ausglass MAGAZINE A QUARTERLY PUBLICATION OF THE AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION OF GLASS ARTISTS Print Post Publication No. PP 387661 10014 SPRING - SUMMER 1993 C PRESIDENT'S LETTER 2 ausglass Pauline Mount THE GLASS WEEKEND SPRING - SUMMER Graham Sto~e I EDITION 1993 THE REAL VALUE OF 0 AUSTRALIAN GLASS 4 Editor Tony Hanning Bronwyn Hughes Letters and correspondence to ART GLASS COLLECTORS: 50 Two Bays Road, Their care and feeding 7 Mt. Eliza, VIC, 3930 Margo Oskarsson n I Editorial Committee A COLLECTOR'S PERSPECTIVE ON THE GLASS WEEKEND 7 I Bronwyn Hughes Chairperson Frank Howarth I Jacinta Harding Secretary BOOK REVIEW: t The Art of Self-Promotion 9 I Carrie Wescott Gerie Hermans Kim Lester Advertising THE HERMAN'S TAPES: Bronwyn Hughes Interview with Geoffrey Edwards 10 Graham Stone Distribution Gerie Hermans David Hobday Desktop e NICK MOUNT: PAGLIACCIO PLATES Publishing AND POPOLO GLASS .... 16 Tony Hanning Gerie Hermans Board Graham Stone Members IN THE WOMB OF THE ROSE 18 Delia Whitbread President n THE ACI GLASS EXHIBITION 20 Pauline Mount, Robert Buckingham 87 Sydenham Road, NORWOOD, SA 5067 RICHARD MORRELL EXHIBITION: Phone & Fax: (08) 363 1135 Glass Artists Gallery 22 Jeffrey Hamilton t AUSGLASS + NETWORK = IGA 25 Brian Hirst LIGHTS OF OUR PAST: Report 26 The views expressed in Bronwyn Hughes the Ausglass Magazine are not necessarily the views of EDITORIAL 28 the Ausglass National s Executive or the Magazine Bronwyn Hughes Board. Please note the address for Membership Enquiries: Front Cover: Preliminary bowl drawing by Deb Cocks, winner ACI Maggie Stuart, Glass Exhibition Award, Meat Market Craft Centre 1 Frederick Street, 1993. St. Peters, N.S.W. 2044. Phone: (02) 5503626 ausglass , p R E s D E N T s L E T T E R Dear Members, A lot has been happening! Richard Marquis & Dante Marioni Tour In February, Richard Marquis & Dante I have been inundated with calls from Marioni conducted workshops at the Jam people who have received a letter stating they Factory Craft & Design Centre in Adelaide, the are unfinancial but in fact have paid their subs. Meat Market Craft Centre in Melbourne and the Canberra School of Art. The tour also I have been sending on this info to featured a slide lecture in Tasmania and Maggie Stuart, our National Members Richard opened the "Australia Revisited" Secretary. If you have problems with not exhibition celebrating 20 years of Australian receiving info and you are financial, please glass at the Meat Market Craft Centre. give Maggie a call on 042 84 7844. Our data base is only as good as the information our Co-ordinated by Nick Mount, the tour was members provide us with so keep us up to planned to celebrate the twentieth anniversary date with changes in your address and contact of Richard Marquis' first tour of Australia in numbers. The response to the request for 1974. That tour was sponsored by the Crafts people to renew their membership has been Board of the Australia Council and was an terrific and lots of people have paid their subs. important point of time for the glass art movement of Australia. The purpose of the Since writing my last letter I attended the 1994 tour was to produce a focal point for Glass Weekend organised by Ausglass Ausglass members and to raise the public Victoria. It was a resounding success. awareness of our medium. The South Congratulations Melbourne. Australian Department for the Arts and Cultural Heritage have in part sponsored the The organisation of the Conference is 1994 tour, together with private donations. continuing with the workshops virtually decided and the programming well under way. We would still welcome any feedback or Contemporary Australian Glass suggestions from members. Give me a call if published by Craftsmen Press in Sydney you need updates on the conference, the poster or the book. All financial and un-financial members from as far back as 1990 should have Regards to everyone, Pauline received a long letter from me inviting them to submit material for this publication. Pauline Mount Ausglass President Accompanying this letter was an insert for 87 Sydenham Rd non financial members encouraging them to Norwood SA 5067 re-join our association. Ph/Fax: 08 363 1135 Don't miss the "Made in Japan' Exhibition Works by Ruth Allen & Scott Chaseling Attention Canberrans: at Glass Artists Gallery until April 31, 1994 Jeffrey Hamilton solo exhibition 70 Glebe Pt Rd Glebe 2037 (02) 552 1552 now showing at Beaver Galleries 2 ausglass THE G LAS S WEEKEN D Ausglass Victoria's Glass Weekend, held on the The Weekend revealed that much more work 18th & 19th September 1993 at the Meat Market needs to be done to encourage an "appreciation Craft Centre sought to raise the profile of circle", if I can call itthat. Despite the publicity, I