Green Exhibition

Artist + Designer | 📍 Indonesia

Born in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 1982, Ivan Berstari Minar Pradipta has degrees in Visual Communication Design from the Yogyakarta Vision Design Academy and Product Design
from Duta Wacana Christian University. Ivan was taught to process glass using the flameworking method in 2011 by the late Mr. Haji Soenaryo, the founder of CV Glass Blower in Yogyakarta which works on glass equipment for laboratory needs. Armed with this basic knowledge, Ivan experimented with glass waste as the main material for his work. Various references have contributed to Ivan’s work process, from the internet to glass bead craftsmen in Jombang, East Java.

Not wanting to keep his knowledge to himself, Ivan welcomes the public into his active studio space. Ivan hopes that glass as an art medium can be increasingly recognized and developed in Indonesia. Ivan also organised the Indonesian Glass Art Festival 2022, the first Glass Art Festival in Indonesia, for the International Year of Glass. Ivan has been actively involved in various exhibitions, presentations, live demos, and workshops in Indonesia and abroad such as in Singapore, Russia & Turkey.

Artist | 📍 United Kingdom

Hannah Gibson is a glass artist and geologist based near London. Growing up in North Wales, at the foothills of Snowdonia, overlooking the Menai Straits, it was easy for Hannah to fall in love with geology. From there, Hannah went on to study geology at The University of Edinburgh, where she became fascinated by Glass. Hannah took her first course in Glass at Edinburgh Stained Glass House, then followed the well-trodden path of then working with stained glass, fused glass, lampworking, and casting.

Studying for a Masters in Glass, Hannah began working on her current series of work, Recycling Narratives, Whispering Sweet Nothings. The focus of her research is on materiality. Constantly pushing the boundaries of glass, her work sits at the intersection of art and science. Capturing the nostalgic imagery of childhood, exposing hidden narratives through cast sculptural glass stands at the core of her work. Passionate about sustainability and recycling, using predominantly recycled glass and found objects, Sweet Nothings are a series of cast glass figures whispering Sweet Nothings to one another. These figures invite the viewer to question, what are they whispering and why?

Hannah won first prize in the Internationally renowned Glass Art Society’s Trace: An Exploration of Sustainable Glass Art 2023, having been shortlisted in 2022. She was highly commended in The International Glass Prize 2022 and 2021. She received the Judges Award in the Just Glass Exhibition, Recollection: Memories in Glass in 2021. Hannah is also recommended by the Homo Faber Guide. Hannah’s work has been collected and widely exhibited internationally including COLLECT, Gallery Ten, Habatat Detroit Fine Art, Habatat Galleries Florida, Habatat Galleries North Carolina, Kyoto Japan, London Glassblowing, Northlands Creative, Rhodes University, SOFA Chicago, The Chesterfield Gallery, The Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass, The Imagine Museum, The National Liberty Museum, The Pyramid Gallery, The Royal Scottish Academy and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. She holds a BSc in Geology and an MA in Glass, MSDC.

Artist, Researcher, + Curator | 📍 Finland

Riikka Latva-Somppi is an artist-researcher, curator, and educator working in various assignments involving expertise in the field. She works at the intersection of fine art and craft and has exhibited widely nationally and internationally. Her public artwork Satakieli/Nightingale was awarded The Certificate of Environmental Art 2009 by The Foundation of Environmental
Art (Finland). The Tikkurila park and marketplace was awarded The Environmental Structure in 2017 with special recognition for public art by the artist group ART4 (Brinck, Latva-Somppi, Ranki, Turpeinen) commissioned by the Vantaa Art Museum. Latva-Somppi is a member of Artists-O (Ornamo) and The Association of Finnish Sculptors.

She is currently employed by Aalto University as a doctoral researcher in the School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Design, EMPIRICA research group. In her practice-led doctoral research, she studies the role of craft in the environmental discourse. She investigates the way in which craft knowledge and making by hand may be utilised to catalyze collective action to engage with environmental questions. Her research context is in the relationship between humans and soil, which she approaches through her background in ceramics and glass. Her practice-led research merges scientific and artistic methods, and utilises curating exhibitions as a way of making visible the insights gained through interdisciplinary practice. Her doctoral research is funded by Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation.

Artist + Gallery Owner | 📍 Scotland

Paul Musgrove studied Furniture and Glassmaking at Manchester Metropolitan, graduating in 1980. He went on to join “The Glassworks” in Edinburgh with Jenny Antonio in 1982, subsequently taking over the business and continued as owner/maker until 1990. Paul worked as the organiser for “The Tent Co”, the annual Edinburgh Festival applied arts show in Prince’s Street Gardens from 1982 to 1992. He is still a practising artist, printmaker, and glassmaker.

Musgrove established Gallery TEN in 2012, in partnership with artist and fellow printmaker Gill Tyson, after setting up the SpeKtrum Print Collective in 2011. The gallery was set up primarily to support Scottish printmaking artists, after Tyson’s departure in 2013 the gallery remit broadened to encompass the applied arts sector, specifically internationally studio-made glass. The gallery had a major glass exhibition during the Edinburgh Festival “Glass2015” representing over 35 artists and makers. It has also taken part in “COLLECT” at the Saatchi Gallery the annual Craft Council applied arts show. In the 2016 Festival, the gallery put on “The Cathedral Collection” an extraordinary and acclaimed glass collection from international glass makers Baldwin & Guggisberg in St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh.