Eva Alisic
Eva Alisic — 'Say the Thing That Needs to be Said - II' Sculpture, 2025
"How can we support young people after life has been turned upside down? Our research team at the University of Melbourne focuses on understanding how children, young people and their close ones, deal with traumatic events, in particular fatal violence. The experience of silence – not being told important aspects of the story, not being able to ask questions – has come up as an important issue. The murrine in these works have been inspired by my colleague with lived experience, Kathryn Joy, who mentioned that people were "not saying the thing that needs to be said". The little tiles show the sound wave forms of Kathryn saying "the thing" in that phrase. In the hot shop, the murrine were rolled-up and blown into mini megaphones. The work presents an invitation to us all to have conversations about the things that need to be said."
Note: Artist proceeds from the mini-megaphones will be directed to the University of Melbourne to fund the work that Eva’s colleagues with lived experience are undertaking.
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Eva Alisic’s practice sits within her work as a professor at the University of Melbourne (School of Population and Global Health). Her team studies the experiences of children and young people bereaved through family or war violence, aiming to improve support for them and the adults around them. She is constantly looking for ways to communicate research and elicit curiosity, empathy and reflection. Since 2019, she has gradually been developing an art practice, playing with sound, video, performance and installation, including through a Diploma and a Graduate Certificate (at LCAD and the VCA, respectively). In 2024, Eva had her first glimpse of the world of glass at Monash University.
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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: Cold assembled, hot formed and lathe worked Murrini
Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.5 x 19.5cm
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