jason makeig
GLASS - PUBLIC ART - LEADLIGHT
Design Collaboration
Sunshine Coast Queensland, Australia
0428 988 059
GLASS - PUBLIC ART - LEADLIGHT
Design Collaboration
Sunshine Coast Queensland, Australia
0428 988 059
MY STORY
I first came across 'glass art' in 1978, while living on the northern beaches of Sydney. It was at a leadlight workshop run by Warren Langley that all was revealed.
I was shown a dazzling piece of mouth-blown, French-antique, transparent, purple glass that blew me away…. I was hooked! and almost 40 years later I’m still discovering 'glass' ... Juxtapositions with other materials along with influences such as my designer father Peter Makeig, the German school of Architectural Glass Design, The 'explosion' of innovative ideas out of America in the 60's and 70's, innovative artists in Australia and the European studio glass movement.
There have been many teachers and collaborators since those early days (see study and influences) that pushed and pulled me to the edge of creative passion.
From humble beginnings with basic leadlight through to slumping, casting, sand-blasting, acid etching, painting, laminating, cold working, digital imaging and architectural contexts and community place-making, the journey never ends.
Having worked and designed for both domestic and corporate clients, I find both challenges to be equally unique in their own individual ways. Through the architectural collaboration process with artists, designers and out-sourced fabricators involved with my work, I have developed a portfolio of operational professionalism that covers a range of commissioning-of-the-art processes for a given ‘brief’.
The empowerment of all participants in a project puts us on the same 'page' in our collaboration. Team dynamics seen through to the final solution are equally important as the art.
My arts practice is an exciting creative studio lifestyle, embracing concepts of the day equally as much as the pure spontaneously evoked alchemy of materials and imagery.
Extra-Curricular studio influences (1978 – 2014)
2016 - Ephemeral Sculpture 'Wheelie BIns In Space' - Plastic Recycling themes
2015 - Tree House Commission /mosaic experiments- glass and ceramic... Experimental activist collage
2014 - Experimental Ephemeral themes ... found objects ... soft plastic ...eco-activism
2013 - Social Media business workshop - Flying Arts Queensland Australia
2012 - Experimental Indigenous painting while working as a mentor; Longreach QLD;
- Diploma in Tourism
2011 – Begin Vis Art modules – Curtin University
- Experimental exhibition display in glass and found objects, Cooran
Hall, QLD
2007 – Installation of public art glass commission into Gympie Hospital with
new studio technique of architectural digital interlay.
2006 – Worked for Warm Glass, Maroochydore
2004-05 – ECO- Tour guide on Fraser Island
2003 – Cert 1V in Tourism, Mooloolaba TAFE
2002 – Course in Public Art; Sunshine Coast Regional Art Development
Fund x2 (Concept Development and Project)
2000-02 – Cooran Community Artspace Coordinator;
- Course in Sculpture, Cooroy TAFE with Michael Civareli
- CERT 1V Workplace Assessment and Training, Noosa Training
Centre, QLD
1999 - Employee at Glass Design Solutions, Sydney during a major deep carve
sandblasting project for Martin Plaza, Sydney
1996-08 - Eumundi Glass Access Studio; artist
collaboration/technique/exploration
1986-09 - Ausglass Conference Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Adelaide
- Workshops; Lutz Haufschild, Architectural and general design;
- Jochem Poensgen, Architectural design;
- George Wolfe, kiln forming;
- Mitchel Foley, left field thinking
1985-95 – Contracts with Stained Glass Restorations of Australia and studio commission focus
- Faceted Glass projects
1978 - Workshops; Warren Langley's beginners/advanced glass classes
I first came across 'glass art' in 1978, while living on the northern beaches of Sydney. It was at a leadlight workshop run by Warren Langley that all was revealed.
I was shown a dazzling piece of mouth-blown, French-antique, transparent, purple glass that blew me away…. I was hooked! and almost 40 years later I’m still discovering 'glass' ... Juxtapositions with other materials along with influences such as my designer father Peter Makeig, the German school of Architectural Glass Design, The 'explosion' of innovative ideas out of America in the 60's and 70's, innovative artists in Australia and the European studio glass movement.
There have been many teachers and collaborators since those early days (see study and influences) that pushed and pulled me to the edge of creative passion.
From humble beginnings with basic leadlight through to slumping, casting, sand-blasting, acid etching, painting, laminating, cold working, digital imaging and architectural contexts and community place-making, the journey never ends.
Having worked and designed for both domestic and corporate clients, I find both challenges to be equally unique in their own individual ways. Through the architectural collaboration process with artists, designers and out-sourced fabricators involved with my work, I have developed a portfolio of operational professionalism that covers a range of commissioning-of-the-art processes for a given ‘brief’.
The empowerment of all participants in a project puts us on the same 'page' in our collaboration. Team dynamics seen through to the final solution are equally important as the art.
My arts practice is an exciting creative studio lifestyle, embracing concepts of the day equally as much as the pure spontaneously evoked alchemy of materials and imagery.
Extra-Curricular studio influences (1978 – 2014)
2016 - Ephemeral Sculpture 'Wheelie BIns In Space' - Plastic Recycling themes
2015 - Tree House Commission /mosaic experiments- glass and ceramic... Experimental activist collage
2014 - Experimental Ephemeral themes ... found objects ... soft plastic ...eco-activism
2013 - Social Media business workshop - Flying Arts Queensland Australia
2012 - Experimental Indigenous painting while working as a mentor; Longreach QLD;
- Diploma in Tourism
2011 – Begin Vis Art modules – Curtin University
- Experimental exhibition display in glass and found objects, Cooran
Hall, QLD
2007 – Installation of public art glass commission into Gympie Hospital with
new studio technique of architectural digital interlay.
2006 – Worked for Warm Glass, Maroochydore
2004-05 – ECO- Tour guide on Fraser Island
2003 – Cert 1V in Tourism, Mooloolaba TAFE
2002 – Course in Public Art; Sunshine Coast Regional Art Development
Fund x2 (Concept Development and Project)
2000-02 – Cooran Community Artspace Coordinator;
- Course in Sculpture, Cooroy TAFE with Michael Civareli
- CERT 1V Workplace Assessment and Training, Noosa Training
Centre, QLD
1999 - Employee at Glass Design Solutions, Sydney during a major deep carve
sandblasting project for Martin Plaza, Sydney
1996-08 - Eumundi Glass Access Studio; artist
collaboration/technique/exploration
1986-09 - Ausglass Conference Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Adelaide
- Workshops; Lutz Haufschild, Architectural and general design;
- Jochem Poensgen, Architectural design;
- George Wolfe, kiln forming;
- Mitchel Foley, left field thinking
1985-95 – Contracts with Stained Glass Restorations of Australia and studio commission focus
- Faceted Glass projects
1978 - Workshops; Warren Langley's beginners/advanced glass classes
