Fusion - Beginners, Intermediate, Advanced

Claudia Borella

Explore recent methods Claudia Borella adopts to create precise designs in her kiln formed works during an intensive two-week course. During the course program, participants will experience kiln-forming techniques working with Bullseye Glass. Explore fusing using the new Bullseye reactive glass types and copper foils and slumping with pre-made ceramic molds. Whilst working on a signature work for the Glass Furnace Collection, Claudia will construct a hand made mold to illustrate how students can develop their own sculptural works. Additionally, Claudia will reveal a signature process developed in New Zealand to achieve her intricate design work using sandblast resist. This workshop is partly sponsored by Bullseye Glass Company, Portland, Oregon, USA.

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Claudia Borella

Claudia Borella was born in Canberra, Australia, in (1971), and has lived in Wanganui, New Zealand, since 2001. Following a Bachelor of Industrial Design at the University of Canberra in 1993, with a final year as an exchange student at the European Institute of Design, Milan, she completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts with Honours, majoring in glass, at the Canberra School of Art, ANU in 1995. In 2001, Claudia immigrated to New Zealand to teach full time at the Wanganui Polytechnic, until 2004 resuming her full time practice in 2005. In 2007 she established Claudia Borella Glass Design Ltd, incorporating the NZ distributorship for Bullseye Glass. Awards include the David Thomas Award, The Dowse Museum, in 2003; Gold Medal and State Prize at Talente, Munich, 1998; the Kyhoei Fujita Award, Glasmuseet, Denmark, 1997. Exhibiting consistently since 1995, including Wellington to New York, Avid Gallery, Wellington 2009; Art Singapore, Koru Contemporary Art, Singapore, 2006-2009; Glass 08, Milford Galleries, Queenstown, 2008; solo exhibition, Passage From New Zealand, Bullseye Connection Gallery, Portland, USA, 2006; 20/20, Kiln Glass from the New Glass Review of the Corning Museum of Glass, 2005; International Young Artists in Glass, Bullseye Connection Gallery, Portland, USA, 1998. Her work is in collections including those of Sir Elton John; Toyama Institute of Glass Art, Japan; Dowse Museum, Lower Hutt; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Glasmuseet, Ebeltoft, Denmark; A&D Plummer Collection, Australia; Bullseye Glass Collection, USA. Her work is also featured in many publications and websites.

* An additional €20 registration fee is charged during application
** The amount of deposit to be paid is €300
*** The accommodation is full board and the fee is € 35 euro per person/per night in room for 3-4 people. Single and double rooms are limited.
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