Grania began making glass objects in 2015 with Kate Baker as her teacher and mentor and has continued to learn the many ways glass can be fired in a kiln; fusing and slumping, screenprinting, sandblasting, casting and the ever fragile, pate de verre.
Attending masterclasses with Kirstie Rae at Kate Bakers Studio, Silvia Levenson at Canberra Glassworks, Kirstie Rae and Mel Douglas at Monash University Melbourne and most recently, a two week residency with Emma Varga at the Glass Furnace in Istanbul, have been instrumental in giving her the time and space to develop ideas and refine techniques.
It was from attending the Glass Art Society conference in Murano in 2018 where she began meeting the wider glass community. She coordinated a group of fellow students to the CoLab conference in Wanganui 2019 and recently enjoyed attending the 2023 Ausglass conference in Melbourne.
Grania was a finalist in the 2020 National Emerging Art Glass Prize in Wagga for her screen-printed block called 'Wonderment'. She is also a finalist in the 2023 Hunters Hill Art Exhibition for her 6cm glass cube called 'making memory', a piece made while in Turkey.
She is looking forward to progressing her glass journey and continue with themes of memory and nature.
Email: grania.hickley@gmail.com
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/grania.hickley
Phone: 0403 006 207