"Inspiration for my work is often related to architectural spaces and the living environment, focusing on personalising objects typically found in these environments.
Originally trained in industrial design my influences stem from parallels between design, glass and objects".
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Born 3 January 1971, Australia
Independent studio artist
EUCATION
1992-95
Bachelor of Fine Arts (1st Class Honours) in Glass, CanberraSchool of Art, AustralianNationalUniversity, Canberra, Australia.
1989-93
Bachelor of Industrial Design, University of Canberra
Final Year Exchange Student at the European Institute of Design, Milan, Italy
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2006
Guest Instructor, Toyama Institute of Glass Art, Toyama, Japan
Guest Instructor, Summer School Programme, Canberra Institute of the Arts, Australian National University, Australia
2003
Curator, Form and Surface – Emerging Australian Glass, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2002-2004
Appointed Secretary for New Zealand Society of Glass Artists (NZSAG)
2001-2004
Appointed Lecturer, Glass & Design Production, Wanganui Polytechnic/UCOL, New Zealand
2000
Guest Instructor and Speaker, Wanganui Polytechnic Summer School Workshop and Conference, New Zealand
1999
Exhibition Consultant, Chihuly: Masterworks in Glass, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Exhibition Project Manager, Ausglass Conference, Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW
1998
Artist in Resident, Bullseye Glass Workshop, USA
1997
Technical Assistant for Latitudes II Workshop, Canberra School of Art, The Australian National University
1996-98
Technical Assistant at the Canberra School of Art (Art Handling and Installation), Canberra
Technical Assistant at the Canberra School of Art, Glass Workshop
1994
Technical Assistant to Yumiko Noda, visiting Japanese Glass Artist
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2006
Art Singapore, represented by Koru-hk.com Contemporary Art, Singapore
Glass Week, Air New Zealand Shopfront, Wanganui, New Zealand
Masterworks, Milford Galleries, Queenstown, New Zealand
Art & About, Hing Wai Centre, represented by Koru-hk.com Contemporary Art Gallery & Austrade, Hong Kong
Collect – International Art Fair, British Craft Council, Victoria & Albert Museum, represented by Bullseye Connection Gallery, London.
Group Glass Exhibition, Anna Bibby Gallery, Newmarket, New Zealand
2005
20/20: Twenty Artists/Twenty Years, Kiln Glass from the New Glass Review of the Corning Museum of Glass, Bullseye Connection Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA
New Zealand Glass Invitational Travelling Exhibition, Milford Galleries, Dunedin, Auckland Museum, Canterbury Museum, Pataka Museum, New Zealand
Canberra Glass 2005, Beaver Galleries, Canberra, Australian Art Resources, Sydney, Australia
Contemporary Kiln Glass, A Survey of Works from the Bullseye Collection, Illinois Wesleyan University, Illinois, USA
2004
Quartet, Axia Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
On the Edge – Glass from the Pacific Rim, Chappell Gallery, New York, USA
A Creative Life, Dowse Museum, Lower Hutt, NZ
New Works by Gallery Artists, Bullseye Glass Connection, Portland, USA
2003
"New Zealand Glass in Taipei", Koru-hk.com Contemporary Art and Page One Taipei.
2002
Dialogue- Stephen Procter and Friends, Quadrivium, Sydney
Facets of Australian Glass, Leo Kaplan Modern, New York, USA
Crossroads: Australia/New Zealand, Chappell Galleries, Boston, USA
Staff Exhibition, Quay School of Art, Wanganui Polytechnic, New Zealand
Cross Currents- Members Exhibition, Society of Glass Artists, Wanganui, NZ
2001
Transparent Things, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Broken Hill City Gallery, NSW; Geelong Art Gallery, Vic; Gerladton Regional Art
Gallery, WA; Bunbury Art Gallery, WA
Transitions, Pataka Blue Pacific Gallery, Poriura City, New Zealand
Glass Art in Australia, Quadrivium, Sydney
Strong Works by Strong Women, The Hope Collection, Santa Fe, USA
On Line, Bullseye Connection Glass gallery, Portland, OR, USA
Ausrtalian Glass The Cutting Edge, Axia Modern Art Gallery, Melbourne
Lust, Quadrivium, Sydney
2000
Canberra Glass, Beaver Galleries, Canberra, Australia
Australian Glass 2000, Masterworks Gallery, New Zealand
Domestic Design, Craft, ACT, Canberra, Australia
Strength to Strength, Craft ACT, Canberra, Australia
Fusion- Contemporary Glass, Axia Modern Art Gallery, Melbourne
At The Edge- Australian Glass Art, Brisbane City Gallery; object Galleries, Sydney; Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany
Giles Bettison, Claudia Borella, Jessica Loughlin, Sanske Gallery, Switzerland
1999
Australians in Glass, Noufoux, Switzerland
SOFA Chicago '99, The Bullseye Connection, Chicago, USA
Canberra Glass 1999, Beaver Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Essentially Canberra, Customs House, Sydney, Australia and Taiwan
RFC Glass Prize, touring exhibition, Volvo Gallery, Glass Artists Gallery, Sydney; Perth; Queensland Regional Gallery; Craft ACT; Wagga Regional Gallery, Australia
Giles Bettison, Claudia Borella, Jessica Loughlin, Sanske Gallery, Switzerland
SOFA New York '99, The Bullseye Connection, New York, USA
Glass Art Society International Expo 2, Tampa, Florida, USA
Vitreous II, Craft Queensland, QLD, Australia
Ausglass Members Show, Wagga Regional Art Gallery, NSW, Australia
1998
International Young Artists in Glass, The Bullseye Connection Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA
Sanske Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
6th Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Beaver Galleries, Melbourne
SOFA Chicago '98, The Bullseye Connection, Chicago, IL, USA
Aperto Vetro '98, Sanske Gallery, Venice, Italy
Aperto Vetro '98, Canberra School of Art Glass Workshop, Acedemia delle Belle Arte, Venice, Italy
Origins and Object, Link Gallery, Canberra
Talente '98, International Competition in Crafts, Design and Technology, Munich, Germany
Past Tense/ Future Perfect, National Touring Exhibition of Emerging Contemporary Craft, Perth, Canberra, Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane
1997
Lienors Allen and Claudia Borella, Gallery L, Hamburg, Germany
Young Glass '97, Ebeltoft, Denmark
Young Glass, Link Gallery, Canberra
Canberra Glass, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
1996
TAT2, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra
Variety, Glass Artists Gallery, Sydney
Canberra Glass, Australian Embassy, Washington DC, USA
Canberra Glass, SOFA 1996, Chicago USA
1995
Handle Like Eggs, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
Finish, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra
Ausglass Student Exhibition, Adelaide
Ideas to Function, Goulburn Regional Gallery
1994
Compatibles, David Jones, Sydney and Canberra
Australian Craft Show, Canberra
1993
Sunday Brunch- An Exhibition of designer Makers in Glass, David Jones, Canberra
COMMISSIONS
1995
M & L Hair Design, Canberra - light fittings
Gift for Chancellor, University of Canberra
1994
Gift for Deputy Vice Chancellor, Australian National University
Awards and Grants
2000
Finalist in RFC Glass Prize (Resource Finance Corporation), Sydney
1999
Finalist in RFC Glass Prize
2000
Equipment Grant, Arts ACT, Canberra
1998
State Prize and Gold Medal, Talente '98, Munich, Germany
1997
Recipient of Kyohei Fujita Prize, Young Glass
1997
Competition, Denmark
Australia Council Development Grant
1996
Finalist in RFC Glass Prize
1995
Australian National University Institute of the Arts Acquisition Award
1992
Fondi Travelling Scholarship
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Dowse Museum, New Zealand
Merrill Lynch Corporate Collection, Australia
National Gallery of Australia Collection, Australia
Art Bank Collection, Australia
Wagga Regional Gallery, Australia
Glasmuseum, Denmark
RFC Glass Collection, Australia
The Australian National University, Institute of the Arts Collection, Australia
Private Collection of Mehoudar Raphael, Israel
PUBLICATIONS
2005
LINO Magazine (front cover),Good Intentions Make for Good Inventions, Claudia Borella, Dec 2005

