Louis Grant works between studio glass and interdisciplinary practice, exploring the potential of traditional craft skills to push the boundaries of glass making and contemporary sculpture.

Glass is an amorphous solid, neither liquid nor solid. It is a fluid medium, constantly becoming and located at the precipice of neither “this” nor “that”. For Grant, these tensions allow the medium to provide a material voice to the queer experience. They are activated by scratches, colour inconsistencies and surface abrasions that illuminate the qualities of glass and amplify a play between flawlessness and imperfection.

‘awash’ brings together a collection of new works in which Grant pairs back materials to their pure, honest form, allowing the glass medium to be both fragile and robust. For Grant, the glass forms are an abstract exploration of queer experience and ideas of love, loss, celebration, desire, shame, nostalgia, and melancholy.

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