Introduction/Refresher to Flameworking with Boro – Zoe Garner
Course Outline
Join Zoe Garner for an introduction to flameworking with borosilicate or 'hard glass' On this one-day taster session, using a torch, you will experiment with a range of techniques to manipulate solid glass boro rods including:
- Gathering glass to form globes
- Linking rods to form chains
- Using rods to form sculptural components
The forms you make can stay as separate examples of the technique, or you can join them together to form a small sculptural piece. Skills learned on this class will enable you to further explore the potential of flameworking with boro.
Notes: Borosilicate (boro') or 'hard glass' is a more durable glass that copes well with temperature changes and is less prone to cracking than 'soft glass' most often used by flameworkers, beadmakers and glassblowers. The melting temperature of boro is higher than regular glass and so the techniques for working with it are slightly different.
This course makes an excellent starter or refresher for Zoe Garner's 3-Day Masterclass 'Connected Forms - Flameworking - Zoe Garner'
Zoe Garner
Zoe's work is an exploration of symmetry, harmonious proportion and balance; its relationship to human behaviour and the natural world if the balance is tipped. Zoe's fascination lies with small changes creating a large impact to a later state. Often unnoticed and unseen, interactions that create a different view or perception. Using Glass as a predominant medium, Zoe is interested in symmetrical form, reflection, magnification and the use of science to create illusion; exploring visual language and questioning what is really real. The transparency of the glass poses the question “What are we able to reveal and what should remain unknown?”
Zoe has been a practicing artist since 1997 and has exhibited her work internationally. Over the past 15 years Zoe has taught specialist classes for the National Glass Centre, and has been visiting lecturer in the University of Sunderland. Zoe is currently the Flame Working Tutor for the National Glass Centre and Artist in Residence in Flame Working at the University of Sunderland.
BA (hons) Glass Design, Staffordshire University
MA Glass Design, University of Sunderland.