Greenpiece
Sculpture
1991 (made)
1991 (made)
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Greenpiece is one of a series of glass sculptures that Ray Flavell (b.1944) made during the early 1990s. They combine blown and flat glass sculptural forms with graphic sand-blasted motifs. Flavell creates the design by masking the glass and ‘blasting’ the exposed areas with a high speed jet of a fine abrasive such as sand. This piece, with its irregular amoeba-like shape, decoration of emerging forms and green and blue colouring, symbolises new life.
Flavell spent a year in Sweden training at the celebrated Orrefors glass school, and his works have a clarity which may well be the result of this formative period.
Flavell spent a year in Sweden training at the celebrated Orrefors glass school, and his works have a clarity which may well be the result of this formative period.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Greenpiece (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Cut and sand-blasted glass |
| Brief description | Glass sculpture titled 'Greenpiece', by Ray Flavell, Scotland, 1991. |
| Physical description | This is an abstract piece in blue and green glass, the forms are reminiscent of amoebae and the work symbolises new life. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'Ray Flavell' incised (Signature) |
| Summary | Greenpiece is one of a series of glass sculptures that Ray Flavell (b.1944) made during the early 1990s. They combine blown and flat glass sculptural forms with graphic sand-blasted motifs. Flavell creates the design by masking the glass and ‘blasting’ the exposed areas with a high speed jet of a fine abrasive such as sand. This piece, with its irregular amoeba-like shape, decoration of emerging forms and green and blue colouring, symbolises new life. Flavell spent a year in Sweden training at the celebrated Orrefors glass school, and his works have a clarity which may well be the result of this formative period. |
| Other number | 9787 - Glass gallery number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.204-1991 |
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| Record created | December 13, 1997 |
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