Working with Michael Petry

This Friday the glass department at PCA had a visit from artist Michael Petry. As an artist and not a glass blower, we were helping him make work for his up and coming exhibition. This was a really fun day, as we all needed to work in a big team to get the pieces made. The work involves making large spheres, some stay individual, while other get joined together, in order to see the bubbles and colours overlap. Once annealed, they are cut and polished to open up the spheres. There will be hundreds of these hung for the exhibition.

Me filing my piece ready to go into the kiln and then be picked up onto another  sphere. 

Some of the other glass blowers all working together to make a large sphere 

The two spheres once they are joined; here they are being heated through to avoid any cracking.

Thanks to every one that was involved for making it such a great day!