Description
Born in Melbourne in 1959, Grant knew from an early age he wanted to leave the city to discover the vast expanses of the Australian outback. He began his farming career as soon as he graduated school, moving first to New South Wales, then through Victoria before managing a sheep farm in Tasmania. Here he met Eileen when she set up Tasmanian Glassblowers next door, the two formed an enduring partnership in glass and life, eventually moving them back to Victoria to establish Gordon Studio Glassblowers on the Mornington Peninsula. Grant left farming in 1994 to take up glassblowing full-time. Largely self-taught, Grant’s approach to glass is highly experimental, with a visual language drawing as much from a knowledge in glass as a knowledge in the materials of agriculture and the earth he walks upon. Grant works in Red Hill Victoria with Eileen Gordon and their sons Hamish and Calum. He has exhibited internationally with work in numerous private collections in Australia and Abroad as well as at the National Glass Gallery in Wagga Wagga, NSW.
“As a farmer I came to feel part of the Australian landscape – my glasswork is a natural extension of that. I use simple forms as my canvas to express my interpretation of the landscape. My work is a tribute to\many of the people that I have worked and knocked-about with on the land. They are now ghosts walking beside me. Their love of the land, their dreaming, has soaked into my soul.”
