Formerly the Ontario Crafts Council, Craft Ontario is a not-for-profit service organization that works to have craft recognized as a valuable part of life. We promote and celebrate professional craft through providing member opportunities, and advocate for craft practice by educating and empowering diverse audiences.
Shay is a Toronto based artist working with mixed media. She attended Sheridan College in 2011 to explore her desire to face new challenges by working with glass. After a couple years of exploring the different qualities and processes of the material she began to find comfort in particular methods, such as kiln casting and the pate de verre technique. Shay has been interested in the fragility of glass and its ability to mimic other materials. Her body of work studies these qualities using line, shape, colour and texture formed by the pate de verre technique. These sculptures do not display the well known properties of the material such as its transparency or optics; therefore at first glance one might not even consider her work to be made from glass. Shay is currently working in her studio space in Toronto’s Historic Distillery District. She is planning on attending OCADU in September 2017 to further her studies in sculpture and installa
Bowl
Pate de verre, glass beads and applied pigment, 2017
37cm x 37cm x 20.3cm
Stacked Bowls: Red
Pate de verre, glass beads and applied pigment, 2017
25.5cm x 25.5cm x 13cm
Stacked Bowls: Rainbow
Pate de verre, glass beads and applied pigment, 2017
25.5cm x 25.5cm x 18cm
Double Edged Bowl: Detail
Pate de verre, glass beads and applied pigment, 2017
28cm x 28cm x 10cm
Cylinder Set
Pate de verre, glass beads and applied pigment, 2017
36cm x 25cm x 40cm
Cylinder Set
Pate de verre, glass beads and applied pigment, 2017
28cm x 24cm x 10cm
Cylinder Set: Raw
Pate de verre, glass beads and applied pigment, 2017
36cm x 62cm x 25cm
Hung to Dry: Installed at The Artist Project 2017
Mixed Media, 2017
245cm x 945 cm x 34cm
Cat's Cradle
Mixed Media, 2017
365cm x 50cm x 4cm
Cat's Cradle: Installed at Culter and Gross
Mixed Media, 2017
365cm x 100cm x 4cm
Formerly the Ontario Crafts Council, Craft Ontario is a not-for-profit service organization that works to have craft recognized as a valuable part of life. We promote and celebrate professional craft through providing member opportunities, and advocate for craft practice by educating and empowering diverse audiences.