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Studio Technician
Kris Carter
Kris Carter was a hippy and still is a hippy at heart; although these days seldom seen in the rainbow colours. Kris is a plumber, farmer and artist. Kris uses cast or hot formed glass to realise his ideas.
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Studio Coordinator
Christine Cholewa
Christine
Cholewa, was raised on a Canadian Ukrainian peasant farm, where she
picked potato bugs for a penny each. On a diet of raw vegetables,
saukraut, perogies and kielbasa, she grew up to be a vagabond maker, a
determined minimalist who laments her lack of collections and gardens
at a friend’s place.
Coming to Adelaide to partake in two years of
indentured labour, she discovered that although she would be far away
from all things familiar to her, she decided that Adelaide was the
place for her anyway.
Christine now has a studio at Blue Pony, where she sits, thinks
and makes, pondering the general state of the world, in no particular
order. She works at the glass studio organising and typing for the rest
of the team.
Recently Christine has also embarked on an unusual love affair with a
borrowed piano accordion. She is becoming a fan of the polka.
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Studio Technician
Dale Roberts
Dale Roberts, born in McLaren Vale, South Australia, grew up in Carnarvon, Western Australia. Now based in Adelaide, Dale shares the job of Studio Technician with Kris Carter.
Dale enjoys working with hot glass and realizing the odd idea. When not at work, an isolated coastline is probably where he will be.
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Studio Designer
Deb Jones
Deb Jones grew up in country NSW. Because she’s not a fan of big
cities she settled in Adelaide in 1992. Deb is the Studio Designer and
also works in her own studio Gate 8 in Thebarton, (a studio with a
religious theme)
Deb is a believer in the saying “less is more” and compliments fellow worker Tom Moore, of the ”More is Moore” fame.
Image: Deb Jones, Starting to Understand 2005, lead crystal, 630 x 450 x 100mm
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Studio Glass Blower
Tom Moore
The ancient and mysterious craft of glass blowing requires patience, endurance and daring.
I have been working with hot glass since 1990 and continue to enjoy
using and adapting traditional techniques in the pursuit of surprising
new visions.
The time I spend as an employee at JamFactory continues to provide me
with a solid foundation in the repetitive manufacture of functional
glassware but also offers the variety of one-off sculptural work. My
long association with JamFactory has been pivotal in enabling me to
develop my own elaborate and idiosyncratic glass works.
For the past five years I have been constructing
mixed media landscapes in which glass characters interact to make
dreamlike stories. These are rather like museum dioramas for imaginary
specimens. The protagonists are hybrid creatures that bridge the gaps
between plants, animals and machines, these include Plantbird, Torpedoshark and Potatofishcar.
The intention of my exhibition work is to present innovative craft
objects in new and accessible ways that will amaze and delight a varied
audience.
As the work has progressed, an accomplished
photographer has periodically recorded these scenes. The aim of the
images is not to simply document the objects but to act as a robust
body of work in their own right. More recently I have begun
collaborating with a local filmmaker in order to digitally animate the
glass creatures and expand upon the implied narratives of the scenes. I
am optimistic that the combination of handmade glass with digital
animation will allow me to defy gravity and to melt the coldest heart.
Tom Moore's work can be viewed at Vitamin (Online) Gallery www.vitaminarchive.com
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Studio Mentor
Nick Mount
Nick Mount is one of Australia's pre-eminent glass artists. In a career
spanning three decades his work has combined virtuoso technique with a
keen instinct for design, freely adapting traditional Venetian
decorative styles to his own distinctive sculptural approach. He is
recognized for his commissions, teaching, and exhibitions in Australia,
Europe, South America, the United States and Japan and his work is
represented in many major public and private collections.
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Studio Management 
