CAST Glass | Graeme Hitchcock & Karin Barr

EXHIBITION OPENING | Saturday 9 July 4-6pm
until 30 July 2022

Susan Badcock Gallery is looking forward to welcoming you all to the exhibition opening and floor talk of Graeme Hitchcock and Karin Barr, ’CAST Glass’.

Fellow glass casters Barr and Hitchcock met while learning the process in Auckland almost 15 years ago.Since then they have established their styles which they feel compliment each others works.They often show together.

GRAEME’S works all have a back story, which is usually explained in the simple title he gives them.

Fascinated how a posture or gesture can give so much meaning and emotion he plays on this in a style he calls ‘rough cast glass’ allowing the texture and slightly abstract figures complete to story.

He hopes that sculpture will make the observer smile, laugh or question and most of all, feel.

KARIN’S works underline her interest in working with simple forms showing clear and strong lines.

With minimal manipulations Karin is able to create abstract figures showing true human qualities. With a knife she carved the wax to depict parts of various NZ River flows.

The Bauhaus has a big influence in Karin’s works. The movement left an indelible mark on the history of art and design.

Karin celebrates one of the many incredible Bauhaus women. Alma Siedhoff- Buscher designer and crafts person, designed wooden toys for kids which are in production to this day. The work ‘Conversation with ALMA’ emphasise Karin’s concepts of playfully mixing and matching forms.