Visual Arts
Nicole Ayliffe
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
For the past couple of years I have been investigating and experimenting with the optical qualities of glass, and combining glass with photographic images. The ability of glass to work together with light, and to create distortion and magnification has always intrigued me. In my studio practice last year I investigated the relationship between glass and its ability to refract and reflect light, and act as an optical lens. My research into optics and light led to the development of a form which could capture these qualities and which led to a new and experimental way of representing light as an image.
The five glass pieces in this exhibition are different in form and therefore create a variation in optical qualities. The five photograms are direct representation of light captured by refracting light through the glass lens. Each image is a direct response to the glass form.’
BIO
Nicole Ayliffe graduated from the South Australian School of Art UniSA in 2005 completing a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours), majoring in Glass and Photography.
In 2004 Nicole was selected for the Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition and received a High Commendation for the Adelaide City Council Award. During the course of her studies Nicole also won the Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society Arts Prize (2004), received a high commendation from the Glass Art Society Award at an International Student Exhibition, received a Bullseye scholarship (fused glass workshop, JamFactory) and was selected as a finalist in the Ranamok Glass Prize.
Nicole currently exhibits in both Sydney and Melbourne. This year Nicole’s work will be published in the “New Glass Review, 27”, Neues Glas, 2005, Corning Museum of Glass, New York.
Nicole has exhibited as part of Carclew's Fifth Floor project.
