Cambridge 7th to 9th September
Presenting Author:
Oksana Kondratyeva
<okondrat1177@gmail.com>
article posted 9 Mar 2015
Oksana Kondratyeva
Oksana Kondratyeva is a London-based artist working predominately in fine art
and architectural glass. She studied Glass and Architecture at Central Saint
Martins College, University of Arts London. Her artworks have been exhibiting
internationally at various venues including Mall Galleries, Sacred Space Gallery
(London) and Red House Glass Cone Museum (Stourbridge). Her papers on
architecture, art and science have been published in scholarly and popular journals
and have been publicly presented at the international conferences.
In Search of Light: Glass! Science! Art!
Oksana Kondratyeva
Glass Artist
The light that constitutes the universe
is the source of all perceptible beauty
Robert Grosseteste
Light and glass are linked in the same way as form and content. In some sense, they are
similar dual category - the glass can only reveal its nature in the presence of light.
Both light and glass belong to science and art in equal measure. Glass is the medium
through which humankind discovered the most fundamental physical laws: dispersion
of light by Isaac Newton in 1672, discovery of electron by Joseph John Thompson in
1897, optical experiment conducted by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley in 1887
which lies in the foundation of the special relativity theory and many others.
The artist working with glass can be viewed as a scientist conducting an experiment with
the most delicate form of matter - light.
In the creative journey in glass the artist aspires to define the essence of architecture of
light and to explore the secrets of its inner space. In this lecture the author will discuss
her works and explain how traditional stained glass techniques together with contemporary
possibilities can be applied for translating of ideas and making of architectural glass.
The lecture features artist's latest glass works, as well as covers the aesthetic and
technological aspects of the recent architectural glass project at St James School,
Kensington Olympia, London.