"Tosser" Glass Sculpture by Sue Hawker
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Sue Hawker, Tosser (2010), pate de verre glass, 34 cm height, 24 cm dia. Provenance: Purchased Milford Galleries, Queenstown. Private Collection, Wellington, 'Tosser' is an apple that has many connotations but here?s what Sue has to say: 'it is probably a girl thing as a couple of my female mates got the title pretty quickly. Sometimes when you are given a bouquet of flowers that is not quite enough, a sorry must accompany them, otherwise they might be thrown to the ground. Or maybe it was just a tosser who gave them to you and they are still hurled to the ground. Yeah, I know I have an unfathomable mind!?
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- Pate De Verre - A technique practiced in ancient Egypt from 1500 - 1000 BC, that was revived in France in the 1880s, pate de verre, which translates as "paste of glass", is a process in which glass is ground to a fine powder, mixed with adhesives, colouring agents and water to create a paste which is then mixed , placed into a mould and then reheated until molten.
The most prolific, and therefore best known practitioners include Gabriel Argy-Rouseau, Francois-Emile Decorchement and Almeric Walter.
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