Monica Guggisberg and Philip Baldwin, partners in life and work, have established a worldwide reputation for glass installations and sculptures using ground-breaking techniques. In this episode, they talk about how they met and how their teamwork evolved, how they set up a glassworks in Switzerland before moving to Paris to concentrate on sculpture, how they developed their signature technique of cutting glass, how vessels became a key part of their designs, how more recent work since moving to Wales has been resonant of human cultural history going back to ancient civilisations.
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Hannah Gibson has held a passion for glass since childhood and is now a multi-award winning glass artist. In this episode, she talks about how her upbringing inspired her love for the material and for geology, how she has studied and practised many of the techniques for making glass and artworks from it, how sustainability is her other passion and how she casts from recycled glass using her geological background to analyse it, where she sources her glass, how she likes to share her passion with the public and some of the extraordinary reactions she receives as a result.
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