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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => New Zealand & Australia Glass => Topic started by: jonchellycain on June 25, 2012, 03:11:21 PM
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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
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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
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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
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Whereabouts are you, Michelle, ie in which country did you find it?
Stuart
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Im in the UK found it at a car boot in Cambridgeshire.
Always amazing how far glass travels.
thanks
michelle
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Im afraid my New zealand glass album is a little bare but we have had a couple of peices
https://picasaweb.google.com/112538457954992188877/AustralianNewZealand?authuser=0&feat=directlink
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There's a similar piece on NZ's Trademe at present for NZ$590. Though it has been on and off TradeMe unsold for quite a while. http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=487919045 (http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=487919045)
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Hi Michelle, I have just sold a very large Garry Nash vase with the same pattern and colour as yours- check out auction # 480644183 on www.trademe.co.nz site and have a drool! It is a lovely colour and I could only exhibit on it's own as the sheer size overshadowed nearby objects. The signature was all but invisible but was there near the base, very similar to the one on your lovely vase.
regards Carol
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When I read this thread I thought that the name was familiar and it turns out that I own a goblet by Mr Nash. Here are some pictures for reference.
The middle section is iridescent banded glass.