ARTIST BIOS
Globe Fine Art is delighted to showcase extraordinary pieces by established glass artists acquired from the collections of seasoned enthusiasts.
Dino Rosin:
Born in Venice in 1948, Rosin’s family moved to the glass-making island of Murano when he was a baby. At the age of twelve, he left school and became an apprentice at Barovier and Toso glassworks where he stayed until he joined his brothers, Loredano and Mirko, at their factory, Artvet, in 1963.
Dino continued at Artvet until 1975 when he moved to Loredano’s newly established studio as his assistant, where the two collaborated for more than twenty-five years. In 1988, Rosin was invited to Pilchuck Glass School in Washington to teach solid freehand glass sculpture, and eventually assumed the role of “maestro” and began single-handedly to produce his own designs. Examples of his skill at cutting and finishing large glass sculptures have been exhibited throughout the world. His work is produced under his own name and has been exhibited at the Museo dell’Arte Vetraria in Murano.
His skillful use of “Calcedonia” glass is unique and makes his pieces recognizable and highly collectible. His work continually touches admirers and is coveted for its scale as well as its ever-changing Calcedonia color palette.
Calcedonia is one of the oldest and rarest types of glass, first developed in Murano during the mid-fifteenth century. The uncertainties of Calcedonia glass production were resolved only by the masters of Murano and lost with the fall of the Venetian Republic. The technique was eventually rediscovered by Lorenza Radi in 1856, but lost again by the turn of the twentieth century. In 1977, the masters Loredano and Dino Rosin again achieved the miracle of Calcedonia. The striations of color, achieved by adding silver nitrate to the Calcedonia glass, cannot be controlled, resulting in the unpredictable beauty of each piece.
Noel Hart:
Noel Hart is an Australian artist working across a range of art forms including blown glass sculptures, paintings, and mixed media. His work is an exploration of biodiversity and its translation into forms of expression. A distinctive aspect of Noel’s art is the recurring theme of the bird motif presented both abstractly and figuratively.
Unusually, Noel is both a painter and a glass artist, but not limited creatively to either. While studying painting in the 1970’s, he quickly found an interest in alternate forms of photography, with his first gallery exhibition showing infrared and painterly gum bichromate images of coastlines and adjacent rainforests. Hybridizing artistic techniques became typical for his practice. Moving forward to the twenty first century, Noel’s artwork blurs the boundaries between conceptual abstract painting and the contemporary studio glass movement with a narrative drawn from cave art, natural history and ideas around conservation ecology.
Hart’s glasswork explores a conservationist motif where the metaphoric possibilities of the study of endangered species, and the potential fragility and enduring qualities of glass, are linked in unique singular objects.
Giles Bettison:
Bettison has become one of Australia’s most dominant and recognized glass artists. This acclaim can be attributed to his unique and strikingly beautiful application of color, patterns and forms in his continual exploration of the traditional techniques of Murrini glass. His works invite a subtle contemplation of the environment in South Australia, which inspires him.
He has evolved the ancient Venetian technique called Murrini, or mosaic glass, to construct patterned sheets from colored glass canes. He cuts and combines these sheets to build his luminous vessels piece by piece. Bettison is known worldwide for his pioneering efforts using the Murrini technique. His work is incredibly unique, combining old and new technology to create some of the finest glass available today.
Bettison received a bachelor's degree from the Canberra School of Art in Australia. He has been the recipient of numerous prizes and awards for his intricate Murrini vessels. He has taught at schools such as: Penland School of Crafts, Pilchuck Glass School, The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass, Canberra School of Art, and Creative Glass in Zurich. Bettison's work is in the collections of the American Craft Museum in New York; the Corning Museum of Glass in New York; the Australian National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia; as well as other museums and private collections around the world.
Stopher Christensen:
Canadian artist Stopher Christensen bases his clean, minimalist aesthetic on the ideals of modernity, specifically exploring the impetus of technological change on socio-cultural activities. Through a juxtaposed amalgamation of historical happenings and current events, Christensen attempts to observe today’s world with the desire of capturing the vernacular of tomorrow’s epoch.
Christensen studied glass at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario and has exhibited extensively throughout Canada and the Untied States.