Bronwyn Sargeson
Bron Sargeson — 'Chartreuse Deuce', 2025
Amorphic forms conceived through breath, motion and the manipulation of materials including glass, exploring the dissonance between the body as personal and medical.
Glass is often associated with notions of beauty, but in this work, it is interrupted, pierced, distorted, held, or encased; foreign materials embedded in the glass creating internal fractures. These fractures are portals to moments of instability and an exploration of the wounded body as a vessel for transformation and the queer body as a site for recreation. Interrogating the disciplines associated with each material, the work has undergone a careful process of deconstruction and reconstruction.
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Bronwyn’s work challenges notions of beauty often associated with glass. Although including playful elements of colour and form, her work tackles the jarring and often necessary medical procedures required for a chronically ill body. Driven by ongoing material investigation, her practice led research incorporates multiple studio glass processes, often in unconventional ways. Her exposure to various methods of using glass and her eagerness to push the material defines her practice. Bronwyn’s current series of work features anthropomorphic blown glass forms with non-glass inclusions. E
Exploring materials found in a studio environment but not typically used in conjunction with hot glass, Bronwyn’s work explores this material interaction as a way to reference the intervention between the body and medical apparatus. She creates ambivalence between the graceful material of glass and harsh interferences into the surface. Her practice seeks to realise the potential for transformation in these moments of pain.
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Material: Blown glass with silica, bicarbonate and ceramic inclusions, ceramic
Dimensions: 35 x 35 x 25cm variable