2019 marked the 40th anniversary of
Barbara Nanning's graduation in ceramics from the Gerrit Rietveld
Academie in Amsterdam. Over those forty years, Nanning (b.1957) has
become an internationally respected artist with work in countless public
and private collections in the Netherlands and around the world.


Originally,
her reputation was due mainly to her pioneering ceramics and
installations, which had completely abandoned the container form that
had so long dominated studio pottery. But for the last 25 years Nanning
has worked chiefly in a different medium: glass, in which she has
created an amazing and multi-faceted oeuvre. Each year she spends an
extended period in the Czech Republic, where expert glassblowers help
her to conjure up the most extraordinary and thrilling objects in that
material.