Now or? 2006

The appeal of Scott Chaseling’s vessels lie in their witty pictorial content and vivid, tessellated surfaces. He makes his pieces from glass sourced from the Bullseye Glass Company, Portland, Oregon, using a technique honed by Klaus Moje at the Canberra School of Art, where Chaseling studied in the early 1990s.

Chaseling lays his designs down on white glass before fusing the elements together into one large tile. This is preheated in a kiln, rolled up on a blowpipe and blown. If the unpredictable process succeeds, the surface of the work is then wheel ground. The panels appear like fragments of stories – film stills, memes or animation cells. Their fragmentary nature references our image-saturated culture, suggesting obscure or surreal narratives. The artist acknowledges the influence of his childhood fascination with comics on this imagery, explaining, ‘I was always drawing cartoons as a kid’.