Finalist Ranamok Glass Prize 2011 "Ficticious Shores" pate de verre glass.
Contemporary art is created by Lee Brogan a New Zealand artist specialising in original sculpture in cast glass, pate de verre glass, ceramics and mixed media, and two-dimensional works in mixed media. She utilises lead crystal casting glass, and makes mold-melted or kiln cast glass using the lost-wax method and the ancient Egyptian technique of pate de verre (glass paste) and a range of techniques for hand built ceramic sculpture including raku firing, pit or barrel firing, and unglazed oxidation firing.
Her art is environmentally and politically inspired and she works from her studio at her rural country home in the far north of the North Island of New Zealand on a lifestyle block she shares with her family, partner Paul and their two children. Originally a graphic designer, magazine publisher and commercial artist, she started working in ceramic sculpture and then went on to casting glass, completing a BA in Applied Art in 2007 specialising in sculpture. She has exhibited widely in New Zealand and Australia and her work has been selected for inclusion in major national and international competitions.
Left: "Through My Fingers to the Deep" Finalist in the NZ Painting & Printmaking Awards 2011
Right: "Bombora" pate de verre glass. Finalist Wallace Awards 2010