1964 -Born Ballarat
1986 -BA Honours, Ceramic Design, Majoring in Hot Glass Chisholm Institute, Victoria
1988-1991 -Whitehall Industries: Artist studio collective, VIC (Co-founder)
1991-1997 -It! Inc: Art and design retail outlets, Melbourne (Co-founder)
1993-present -Mark Douglass Design: Bespoke glass, lighting and furniture design (Principal)
2012 - 2012 Winston Churchill Fellowship Winner
Mark Douglass has been entranced with the art of glassblowing for over 20 years. Through an intricate process of heating, blowing, shaping and cooling, Douglass creates thick, robust vases and bowls that are reminiscent of modern cubist-style design and the more traditional fluted styles. Some of his pieces are timelessly elegant, others border on the surreal and the bizarre. However Douglass goes beyond the simply decorative, and makes an ambitious artistic statement through using themes and imagery from botanic, figurative and architectural motifs.
While the glassblowing techniques Douglass uses date back thousands of years, the heat-resistant paints that give his work their distinct colours - reds, purples, greens, yellows - were developed in the US relatively recently. These paints have given Douglass the scope to experiment more with patterns, particularly cubism's abstract shapes and rough line work, which lend themselves to the stretching and twisting of glass.
Douglass has worked on large-scale commissions over the years, and his signature style is on display in some of Australia’s leading corporate collections including BHP, Cadbury Schweppes, BP and Scanlan and Theodore. Douglass has also exhibited successfully both in Australia and internationally, and his work can be found in the collections of many private collectors.
Stonnington Council
Besen Collection
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
BHP Trading Services
BP Petroleum
St Kilda Council
Caulfield Council
Haynes Collection, London
Michael Buxton Collection
Private Collections
Interior Design No 8, 1987; No 11, 1988
Belle, Oct/Nov. 1988; December 1988
Vogue Living, February 1988
Interior Design No 13, 1988; No 16, 1989
Good Weekend in The Age, October 1989
Sunday Herald Magazine, December 1989
Age Tempo, December 1989
Interior Design No 19, July 1990
Saturday Extra in The Age, November 1993
Lifestyle, November 1993
Belle, November 1994
Mono magazine, Milan, Italy, 1994
Graphics, Tokyo, Japan, 1996
Noris Ioannou, Masters of their Craft, Craftsman House, 1995
Belle Magazine, "Artists in Residence", April/May 2003, p.112119.
Mercedes Magazine, 2004, p.7981.
Age A2, Saturday 27 November 2004, p. 2
Inside Magazine, November 2004, Ruby Morph featured on front cover.
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