Nick Crowe - Commemorative Glass

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Crowe's practice encompasses a wide range of media, including film & video, sculpture and the internet. This exhibition focuses on Crowe's specific interest in glass as a contemporary artistic material. Crowe utilises the diverse material properties of glass, together with its varied cultural connotations (fragile, beautiful, dangerous, mundane, industrial) often drawing together contradictory ideas in one work. He uses the traditional method of glass engraving by hand, but also works with high specification glass created for architectural and scientific purposes. The resulting works range from large scale sculptures to delicate hand-engraved panels. Commemorative Glass also continues Crowe's investigation into the role of technology and its contingent effects on everyday life. The internet is used both as a focus for his work and a tool to research its content. Taking the dematerialised and often ephemeral material found online, Crowe transforms it into solid, but transparent, sculptural forms.