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Greenpiece
Flavell, Ray, born 1944 - Enlarge image
Greenpiece
- Object:
Sculpture
- Place of origin:
Scotland, Great Britain (made)
- Date:
1991 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Flavell, Ray, born 1944 (maker)
- Materials and Techniques:
Cut and sand-blasted glass
- Museum number:
C.204-1991
- Gallery location:
Glass, room 131, case 40, shelf 1
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.
