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 Stephen Glassborow
is one of the most successful Australian sculptors. Born in Hammersmith in the
UK,
it was while studying Fine Arts at the Brighton College of Art that he
realized he preferred the physicality and structure of sculpture to the
discipline of painting.
He began his journey with clay, developing the
myriad of skills that are required to master sculpturing. He travelled
for four years exhibiting his work and releasing limited edition art
deco and art nouveau figurines and lamps, both in the
UK
and in
Australia.
In 1983 he became a permanent resident of
Australia. Glassborow makes bronze sculpture. He uses whimsy, abstraction and colour to bring a unique and
engaging energy to his work.
Glassborow’s attitude towards bronze kicks
against the mainstream. The apparent levity of his pieces belies his
determination to bring a fresh perspective to an ancient art form. By playing with words and toying
with gravity, Glassborow converts ideas into three dimensional trapeze
acts.
His work is in demand worldwide and Glassborow exhibits regularly
in Australia and Europe. Glassborow
work is represented around the world, his
career has developed to a point where he sells his
work in many countries. He exhibits regularly in America and
England, Bangkok,
Kuala Lumpar, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Seoul.
In Australia, Glassborow has had many exhibitions with public sculptures
featuring in Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne and regional Victoria.
His sculptures possess a power of delusion as they delight in
their interpretations of the world around us. He uses the human figure like a coat hanger, onto which displays
his ideas. In each sculpture, the artist likes to manipulate and capture
the figure in a blend of real and abstract.
Emphatically playful and frequently deriving their
inspiration from phrases of popular culture, one can recognize the
influence of Art Deco and Greco Roman figurative sculpture in Stephen’s
work however, Stephen Glassborow
retains
a very contemporary perspective.
Stephen Glassborow
draws inspiration from Greco-Roman ruins, art deco forms as well as
contemporary
abstracts and
presents human figures in a unique way.
For him, inspiration comes with a pose, an idea or a phrase and a
context. It is almost as if his figures have chosen their relationship
with their environment after an initial struggle to retain their
integrity. “I attempt to bend the traditional attitudes of the figure,
while still retaining my view of an aesthetic balance," he says.
In each sculpture,
Glassborow capture the figure in a blend of real and abstract. He uses
the figure like a coat hanger, onto which displays his ideas. Glassborow develops his ideas on paper and
experiments with the framework within which he can place his figures.
He
creates a scale drawing, from which he builds a clay original.
“I'm observing the clay as it changes the human form. I am fascinated
with muscles in the physique,"
Glassborow
says.
By manipulating the figure in this way, he captures it in a blend of the
real and the abstract. Once complete, a silicon rubber mould for the
final piece is made, normally in bronze.
EDUCATION
Tyneside
UK - Foundation Course
Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, - Sculpture
B.A. Hons
Brighton College of Art, UK - B. A.
Fine Art Hons.
 COLLECTIONS
AMP Perth, WA
SEDGWICK INSURANCE, Melbourne
McDONALD'S
GROUP, Sydney
McDONALD'S
GROUP, Melbourne
KPMG PEAT MARWICK, Sydney
REMY MARTIN, Melbourne
PARK LANE Hotel, Kuala Lumpur
QANTAS, Melbourne
WALKER CORPORATION, Sydney
STATE CHAMBERS, Sydney
CITY OF WHITE HORSE REGIONAL ART
GALLERY, Melbourne
RANDWICK
COUNCIL, Sydney
HILTON HOTEL, Soeul, Korea
ADELAIDE HILTON, Adelaide
ANA GROUP, Sydney
FRANKSTON CITY COUNCIL, Victoria
BANK OF NEW ZEALAND, Perth
STAR CITY CASINO, Sydney
ROCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Victoria
