Your Funny Moods 
with Rob Howe, Egg and Dart, Wollongong 2020

Loop (detail)

Crosses 2020. Hot formed glass, flock, glue. 92 x 40 cm

Loop 2020 Hot formed glass, flock, glue. 180 x 40cm

Crosses (detail)

Gabrielle Adamik starts from the material itself, molten transparent glass, and allows the fluidity of the material and the process she imparts upon it, to create the form. Her lines in 'Loop' become a wall drawing of layered components; shadow playing against the texture of glass, flocking, and wall.
Evoking a tactility and sweetness connecting the viewer directly to material, but as always the unpredictability and 'funny moods' within the alchemy of glass-making dictate the final work. Her gridded works feel like pulled fabric. The shapes represent moments when the material is pushed, pulled, held or collapsed, in the kiln and through hand forming. The work completed by the relationship of the glass against the wall, and away from the wall, and in shadow.