He worked for glassblowing legend Peter Layton for about eight years as a part of his London studio team. He developed his basic skills and necessary foundations as a creator by studying glass-making in the Stourbridge Glass Quarter, an historic place that has been associated with the glass industry for more than 400 years. Touted as one of the United Kingdom’s finest rising glass stars, Walker has become one of the most active and inspiring artists of his generation. She is the owner of the Blowfish art gallery, currently selling Walker’s works online. He now lives and works in Hertfordshire with his life partner, colleague and fellow glassblower Bethany Wood. With a BA in psychology from Bangor University in North Wales, Walker discovered glass at university, taking night classes in stained glass windows. Following his MA in applied arts from Wolverhampton University, the artist established a studio in Camden. He never thought of being an artist when he was a kid because it wasn’t “sensible.” As a boy, he describes himself, as ‘out-doorsy,’ always creating and making things, mostly with pebbles and sticks, inspired by British sculptor and environmentalist, Andy Goldsworthy. Growing up in Wolverhampton, England, an academic at school, Walker took his A-Levels in science, chemistry and biology. Walker’s remarkable technical skills include complex and subtle coloring applications, along with cold processes like cutting and polishing, surface decoration and texturing, adding depth and dazzling intricacy to his forms.Ī show statement from Messums Fine Art Ltd, read: “Elliot is an exciting and talented artist bringing a conceptual edge to a traditional craft with all the hallmarks of a mould breaker…We have been watching the seam between craft and art break over the years, and Elliot’s work irreverently celebrates glass working whilst engaging with our contemporary concerns and pleasures.” Employing almost every conceivable technique, the artist transformed classic still life painting objects into ethereal, sculptural cameos that speak both of bounty and its impermanence.
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Plenty, an irreverent look at the culture of excess, presented a new series of sculpture inspired by 17 th– century Dutch Vanitas paintings. Messums, London, hosted Walker’s inaugural solo show from January 28 through February13, 2021. “It showed me how welcoming and inspiring the global fraternity of furnace glass workers is.” But the artist works feverishly on new commissioned works, facilitates a number of creations for several noted designers and artists, and carries out his new duties as champion of marblemedia’s glassblowing competition show.įor Walker, getting to know his fellow contestants on Blown Away 2 and watching them work made his participation on the show worthwhile.
For the moment, prized residencies at both the Corning Museum of Glass and the Pittsburgh Glass Center are on hold due to Covid. Though exquisite to look at, it was the combination of refined glassblowing skill with the humor and satire of his work that resulted in Walker winning the Netflix series, Blown Away 2. Sculpting and blowing molten glass, Elliot Walker creates still life sculpture inspired by the paintings of Dutch masters. Glass Artists of Colorado and the Morgan Adams Project.CMOG’s 10 Ways to Digitally Experience Glass.LaceFace and Southern Oregon Glass Community Relief.
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