Geoffrey Mann - Glass Artist

Geoffrey Mann transposes the ephemeral into the tangible through embracing the integration of digital media and the physical form.

Flight take-off, Long Exposure Series 2008, which was selected for Talente 2009 in Munich in March 2009, represents a solid trace issue of a bird taking-off. It originated from stop frame cinematography of pigeons flying, allowing analysis of intermediary frames to create the sinuous passage of movement that the work narrates. The form becomes a 3D long exposure.

He then creates the forms using CAD software and materialise the pieces through Rapid Prototyping technology. The work is then molded and kiln cast to create objects that no hand or eye can envision yet alone create.

Originally realised in resin, he then created a version in glass at the Lhotsky glass studios.

In 2008 he won the WCC-Europe Award for contemporary crafts for this work at European Glass Context 2008 in Bornholm, Denmark, where he was also nominated as the UK emerging glass artist.

He was selected for the 2009 Jerwood Contemporary Makers Prize, which showcases work by the new generation of contemporary makers in a fresh and unexpected way. 

A piece of his work was also recently acquired by MoMA New York for their Design and Architecture collection.