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Glass Award winner at Wanganui Glass Festival |
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Press release
One of the
highlights of the Wanganui Festival of Glass which began of
Friday is the exhibition of glass art by over 30 artists in
shop windows throughout the festival on Wanganui’s main
shopping street, Victoria Avenue.
The Glass Festival, now in its third year, will run until Sunday 5 October.
A feature of the ‘Mainstreet’ exhibition is a work by David Traub, this year’s 2008 Winner of the Cavalier Bremworth New Zealand Art of Glass Awards.
This ‘optically confounding two-dimensional bowl’ was the winner of the $5000.00 Award at a ceremony at the Hilton Hotel in Auckland last month.
It was described by Judges Louis le Vaillant , the Curator of Decorative Arts at the Auckland War Memorial Museum and John Croucher, Director of Gaffer Glass as “ an exciting and strong work, both conceptually and technically, which showed a great deal of consummate skill in the glassmaker’s craft”
‘The Glass Factory’, David Traub’s studio, will be open to the public during the period of the glass festival.
ENDS