Exhibition

Nadège Desgenètez: This Body, Echoes
16 May - 28 June 2026
Carrick Hill

JamFactory and partner Carrick Hill present the 2026 FUSE Glass Artist Residency Exhibition showcasing Melbourne based glass artist Nadège Desgenétez

Awarded biennially in alternate years to the FUSE Glass Prize, the FUSE Glass Artist Residency aims to create significant opportunities for established, mid-career artists working in glass. Valued at more than $20,000 the residency provides studio access in JamFactory’s Glass Studio and a solo exhibition at Historic House Museum and Garden, Carrick Hill.

Nadège Desgenétez's work is inspired by her experience of migration, and the ways in which feelings of connection to, and dislocation from place can coexist. Her recent sculptures in glass and mixed media explore how to relay and mediate embodied experiences of inter-relation and distance. Abstract blown glass forms merge body and tree, soft and hard, flow and stillness... Surfaces, colours and reflections echo natural phenomena. Desgenétez draws on the movement of her body in making, the processes of glass blowing, combined with mirroring, carving, polishing, and sanding to find ambiguous forms and mine the optical and tactile qualities inherent to the medium. The works seek to engage the viewer physically, to be encountered, through shifting reflections and dynamic display. Most recently, following the disruptions of the COVID years, Desgenétez became interested in the contemporary primacy of sight, notably in the ways in which screens and lenses mediate our encounter with the natural world, and each other, near and far.

Carrick Hill
46 Carrick Hill Dr
Springfield SA 5062

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