Bottled Pear No. 10
Bottled Pear No. 10
£9,500.00
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.
A silhouette of a pear rests in the bottom of a half-filled decanter, while a bronze pear simulating spoilt fruit rests under the bronze branch positioned above.
Residual memories of loved ones lost is embodied in this piece, and our subtle shifts in perception when recollecting time and place.
