Blanche Tilden
Pierce (detail) 2003
flameworked glass, sterling silver
Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Funaki, Melbourne
Photographer: Andrew Curtis 
© Blanche Tilden

Blanche Tilden
Drop (detail) 2003
flameworked glass, sterling silver
Courtesy of Susan Taylor and Peter Jones
Photographer: Andrew Curtis 
© Blanche Tilden

Blanche Tilden
Pierce (detail) 2003
flameworked glass, sterling silver
Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Funaki, Melbourne
Photographer: Andrew Curtis 
© Blanche Tilden

Blanche Tilden
Drop (detail) 2003
flameworked glass, sterling silver
Courtesy of Susan Taylor and Peter Jones
Photographer: Andrew Curtis 
© Blanche Tilden

Blanche Tilden
Pierce (detail) 2003
flameworked glass, sterling silver
Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Funaki, Melbourne
Photographer: Andrew Curtis 
© Blanche Tilden

Blanche Tilden
Drop (detail) 2003
flameworked glass, sterling silver
Courtesy of Susan Taylor and Peter Jones
Photographer: Andrew Curtis 
© Blanche Tilden

Blanche Tilden
Pierce (detail) 2003
flameworked glass, sterling silver
Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Funaki, Melbourne
Photographer: Andrew Curtis 
© Blanche Tilden

Blanche Tilden
Drop (detail) 2003
flameworked glass, sterling silver
Courtesy of Susan Taylor and Peter Jones
Photographer: Andrew Curtis 
© Blanche Tilden

Blanche Tilden
Pierce (detail) 2003
flameworked glass, sterling silver
Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Funaki, Melbourne
Photographer: Andrew Curtis 
© Blanche Tilden

Blanche Tilden
Drop (detail) 2003
flameworked glass, sterling silver
Courtesy of Susan Taylor and Peter Jones
Photographer: Andrew Curtis 
© Blanche Tilden

Blanche Tilden
Pierce (detail) 2003
flameworked glass, sterling silver
Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Funaki, Melbourne
Photographer: Andrew Curtis 
© Blanche Tilden

Blanche Tilden
Drop (detail) 2003
flameworked glass, sterling silver
Courtesy of Susan Taylor and Peter Jones
Photographer: Andrew Curtis 
© Blanche Tilden

Blanche Tilden
Pierce (detail) 2003
flameworked glass, sterling silver
Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Funaki, Melbourne
Photographer: Andrew Curtis 
© Blanche Tilden

Blanche Tilden
Drop (detail) 2003
flameworked glass, sterling silver
Courtesy of Susan Taylor and Peter Jones
Photographer: Andrew Curtis 
© Blanche Tilden

Blanche Tilden
Pierce (detail) 2003
flameworked glass, sterling silver
Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Funaki, Melbourne
Photographer: Andrew Curtis 
© Blanche Tilden

Blanche Tilden
Drop (detail) 2003
flameworked glass, sterling silver
Courtesy of Susan Taylor and Peter Jones
Photographer: Andrew Curtis 
© Blanche Tilden

Blanche Tilden
Pierce (detail) 2003
flameworked glass, sterling silver
Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Funaki, Melbourne
Photographer: Andrew Curtis 
© Blanche Tilden

Blanche Tilden
Drop (detail) 2003
flameworked glass, sterling silver
Courtesy of Susan Taylor and Peter Jones
Photographer: Andrew Curtis 
© Blanche Tilden

Blanche Tilden
Pierce (detail) 2003
flameworked glass, sterling silver
Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Funaki, Melbourne
Photographer: Andrew Curtis 
© Blanche Tilden

Blanche Tilden
Drop (detail) 2003
flameworked glass, sterling silver
Courtesy of Susan Taylor and Peter Jones
Photographer: Andrew Curtis 
© Blanche Tilden


Pierce


Blanche Tilden
born Australia, 1968

Pierce 2003
flameworked glass, sterling silver
Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Funaki, Melbourne

Drop 2003
flameworked glass, sterling silver
Courtesy of Susan Taylor and Peter Jones

Pierce plays on the sharpness of glass and the phrase ‘cutting edge’. In this work, and in Drop, Tilden says she ‘explored preconceptions of glass as a material for jewellery, and the fine line between danger and seduction'.