fair at Somerset House. ‘I interpret landscapes through exploration of material. I focus on the erosion of coastlines and rivers as a spectacle of discovery and generation of form, revealing a sense of the history and movement of a place. The work is produced using my ‘Lost Ice Process.’ I use salt to sculpt ice as a one-off ephemeral model to take a direct cast from. The textures this provides, and the transient nature of the creative process reflects the erosion and sense of time in the landscape. There is a roughness from the initial cast that is ground polished and refined to its final finish, revealing the internal structures of the glass and creating facets and flat planes to redefine the essence of the made against the organic surface.’ www.josephharrington.art/ |