ARTIST PROFILE: ITZELL TAZZYMAN

Revealing Our Nature, Itzell Tazzyman

Born in Santiago Chile, Itzell Tazzyman lives and works in Canberra Australia. She works as an artist, teacher and curator at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Itzell is an alumna of the Australian National University Glass Workshop, graduating with 1st class honours in 1993, studying with the guidance of Klaus Moje (GR), Stephen Procter (UK) and Petr Herel (CZ). Itzell is a faculty member of the ANU glass workshop, where she teaches the complementary studies programs, she has also taught in the UK at Northlands Glass and in the USA at the Pilchuck Glass School. She was the recipient of a 1996 Creative Glass Centre of American Fellowship and winner of the 2007 City of Hobart Art Prize for sculpture. In 2008 Itzell has been awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship to research glass carving and engraving techniques, in the USA, UK, Germany and the Czech Republic. Her artworks works are represented public and private collections in Australia, Taiwan, Japan, and USA. Itzell is the co-editor of Lines Through Light, a book on the work of Stephen Procter.

Itzell Tazzyman will speak with Irish artist Mary Mackey on 19th November in NCAD as part of the Glass Society of Ireland lecture. Itzell's lecture, Expanding Contemporary Australian Studio Glass is open to all, and is free of charge. Itzell will also lead a group discussion on glass cutting and engraving techniques, so please bring along any examples of cut or engraved glass for discussion. It will start at 6.30pm in the Noel Sheridan Room, above the Glass department in NCAD.