Nick Mount b. 1952

  • Artist (Glass & metal Artist / Designer)
Nick Mount is a prolific and pre-eminent glass artist based in Adelaide. Since the early 1980s he has educated and exhibited widely in Australia and overseas. In addition to his extensive list of commissions, he is represented in many public collections including the National Gallery of Australia and the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Tags: Glass, Glassblowing
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From the late 1970s, in workshops in Victoria and South Australia, Nick and Pauline Mount operated as manufacturers of hand blown production glass, working with both employees and trainees.

One of Australia’s most experienced glassblowers, in the 1990s and 2000s Nick Mount has concentrated on making exhibition pieces such as his series of ‘Scent bottles’. He believes the future is in making best use of existing facilities like the glass workshop at JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design, which he used to manage. He hires skilled blowers and leases time in the workshop, later assembling his pieces in his home studio in Adelaide.

Mount also maintains an interest in production. For example in the mid-1990s he was commissioned to create a wine decanter for the Universal Wine Bar in Adelaide.

Mount’s work was included in the 2007 exhibition 'Smart works: design and the handmade’ at the Powerhouse Museum.

Writers:
Grace Cochrane, Powerhouse Museum
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012

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Related collections
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA (collected in)
  • Queensland Art Gallery (collected in)
  • Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW (collected in)
  • Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Ararat, Vic. (collected in)
  • Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (Powerhouse Museum), Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Sale Regional Art Gallery, Sale, Vic. (collected in)
  • La Trobe Regional Art Gallery, VIC (collected in)
  • Artbank (collected in)
  • The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA (collected in)
  • Queensland Art Gallery (collected in)
  • Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW (collected in)
  • Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Ararat, Vic. (collected in)
  • Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (Powerhouse Museum), Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Sale Regional Art Gallery, Sale, Vic. (collected in)
  • La Trobe Regional Art Gallery, VIC (collected in)
  • Artbank (collected in)
  • The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW (collected in)