Describing herself as an ‘Urban Glass & Inventive Mixed Media Artist’, Dutch born Gonny van Hulst AKA GonnyGlass, is taking traditional glass techniques to new artistic levels and the 21st Century. With a fascination for street art subculture and its context within the urban environment, she has developed her own distinct style.
Having moved to London a decade ago, Gonny found herself inspired by the random, absurd chaos and diversity of urban life. Finding beauty in urban decay, she set about translating this to her multimedia artworks, focusing on glass, a material that in itself is very much representative of urban life.
Interested in the experimental possibilities of kiln-cast glass and printing on glass, she combines this ancient and versatile medium, using a variety of different processes and other materials, to make work that is dynamic and thought-provoking.
Still very much an emerging artist after graduating only last year with First-Class Honours from the University for the Creative Arts, Gonny has already been shortlisted and commended for several awards and prizes. She exhibits her work both nationally and internationally through galleries, as well as major art fairs and is now affiliated with galleries in London and the Netherlands.
“Like life itself, I find glass demanding. When I push it to its limits, glass can be extremely challenging to work with. It is this struggle to control its technical complexity, its contradictory qualities, and sometimes unpredictability that I am strongly drawn to.” [GonnyGlass]
Future Exhibitions:
2013 Raw Art Fair - St Art Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Exhibitions:
2012 Urban Barrier - Ben Oakley Gallery vs No Format Gallery, London - Group Show
2012 AIR 3 - Artists-in-Residence from U.C.A at Crafts Study Centre, Farnham - Group Show
2012 SAP Exhibition - DegreeArt Execution Room, London - Group Show
2012 Affordable Art Fair Hampstead - DegreeArt Gallery, Hampstead, London
2012 Affordable Art Fair Battersea - DegreeArt Gallery, Battersea, London
2012 Signature Art Prize - Gala for finalists, DegreeArt Gallery at Old Spitalfield Market, London
2012 Religionis Violenta - KGB-Projects at London West Bank Gallery, London - Group Show
2012 Urban in Ibiza 4 - Music, Fashion & Urban Art Festival @ the Atzaró Hotel, Ibiza
2012 Deus-Dei (Super-Ego) - Círculo de Bellas Artes - Tenerife, Spain - Group Exhibition
2012 KunstRai - Art Fair, St Art Gallery - RAI, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012 8th International Tattoo Convention - St Art Gallery - RAI, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012 ArtHAUS - DegreeArt: Execution Room, London - Group Show
2012 Tattoo Convention Den Bosch 2012 - St Art Gallery - Den Bosch, Netherlands
2012 Gaze - The Collection presented by Graffik Gallery, London - Group Show
2012 Long Player - Ben Oakley Gallery, Greenwich, London - Group Show
2012 Raw Art Fair - St Art Gallery, Fenixloodsen Rotterdam, Netherlands
2011 Art.Fair 21- St Art Gallery - Staatenhaus am Rheinpark, Cologne, Germany
2011 Are you Looking at my Bird - Ben Oakley Gallery, London - Group Show
2011 New Designers - Business Design Centre, London - Graduate Show
2011 Old Boots, New Laces - The Vibe Gallery, London - Group Show
2011 Degree Show - University for the Creative Arts, Farnham - Group Show
2010 The Big Vibe Affair - The Vibe Gallery, London - Group Show
2010 National Open Art Competition Chichester (Juried) - Goodwood - Juried Show
2010 London International Creative Competition Awards - Soho Theater, London - Group Show
2010 Signature Art Awards - DegreeArt: Execution Room, London
2010 Craft at Liberty's - Liberty, Farnham - Group Exhibition
2010 Hang Them High - Rag Factory, London - Group Exhibtition
2009 Tate the Biscuit - Shorditch Townhall, London - Group Exhibition
2009 Endings - North Lands Creative Glass Gallery, Lybster - Group Exhibition
2009 Ghosts - St Mary's Church (derelict), Lybster - Solo Exhibition
2008 End of Year Show - Kensington & Chelsea College, London - Group Exhibition
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