Vista 09 #10

Artist Giles Bettison (Australian, born 1966)

Date2009

MediumCold assembled, fused and hotworked Murrini glass, hotformed and cold finished

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Ann W. Hartmann

Object number

2021.44

Not on View

DescriptionTall, rounded vessel composed of roughly square tiles that form two distinct color fields. The bottom quarter of the vessel is composed of gold tiles, while the top three quarters are composed of orange, red, and white tiles. The vessel has a matte surface created through carving and grinding.

Published ReferencesBettison, Giles, “Interview with Giles Bettison | Glass Artist | Studio Australia Barcelona,” 10 September 2020, in Studio Australia Barcelona, YouTube video, 33:23, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrjXabFr_K8.Exhibition HistoryRedfern, NSW, Australia, Sabbia Gallery, Connecting Journeys – Lace, Architecture, Glass, September 4-October 3, 2009. Toledo, OH, Toledo Museum of Art, Hot Spot: Contemporary Glass from Private Collections, April 15-September 18, 2016.Comparative ReferencesSee also Latitudes (Canberra: Canberra School of Art, 1998), 9, 12-13, 16-17, 38, 44. See also Tina Oldknow, Contemporary Glass Vessels: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass (Corning: The Corning Museum of Glass, 2015), 36-37, 164-165, 212. See also Jutta-Annette Page, Peter Morrin, Robert Bell, and Brian P. Kennedy, Color Ignited: Glass 1962-2012 (Toledo: Toledo Museum of Art, 2012), 80, 168. See also Giles Bettison, “Exclusive Interview with Artist Giles Bettison on His Murrine Vessels,” 8 June 2018, The Henry Ford, YouTube video, 2:13, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri8C9hBpdE0.