ALEX ANAGNOSTOU

The Canadian born glass artist Alex Anagnostou uses glass threads in her ‘Filament’ series to create complex glass webs within hollow glass forms. This unusual glassblowing technique attracted the attention of Lino Tagliopietra, one of the foremost Venetian glassblowers in the world, at a recent Art fair in Chicago.

“I like walking the fine line between hot and cold, beauty and ugliness, order and chaos, fragility and strength, macro and micro, as well as exploring the surface and the interior in the glass sculpture that I make. Creating glass webs within a hollow vessel requires fine dexterity, knowledge of the physics and chemistry of glass, as well as being able to blow glass in the hot shop using hot and heavy materials. These challenging extremes make it an even more exciting creative journey for me. The woven glass threads refer to the history of women’s work, as well as serving as a metaphor for the complex network of veins and arteries found within us as human beings, the connections we have between each other and with our environment. I use glass to capture and communicate these interconnections, behaviours and energies which we cannot always see.”