V&A - How Was It Made with Elliot Walker
Elliot Walker features in the V&A's How Was It Made? video series
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Elliot Walker features in a behind-the-scenes film from the V&A, which follows him in his studio as he works molten glass at extreme temperatures and high speed to create one of his three-dimensional still-life sculptures. Inspired by traditional oil painting, the new work responds to a fragment of a Middle Eastern glass beaker in the museum's collection.
An innovator in contemporary glassblowing, Elliot has work in museum collections around the world. The wall piece made in the film was shown at London Glassblowing's Art of Craft with Bonhams exhibition.
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