Amelia Burke is a contemporary hot glass artist.
Speciallising in Glass Cane and Murrine work to create her wall art and vessel forms.
Amelia Burke gained her degree in Three-Dimensional Design BA(Hons) specialising in hot glass from Manchester Metropolitan University. With the goal of widening her skill set, after finishing university, Amelia travelled to several glass studios volunteering her time. She also spent some time with Charlie Macpherson at Notarianni Glass. Amelia then moved on to working at The World of Glass in St Helens where she would demonstrate glassblowing, teach courses, and create and complete commissions that came to the studio.
One of Amelia’s favourite projects was working with Lime Arts and creating an installation as part of the Hydrotherapy Department at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital.
“Public art is one of my favourite ways to share my work. The briefs are usually specific, with guidelines but generally also have a feeling or sentiments running through them.”
Amelia now works as part of E&M Glass, a family run studio, making her own creations with her husband Charlie Burke as well as the studio glassware.
Her work is about taking tiny close-up details of the natural world, such as butterfly wings and fern fronds, redrawing them, scaling them up greatly, and reinterpreting them in the hot glass to create beautiful glassware. Amelia’s focuses on studying every aspect of a subject such as bamboo, water or butterflies. She analyses everything, from the flow of its form down to the cellular details, reinterpreting the elements she finds using hot glass as her medium to create intricate glass art. Patience and Amelia’s contemporary glass go hand in hand. The detail she aims to create in her work is time consuming but necessary to the process.