Elliot Walker / Blowfish / Sheffield Hallam Glass Research Centre
Lulu recently collaborated with the renowned glass blower Elliot Walker & Blowfish Glass after the International Festival of Glass 2024, in Stourbridge. As part of the project they melted 90kg of Lulu’s batch (made from waste materials from various industries) including; wine lees, biomass ash, quagga mussel shells, waste cullet, recycled glass and local sand (optional). This was developed in partnership with experts from The Glass & Ceramic Research Centre at Sheffield/Hallam University (led by Prof. Paul Bingham Group).
Over the course of 5 days, they loaded the tank furnace pot most evenings with a new lot of batch. The next morning it had melted into an incredible molten & malleable bubble free glass. From this they created hand blown glassware collections, each with their own playful theme - prototyping creative circularity for luxury tableware.
This project is an example of how by combining art & science / industry & academia, there can be a future working with natural raw materials and local bi-product waste to create our own experimental and sustainable glass batches.
Whiskey Bottle/Glass Prototype, made for Johnnie Walker/QEST Princes Street Exhibition
Lulu Harrison Studio in partnership with Sheffield Hallam University Glass Research Centre X Blowfish Glass - Whiskey Decanter + Tumbler
