Silent Auction 2024

 

The artworks have been generously donated by the following artists - Robert Winter, James Maskrey, Cate Watkinson, Mary Watson, Catherine Forsyth, Joanna Manousis, Jo Mitchell, Anthony Amoako-Attah, Tom Jordan and the National Glass Centre.

 

Please have a look through all of the lots and if there are any that you would like, please place your highest unique bid (e.g. £45.04). The winning bidders will be announced via a live stream on Instagram, from noon on Thursday 2nd May 2024 and will be contacted by email, which will include payment details. 

 

Due to the fragile nature of most of the pieces, we would prefer items to be collected (by arrangement) from the Glass & Ceramics department at the University of Sunderland. However, some items could be posted to your address at an additional cost, for these lots we have included the approximate postage cost based on Royal Mail Tracked 48 mainland UK delivery. 

 

Happy Bidding!

 

Information on the artists that have kindly donated their pieces of art -

 

James Maskrey has a career in hot glass spanning over 30 years. He has exhibited widely internationally and his own work is included in many public and private collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Crafts Council.

 

Rob Winter - I completed a Master of Arts with distinction in 2005. In 2007, I began establishing partnerships between the University of Sunderland and various Fair-Trade organisations. I have delivered workshops and undertaken University supported consultancies in India and Peru. I am regularly consulted by Potteries in Vietnam and Africa.

 

Cate Watkinson ​ - Over the past 30 years she has successfully completed a varied range of commissioned projects from glass public seating in city centres to a 7m high sculpture for a shopping mall. From a stained glass window for Newcastle Cathedral to a laminated glass screen for the Arrivals Hall at Newcastle International Airport in the UK.

 

Catherine Forsyth - After finishing her MA Glass at the University of Sunderland in 2004 Catherine walked with her mother to Lybster, Caithness, to take up an artist in Residence at North Lands Creative Glass. Her work is landscape based and is quiet and meditative in feel. Catherine is working as an Artist in Residence in the University of Sunderland's workshop. 

 

Mary Watson - I consider my work to be a form of abstract portraiture, capturing the essence of individuals, their shared experiences and societal issues. In recent years, I have incorporated QR codes, linking to photography and audio recordings of participant narratives and experiences, into the fabric of my artwork. I produce a blend of sculptural installations and functional pottery, inspired by people, places, and drawing games.

 

Tom Jordan - My creative practice is currently centred around my AxiDraw pen plotter, a drawing robot that produces outputs somewhere between a handmade print and a digital one. I make digital drawings using Adobe Illustrator which are then fed to the plotter where I can vary the medium they are rendered in – pen and ink, graphite, paint etc. Each drawing is unique in that the interaction between pen and paper varies from plot to plot and different layers have to be registered to align properly.

 

Joanna Manousis is a British–American artist working in glass and mixed media. Her work has been recognized with nominations for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and a Bombay Sapphire Award Nomination for ‘Excellence in Glass’ as well as the Margaret M. Mead Award and the Hans Godo Frabel Award. Manousis has received support from internationally recognized residency programs including the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio; the Museum of Arts and Design, New York; the Corning Museum of Glass, New York; and Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France. Her work has been exhibited at Design Miami and Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland; FOG Art + Design, San Francisco; the Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark; and the British Glass Biennale, Stourbridge, England.

 

Jo Mitchell works from her studio in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. She has a BA(Hons) in Three-Dimensional Design from Manchester Metropolitan University, and an MA (The Edinburgh Crystal Scholarship) from the University of Wolverhampton. Her practice-based PhD at the University of Sunderland was awarded in 2017. Jo's artworks explore the metaphorical qualities of air and glass, often incorporating the human form. Her practice employs precision-controlled air-entrapment through the innovative use of waterjet cutting and kiln-forming to control the form of bubbles within the internal space of glass, a technique she developed during her doctorate. Her work is currently in the collections of the Shanghai Museum of Glass, China, the National Glass Centre, U.K. And the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung Foundation, Germany. She exhibits nationally and internationally.

 

Anthony Amoako-Attah is a Ghanaian artist who manipulates glass to look like woven fabric through screen printing using glass powders, glass enamels, waterjet cutting and finishing through kiln forming. He perceives glass as language: a platform through which he draws upon his Akan cultural heritage. He concentrates on social, political, and cultural issues that intertwine with integration, migration, dislocation and personal identity through the use of Ghanaian traditional Adinkra symbols and Kente fabric patterns.

 

Lot 19 - ‘Victoriana Obscura-Bottled Experiences’ 2023, blown glass and stopper by James Maskrey. Postage available for an additional cost approx. £5.09. Please place your highest unique bid: