Colleen Ryan-Priest

GLASS ARTIST and Sculptor

Colleen Ryan-Priest DipFA, DipLA, Fellow NZILA

 

Colleen Ryan-Priest is a glass artist creating original sculpture in cast glass using the ancient technique of the lost wax method of casting glass. Larger sculptural works utilise steel and ‘found’ glass to satisfy a need to take ‘fragile’ glass outside.

 

 The meaning of her work is grounded in her environmental, political and social ‘sense of place’ from a previous career as a landscape architect. Design work in remote landscapes such as Antarctica has provided a profound insight into geological processes and social makeup of people and their landscapes….and contributes to her ongoing creative response to make visible through art, these indelible threads and footprints on the land.

 

Colleen lives and works in Hamilton, New Zealand and her work has been selected for major national and international exhibitions in Australia and throughout New Zealand including; finalist in Ranamok 2008 the Australia and New Zealand Glass Prize, Refraction Waitakaruru, Sculpture in the Park Waitakaruru, Sculpture on Shore 2008 and 2010 and Stoneleigh Sculpture in the Gardens 2009/10 where her installation titled ‘Caught in the Act of Losing You – Sporadanthus ferrugineus’ was selected by the Friends of the Auckland Botanic Garden as the 2009 acquisition for the Botanic Gardens permanent public art collection. In November 2010 Colleen was the recipient of the NZ Society of Glass Artist, Best in Members Show Award.

 

November 2010

Under The Bridge 2-21 December 2010

UNDER THE BRIDGE - Flows the Waikato River.

An exhibition of cast glass from Colleen Ryan Priest and photographs from Grace Carson.

Cast glass and photographs which reveal the timeless patterns of a sparkling life force embracing light and colour at the source of the river through to a darker slowness and quiet where it meets the sea.

The richness and strength of the river is revealed by its changing moods and the constant flow reminds us of the history and lives that we live on its banks. Familiar patterns are left as a visible memory of the journey.

 

 

 

 

under the bridge exhibition 2-21 December 2010

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