Galia Amsel

Galia Amsel was born in London in 1967. She completed a Bachelor of Arts with Honours [Ceramics and Glass Major] at Middlesex Polytechnic, London and a Master of Arts [Glass Major] at the Royal College of Art, London. Her work has been represented in solo and group exhibitions in London, Paris, Venice, Spain, Hong Kong, USA, New Zealand and Australia.

Galia Amsel’s work is part of major public, corporate and private collections nationally and internationally including, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, USA; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, USA; Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, USA; Crafts Council Collection, London; Ebeltoft Museum, Denmark; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Glassammlung Ersting, Coefeld-Lette, Germany; Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama, USA; Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Canada; Musee du Verre, Sars Poteries, France; Museo de Arte en Vidrio de Alcorcon, Madrid, Spain; National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh; Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, UK; Te Papa, Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand; Turner Museum, Sheffield, UK; Ulster Museum, Belfast, Ireland and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

Galia Amsel has an appetite for colour and form. She is constantly developing new combinations that invite more light and shade into her work. She uses colour gradation in her quest for movement, pattern and rhythm. Amsel uses geometric shapes in the form of rectangles, squares and circles, which are ‘broken open or interrupted in some way’ to evoke tension and feeling. These empty spaces are considered ‘as important as those occupied by the glass mass’. They become formal ceremonial sculptures that reveal internal spaces trapped motionless in time.

Quotes taken from Dan Klein ‘Frozen Moments in Time: The Work of Galia Amsel’, 2004