MANLY ART GALLERY & MUSEUM,
Sydney
McFARLANE
BURNETT INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH, Melbourne
SHANGRI-LA HOTELS, Shanghai & Bangkok
ST.GEORGE
BANK, George Street, Sydney
MARIST BOYS COLLEGE, Randwick , Sydney
APOLLO GROUP, Singapore
PASIR
RIS Centre, Singapore
IMPERIAL HOTEL, Kuala Lumpur
CROWN CASINO, Melbourne
HILTON, Shanghai, China
SHERATON ON THE PARK, Sydney
HASTINGS CITY COUNCIL,Victoria
PORT JACKSON FINE ART Laguna Beach, USA
CITYCORP,
Sydney
MONARCH BAY DEVELOPMENT, Laguna Beach,
USA
WALT DISNEY CORPORATION, Hong Kong
MGM Macao, China
WARRAGUL
CITY COUNCIL, Victoria (Lionel Rose Sculpture)
FRANKSTON CITY COUNCIL, Victoria
(Johnny Famachon Sculpture)
RICHARD COHEN ART COLLECTION, Adelaide
 MAJOR
EXHIBITIONS
2012 BMG Art Gallery,
Adelaide; Red Hill Gallery,
Brisbane; Linton and Kay Gallery, Perth; Gallery One, Gold Coast; Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle
2011 Axia Modern Art, Melbourne; Linton and Kay Gallery, Perth; Redhill
Gallery, Brisbane; Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle; Richard Martin Gallery, Sydney
2010 Wagner Art Gallery,
Sydney; Linton and Kay Gallery, Perth; BMGART,
Adelaide
2009 Red Hill Gallery,
Brisbane; Art Nuvo Gallery, QLD; Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle; Gallery Perutze, UK; Makers Mark Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Emporium Gallery,
Brisbane; Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle; Linton and Kay Gallery, Perth; Wagner Art Gallery, Sydney; Artnuvo,
Buderim QLD; Makers Mark Gallery, Melbourne; Gallery Perutz, UK
2007 Linton and Kay Gallery, Perth; Trevor Victor Harvey Gallery, Sydney; Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane; Manyung
Gallery, Melbourne; Makers Mark Gallery, Sydney; Makers Mark Gallery, Melbourne; Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle; Forest Gallery, Bateman’s Bay
2006 Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane; Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle; Manyung
Gallery, Melbourne; Wagner Gallery, Sydney; TVH
Gallery, Sydney; Gallery Perutze Edinburgh UK; Makers Mark Gallery Melbourne
2005 Gallery Perutz,
London, England; Red Hill Gallery,
Brisbane;
Cooks Hill
Gallery, Newcastle; Wagner Art
Gallery, Sydney; Perutz Gallery,
Edinburgh, Scotland
2004 1000 Degrees Gallery,
Sydney;Red Hill
Gallery, Brisbane; Manly Art
Gallery & Museum, Sydney; 2003 Wagner Art Gallery,
Sydney, Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle
2002 Lattitude
Gallery, Boston, USA; Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle; Port Jackson
Fine Art, Laguna Beach, California, U.S.A.;
2001 Vanessa Wood fine
Art, Sydney, Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle
2000 Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle
1999 North Shore Fine
Art, Sydney; Cooks Hill
Gallery, Newcastle
1996 Jajuta Gallery,
Singapore. Solo Exhibition
1993 The Australian
Ballet Gallery, Melbourne Eagle Hawke Gallery, Sydney; Bronze figures
and drawings of the Artists of The Australian Ballet
1995 Robin Gibson
Gallery, Joint Sculpture Exhibition
PUBLICATIONS
1987 Melburnian Magazine,
June
Home Beautiful
Magazine, June
Melbourne Arts
Magazine, November
1988
Craft Arts Magazine, February
The Herald Newspaper, Melbourne, February
1989 House and Garden
Magazine, February
The Age Magazine,
Melbourne, April
1991 Corporate Office and
Design, May
1993 The Age, Melbourne,
October
1994 Dance Australia, June
1994 The Age, Melbourne,
April
Herald Sun,
Melbourne
Sydney Morning
Herald, The Australian
1995 Craft Arts International Magazine Issue 34, July
1999 Northern Beach Journal, Issue 4,
August
2002 Belle
Magazine
2005 The Age, The Independent, Sydney Morning
Herald
2010 Herald Sun, The Age, The Australian
2011 Australian Art
Review, The Age, The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald
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