Judi Elliott

Judi Elliott attended the International Pottery School, Taggs Yard, London, the Pilchuck International Glass School, Seattle and the Canberra School of Art, ACT where she completed diplomas and post graduate diplomas in Professional Art Studies and Glass. Over the past three decades she has held twenty seven solo exhibitions in Germany, Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle and Canberra. Her work has also been part of over one hundred group exhibitions in Australia, Italy, The Hague, Toronto, New Zealand, England, Budapest, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Spain, Osaka, Kanazawa, Tokyo, Hiroshima, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Cincinatti, Detroit, Miami, Portland, Pittsburg, New Mexico and Spain. She has received numerous commissions for her glass work including, a glass foyer installation for the Skye Plaza Building, Woden; fourteen large glass wall tablets for Kiddy & Partners, London; a 22 ft high foyer wall installation for Mercantile Mutual; eight glass wall tablets for the Commonwealth Bank, Brisbane and a foyer installation for the N.S.W. State Superannuation Board.

Judi Elliott’s work is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Corning Glass Museum, New York; Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf; New Parliament House, ACT; Australian National University, ACT; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, NSW; University of Canberra ACT; Art Bank; Queensland State Art Gallery, Brisbane and in private national and international glass collections.

Judi Elliott originally worked with ceramics for many years but was enticed by the seductive qualities of glass. The hard and the soft elements to glass making, the many choices of colour, and the translucency that glass offers continues to intrigue her. Elliott finds that the thick, translucent properties of glass enable her to work with strong opaque colours in combination, nestling them together within her kilnformed wall panels and freestanding glass works. Her recent works explore her strong emotive connection with architecture, houses and the built environment. They emphasize contrasting colours, vibrancy and all aspects of translucency.