Untitled by Giles Bettison, 2018
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Giles Bettison is a master of the Murano "murrini" technique -- the use of cut up canework. Bettison fashioned this vessel using murrini fragments that he created over the past 20 years. As Greenfield Village master glassblower Josh Wojick states, "It is almost like a retrospective of the artist in a single object." Bettison's arrangement of murrini is like the imagery of a painting by the American abstract artist Mark Rothko.
Giles Bettison is a master of the Murano "murrini" technique -- the use of cut up canework. Bettison fashioned this vessel using murrini fragments that he created over the past 20 years. As Greenfield Village master glassblower Josh Wojick states, "It is almost like a retrospective of the artist in a single object." Bettison's arrangement of murrini is like the imagery of a painting by the American abstract artist Mark Rothko.
Artifact
Sculpture (Visual work)
Date Made
2018
Creators
Place of Creation
United States, Michigan, Dearborn
Creator Notes
Made in May 2018 in the Glass Shop in Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan.
On Exhibit
at Henry Ford Museum in Davidson-Gerson Modern Glass Gallery
Object ID
2018.116.1
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Giles Bettison.
Material
Glass (Material)
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 10.5 in
Diameter: 5.5 in
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