Julio Santos was born in Marinha Grande Portugal in 1933, a village with a long history of the ancient craft of glass blowing. At the age of twelve he became an apprentice in the National Fabrica de Vidros in Marinha Grande.
By 1956 he was a fully qualified glass blower and began work at the Vicris Glass Works and in 1962, he became Master Glass Blower at the Dorsteenhutte Glass Works of Wolfach in the Black Forest of Germany, where he worked for five years.
Julio Santos arrived in Australia, January 1968, with his wife and son. When he first came arrived he worked with BHP in Port Kembla as a railway labourer for six months then moved to Newcastle and worked at Phillips Lighting Industries where he became a Master Glass Blower. From 1976-78 he taught part time at College of Advanced Education in Newcastle and in 1979, more...
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