Tracey Snape

Tracey Snape

I am a artist using furnace blown glass, lamp worked glass and noble gases. I also make wood fired furnaces from recycled clay (daub) with The Glassmakers based in Salisbury. I have an interest in spatial elements both sculpturally and universally, using the elusiveness of light to activate space . Inherent in the work is a focus outside the peripheries of vision encompassing elements that would not usually be acknowledged. Multiple reference points are used so that your vision has to focus on several areas, this creates a series of interlocking meanings and a layering of thought. The electrified noble gas pieces have the added exploration of energy flowing from one piece to another crossing the glass boundary, which have their own atmosphere. Each area either side of the boundary has its own condition but all are interlinked. Connecting the viewer through touch and vision, energy is exchanged. A process of agitating matter to create light. Light is a connecting energy.