Jessica Loughlin

Jessica Loughlin completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts [Honours Glass Major] at the Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, ACT in 1997. Since then she has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions in Australia, Germany, Italy, Denmark and the United States. She has been the recipient of several arts awards including First Prize in the Tom Malone Prize, Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2004; the Urban Glass Award for ‘Outstanding New Artist in Glass’ in New York, 2001 and First Prize in the Ranamok Glass Award, Sydney, 1997.

Jessica Loughlin’s work is part of major public, corporate and private collections including, Resource Finance Corporation, Sydney ; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Glass Museum, Marina Grande, Portugal; Corning Museum of Glass, New York; National Glass Collection, Wagga Wagga, NSW; Mobile Museum of Art AL, USA; Corning Museum of Glass, New York; Art Gallery of Western Australia and the Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark.

‘Between two spaces, between what is seen and what is felt. Staring out my plane window, I watched marks on the earth created by dirt roads wandering through flat scrubby bush. The lines stretched a long way before they met. I felt their distance; I felt my distance away from the land. The land so vast yet now so small it only took up a space of one aeroplane window. I was removed from the land, as my mind now felt removed from itself. Then the view disappeared. Still focused on the roads below, I saw only white outside and the dark spots on the inside of my eyes’. Jessica Loughlin 2005