Carla Sealey is an applied artist who started working with glass in 2005. She works from one of the Almshouse studios at Artworks MK in Milton Keynes where she makes cast and fused glass.

Using kiln forming techniques she produces pieces that explore the boundaries that define the social, cultural and spiritual spaces we occupy.

‘I am constantly fascinated, cannot help but probe, the boundaries that make each of us individual. The boundaries that others construct for us whether social, cultural or physical are so often implicit rather than explicit. I try to use glass as a means of revealing, exploring, hopefully deconstructing those implicit boundaries.

As an applied artist I am constantly trying to make glass do things in the kiln that any properly trained glass artist knows can’t or shouldn’t be done. In my more optimistic moments I call this pushing the boundaries of kiln forming techniques. Mostly I swear a lot and wish that I had stuck to textiles or jewellery.’

Selected Exhibitions
2009
'Glass Echoes 2', The Crypt Gallery , Bloomsbury, London
2008
“Perfume Bottles”, St. Joseph Galerie, Leeuwarden, Holland
“Glashaus”, The Gallery, Parndon Mill, Essex
“Flow” Artworks MK, Great Linford, Bucks
“New Beginnings” SDC Gallery, 24 Rivington Street, London
British Crafts Trade Fair, Harrogate
2007
“Platform” Margaret Harvey Gallery, St Albans, Herts
“Platform”, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Society of Designer Craftsmen, The Mall Galleries, London SW1
British Crafts Trade Fair, Harrogate
2006
Making Words, Bilston Craft Gallery & Museum, Wolverhampton

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