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Paul Haigh (USA) / Corning Museum of Glass (USA) Liquid Fusion06.08. - 17.08.2006 |
| The ephemeral and sublime qualities of glass provide a rich palette for innovation and intervention. Working immediately with glass forming processes such as hand pressing, blowing, slumping, flameworking, stained glass and glass sheet forming, we will examine glass making as an art form with pertinent methodologies for today's design disciplines. Daily design challenges will explore and develop ideas to fabricate glass concepts at multiple scales from fashion to furniture, from artifact to architecture. Transformation and manipulation of wine bottles and recycled glass containers utilizing alternative fabrication methods will be the first step in creating new glass designs. Each participant will design multiple works utilizing the processes offered. Selected works will be shown as part of a special presentation at the Corning Museum of Glass: GlassMarket. This unique 10 day design exploration workshop is offered in cooperation with the expertise and resources of the Corning Museum of Glass USA. Paul Haigh returns to Boisbuchet to direct this first glass design workshop with the technical and artistic collaboration of Steve Gibbs and Charles Parriot. The participation fee for the ten-day course is 950 € for students and 1050 € for all other participants. Early booking is recommended, as the number of participants will be limited. Paul HaighBorn in Leeds, England, Architect and Designer Paul Haigh received his Masters Degree from the Royal College of Art in 1975. He immigrated to the United States to design exclusively for Knoll International in 1978. HAIGHArchitects was established in New York in 1980. He was joined by partner Barbara H. Haigh in 1982.Acclaimed works in the USA include the VitraUSA factory, Knoll Design Center NY, Carolines Comedy Theatre and the SteubenGlass New York store. Furniture and object designs include glass collections, seating designs, and workplace products. Haigh and his studio have won numerous design and architecture awards. Drawings and projects have been exhibited at both group and one man shows both in the US and abroad. In recent years, he has taught at the annual Vitra Design Museum Design Workshops in France and at the Parsons School of Design in New York. He has also presented lectures at leading architecture and design schools worldwide. www.haigharchitects.com Corning Museum of GlassSteve Gibbs & Charles Parriot
As a child, Steve Gibbs spent Sunday afternoons at The Corning Museum of Glass daydreaming about life as a glass engraver. At 14, he began an apprenticeship with his uncle, a master leaded glass artist with over half a century of glassworking experience. Fresh out of college, he was hired by Steuben and worked for 17 years as a manager, supervising different parts of the Steuben Factory, including the engraving shop. He was introduced to hot glassblowing at Steuben and has spent the last 7 years learning about the process. Currently, he serves chiefly as an assistant on the Hot Glass Stage and still considers himself a student, exploring the wonders of glass with his audience.
Charles Parriott is an American born glass artist and consultant living and working in Seattle, Washington and Prague, Czech Republic. Parriott has been working with glass in commercial and artistic applications since 1972. He is one of the few Americans to have briefly studied with Czech sculptor and pedagogue, Stanislav Libensky, in the 80's.After a 12 year stint as colorist and consultant for the Chihuly Studio, in Seattle, Parriott moved, in 2001, to direct construction and program development of the hot glass studio for the Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington. Parriott set the Guiness Book world record for producing the world's largest bottle of wine in 2004. |