Scott Chaseling
Artist Profile
Scott Chaseling is a cross-medium sculptor, who for two decades has centred his practice around notions of mobility, transition and liminality – that idea of non-place. Much of this interest comes from having lived in Berlin, France, Japan and America. While Chaseling’s earlier work recorded this personal narrative of trans-location through reverse paintings onto glass panels, which were later rolled into cylinder vessels, his recent work has taken on a lively exploration into forms referencing movement. With a strong understanding of the materials history Chaseling mixes ancient techniques and subverting them into a contemporary practice with touches of Memphis Design and American West Coast ceramics.
This idea of the transient studio has allowed for new technologies and vocabularies to enter Scott’s making, constantly rethinking material use and impact. This development in the work has been documented across a number of international magazines and exhibitions, including the Pergamon Museum (Berlin, Germany); Eisch Gallery, (Frauenau, Germany, 2012), Musee Atelier du Verre, (Sars-Poteries, France), and the major solo exhibition LACUNA at the European Museum of Modern Glass, (Coburg, Germany, 2010). Most recently Scott’s new series was part of the Loewe Craft Prize in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid (2025).
He has presented numerous solo exhibitions including, Betwixt: Sculptures in Becomingness at Goulburn Regional Gallery (2017), The Glass Furnace, (Istanbul, Türkiye, 2016), Southern Illinois University Gallery, (Carbondale, USA, 2016) and Leo Kaplan Modern, New York (2003-05-06-08) and Habatat Galleries, (Chicago, USA 2005) He presented large scale sculptures at the Canberra Glassworks (2020) that went onto be shown at Sculpture By the Sea, (2023). New painted, fused and blown vessels were show at his exhibition at Seven Marks Gallery, NSW (2024).
Scott was awarded the 2020 CAPO Rosalie Gascoigne Prize, the 2017 Hindmarsh Glass Prize (Australia), the 2004 Ranamok Glass Prize; the 2002 Bavarian State Prize Gold Medal, Germany. In 2007 he was the Leverhulme Research Fellow at University of Sunderland (UK), and was Director of Parkhaus Art Space, Berlin (2009-2010) and Artistic Director, Berlin Glas Germany (2011-2012). He’s taught 4 times at Pilchuck Glass School Seattle (USA), Vetroricerca, Bolzano (Italy), Visiting Professor over 12 months at the Tokyo Glass Institute (Japan), and the Corning Museum of Glass (USA), among others. Chaseling’s work is represented in many collections internationally, among them the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (Kanazawa, Japan), and Museum Kunst Palast, (Dusseldorf, Germany), Palm Springs Museum California (USA); Ernsting Stiftung (Germany), Australian National Glass Collection, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery as well as the National Gallery of Australia (Canberra), QAGOMA (Brisbane), and the Loewe Collection (Spain).
