Maurice La Rooy

Maurice La Rooy

Maurice La Rooy(Amsterdam, 1992) graduated in Graphic Design at the Mediacollege Amsterdam in 2012. After realizing that the world of computers and Graphic Design was not the life he had envisioned he started an apprenticeship, glassblowing, at the Van Tetterode Glass Studio, then owned by his father, Louis La Rooy(1947).

He apprenticed there for two years at which he was the Hot shop Coordinator at this point. He met several of the glass artists in the community and it wasn’t long until he met John Moran whom had just started a Glass Studio in Ghent, Belgium. In 2015 Maurice started working at Gent Glas on a regular basis involving himself in the educational part of the studio. From 2019-2021 he functioned as Studio Coordinator at Gent Glas and mainly focused on the educational programs that Gent Glas has to offer.

A lot of his work frequents somber topics. Maurice has always found works that portrait something heavy, to really resonate with the emotion he feels towards an artwork, which has left him with a need to pursue this within his own work.