FUSE Glass Prize Winners Announced 2020

Cobi Cockburn
2020 FUSE Glass Prize Winner

Cobi has worked intensely with glass over the past 20 years. She is a graduate of Sydney College of the Arts and completed honours in the Glass Workshop at the Australian National University. She has previously been a winner of the Tom Malone Glass Prize and the Ranamok Glass Prize, along with significant prizes in Germany and the United States. Her work is held in many private and public collections around the world. Judge Jessica Loughlin remarked “Cobi Cockburn’s entry is so quiet, beautiful and contemplative. It resonates with you the longer you view it. The level of detail in the fused glass cane work and her attention to detail in the proportions and finishing is exquisite and demonstrates her excellence in the craft of glass.”

Murmuration (Light), 2019
glass, 1150 x 1150 x 40
Photo: Greg Piper

Madisyn Zabel
2020 David Henshall Emerging Artist Prize Winner

Madisyn has a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Glass) (Hons) (2015) from the Australian National University School of Art & Design, Canberra. She has participated in residencies at Berlin Glas e.V., Canberra Glassworks and the Glass Studio at the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, USA. Madisyn was awarded Warm Glass UK’s Glass Prize (Bullseye Artists) in 2016 and the Jutta Cuny-Franz Foundation’s Talent Award from the Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf in 2017. Her work has been shown internationally – including the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou; Berlin Glas e.V and the Corning Museum of Glass, New York. Judge Brian Parkes said of Madisyn’s work, “There is a wonderful confidence in submitting this collection of small jewel-like pieces. The level of refinement is superb, removing all distraction from the playful interaction of light, shadow, colour and geometry that draws you in to its intimate space.”

Illuminate III, 2020
coldworked glass
70 x 500 x 400
Photo: the artist