Free Range: glass by Andrea Harris

The hens are laying well this season.  And what is one to do with all those eggs?

My glass is functional, safe to eat from.   It’s created with a love of the medium – glass lets in light, it lets light pass through, it bends the light as it passes. Glass is a super-cooled form of silica.  A super-cooled liquid is a metastable liquid that has been cooled below its melting point.  Which make glass cool.  Super cool.  Glass.

Gay McKinnon and Carolyn Toselli

'Cubist Tic Tac Toe', fused polished glass, Gay McKinnon

Ceramic fish platters, Carolyn Toselli

Throughout November, check Off Centre's large gallery window for new glass and ceramics by Gay McKinnon and Carolyn Toselli.  Gay McKinnon's playful glass games, blocks and platters exploit the brilliant colours and tactile qualities of kiln-formed polished glass while referencing the artist's scientific background.  Chromosomes, rock strata, geometric and intracellular forms all feature.  Ceramic artist Carolyn Toselli presents colourful, boldly decorative functional ware, jewellery and animal sculptures. 

Ceramic platter by Carolyn Toselli

Fused glass jewellery by Gay McKinnon

Colour Lab

Off Centre's June display features spectacular colour effects in contemporary ceramics and glass.  Cherie Nicholson's pit-fired ceramics reveal a spectrum of soft, natural hues, while Gay McKinnon's polished glass blocks and platters exploit both transparent, saturated colours and strong opaques.  The exhibition continues until Sunday 1st July.

Glass platter and game by Gay McKinnon

Glass blocks by Gay McKinnon

Pit fired vessel by Cherie Nicholson