Louis Grant: awash
- When 15 Oct - 27 Nov 2022
- Where
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Address
CNR OXFORD ST & GREENS RD PADDINGTON NSW 2021
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Hours
WED TO FRI 10AM–5PM; SAT TO SUN 12–5PM
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Phone
+61 2 8936 0888
Louis Grant works between studio glass and interdisciplinary practice, exploring the potential of traditional craft skills to push the boundaries of glass making and contemporary sculpture.
Glass is an amorphous solid, neither liquid nor solid. It is a fluid medium, constantly becoming and located at the precipice of neither “this” nor “that”. For Grant, these tensions allow the medium to provide a material voice to the queer experience. They are activated by scratches, colour inconsistencies and surface abrasions that illuminate the qualities of glass and amplify a play between flawlessness and imperfection.
‘awash’ brings together a collection of new works in which Grant pairs back materials to their pure, honest form, allowing the glass medium to be both fragile and robust. For Grant, the glass forms are an abstract exploration of queer experience and ideas of love, loss, celebration, desire, shame, nostalgia, and melancholy.



Public Program
In-Conversation: Contemporary Glass
2.00pm 15 October 2023 | UNSW Galleries
During the United Nations International Year of Glass, we celebrate some of Australia’s most fascinating practitioners working with glass. This panel discussion brings together Consuelo Cavaniglia, Mel Douglas, Liam Fleming and Louis Grant who each move between studio glass and interdisciplinary practice. Together with Aimee Frodsham, Artistic Director of Canberra Glassworks, the panel will reflect on glass making and the way their work facilitates exchanges between space, history, and architecture.
Banner and Tile Image: Louis Grant, ‘guess I'm feeling unmoored’ 2022. Neon installed directly on wall. Neon fabrication by David Cooper. Image courtesy: the artist\
Installation Images
1. Installation view, ‘Louis Grant: awash,’ UNSW Galleries, 2022. Photography: Jacquie Manning
2. Louis Grant, guess I’m feeling unmoored 2022 and if I could never give you peace 2022. Photography: Jacquie Manning
3. Louis Grant, I’m like the water 2022. Kiln formed and coldworked glass, bicarbonate of soda, neon, wood, paint. Installation view, ‘Louis Grant: awash,’ UNSW Galleries, 2022. Photography: Jacquie Manning