AMELIA BURKE

Amelia now works as part of E&M Glass, a family run studio, making her own creations with her husband Charlie Burke as well as the studio glassware... Her work is about taking tiny close-up details of the natural world, such as butterfly wings and fern fronds, redrawing them, scaling them up greatly, and reinterpreting them in the hot glass to create beautiful glassware. Amelia's focuses on studying every aspect of a subject such as bamboo, water or butterflies. She analyses everything, from the flow of its form down to the cellular details, reinterpreting the elements she finds using hot glass as her medium to create intricate glass art. Patience and Amelia's contemporary glass go hand in hand. The detail she aims to create in her work is time consuming but necessary to the process.