ROB WYNNE

Rob Wynne creates a wide spectrum of works from sculpture to painting, drawing, collage, installation, photography and jewelry design. In his early career in 1990s, he sculpted and painted using industrial materials, and soon he was fascinated by ‘glass’ which became a major material for his work.

The artist recalls that one day, when he dropped a ladle containing melted glass to the ground, he found it making a cosmic splat. It was an event that influenced the creation of his own unique way of pouring melted glass into the desired shape as if he painted, rather than setting a shape into a mold frame in a traditional sense. His flowing-down glass sculpture, coated silvered and hardened, reflects like a mirror and creates a dazzling effect.

Rob Wynne borrows texts from literature and daily conversations into his glass sculptures, making the audience read out the resonant texts and at the same time see themselves reading it through the mirror glass. Besides text-based works, sculpture in abstract, biomorphic forms consisting of at least hundreds of small pieces create an overwhelming spectacle, installed on the wall according to the artist’s manual.