Visual Art – Canberra
Marina Hanser is a Canberra based emerging glass Artist. Originally from Austria, she moved to Australia in 2010 to complete a Bachelor of Visual Arts Degree with Honors at the Australian National University. She has studied glass in various institutions in Europe, including Glasfachschule Kramsach, Austria and Vetroricerca Glass School, Italy.
Through her studies in a variety of countries she has gained a diverse and extensive educational background in glass. She embraces not only a multitude of techniques through these countries cultural traditions, but combines, adjusts and incorporates them into her own creative practice.
Since graduating from the Australian National University in 2014, her activities have included Residencies at Bullseye Glass and the Canberra Glassworks, Teaching Assistant at Pilchuck Glass School, Corning Museum of Glass and Pittsburgh Glass Centre as well as teaching at Berlin Glas. She has received a number of Awards including, the Warm Glass Prize UK, the Boronia Award in Glass and her work was published in the New Glass Review 36.
Besides developing her own practice as an artist in her studio at the Canberra Glassworks she is a cold working, mold making and studio assistant to established artists.