4/10/2023 0 Comments Lifecraft prevision virtual sets![]() Along with the new directions her work has lately taken, Varga has developed a new technique of fusing and casting glass sheets. Her more recent works focus on a palette of fresh greens, pinks and shades of fuchsia inspired by nature’s ‘quiet achievers’: grass, flowering weeds and creepers and other small ‘amassed’ plants with a big impact on how we see ‘everyday’ nature.Įmma Varga is fascinated by the clarity and transparency of glass and the possibilities of freezing within it 3D images inspired by nature. Nature has continued to inspire glass makers ever since and Varga also acknowledges it as a major source of inspiration ‘ she loves the northern beaches area where she lives and never ceases to be moved by the spectacular ocean and bush panorama offered by the spacious windows of her studio.įor some time, it was the colour red that reigned supreme in Varga’s work inspired by Australian sunsets and bushfires alongside occasional ocean blues, her tribute to the Collaroy lagoon. ![]() When clear glass was made during the Renaissance, it was compared to natural rock crystal, a type of quartz highly prized by artists and connoisseurs. When coloured glass was developed in antiquity, it was treasured for its capacity to imitate rare stones. Always transparent, most of Varga’s works are quite geometrical in form and architectonic in internal patterning and ‘construction’ ‘she has an enviable reputation for seeing and thinking in 3D. She compares her creative process to a highly focused but remarkably calming game in which she ‘plays’ with hundreds, or at times thousands, of glass elements that are strategically patterned and coloured and then assembled with precision, at times verging on bravura, to achieve the intended internal energy, light flow and pattern. But she has no fear of complexity and in fact she revels in it. Whether using glass tiles, or more recently tiny glass fragments and rods, Varga’s techniques are clearly highly complex and laborious. It is only when the works are meticulously ground and polished that they come to life. The diverse body of sculptural work that she has since created is a tribute to her passion for working with glass, her extraordinary energy but also a result of mastery of her ‘multiple-layer’ technique of choice: she cuts tiles or strips from special sheets of glass, decorates them with paint of glass powder, stacks in required shapes and fuses in the kiln for up to two weeks. She was a highly experienced and skilled glass artist when she moved to Australia in 1995. Varga’s fascination with the potential of glass as a means of artistic expression grew in proportion to the time she spent working with the medium. ![]() Sydney artist Emma Varga was first enchanted with glass when studying at the Applied Arts University in Belgrade and then designing and making decorative glass ‘production and one-off ‘ as a freelance artist and designer and working in a glass factory in former Yugoslavia.
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