Scott Chaseling
Artist Statement
“Lost my shape, trying to act casual” The beauty found in this series negates our formal understanding of glass; symmetry, clarity and purity. A sense of relief, a loss of ego or just finding a smile in the ‘cute and interesting’.
Bio.
Scott Chaseling is a cross-medium sculptor, who for two decades has centered his practice around notions of mobility, transition and liminality – that idea of non-place.
Much of this interest comes from having lived in Berlin, France, Japan and America, and through creative durational research, walking the Camino de Santiago from Spain into France (2004, 2009 and 2015) and kayaking the River Murray across boarders from source to sea (2011), transferring those recordings into glass works and sculptures.
While Chaseling’s earlier work recorded this personal narrative of trans-location through reverse paintings onto glass panels, which were later rolled into cylinder vessels, his recent work has taken an environmental tone, constantly rethinking material use and impact, both in sculptural forms and function ware.
This idea of the transient studio has allowed for new technologies and vocabularies to enter Scott’s making, constantly rethinking material use and impact. This development in the work has been documented across a number of international magazines and exhibitions, including the Pergamon Museum in Berlin (Germany); Eisch Gallery, Frauenau (Germany, 2012, Musee Atelier du Verre, Sars-Poteries (France), and the major exhibition LACUNA with European Museum of Modern Glass, Coburg (Germany, 2010).
More recently he has presented solo exhibitions, Betwixt: Sculptures in Becomingness at Goulburn Regional Gallery (2017), The Glass Furnace, Istanbul (Turkey, 2016), Southern Illinois University Gallery, Carbondale (USA, 2016) and Leo Kaplan Modern, New York. He will unveil a new body of work with Canberra Glassworks, January 2020.
Scott was awarded the 2020 CAPO Rosalie Gascoigne Prize, the 2017 Hindmarsh Glass Prize (Australia), the 2004 Ranamok Glass Prize; the 2002 Bavarian State Prize Gold Medal, Germany. In 2007 he was the Levehulme Research Fellow at University of Sunderland (UK), and was Director of Parkhaus Art Space, Berlin (2009-2010) and Artistic Director, Berlin Glas Germany (2011-2012). He’s taught at Pilchuck Glass School Seattle (USA), Vetroricerca, Bolzano (Italy), Tokyo Glass Institute (Japan), and the Corning Museum of Glass (USA), among others.
Chaseling’s work is represented in collections internationally, among them the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (Japan), and Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf (Germany), Palm Springs Museum California (USA); Ernsting Stiftung Germany, as well as the National Gallery of Australia, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane), and the Australian National Glass Collection, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery.