Stine Bidstrup

Fascinated by glass since she was a teenager, Stine Bidstrup studied at the Danish School of Design on the island of Bornholm and at the Rhodes Island School of Design in the US. She now uses an array of traditional techniques including glassblowing, glass casting, fusing and stretching, cold working, gluing and painting to create work that straddles sculpture, craft and installation art, and which is inspired and informed by the history of architecture and design. “Glass is an extremely difficult material and it requires determined willpower to continue working with it,” she says. But she sticks with it “because glass triggers curiosity and an engaged and complex viewing relationship between the object and the audience.”

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