As an artist Holly Grace uses glass as an invisible skin to explore form and decoration, creating a body of artwork that explores our historical and ongoing fascination with nature. Holly is particularly interested in the way early industrial designers assimilated patterns from nature to design and decorate mass-produced objects. It is this interaction and decorative process Holly would like to explore. Drawing from both nature and its industrial interpretation as a source of form and decoration to create a variety of hybrid objects, a synthesis of man and nature.
Using historical techniques to create texture on glass, replicating patterns found in nature in manufactured decorative glass. Through sandblasting, engraving and glue-chipping the outer and inner surfaces of the forms, highlighting the transparent qualities of the glass.
Skeltos II 2005
Clearing – Autumn II 2006
Efterar 2006
Sweden Autumn (detail) 2006
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