Topic: who is tracy weston?

[Ivo]

Signed tracy weston 1984 - i can only find a photographer by that name.

[aa]

A very rare piece of glass as Tracy Weston only worked for a couple of years, to the best of my recollection, as an assistant to Neil Wilkin at his first studio near Bath (before he went to Dartington).

I remember him commenting that she was very talented, but as with many talented glassmakers, she did not continue with a career in glass, as this brings financial pressures. It is very possible that she became a photographer so it may be worth contacting her.

She was a very pleasant person with a friendly outgoing personality. I only met her once or twice.

[flying free]

that's interesting - I have a bowl signed by Neil Wilkin (the handwriting is identical to a signed Neil Wilkin vase I have ) and it is signed W & W Bath 1985.  I assumed it was for the Bath show and that it was a Wilkin/Woodman collaboration piece. 
piece here
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,38482.msg262512.html#msg262512
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After leaving The Manchester Art Glass Company, where he had been principal blower, Neil Wilkin set up a studio near Bath, together with Rachel Woodman in 1984, I think, so your piece would have been produced there.

[flying free]

Thanks Adam    I am beginning to wonder whether my white bowls with black rim were perhaps produced there rather than Manchester as well, or maybe they just came back down here and were sold around here ...I live in the general vicinity of Bath and all my Neil Wilkin pieces have been purchased locally.
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[aa]

Were they shallow bowls with a foot?

[flying free]

yes - there had been another thread about them coming from Manchester   I was just musing since I bought them down here and a huge fruit bowl in the same design at a different place but also down here, whether they made their way back from there originally.
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[Ivo]

Thank you for the information. Next project is to get this fragile piece home as cabin luggage :-) :-) :-)

[flying free]

It's pretty Ivo - how large is it?  will it squash into their 'measure your cabin baggage' frames at the airport 
We carried a huge 3 ft long antique wooden trug, a small trike for a 3 yr old and a bakelite telephone back from Amsterdam on one trip....Easyjet were a lot more Easy going in those days.
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It is very possible that she became a photographer so it may be worth contacting her.

On second thoughts.. http://www.tracywestonphotography.com/about "I’m a 27 year old photographer" possibly not the same person!