By inge on May 20, 2013
The Map-i: Mercator Revisited exhibition still runs at the Mercator Museum in Sint-Niklaas till 15th December 2013. One of the larger pieces I made specifically for this exhibition is the ‘Compendium’ piece shown here. This 18 piece glass wall map, took its layout from Gerard Mercator’s World Map of 1569. This map was nominated as [...]
Posted in Map-i, Map-i; Mercator Revisited | Tagged Compendium, Inge Panneels, Jerry Brotton, Mercator 500th anniversary of his birth, Mercator Museum |
By inge on May 9, 2013
As part of my academic work at the University of Sunderland, I undertake research. through which I have had to find a way of articulating what it is that I do on a daily basis when working on architectural glass projects. As the majority of my work is site-specific, the first thing I turn [...]
Posted in Map-i, Map-i; Mercator Revisited, mapping | Tagged glass, Inge Panneels, mapping, University of Sunderland Glass and Ceramics Department |
By inge on May 7, 2013
It has been a little while since I have updated the blog posts here. Not that it has been quiet despite my best intentions… At the end of March I went to Belgium for the well attended re-opening of the Mercator Museum on the 24th March and delivered a talk on Tuesday 26th of March to a [...]
Posted in glass exhibition, Map-i; Mercator Revisited | Tagged glass, Inge Panneels, map, Map-i: Mercator Revisited, Mercator 500th anniversary of his birth, Mercator Museum, University of Sunderland Glass and Ceramics Department |
By inge on March 13, 2013
This week the eleven glass pieces for the Map-i: Mercator Revisited exhibition will be collected so I have been busy signing all the work and packing it up, ready for transport to Belgium. The exhibition will run at the Mercator Museum in Sint-Niklaas in Belgium from Sunday 24th March until 15th of December 2013 so [...]
Posted in artist-in-residency, Map-i; Mercator Revisited, mapping, Mercator, National Glass Centre at the University of Sunderland Glass and Ceramics |
By inge on February 22, 2013
When I visited the Lamberts glass factory in Germany a few years back, I was really taken by the wordless choreography between the eight men which made up a team of glass blowers clustered around a furnace, producing huge glass cylinders called ‘muffs’. The dance these men perform is beautiful to watch; each perform a [...]
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By inge on February 19, 2013
The Lead Light class this weekend (23-24th February 2013) will be taken by Rachel O’Dell at the idagos glass studio. There are still spaces available if you want to join us? Over two days, you will learn to make your own stained glass panel using coloured glass sheet and lead came, working from a paper [...]
Posted in glass classes | Tagged glass classes, idagos glass studio, Inge Panneels, Rachel O'Dell, Scottish Borders |
By inge on February 14, 2013
An appropriate piece for St-Valentine’s; based on the heart shaped map projection by Horonce Fine, this new piece “Tu Es Hic” (You Are Here) has a excerpt from the apocalyptic “The Road” engraved on the surface, perhaps an antidote to the saccharine pink or reds of today? Nevertheless, here is to our wonderful beautiful world [...]
Posted in Map-i; Mercator Revisited | Tagged Inge Panneels, Valentine heart shaped map |
By inge on February 11, 2013
Thanks to a concerted effort by many people who have helped me during the last few months, a new body of work has started to emerge in the last few weeks. There is still quite a lot of work to finish but it is great to see some conclusion taking shape. This weekend, a photoshoot of [...]
Posted in Map-i; Mercator Revisited, Mercator | Tagged glass exhibition, Inge Panneels, mapping, Mercator 500th anniversary of his birth, Mercator Museum |
By inge on January 15, 2013
It has been snowing outside, just little wisps of snowflakes delicately fluttering to the ground, and inside the studio is nice and warm as the kiln has been on again. Inside the kiln are some more component pieces cooling down for the two ‘pole’ plates I am making, the two final pieces in the series [...]
Posted in Map-i | Tagged Inge Panneels, Mercator Museum, University of Sunderland Glass and Ceramics Department |
By inge on January 14, 2013
On Wednesday I picked up the 14 components which make up the scaled down rapid prototyped model made at A-Map in Sunderland. There are two pole caps and twelve ‘gores’ or segments which make up the proposed glass globe. Over the last few days I have been trying to get the details right as to [...]
Posted in Map-i | Tagged A-Map, Inge Panneels, Mercator Museum, Shanghai 2013, University of Sunderland Glass and Ceramics Department |
