- About Lulu Harrison
I am a self-taught glass artist, specialising in glass alchemy
-Statement
As a researcher, artist, and maker in sustainable material development, I create glass artefacts inspired by primitive glass making and work with waste and local resources, with as little impact on the environment as possible.
I am a recent MA graduate of Central Saint Martins, Material Futures course. Here I developed my current project ‘Thames Glass’. This body of work explores how we can input environmental and social regeneration into existing systems, with techniques both ancient and modern. It champions a shift to a more sustainable future for glass making and finds alternatives to the highly processed and finite materials used today.
Throughout this process, I have been working alongside glass masters in the UK and Murano, as well as the PEGG (Post Disciplinary & Experimental Glass Group), scholars in glass archaeology and Thames Water.
By combining crafts, design, and science, my work seeks to redefine the meaning of 'luxury' - working with waste materials and local communities.
-Biography
Lulu Harrison, born 1993. She grew up next to the river Thames in Oxford. She is a Geo Alchemist Glass Artist based in London. She studied photography and then went on to graduate from Central Saint Martin’s in 2021 with MA in Material Futures.
Upon graduation, she was the inaugural awardee recipient of the Cockpit Glass Sellers’ Bursary. She receives a one-year subsidised studio and business support to start building her craft-based business.
Her studio is based in Cockpit Bloomsbury. Lulu travels extensively working alongside glass blowers around the UK and Europe and with Research, Commercial, and Industry based organisations to widen her creative research and collaborative work.
-Awards
Cockpit Glass Sellers Two-year Bursary award
Winner of the LVMH Maison/0 green trail award
New Emerging Talent by the Crafts Council
-Exhibitions
V&A Museum
The Design Museum
London Design festival
London Craft Week
