Handy Hooligan and Quality Glass Tester
Tom Moore believes there are great possibilities for profundity in absurdity.
He combines furnace and torch-work to create finely detailed, fanciful characters such as the PotatoFishCar. These peculiar visions of nature, mediated by glass, are intended to provoke questions about human relationships with plants, animals, and machines. The boundaries between these realms are dissolved in the hope of bamboozling conventions of representation and perception and may remind us of our deep interconnections within the biological community.
Tom is based in Adelaide, South Australia. His time is divided between working within the hot glass community at JamFactory, working from his own home studio and as an Adjunct research fellow at UniSA.
Koala Island
2024
Hot joined blown and solid glass, wood, perspex
Koala: 30 x 14 x 11cm
(The half koala lies horizontal on a reflective surface, image has then been rotated)
Best Fronds Forever
2023-24
Hot joined blown and solid glass
Tallest: 42 x 21 x 17cm
Handy Hooligan and Quality Glass Tester
2023
Hot-joined blown and solid glass
Tallest: 46 x 26 x 15cm