Description
‘Ice Pig’
Matt Calvert
frosted toughened glass
46.5 x 31 x 10.5cm
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Matt graduated from the University of Tasmania with a Bachelor of Fine Art (first class honours) in 1993. He was awarded a Samstag Scholarship to Goldsmiths College, University of London, where he completed a Master of Art degree in 1994.
After residencies in Paris, Malaysia and Japan earlier in his career, Matt’s practice now focuses on small and large-scale public and private commissions that feature recycled, toughened glass, sometimes in conjunction with corten steel and aluminium.
Matt sources his glass from waste material, smashes it up in his studio in aptly-named Glaziers Bay in southern Tasmania, and reconfigures it using a cold fusion, flat mould lamination technique into quirky forms of children, an iconic range of farmyard and exotic animals and more recently, tree-like forms. When creating his work he often references illustrations from old picture books, ‘cookie cutter’ figures and likenesses of his son, Eddy.
