Galia Amsel
“My ideas are based around capturing moments in movement and rhythm and exploring tension and balance. By working the surface textures and manipulating the use of colour, glass becomes the perfect medium for bringing my forms to life by the variety of ways it can capture and transmit light. My natural environment inspires me with the resolution of my sculptures.
The work is composed mainly of glass using a variety of techniques ranging from lost wax casting to blowing. “
Working in New Zealand
1985-1986 Foundation Course, Loughton College of Further Education, Loughton
1986-1989 Middlesex Polytechnic, BA (Hons) 3-D Design (Ceramics and Glass)
1989-1991 Royal College of Art, London, MA Glass
Galia Amsel’s has work in the following public collections:
Crafts Council, London
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear
The Turner Museum of Glass, Sheffield
Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark
Musée du Verre de Sars-Poteries, France
Glasmuseum, Die Ernsting Stiftung Alter Hof Herding, Coesfeld, Germany
Museo de Arte en Vidrio de Alcorcón, Madrid, Spain
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Corning Museum of Glass, New York, USA
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama, USA
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
Palm Springs Art Museum, California, USA
The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, USA
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Montreal, Canada
Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
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