About
Emma has worked with glass for over ten years, initially encountering the material whilst studying Applied Arts at Bournemouth University, then moving on to receive her BA(hons) from Sunderland University in 2014.
Her passion for learning and understanding the material has driven her to work with an abundance of glassmakers in a variety of locations. In 2019 she became one of two Associate Artists at North Lands Creative, a two-year programme supporting & developing the practice of glass artists. She spent 2020 living and working in Bergen, Norway keeping the furnace alight at S12 Galleri og Verksted, an incredible experience that Emma describes as a pivotal point in her life and career. In the summer of 2022, the United Nations’ year of glass, she was invited by the National Glas Museum in Leerdam, Holland for an international glass exchange to create work that is now held in their public collection.
She has been awarded residencies at Berlin Glas, The Glass Factory, S12 Bergen and North Lands Creative; alongside this her work has been shown across the UK & Europe, most recently at the Crafts Council’s Collect 2023, London. She has received scholarship funding to the USA and has worked on international cross-cultural projects supported by British Council Scotland and Creative Europe. She has also been a teaching assistant at Corning Museum of Glass, Bild-Werk Frauenau and North Lands Creative.
Based on a farm in Somerset, Emma is hugely inspired by the materiality of glass and the ideology behind the hand of the maker. With a strong emphasis on process, she works with themes of narrative and sentiment to create artworks in glass.
Short clip showing the glassblowing process behind creating a Torsion piece. Filmed by Megan Gallacher at Devereux & Huskie Glassworks.
Info
For any more information about any of the works, commissions or glassmaking, please get in touch via ebakerglass@gmail.com
Photography & video: Megan Gallacher