George William Bell

George William Bell is a distinguished and experimental artist working primarily in the medium of glass. His work has been exhibited widely, featuring in several high-profile exhibitions including New Glass Now, Corning Museum of Glass, New York, USA; The European Award for Applied Arts, Belgium; and the Glass is Tomorrow touring exhibition in Stockholm, Milan and London, amongst others. He has received awards from Danske Kunsthåndværkere & Designere, Ung Svensk Form, and the Stanislav Libensky Award. Currently based in Monterey, California, George has worked inside a glass factory in the UK, trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and worked extensively as a Designer in Scandinavia.

The artist's glass-blowing practice is combined with traditional Venetian cane techniques and contemporary approaches to materiality and form, probing the capacities of material to express its innate qualities. George notes that a traditional focus of glass-making is to erase or hide the process behind the final object, he plays with this expectation leaving the gathering lines exposed as records of transient moments of matter solidifying and becoming static. His final forms are sumptuous and fluid, reminiscent of inflating and botanical shapes or reflective vegetal matter.