I am a Senior lecturer in Contemporary Art and lecture in the first year Foundation course 3D Contemporary Art Studio , the second year course Contemporary Art Practice and the third year courses Studio A and Studio B in addition to supervising in the Contemporary Art Honors and Masters programs.
In the glass workshop I teach the courses 'Hot Glass Techniques and Processes' and 'Kiln Formed Glass Techniques and Processes'
The skills taught in these courses equip students with the necessary knowledge of how to work as professional emerging artists in the field of glass,or, if they are not specialising in glass, how they can intergrate the materiality of glass into their major studies... Read more
About me
I am a Senior lecturer in Contemporary Art and lecture in the first year Foundation course 3D Contemporary Art Studio , the second year course Contemporary Art Practice and the third year courses Studio A and Studio B in addition to supervising in the Contemporary Art Honors and Masters programs.
In the glass workshop I teach the courses 'Hot Glass Techniques and Processes' and 'Kiln Formed Glass Techniques and Processes'
The skills taught in these courses equip students with the necessary knowledge of how to work as professional emerging artists in the field of glass,or, if they are not specialising in glass, how they can intergrate the materiality of glass into their major studies such jewellery, sculpture, printing,ceramics, photography, painting, product design or architecture.
About me
Member-Ausglass (Australian Association of Glass Artists)
Guildhouse Advisory Board member
About me
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06/02/2018 |
Obsessed; Gabriella Bisetto , https://vimeo.com/254610973 |
About me
Bachelor of Arts Australian National University
Gabriella Bisetto is a senior lecturer in Contemporary Art and oversees the glass and ceramic studios in addition to being the course co-ordinator for our third year art students and a lecturer in our first year courses.
In the glass workshop Gabriella teaches the processes of glassblowing, kiln forming and coldworking processes. These skills equip students with the necessary knowledge to work as professional emerging artists in the field of glass, or, if they are not specialising in glass, to integrate the materiality of glass into their major studies like jewellery, sculpture, printing, ceramics, photography, painting, product design or architecture.
Gabriella has strong links with the Jam Factory where she undertook the associateship in the Glass Workshop as an emerging artist and later held the position of Production Manager before taking up employment at UniSA.
Gabriella is a practicing artist and her work is in museum collections in Australia and overseas.
Gabriellas solo exhibition 'First breath, last breath, Everything In between ' is currently showing at Jam Factory until 24 November 2024.
The work explores themes of ageing, disease, transience, and the way that changes to the human body can be translated through glass practice. This work draws from the ancient Roman adoption of the term ‘memento mori’ (‘remember that you must die’), with the works in this exhibition referencing and acknowledging the changing boundaries of our bodies as we enter new phases of our lives.
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID
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Research
Gabriellas solo exhibition 'First breath, last breath, Everything In between ' is currently showing at Jam Factory until 24 November 2024.
The work explores themes of ageing, disease, transience, and the way that changes to the human body can be translated through glass practice. This work draws from the ancient Roman adoption of the term ‘memento mori’ (‘remember that you must die’), with the works in this exhibition referencing and acknowledging the changing boundaries of our bodies as we enter new phases of our lives.
Gabriella is a practicing artist alongside her role as a lecturer and was invited to teach the first glassblowing course at the Hangzhou Academy of Art in China in 2015 and workshops at Pilchuck Glass School USA in 2010 and 2013.
In 2016 Gabriella won the nationally competitive Tom Malone Prize with her winning work 'becoming' now part of the permanent collection at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
Gabriella has been invited to undertake professional residencies in the USA at the Museum of Glass Tacoma and Alfred University New York, the Alberta College of Craft and Design in Alberta Canada and the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław Poland.
External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
Engagement/recognition | Year |
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Advisory Board memberGuildhouse |
2019 |
Advisory Board memberGuildhouse |
2018 |
Accredited MemberGuildhouse |
2017 |
Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student LearningDepartment of Education and Training, Australian Government |
2017 |
MemberAustralian Association of Glass Artists (Ausglass) |
2017 |
Tom Malone PrizeArt Gallery of Western Australia |
2016 |
Visiting Lecture (Taught the first glassblowing course)Chinese Academy of Art, Hangzhou |
2015 |
JudgeHobart Art Prize |
2014 |
Chair, Peer assessment panelArts SA Independent Makers and Presenters |
2012 |
Chair, Peer assessment panelArts SA Independent Makers and Presenters |
2011 |
Distinguished Teaching AwardAustralian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS) |
2011 |
Advisory peer assessment panelAsiaLink |
2010 |
Advisory peer assessment panelAsiaLink |
2009 |
Gabriella Bisetto and Andrew Welch are curators of the exhibition In-House showing at the Jam Factory Design Centre in February aspart of the 2021 Adelaide Festival.
Gabriella has been recognised for her innovative and outstanding teaching by the Australian Council Of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS) Distinguished Teaching Awards in 2011, the UniSA Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Excellence in 2016 and then the Australian Award for University Teaching –Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Excellence in 2017.
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
Thesis title | Student status |
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Making and belonging: an investigation of the interrelations between body, place and material through practice-led research based in blown glass. | Current |
Agents of incongruity: glassmaking embraces nonsense to navigate monsters, wonders and dread | Completed |
In vitro: investigating time through the perception of the invisible | Completed |
The art of be/coming through glass (the exploration of studio glass art inspired by Chinese calligraphy and framed by Buddhist practice) | Completed |
The distance within: investigating an experience of embodiment through glass making | Completed |
The garden of un/belonging: an exploration of craft, place & migration through sensory ways of knowing | Completed |
The second artifact: an investigation of the craft object and its engagement with phenomena | Completed |