Connected Light: Glass, Lineage, and Connection
Connected Light brings together glass artists whose practices are shaped by family ties, shared heritage, and the quiet exchanges that happen across generations. The exhibition follows the way knowledge, technique, and sensibility move through families and close relationships, carried through lived experience, handed down, and reinterpreted as each artist finds their own way.
Glass, with its ability to hold memory and bend light, becomes an ideal material for these stories. The works show how artists influence one another over time: parents and children working side by side, siblings and partners developing a shared language in the studio, and long‑standing creative families evolving together while still carving out distinct voices.
Connected Light shifts the focus from glassmaking as a solitary act to the relationships that sustain it. These artists remind us that lineage can steady and spark a practice, offering continuity, encouraging risk, and revealing how creativity often begins in connection.
This exhibition honours the families and kin networks whose shared practices open up new ways of seeing and making in contemporary glass.
Artist pairings and families:
Ben Edols + Kathy Elliott
Kevin Gordon + Calum Donaldson + Hamish Donaldson
Matt Curtis + Harriet Schwarzrock + Hugo Curtis
Nick Mount + Jason Sims
Clare Belfrage + Tim Edwards
This exhibition has been developed to coincide with the Australian Glass Biennale 2027.