2025 FUSE Glass Artist Residency Recipient Announced

JamFactory and presenting partner Carrick Hill are thrilled to announce the recipient of the 2025 FUSE Glass Artist Residency.

Awarded biennially in alternate years to the prestigious FUSE Glass Prize, the FUSE Glass Artist Residency aims to create significant opportunities for mid-career artists working in glass in Australia and New Zealand.

JamFactory is delighted to announced Canberra based artist Nadège Desgenétez as the 2025 recipient.

The residency, valued at more than $20,000, will enable Desgenétez to work with skilled assistants, take risks and experiment with the development of new work using hot blown glass. The Residency, which includes accommodation, studio space, paid glassblowing assistants and living expenses, will run for 4 weeks at JamFactory in Adelaide in 2025.

A further outcome of the Residency will be a solo exhibition at Carrick Hill in 2026 – the iconic South Australian historic house museum and garden in Springfield.

Originally from France, Nadège Desgenétez has worked, taught and exhibited in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and residencies, including the “Prix d’Honneur de la Fondation de France” (Paris, France), the “Prix de la Vocation” from the Fondation Marcel Bleustein Blanchet (Paris, France), grants from the Australia Council for the Arts and Arts ACT (AU), and residencies from Northlands Creative Glass (Lybster, UK), Pittsburgh Glass Center (Pittsburgh, USA) and the Tacoma Museum of Glass (Tacoma, USA). She was also a lecturer at the School of Art and Design of the Australian National University from 2005.

Desgenétez's work is inspired by her experience of migration, and the ways in which feelings of connection to and dislocation from place can coexist. Desgenétez aims to develop two related bodies of work throughout the residency, drawing on her doctoral research and extending her current practice.