An Afternoon with Dr. Julie Denton

October 26, 2020

Julie Anne Denton graduated from Wolverhampton  University  with a PHD  in Glass in 2000 and is now living her dream; making glass full-time. She demonstrates at Glass festivals worldwide, teaches courses in flameworking and sand casting all over Europe and creates artworks for galleries and museums.  Julie credits her time at the University of Wolverhampton for her current career path.

“I am an artist working predominantly through flameworking and sandcast glass. Glass has a unique quality unmatched by either painting or traditional sculpture. It is a special material which can be seen through, giving the visual artist the opportunity to describe concepts which would otherwise be ‘impossible’ to demonstrate through other materials. I use glass as an emblematic representation of things or ideas that are pure but precarious, delicate but destructible, eloquent yet elusive.”

“My work, like life, takes on two different guises… good and evil, Euphoric and Dysphonic, God and Devil. These contradictions are a given, and are something we all deal with every day of our lives. I enjoy taking a beautiful medium such as glass and shamelessly contorting it to create scenes of humour and horror; and contrarily, I like to exact simple and elegant designs to sate my need for the divine..”

Dragon members have access to this recorded presentation, found on our Facebook Members Group.