Brian Hirst Flat form Teal

Biography:

Born in Gippsland, Victoria, Brian Hirst studied Visual Arts at the Gippsland campus of Monash University.  During the late 1980s after having relocated to Canberra, Hirst taught at the Canberra School of Art (1987-88), and later, at the Sydney College of Arts.  Hirst also presented numerous lectures or was a guest lecturer at specialist glass conferences both within Australia and internationally.

Throughout his four-decade career Hirst has exhibited extensively across Australia, at commercial and regional galleries, in both solo and group exhibitions.

Hirst has developed a unique glass technique in his practice, which comprises a combination of casting and blowing before heavily working over the surfaces, using metal-based paints and engraving tools. Incorporating elements from printmaking and glass crafting his works become more than one medium; in a sense, they are hybrids.  Hirst has also adopted a particular type of vessel form, one which is asymmetrical flared and flattened with partly translucent and partly opaque, areas of glass.

Hirst is represented in museum collections in China, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan and the USA. In Australia his work is in the National Gallery, State and Regional Galleries in ACT, NSW, QLD, VIC, TAS, WA, SA. Major corporate and private collections in Australia and overseas.

View more works by Brian Hirst at the Art Gallery of Western Australia,