{"product_id":"layla-dahlia-layla-walter","title":"Layla Dahlia | Layla Walter","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eArtist Statement:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eHaving cast glass for 30 years, this work reflects a recent jump in my technical and conceptual practice. Supported by Creative New Zealand, I worked out a way to avoid wax in the design stage. Eliminating the need for wax steam out, thereby enabling molds and glasswork to go up in scale. Molds now made in two parts give greater access to the internal walls of the vessel - so I can apply pattern in a new way and introduce the human form for the first time into my work at scale. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eAt 46cm across, and up to forty-five kilograms in the casting, these are the largest I have made. The seed to these advancements happened due to alternate thinking space and lack of studio access during the 2020 lockdowns. Utilising basic materials at hand like playdough to make body impressions. There is a surreal nature to the over scaled flowers and allusive body parts floating on the inside of this glass bowl - befitting the disjointed experience and suspension of life as usual which lockdowns provided. It took two years to test the evolution of my process.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e‘Layla Dahlia’ is the result and a new starting point. The videos of the making of this series were on show across Australia in the Makers Film Festival 2023. This work was a finalist in the 2024 FUSE Glass Prize and exhibition which toured across Australia.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e‘\u003cspan style=\"color: black; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;\"\u003eLayla Dahlia’ #5, cast glass 2023\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;\"\u003eHeight 365mm Diameter 460mm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eCitrine coloured Reichenbach glass\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFreight to be arranged upon purchase.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Layla Walter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47355610726484,"sku":"18435","price":32000.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1472\/7198\/files\/unedited_DS49207.jpg?v=1783984828","url":"https:\/\/www.nzglassworks.com\/products\/layla-dahlia-layla-walter","provider":"New Zealand Glassworks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}