Colleen Ryan-Priest
RANAMOK GLASS PRIZE
Colleen Ryan-Priests latest work Antarctic Ice - Untouched World has been accepted as one of the finalist for the 2008 Ranamok Glass Prize (very exciting). The Ranamok is an annual contemporary glass acquisitive award for Australian and New Zealand glass makers. It is a touring exhibition with the opening in Canberra on 26 August, with six months of touring to Sydney, Brisbane and several locations in Western Australia.
www.ranamok.com
As an artist and landscape architect I have been involved with sculpture, land art
installations and the manipulation of space and form for 30years. For the last six
years I have worked with glass. What draws me to glass is the translucent qualities of light,
colour and texture and the ability to see into and beyond the surface of the object.
And in particular to make visible my understanding of the connectivity between tangible and intangible elements of our social, climatic and geophysical environment.
Recent work suggests the need to look with an intelligent mind into the depths of glacier ice or a single raindrop to determine the presence of critical environmental indicators of climatic change. There is a real correlation between interruptions to natural ephemeral climatic patterns and environmental impact from our physical everyday lives.
