Life Strategies. A New Year’s toast to Silvia Levenson and the other Bombay Sapphire finalists.
Among award competitions in glass it’s hard to find a short-list more consistently thought-provoking (and, at £20,000 for the first prize-winner, more lucrative) than that of the annual Bombay Sapphire Prize.
I’ve been a fanatical follower of the prize since falling in love with its first (2002) winner, Glass Bridge, by the brilliant (and now jurying) Thomas Heatherwick.
Thanks to a stellar pool of fabulously factious (or so I hear) jurors, the Bombay Sapphire shortlist is always guaranteed to amaze, irk and inspire (sometimes simultaneously).
This year I had to add delight to my list of descriptors when I found these Bullseye Gallery stars twinkling in the brilliant constellation of finalists:
(OK, OK, I realize that I’m weeks late in posting this news. But I’m still months in advance of the April awards ceremony)
Now where’s my martini?
January 7th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Lani,
Just so you know someone is actually reading your blog.
…My favorite is Encyclopaedia by Jeffrey Sarmiento and Quingelwingelqui from the series Living, Living. Dying by Wilken Skurk. To be quite frank, I just don’t get some of the pieces. Are they all glass? Dairy House by Charlotte Skene Catling looked to be a real house.
Toni
January 7th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Hey Toni,
I’m glad you’re still reading. Sorry that you can’t tell what’s real and what isn’t. Have a martini. It’ll come to you. Honest.
- L
January 7th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Hey Lani,
Yes, I’m still reading. You know, it helps looking at the pics again when I’m at home on a much bigger monitor on which I can actually see things. (Tiny, old, monitor at work.) Plus it helps to read that it is open to architectural use of glass. Just proves you should read first, THEN ask questions.
Toni
January 8th, 2008 at 5:49 am
please please a martini!!!!!
maybe in canberra in few days? Yes, of course! baci