Don Wreford Studio Art Glass, 19.2cm tall and 8cm diameter, dichroic inserts in wrapped stems, in excellent condition.

Signed Don Wreford 2002.

Don Wreford was one of the pioneers of the Australian Art Glass movement

He set up perhaps the first and now famous vegetarian restaurant in London, Manna, in Primrose Hill; then travelled through Africa, Cyprus, Turkey, Syria, Mexico, USA, India and much of Europe, studying cultures and indigenous art forms.

He moved to Sydney in 1977 to establish a stained glass studio then changed to hot glass and worked under Stan Melis at the Jam Factory in Adelaide. He moved to Melbourne to study under Julio Santos, Richard Morrell and Dennis O’Connor in 1981.

Don was artist-in-residency at the Phillip Institute of Technology in Melbourne before setting up in Malmsbury in 1988. He moved the studio to Gisborne in 1990 before settling permanently in Daylesford in 1993.

A child of the Sixties, his glass art wonderfully captures the freedom of expression that epitomised the post-war generation.

Don Wreford passed away in Daylesford Hospital on 6 October 2020.