Sharon Foley
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About the Artist:
I have been a glass artist for 20 years. I started making stained glass panels and quickly used lots of different processes to obtain various effects. Once I acquired my own kiln, I began experimenting with more 3-dimensional forms.
I completed a Masters Degree glass course at Wolverhampton University which gave me the freedom to use this transparent material in other ways. I express my ideas by combining kiln formed glass with other media.
Ideas which I continue to explore are the walls which society builds but also the self imposed walls of protection.
Making barbed wire from glass highlights a contradiction. Barbed wire is used to keep people out otherwise it may cause you harm but made from glass it depicts the fragility or even nonsense of those who want to keep obstructions in our society.
However, the barriers we erect for ourselves are more subtle and the transparency of the material attempts to reveal what is trying to be kept hidden.
Mental Health is finally becoming a less taboo subject, a welcome development as it affects 1 in 4 people but the treatment for the illness is still unsatisfactory.
I have been a glass artist for 20 years. I started making stained glass panels and quickly used lots of different processes to obtain various effects. Once I acquired my own kiln, I began experimenting with more 3-dimensional forms.
I completed a Masters Degree glass course at Wolverhampton University which gave me the freedom to use this transparent material in other ways. I express my ideas by combining kiln formed glass with other media.
Ideas which I continue to explore are the walls which society builds but also the self imposed walls of protection.
Making barbed wire from glass highlights a contradiction. Barbed wire is used to keep people out otherwise it may cause you harm but made from glass it depicts the fragility or even nonsense of those who want to keep obstructions in our society.
However, the barriers we erect for ourselves are more subtle and the transparency of the material attempts to reveal what is trying to be kept hidden.
Mental Health is finally becoming a less taboo subject, a welcome development as it affects 1 in 4 people but the treatment for the illness is still unsatisfactory.
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Contact Details:
Upper Viney Farmhouse
Viney Hill
Lydney
Gloucestershire
GL15 4LT
Tel: 0159 4510629
Email: sharon_foley_glass@hotmail.com
Upper Viney Farmhouse
Viney Hill
Lydney
Gloucestershire
GL15 4LT
Tel: 0159 4510629
Email: sharon_foley_glass@hotmail.com
