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Jessica Loughlin creates ethereal artworks in glass that explore her fascination with the beauty of emptiness and her extensive research into light and space. Beginning her artistic pursuit and exploration of the horizon line in her student years she has since dedicated her practice to the pursuit of capturing the transient qualities of light and the quiet sense of contemplation it provokes in the viewer. Known for her understated aesthetic, Loughlin takes her artistic cues from the vast, flat landscapes and salt lakes of South Australia and is particularly drawn to the inherent quietness and stillness of the land. In her practice, Loughlin fuses opaque and translucent glass together in flat panels or geometric freestanding pieces that allude to shadow, reflection and refraction. Her work is characterised by a strict reductive sensibility and restricted use of colour with a gentle palette of soft muted hues. Born in Melbourne, Loughlin started her studio practice in 1998 and quickly established herself as a distinguished member of the upcoming generation of glass artists in the early 2000s. She has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally over the course of her career. Widely celebrated for her thoughtful and instinctual approach to kiln-formed glass, together with her innovative technical skills with the medium, Loughlin is one of Australia's leading contemporary glass artists.

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Julie Ewington is a curator and writer based in Sydney, Australia. After an academic career at Flinders University (Adelaide), University of Sydney, and Canberra School of Art (now Australian National University), she worked for three decades as a curator. Between 2001 and 2014 Julie led Australian Art at Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, contributing to the Asia-Pacific Triennial (1996-2012). Recent projects include The Housing Question: Helen Grace, Narelle Jubelin and Sherre DeLys (Penrith Regional Gallery, 2019) and Juanita McLauchlan: gii mara-bula/Heart Hand-also, (Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, 2023). Her writing includes the monographs Fiona Hall (2005) and Del Kathryn Barton (2014) and numerous essays; she edits publications for Australian and Singapore art museums; and publishes in journals including Art Monthly and Australian Book Review. Julie is Chair, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, and a board member at Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide. In 2014 she received the Australia Council's Emeritus Medal (Visual Arts Board). Tina Oldknow is an independent curator and art historian specialising in contemporary art, craft and design in glass. The former Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Glass at The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, she has curated over 30 exhibitions and has written over 100 books, articles and essays on glass. In 2014, she was named an Honorary Fellow of the American Craft Council, and, in 2015, she was appointed Honorary Fellow of The Corning Museum of Glass.

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