felt contemporary Australian glass. The seminal idea that there were still enthusiasts who did not know came from Pauline Delaney and Mark Brabham, of the event. The reaction from the public, however, following their experiences in the United States. was overwhelming. On both days, the Meat Market was packed to capacity and it became obvious that Besides alerting the public, we hoped to stimulate the fascination with this medium extends well people to become glass collectors and make contact beyond our own (practitioner's) addiction. with the few Australian ones who already exist. In time, a situation in which collectors are in touch The ACI Glass Award was the central exhibition with each other is seen as ideal for the gradual around which the other activities were built. educative process regarding contemporary glass. Selectors for the show, and judges for the award, Collectors, because of their shared passion, are in were Robert Bell (Art Gallery of Western Australia), many ways our greatest advocates and an inherent Terrence Lane (National Gallery of Victoria) and font of knowledge. Elizabeth Cross (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology). The winner of the award was Deborah The Glass Weekend featured 3 exhibitions: the Cocks from New South Wales. Congratulations Deb ACI Glass Award, Panel Beaters (hung flat work), for the new baby as well. Kazuko Eguchi won first and Glass of the 70's & 80's (from the State Craft prize in the Panel Beaters show sponsored by the Collection). Demonstrations of slumping, painting Melbourne Glass Centre. & staining, stencil cutting and open casting were held in the Cold Glass Workshop (Dick Stumbles, I am grateful to the artists who reacted to the Anita Lindblom, Tony Hanning & Mick D'Aquino). educative concept so positively and supplied us Glass blowing techniques including the team with such tantalising work. It was obvious that approach and the opportunity for the public to have some had made a special effort and I believe that the a play with hot glass were performed in the Hot result augers well for the future. I had promised our Glass Workshop (Janine Toner, Carrie Westcott, sponsor, ACI, that the exhibition would feature Anne Hand, Nick Wirdnam and Richard Morrell to some of the best Australia had to offer, and that it name but a few). certainly did. The responses to the show were extremely positive and surprisingly broad. A mini-seminar aimed at explaining various facets of glassmaking and exploring issues facing collectors All in all, a great month for glass and in particular also took place. Speakers at the seminar included the Weekend that kicked it all off. Countless glass Bronwyn Hughes, David Turner, Tony Hanning, people contributed to its success, but particular Maureen Williams, Frank Howarth, Rob I<nottenbelt, thanks to Pauline Delaney, Ede Horton, Bronwyn Mark Douglas, Stephen Procter, Robert Bell and Hughes, Nick Wirdnam, Rut~ Turner and Wayne Stephen Skillitzi. Burrowes for making it all happen. The spectacular finale was co-ordinated by Nick Graham Stone Wirdnam & James Thompson and highlighted the fluidity of glass as well as the amount of heat necessary to produce this cold substance. ausglass 3 THE REAL VALUE OF AUSTRALIAN GLASS Tony Hanning The fol/owing is a transcript of Tony's Paper The price of a particular Tony Hanning exhibition from the Glass Weekend Symposium. piece is $1,500 per kilo. The price of flying a fat person to Hawaii for This talk is not as distinctly about the real value seven nights is $7.50 per kilo in a comfy seat in a of Australian Glass as you might expect. pressurised cabin. I am aware t~at the underlying theme of this The cost of flying a piece of 3 kilo Tony Hanning weekend is "Collections and Collecting." Without glass, one way in the same aircraft in a cargo hold collectors we ar~ stimied, and without artists, so is five times that amount at $400 and it doesn't are the collectors. I am therefore addressing this even get to see the movie. paper to both parties. There is work to do here, as you shall see, and I"make no bones about the fact Fillet steak is on special at Webster's Yinnar that what I am about to say is less than a P.R. job butchery this week at $14.99 a kilo which is just to convince the collectors that we're Okay, and that over half the price of the Honda, but you'd lose out their money is safe with us. badly if you belted it into a seat on a Qantas flight Collecting is a because price wise it is responsibility of sorts, and as II The essence of "collecting" is worth two seats and in the we go through this topic, I'm "value"; This explains why you cargo hold it's worth the hoping that we can team should never trust a person who same as a cricket team flying together, artist and collector to Patagonia for a month.