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“It’s amazing how quickly you get comfortable with a camera directly in your face all the time. He said the studio, a traditionally intense environment, became very familiar. It was ungodly hot, and the energy was super high.” “It was the hottest place I’ve ever been, and I’ve worked in a lot of studios. If you’re a couple seconds over, it doesn’t count,” he said. “You have five hours exactly (to complete the task).

Sharvin said the competitions were exciting and adrenaline-inducing. They competed in elimination-style creative challenges until one glassblower was named Best in Glass. The 10 contestants filmed the show in Canada during a period of six weeks, with only one day off from filming. The glass needle is separate.īoth will be auctioned on the 5th July, on our website, with a reserve price of £2,700.John Sharvin (Submitted photo by David Leyes) They measure approximately 40cm high and 15cm wide. This serves as a thank you for the extraordinary effort and sacrifice made on our behalf, by healthcare workers in all of the capacities they worked in during the Pandemic.Įlliot has made two pieces titled The Threads Connecting Us.

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To be launched on 5th July - on the 73rd anniversary of the founding of the NHSĮlliot Walker, star and winner of the Netflix Blown Away Series II, has created two glass sculptures to auction to raise funds for the Healthcare Workers’ Foundation.

Limited Edition piecesĮlliot has provided us with three Limited Edition versions of his creation, which he has titled Threads.Įach of the three editions has a different colourway with its own circular glass base and each version will be an edition of only 25.Įlliot will sign, title, and inscribe the edition number on every stunning sculpture. We're delighted that Elliot has made three limited edition versions of Threads, which are available to purchase exclusively through London Glassblowing. It takes an incredibly rare talent to envisage something of this calibre and only a sculpting virtuoso like Elliot to be able to make them, as these glass sculptures are really complex and extremely difficult to make. The final addition of the needle to complete the piece also refers to our fervent hope that the vaccination will help to relieve the current, but necessary restrictions we are all living under.” Elliot Walker Having each layer added to the spool by a different, and long missed friend, gave the process the feeling of community and collective endeavour that I feel reflects the past year’s events. “The idea of making a spool of thread allowed me not only to reference the various emotional reactions to the pandemic, through the use of colour, but also gave me the opportunity to add an element of performance art into the process. Members of the gallery team viewing this in person, were invited to hold the blowing iron in order to apply molten coloured glass while it was wound around the spool as it rotated on the glassmaker’s bench. In front of three cameras and live-streamed to over 1000 people world-wide, Elliot created an especially large spool which was an enormous challenge to make. The added instruction was that this should reference the NHS during the Pandemic. ‘Collective Endeavour: In the Face of Adversity’. The challenge that London Glassblowing chose, to set Elliot, was This is our first blog and what better way to start, than with news about Elliot Walker!Įlliot Walker, winner and star of the Netflix programme, Blown Away 2, was set a challenge by London Glassblowing Studio to create a sculpture in celebration of the incredible work done by our NHS during the Pandemic.

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