Jane Bruce, a glass artist with an international reputation, has worked in Australia for 10 years. She has been influential as an artist and teacher.
Jane Bruce was born in Buckinghamshire, England, and holds graduate degrees from the Royal College of Art and Alfred University in the USA. She worked in a number of glass centres in the United States, including the New York Center for Contemporary Glass, before moving to teach at the glass workshop at the Canberra School of Art in 1994. She has been active as in the membership organisation, Ausglass, and organised an international Ausglass conference during the 1990s. She returned to work in New York in July 2004, working as artistic director of workshops and conferences of the Northlands Creative Glass centre in Caithness, Scotland.
She is known as a glassblower who then cold-works the surface of her work through cutting, engraving sanding and polishing. In recent years, like most glass blowers working on an increasing scale, she has worked with teams of glass artists under her direction. In this case she has worked with well-known artists Scott Chaseling and Tom Rowney, and teams of students at the Canberra School of Art as part of their professional experience.
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