Clear Cut

Blanche Tilden,

July 12 - August 13, 2016

Blanche Tilden makes beauty. In her hands, glass and metal are transformed into limpid jewellery that spills and flows and falls down and round the body, circling it with light. I think of water sparkling, of light playing from a shaded beam, of something caught just at the edge of vision that unexpectedly illuminates the world: Blanche’s work summons all of this, and has for two decades, yet in this latest work we see a fundamental shift in direction — a clear cut.

Julie Ewington, independent curator and writer, Sydney, 2016

Extract from Clear Cut catalogue essay - download PDF for full text.



Blanche Tilden Clear Cut catalogue

Flow necklace (detail), 2016, borosilicate glass, titanium

Work from Clear Cut

Clarity 01 by Clear Cut Clarity 01, 2016, flameworked borosilicate glass, blackened silver
Clarity 02 by Clear Cut Clarity 02, 2016, flameworked borosilicate glass, blackened silver
Clarity 03 by Clear Cut Clarity 03, 2016, flameworked borosilicate glass, blackened silver
Orbit earrings by Clear Cut Orbit earrings, 2016, flameworked borosilicate glass, blackened silver, titanium
Orbit 01 by Clear Cut Orbit 01, 2016, flameworked borosilicate glass, blackened silver, titanium
Flow 01 by Clear Cut Flow 01, 2016, flameworked borosilicate glass, titanium
Flow 03 by Clear Cut Flow 03, 2016, flameworked borosilicate glass, titanium
Circuit 03 by Clear Cut Circuit 03, 2016, flameworked borosilicate glass, blackened silver, titanium
Buoy 01 by Clear Cut Buoy 01, 2016, flameworked borosilicate glass, blackened silver
Spin 01 by Clear Cut Spin 01, 2016, flameworked borosilicate glass, blackened silver, titanium

Artists involved

Blanche Tilden