Redefining FOUR CENTURIES of
British Glassmaking Tradition

Joanna Manousis is a British / American artist working in glass and mixed media. Her work has been recognised with nominations for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and a Bombay Sapphire Award Nomination for 'Excellence in Glass' as well as receiving the Margaret M. Mead Award and the Hans Godo Frabel Award. Joanna is currently pursuing a practice-based PhD at The National Glass Centre through The University of Sunderland. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Alfred University, New York, and a Bachelor Degree in Fine Art–Glass from The University of Wolverhampton, England. Joanna has worked, studied, and taught in Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia.

Hot sculpted glass and bit work Guggenheim Force SD is the latest iteration in Youn's 'BEAST' glass figure series. Constructed out of Venetian traditional stemware and vessels, it transforms the context of tradition including the techniques to create fantasy and futuristic characters. 

Walker’s newest instalment of dichromatic flower vases further investigates the other great vain of still life painting. These sculptures hybridise the ostentatious bouquets of the European baroque style and the similarly outrageous designs and construction methods seen in Venetian chandeliers – the delicate millefleur of lilac and hydrangea repose within fern-like arms and gently curving leaves.