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Sarah King

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Sarah King I have always been interested in glass ever since I met Paul Marioni, a glass artist that came to South Australia in the early eighty's. I was working in sculpture at the time when Ausglass brought him over from Seattle to show us how to work with hot and warm glass.

My experience was enhanced when we found ourselves in an old cast iron factory that had areas for sand casting, we made up several temporary steel framed kilns and also set up a 44gallon drum to do work from a crucible using a vacuum cleaner to blow the air into this drum firing up the gas to heat our works of art.
It was the most amazing time as Paul gave me the wings to fly, with his slide shows of Nasa's photographs of the planets and pics of people's work from all around the world, has stayed with me until today.

I was fascinated that compatible glass was used long before our civilization could work out how to put two colours together and I have a document talking about glass made 3,000 years ago!
I am working on my Masters of Fi



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Downstream gondwana!
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float glass 6 layers thick 1mtr X .60mtr

Studio work in progress...
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float glass, eagles and water pannels.

Bubbles and square sections of the landscape.
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Clear and grey flaot glass with newspapre and rainforest leaves.

Fern ash !
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Close up of fern screen print and ash of fern using acrilic seal.

River runs with forest!
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Corragated pannel 4 layers thich with news paper and rainforest remnants!

close up of 'River runs with forest!'
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Glass bubbles seen here using the image to represent the river.

River runs with yesterdays news!
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Float glass with newspaper, both recycled materials.

close up of 'River runs with yesterdays news.
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Gondwana fern ash as what happens when forestry burns off!

'Waves'
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Close up of 'Waves' with casurina species native to Tasmania.

'Downstream Gondwana!
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Close up on plant on devitrified glass.

   


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Sarafin
I am looking for galleries around the world to exhibit my glass work.
If you have the right venue please contact me!


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