Fenella Osborne

The work within the show focuses on the glass surface as an architectural intervention. The work looks at maquettes and models as stand alone pieces, both as sculptural work in their own right but also as aspirations for future larger projects. The work looks at the qualities of illuminated glass surfaces, of fleeting phenomena. A fragile, tactile translator of light and space, glass dissolves the edge of reality, emphasising and enhancing an understanding of the immaterial though partial materiality. The deposition of oxides and metallic elements is aimed to enhance this surface of complex-clarity by adding mirrored transparent colour through the exaggeration of a process often used to create non reflective glass. Glass is a synthesis, to look on, through, and beyond, altering the visual perception of time.

Through the exploration of these transcendental qualities with the deposition of pure and intangible radiant colour, translucent veils of thin film optical interference alter the refraction and reflection of light within and upon the surface of the glass. Through my work I seek to transcend the dimensional and perceptive space between thought and feeling within the affinity of the eye, to create a moment of stillness.