Bradley.Basso: glass wall in Gallery environment

Space interaction as a function

Interior screen proposal, glass art installation

Leeds City Art Gallery, Yorkshire UK

The concept for the glass screens, proposed to flexibly divide the gallery cafè from the new education room, is derived from the ideas of interactions within the creative process, in public places and in the gallery situation.

Stitch, 2001. Gold leaf and thread on watercolour paper. Design concept.

Manifest by the rhythm and dynamic movement of the glass fracture, at intervals ‘sown’ by the tensile lines of ‘stitches’ which contrast with the ambiguous fracture line, the screen attempts to produce a visual metaphor to its position and use.

Triple-layered float glass, fractured, sandblasted and gilded.

Constructed from 3 layers of float glass, the outer two toughened panels protect the fractured glass as well as the sandblasting, etching and gilding to their inner surfaces.

Design concept and original design, 1:20 scale watercolour

The introduction of gold leaf, with its differing appearance when seen from opposites sides, in conjunction with the effects of sandblasting and etching, provide an additional means of expression. An interaction of transmission and reflection, obscurity and vision, dependent on the required function of the screens and the resulting level and positioning of lighting at any one time.

 

© Copyright Denise mt Basso 2004