Andrea Spencer
Andrea Spencer is a glass artist currently living and working in Randalstown. She creates public art alongside small-scale mixed media sculpture and site-specific installations for private collectors, galleries and exhibition.
Andrea maintains a custom glass fabrication studio that undertakes large and small-scale commissions from concept to completion. Specialising in innovative applications of glass for the built environment, her work endeavours to broaden customary expectations of the role of glass in architecture.
"I find much of my inspiration in nature. My work for galleries and site-specific installation is concept driven, investigating natural forms that are transformed into symbolic objects through the intrinsic qualities of transparency, fragility and fluidity inherent within glass".
Andrea’s work is held in significant public and private collections as well as in galleries in the UK and the USA. Notably, her work has been exhibited at the last two British Glass Biennale exhibitions (2008, 2010). Her public art can be seen in many healthcare buildings throughout Northern Ireland.
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Professional Experience
2012 Elements: Irish contemporary Glass and ceramics, Shanghai
2011 Contemporary Glass, Belfry arts centre, Norfolk, England
2011 3×3, Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart, Northern Ireland
2011 Engaging with glass, The Solstice arts centre Navan
2010 British Glass Biennale, Stourbridge
2010 Belfry Contemporary Glass Exhibition, Norfolk
2011/12 ‘Three x 3’ touring exhibition, Signal Arts Centre, Flowerfield Arts Centre, Engine Room Gallery
2009 Designers Makers, FE Mc William Gallery, Banbridge
2009 128th RUA Annual Exhibition, Belfast
2009 Glass Echoes, London
2012 Irises, suspended sculpture, Glass and metal, New Acute Hospital, Enniskillen
2012 Meadows, architectural glass, New Acute Hospital, Enniskillen
2011 Macmillan Palliative Care Unit, Belfast
2010 Private collection, England
2010 Private collection, England
2010 ‘Heritage Reflections’, sculptural glass installation, Portadown Treatment and Care Centre, Portadown
2009 ‘Dance me to the light’, architectural glass, Forster Green, Belfast
2009 ‘On the Wing’, suspended glass and forged steel sculpture, Northern Ireland Cancer Centre, Belfast
2009 ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’, glass screens, New Downe Hospital, Downpatrick
2008 ‘Magnolias’, architectural glass, Bluestone, Craigavon and Banbridge Trust
2008 ‘Harmonies’, architectural glass, Bluestone, Craigavon and Banbridge Trust
2007 Seasons Change, Architectural glass, Lincoln Avenue Health Centre, Belfast
2008 Support for the Individual Artist, Arts Council of Northern Ireland
2004 North Lands Creative Glass, Lybster, Scotland
2004 Support for the Individual Artist, Arts Council of Northern Ireland
2003 Support for the Individual Artist, Arts Council of Northern Ireland
2011 Engaging with Glass: exhibition catalogue p.76
2011 New Glass Review 32, p 47
2010 British Biennale: review, The G A S News
2008 Select design/interiors/style décor
2008 Perspective vol.17/no.6
2008 Studio Glass in the UK: Photo Series, GLASHAUS
2008 The Visual Artists News Sheet, September 2008, Art in the Public Realm
2007 Culture Northern Ireland, online article, A Healthy Appreciation for Art
2005 ‘Time to Touch the Green’, Gloine: Journal of the Glass Society of Ireland
2004 Arts and Culture in Northern Ireland, Baseline survey
Contact Details
42 The Oaks,
Randalstown
Co. Antrim
BT41 3NE
