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Continuing the natural theme, Tansey Contemporary will be highlighting Ran Adler’s Meet Me Under The Acacia Tree.  Drawn to elements of nature, Adler uses a variety of organic materials – seedpods, horsetail reeds, mahogany pods, sea grapes – to create his works. Through a process of gathering, sorting, cutting, weaving, wiring and sometimes burning, he explores the essence of repetition found in various religious cultures. As he explains: ‘For me, as I work on the tapestry of my life story, I find the repetitive nature of my art to be a form of prayer and a path to strengthen my personal discipline.’ Meanwhile, Ting-Ying will be focusing on Vezzini & Chen’s Water and Sand as its inaugural Collect Spotlight presentation. Vezzini, originally from Italy, and Chen, from Taiwan, layer different materials and techniques within this installation, demonstrating their artful marriage of hand-carved ceramics and blown glass at its most imaginative. Milk-white, limpid, translucent, opaque; these inherent material qualities are further enhanced with the skilful application of Venetian glass-cutting techniques like battuto and intaglio. RAN ADLER Meet Me Under The Acacia Tree (detail) Acacia thorns Photo: Courtesy of Tansey Contemporary VEZZINI & CHEN Water and Sand, 2017 Porcelain, glass, gold lustre, brass Photo: Sylvain Deleu 142
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Rounding off this year’s Spotlights, Vessel Gallery presents Half-Life, an installation by glass artist Elliot Walker. Tackling themes such as abandonment, radiation and environmental catastrophe, Walker will be challenging our ideas and perceptions of the world around us. Unashamedly apocalyptic, Half-Life is an exploration of the ‘post event’, as Walker explains: ‘The vitrification of materials is a common occurrence at sites of great calamity, and this transformation of organic material into something “other” has informed the creation of these pieces.’ ELLIOT WALKER Bear, 2017 Sculpted uranium glass Photo: Ester Segarra ELLIOT WALKER Artefact Aftermath, 2017 Sculpted uranium glass Photo: Ester Segarra 143

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Continuing the natural theme, Tansey Contemporary will be highlighting Ran Adler’s Meet Me Under The Acacia Tree.  Drawn to elements of nature, Adler uses a variety of organic materials – seedpods, horsetail reeds, mahogany pods, sea grapes – to create his works. Through a process of gathering, sorting, cutting, weaving, wiring and sometimes burning, he explores the essence of repetition found in various religious cultures. As he explains: ‘For me, as I work on the tapestry of my life story, I find the repetitive nature of my art to be a form of prayer and a path to strengthen my personal discipline.’

Meanwhile, Ting-Ying will be focusing on Vezzini & Chen’s Water and Sand as its inaugural Collect Spotlight presentation. Vezzini, originally from Italy, and Chen, from Taiwan, layer different materials and techniques within this installation, demonstrating their artful marriage of hand-carved ceramics and blown glass at its most imaginative. Milk-white, limpid, translucent, opaque; these inherent material qualities are further enhanced with the skilful application of Venetian glass-cutting techniques like battuto and intaglio.

RAN ADLER

Meet Me Under The Acacia Tree (detail) Acacia thorns Photo: Courtesy of Tansey Contemporary

VEZZINI & CHEN

Water and Sand, 2017 Porcelain, glass, gold lustre, brass Photo: Sylvain Deleu

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