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Anthony Scala

  • Glass sculptor
  • London, United Kingdom
  • Master Artisan
Anthony Scala Glass sculptor
©Ester Segarra

Reflective glass sculptures

  • • Anthony used to be the cast and cold glass technician at the Royal College of Art
  • • Every single piece he makes teaches him something new
  • • The unknown qualities of glass truly fascinate him

Anthony Scala is a seasoned British cold glass artist and teacher, specialised in cold working, lamination and assemblage techniques. His initial training in architectural model making led him to develop a keen interest in cold working techniques in conjunction with optical glass, which allow him to create tantalising refractive sculptures. Anthony's creations appear to bend the laws of three-dimensional space. He began working in the field of Studio Art Glass in 1999 as an apprentice at London Glassblowing where he met some of the very best makers in the country. He operated his own studio from 2010 and makes signature geometrical artworks which celebrate the reflective qualities of glass as a material.

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Works

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Photo: ©Ester Segarra
Coriolis II

This is a refractive three-part sculpture with clear and grey tinted optical glass. It was cut, polished and reconstructed. Coriolis was one of Anthony Scala’s first forays into very high accuracy cold working. All the elements in the piece had to be cold worked by hand to tolerances within a fraction of a millimetre and degree.

Photo: ©Ester Segarra
Red Annulum

Annulum is an offshoot of the word ‘annulus’ which refers to a ring-shaped object, structure, or region. Annulum is a refractive sculpture comprised of four separate elements. The two clear segments have been offset against each other and then counterbalanced using a central core made from coloured optical glass.

Photo: ©Ester Segarra
Orrery scent bottles

An orrery is a mechanical model of the solar system that illustrates or predicts the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons. Anthony Scala has re-imagined the orrery through his stunning two-segment orrery perfume bottles of various colours.

Photo: ©Ester Segarra
Spinnaker

The term spinnaker refers to a special sail which billows out from a wind powered craft. This refractive sculpture is made from clear and blue tinted optical glass. The base is made of blue optical glass and has a bone glue chipping effect.

Photo: ©Ester Segarra
Dark Matter

Anthony Scala created this sculpture as his own homage to the fundamental quantum building blocks that make up our perceived universe. This is a refractive sculpture with a free blown hot glass inner core and a grey optical glass outer shell resting on a stainless-steel rotating base.

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