Women glass blowers are rare. Only men make glass in factories all over the world, but work by three women can now be seen at Bampton Town Hall.
Gill Mannings Cox, June Kingsbury and Ann Arlidge produce large-scale and technically complicated work.
Gill is an internationally known glass artist with work in royal collections and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She was recently successful in a world-wide competition in Japan. She makes spectacular sculptural pieces and magical vessels-within-vessels.
June Kingsbury is said to be a technically supreme glassmaker of fine conceptual sensitivity.
Ann Arlidge describes herself as enthusiastic and innovative, exploring the inner depths of the glass.
Described as dangerous, wicked, subversive and technically impossible, in deference to the serenely beautiful setting of Bampton's Georgian Art Gallery, the work is displayed on banks of cleanly elegant white plinths a sculptural statement in themselves.
The exhibition can be seen until July 2.
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