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Garry Nash New Zealand glassblower, Signiture and info for reference

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jonchellycain:
Hi all
picked this vase up yesterday, filthy and covered in paint (although strangely the inside was perfectly clean not a speck of dirt, must has been used upside-down)
Thought I would add the mark and details that I have found for future reference.
Garry Nash is a glassblower originally from Australia but moved to New zealand. Depending on the website he has been a glassblower for 24/27 years (obviously depends when they where written)
http://www.garrynash.co.nz/
http://www.glass-time.com/ordernashglass.html
http://axiamodernart.com.au/artists/studio-glass-ceramics/artists.php?id=61
http://www.koru-hk.com/artists/glass/GarryNash/page1/index.html
http://www.artbythesea.co.nz/garrynash.htm.
Anne I am happy for you to use the pictures
thanks
michelle

gaspy1:
Here's a brief potted history, extracted from my historical essay in 'New Zealand Glass Art' (Bateman 2010):

"Mel Simpson (b. 1948) received his first training in glass at the University of Illinois and UCLA. In 1977 he was appointed Lecturer in Design at Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland, and set up a course in glass studies as a medium for applied design.  Ann Robinson (b. 1944) spent a very formative year as a student at Elam in 1980, and while there met Australian Garry Nash (b. 1955), who kept coming in to talk with Mel. Garry had got his first exposure to glass in Adelaide in 1974, but it was Mel and the Elam studio that gave him the chance to explore glass thoroughly, beginning in 1978...

After Ann Robinson graduated from Elam, she and Garry Nash joined John Croucher at Sunbeam in 1981. They developed the new Sunbeam studio in McKelvie Street in Grey Lynn where Garry still works. This was a highly successful partnership, and the Sunbeam artists brought wide exposure to this new art form...

At the end of the 1980s the Sunbeam artists decided to pursue different paths. Ann Robinson had been experimenting with pāte-de-verre and casting glass, a medium in which she became a world master, and established a whole new direction for New Zealand glass. Garry Nash bought out his partners and continued to blow glass at Sunbeam" [he still does]

Yours is a nice find - I have a couple of similar ones.

Stuart Park
New Zealand

jonchellycain:
Thanks so much for the additional information Stuart.
I was an amazing find in the sense I walked straight past it, it was in a box full of junk and broken tat, no protection, filthy dirty and covered in paint it was only the fact the guy had a pair of very nice Kosta Boda candle holders that made me take a second look at the rest of his stall.
Michelle
An additional point, the mark has been made more easy to read using talc/baby powder

gaspy1:
Whereabouts are you, Michelle, ie in which country did you find it?

Stuart

jonchellycain:
Im in the UK found it at a car boot in Cambridgeshire.
Always amazing how far glass travels.
thanks
michelle

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