Australian Glass Today, Margot Osborne, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, Australia
‘Striking and Liquid Lines’, Sasha Grishin and Meredith Hinchcliffe, Canberra Times, 21 May 2005
'Canberra Glass 2005’, Ann McMahon, Artlook, Issue 11, May 2005.

2004
'Art By Any Other Name’, Taipei Times, Sun Feb 22 2005



2003
The Graphic Glass of Claudia Borella, Josie Mc Naught, Object Magazine, Australia Issue #43, pp.49-55
Fused Together: Education & Industry, Jo Litson, Canberra School of Art Glass Workshop and the Bullseye Connection, Object Magazine, Australia Issue #42
2002
National Gallery of Australia Art Collection, Anne Grey, ANG, Canberra, Australia.
2001
Dan Klein, Artists in Glass: Late Twentieth Century Masters in Glass, Mitchell Beazley and the Octopus Publishing Group, London
2000
Neues Glass Review 21, Corning Museum of Glass, No 2/2000, p.85
Fran Kenneley, 'Gorgeous Glass', Canberra Sunday Times, May 21, p.62
Louise Martin-Crew, 'Reflections of Class in Glass', The Australian, Friday May 12, p.12
Jeff Shaw, 'The Class of Glass', The Courier-Mail, Saturday April 22, p.14
Meredith Hinchcliffe, 'Local Work to be Proud Of', Panorama, Canberra Times, April 22, p.14
At The Edge- Australian Glass Kunst, catalogue, Brisbane City Council, Brisbane City Gallery
'At the Edge- Australian Glass Art', Where Magazine, Brisbane, April, p.5
1999
Janet Miller, 'Blown Away; A New Generation of Glass Artists', National Library of Australia News, November Issue, p.36-38
RFC Glass Prize, Exhibition Catalogue, Glass Artists Gallery, Sydney
SOFA Chicago '99, Expressions of Culture Inc., USA
'More Glass From Canberra', object magazine, 4/99, p.8
Accredited Members Directory, Craft ACT, Canberra
1998
Essentially Canberra, Catalogue to accompany touring exhibition for Venezia Aperto Vetro '98, The Australian National University Institute of the Arts, Canberra School of Art Glass Workshop, Canberra, Australia
Venezia News, November, Issue 21
'Eloquent Craftwork', The West Australian, Wed, July 8, p.6
Adelaide Review, April edition
International Young Artists in Glass, Exhibition Catalogue, Bullseye Connection, Portland, OR, USA
Canberra Times, Saturday April 4
1997
Noris Ioannou, Masters of Their Craft, Craftsman House, Australia
Crafts UK, No.145, March/April, p.51
Craft Arts International, Issue 39, pp.98 & 103, Australia
Canberra Times, Friday Jan 13, p.11, Canberra, Australia
1996
Canberra Glass, Beaver Galleries, SOFA, 96
TAT2, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Objects of Desire- Functional Art, Sculpture and Painting, Exhibition Catalogue, Sydney City Galleries, Australia
Venezia Aperto Vetro, Exhibition Catalogue, Editrice Arsenale, Italy
1994
Connections, University of Canberra Convocation, October Issue
1993
Canberra Times, Saturday March 27