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Most are unaware of the skill that Australian glassblowers have, completing the ACCA commission allowed the team to prove their competence on the International stage. Laure’s birds pushed our collective glassblowing experience of more than 150 years. We hope the success of this commission gives other international artists the confidence to employ a strong team of Australian glassblowers to make...

Ruth and the team at Canberra Glassworks take on complex forms of Laure Prouvost's Birds. This commission was part of ACCA’s continuum of their International series of solo exhibitions by influential artists on the international stage, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art is pleased to present Oui Move In You, a major solo exhibition by French artist Laure Prouvost. Acknowledging the radi...

Ruth and the team make Bird 3 at Canberra Glass Works Laure Prouvost's solo exhibition 'Oui Move In You' is currently being displayed at ACCA

The Möbius is a mathematical phenomenon of twisted infinity. My artwork, ‘Möbius Lens,’ is meticulously hot sculpted to create an endless loop of glass. When enhanced by light the translucent form is unveiled to reveal its non-orientable dimensions. Though the loop is timeless, light is bent to its will, slowed by the change in material density to project muscular striations, voluminous and cha...

Möbius Chandelier has been shortlisted for the Tom Malone Prize, 2024. Exhibited at Linton & Kay, West Perth, March 21 - April 28, 2024. To create these möbius strips I worked with a skilled team of five. Hot glass was incrementally gathered on a blowpipe determining the final scale of the form. The glass was heated, inflated and shaped until it reached it's optimum size, I then rolled the air ...

Möbius Chandelier has been shortlisted for the Tom Malone Prize, 2024. Exhibited at Linton & Kay, West Perth, March 21 - April 28, 2024. 'Möbius Chandelier' is a composition of eight handmade, glass, möbius strips, each suspended off the wall via acrylic pins, one dominant light source spreads across the work illuminating the complex caustics within. At the core of my work lies the desire to pr...

The Ruth Allen Team creation process blowing artist Darren Sylvester's 'The Heads of Snowmen' at Canberra Glassworks.

Panel discussion ‘Jim Allen, Futuna Chapel and the reverberating present’ November 11th, 2023

Tim Barlow Tribute to Jim Allen Performance, Futuna Chapel, November 11th, 2023

DSLB Tribute to Jim Allen Futuna Chapel, November 11th, 2023.

Phil Dadson Tribute Performance for Jim Allen Futuna Chapel November 11, 2023.

Kick Performance for Jim Allen Memorial Auckland Art Gallery Atrium June 2023 Performed by Ruth Allen, James Charlton, Whystan Curnow, Phil Dadson, Andrea Daly, Adrian Hall and Erica Seccombe.

Our One World Island was purchased by Walker Corporation and installed as the feature wall in the foyer of the newly constructed Department of Education, Employment & Workplace Relations Building, 50 Marcus Clarke St, Acton, Canberra. The work was purchased from the Canberra Glassworks to celebrate the building’s landmark energy efficiency and was created by RUTH during a residency at the Canbe...

Ruth Team for Marjan CGW

Ruth Allen Floor Talk at C Gallery

Murrine Portal Process

Portals Process

'Splash' Trinity Point Commission Process

Encircle process by Ruth Allen and Adam Markowitz

Sam Petersen Performance 1 at Ruth Allen Glass

Sam Petersen Performance 2 at Ruth Allen Glass

Sam Petersen Performance 3 at Ruth Allen Glass

Invisible Forces in the Darkness of Night

Hot Glass Tumbler Demonstration

Poetry for Chainsaws by Jim Allen (1976) Performed by Ruth Allen

Where The Wild Natives Grow

Un-Buddy Believable 1000 Goals

Artist Michael Gittings Process

Dancing At Midnight