Lienors Torre
Lienors Torre — 'Anemone', 2025
The surface of objects can be deceptive and ambiguous. Glass filters light, revealing the world around it within its own surface while projecting its own presence.
Cross Currents accentuates the lens-like optical qualities of glass with the theme of waterlily to elicit gentle entanglements, between leaf and water, object and place, surface and depth.
Anemone responds to the fluidity of form found in the glass hot shop and refined through coldworking processes.
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Lienors Torre is a glass maker and animator trained in the form and materiality of both media. She studied glass in the Czech Republic and at the Australian National University. She has an MFA in animation from CalArts (USA), a PhD from VCA (Melbourne University) and has taught masterclasses which combine animation and glass making at Pilchuck Glass School. Her creative practice explores the nexus between the screen and the object – between the ephemeral and the material, between time-based and stationary aspects, between light, optics and image. She is senior lecturer in Film, Television and Animation in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Melbourne, and has co-authored books on Australian animation.
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Glass Futures
September 18 – November 1
Glass Futures presents a collection of works produced during an intensive masterclass at r.a.g.e, led by renowned glass artist Giles Bettison and artist-educator Lienors Torre. This body of work showcases how participants engaged with the intricacies of pattern and form in glass, inspired by the centuries-old Venetian tradition of murrine. Working with Bullseye sheet glass rather than traditional furnace glass, participants developed a contemporary take on this technique under Bettison’s tutelage. Once vessels were formed in the hot shop, Torre introduced various coldworking processes, allowing for intricate surface refinement and the elevation of each work to a new level of clarity and expression.
At its heart, Glass Futures is a dialogue between tradition and innovation. Anchored in the lineage of Australian studio glass, this exhibition celebrates the transfer of material knowledge to a new generation of makers. The resulting works embody the rhythm of process — layered, fused, shaped and carved — revealing glass as a medium that is at once enigmatic and precise.
For participants at different stages in their careers, this masterclass was both a technical and artistic threshold: an invitation to refine skill whilst articulating an individual voice. Together, the works in Glass Futures testify to the vitality of independent glass education in Australia, offering a glimpse into the bold and evolving future of the medium.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, as well as generous support from Bullseye Glass, Craft Victoria, and r.a.g.e.
Artist List – Eva Alisic, Ruth Allen, Giles Bettison, Laura de Carteret, Nick Doran Adams, Cheryl Edwards, Juniper Maffescioni, Clare Millar, Elizabeth Parsons, Nicole Polentas, Michelle Stewart, Lienors Torre, Keely Varmalis
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Material: Blown and lathe worked glass
Dimensions: Approx. 13 x 30 x 19cm
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