Gayle Matthias
Research
Having employed a wide variety of kiln-formed glass techniques for over twenty years, currently, Gayle Matthias is the Course Leader, BA (Hons) Craft and Material Practices at Arts University Plymouth. Her practice led research explores personal narratives of corporeal and geographical abjection, employing waste materials in mixed media assemblages.
Formerly, Gayle was a member of Autonomatic research group at Falmouth University, engaged in collaborative research with Tavs Jorgensen. Having established a new method for creating glass moulds directly from 3D CAD files without requiring a physical pattern, a process known as Rapid Tooling. They worked with the Royal Free Hospital to develop moulds to grow human cells for replacement body parts.
Selected Conference Papers
Sept 2023 Clean-Up Workers (Deluxe Series): The Embodiment of Waste Values and
Aesthetics. [Arts] 2023, 12(5), 204; https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12050204
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May 2021 Embodied Narratives: A dialogue between Dr Erin Dickson and Gayle
Matthias, Glass Art Society Virtual Conference 2021
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Jan 2019 S-O-T Body Repairs: Narrative Pursuits, [Arts] Manuscript ID: arts-414897;
doi: 10.3390/arts8010016
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March 2015 Material Matters mini conference, skype presentation. Emily Carr
University, Vancouver, Canada
Sept 2014 Glass in Science and Conservation (Glassac 14) International Conference in
Durham, ‘Research into 3D Printed Glass Investment Casting Moulds’
July 2014 Making Futures Volume III, Interfaces Between Craft Knowledge and Design: New Opportunities for Social Innovation & Sustainability, ISSN 2042-1664
Available at : http://makingfutures.plymouthart.ac.uk/journalvol3/index.html
July 2014 Design Journal vol 17, issue 3 PP455-472, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2014, New Approaches in Glass Investment Casting - Creative Practitioners Researching and Innovating in the Field of Digital Fabrication’, Matthias GE and Jorgensen T
March 2014 Glass Mould Innovation Through Collaborative Research, Glass Art Society Conference, Chicago, Matthias GE and Jorgensen T. Available in glass Art
Society Journal 2015
Sept 2013 ‘Making Futures’ conference at Plymouth College of Art and Design
‘Reflections on a collaborative research project in digital moulding for glass
casting and artistic interpretations’ Matthias GE and Jorgensen T
April 2013 'Crafting the Future’, the 10th European Academy of Design(EAD), Gothenburg. ‘New Approaches in Glass Investment Casting - Creative Practitioners
Researching and Innovating in the Field of Digital Fabrication’, Matthias GE
and Jorgensen T
Jan 2012 ‘Towards a New Ceramic Future’, research presentation, ‘Combining Ready-mades with Digital Printing’, V & A, Matthias GE and Jorgensen T http://www.uwe.ac.uk/sca/research/cfpr/research/3D/research_projects/towards_a_new_ceramic_future.html