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.
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From the late 1970s, in workshops in Victoria and South Australia, Nick Mount and his wife 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 2000s 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, reflected in his creation of a wine decanter commissioned for the Universal Wine Bar in Adelaide in the mid-1990s.

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

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References [<ExternalResource: Powerhouse Museum, ''Scent bottle' designed and made by Nick Mount, Australia, 2002', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Powerhouse Museum, ''Scent bottle' by Nick Mount,', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Powerhouse Museum, ''Scent bottle' by Nick Mount', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Cochrane, Grace (c.2007) 'Nick Mount', D*Hub, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.>] [<ExternalResource: Powerhouse Museum, ''Scent bottle' designed and made by Nick Mount, Australia, 2002', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Powerhouse Museum, ''Scent bottle' by Nick Mount,', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Powerhouse Museum, ''Scent bottle' by Nick Mount', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.>]