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Describing herself as an urban glass and inventive mixed media artist, Dutch born, London based Gonny van Hulst aka GonnyGlass is taking traditional glass-making to new artistic levels and the twenty-first century. Her fascination for street art and its context within the urban environment reflects her wry style and subject matter dealing with social issues and urban symbolism, translating this to her multimedia works, focusing on glass, a material that in itself is very much a representative of urban life. Very much interested in the experimental possibilities of glass-making processes, Gonny combines this ancient medium, using a range of traditional and contemporary techniques, such as lost-wax casting, kiln-forming, slumping, stained glass and screen-printing on glass with other materials, including found and ready-made objects. She creates work based on themes that are fundamental to her artistic motivation, such as reactions to real life events resulting in work that is both bold and seductive. Gonny, born in 1965, grew up in the Netherlands and has lived in the US and Norway before she moved to London where she achieved a first class BA Honours degree in 3D Glass Design at the University for the Creative Arts, and has undertaken artist residencies and private commissions in the UK. She has been awarded several grants and awards, including Friends of North Lands Creative Glass, Malta Arts Fund and Public Art Project by Solum, Network Rail and Rolfe Judd Architects. Her work has been documented in catalogues, magazines and has been featured on the cover of InkStyle Magazine. She exhibits her work both nationally and internationally through galleries, as well as major art fairs and is affiliated with galleries in London and the Netherlands.
