Katrina Vivian 

Current Projects

The Custard Factory

For an exhibition by "The No Such Thing Collective", Katrina has displayed her glass installation "Little Boy". Follow this link for a review of this work.

Children of the Ashes

Currently on display in Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery,  in the Birmingham Open Art show in the Gas Hall.

Trinity

“…If the radiance of a thousand suns
Were to burst at once into the sky,
That would be like the splendour of the Mighty One...
I am become Death,
The Shatterer of Worlds.”

The Bhagavad-Gita

These are the words quoted by J. Robert Oppenheimer, US Administrator & Astrophysicist (1904 – 1967), at Alamogordo, New Mexico on 16th July 1945: The site of the very first nuclear explosion.

As an extension to research work, looking at Nuclear Testing and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Second World War, Katrina is in the process of creating work which gives an impression of heat and the fusion of glass: encompassing the banal, everyday life of the common man.

Using transparent materials such as glass and acrylic offers an omnipresent atmosphere to the work suggesting worlds of lived, half remembered experiences.

This work will coincide with a 2008 group exhibition in Canada, of English based artists, exploring the fundamental values of glass and clay.