Crafts CouncilDirectoryVanessa CutlerChitter ChatterAboutIn 2016 made a Creative Wales recipient. Grant funding to work with two American water jet companies This work explored micro water-jet cutting. Working in collaboration with various stakeholders I looked to capture handwriting in its written form but cut via machine. Hundreds of glass medals capturing snippets of conversations that chatter amongst themselves. Initially exhibited in 2017 at Crafts in the Bay and further iterations at Collect 201, more recently in Silica Valley, Pittsburgh 2020Vanessa CutlerPortsmouth, EnglandDetail: Chitter Chatter, Photographer: Vanessa Cutlermicro water jet cut glass medals, kiln formed and held by lamp worked glass pinsChitter cHATTER iteration 2- National Glass Centre Sunderland, Photographer: Vanessa Cutler Chitter Chatter set up in two cabinets.Each cabinet approximately 2metres land and a display of conversation medals held by pins on a laser engraved backboard. Chitter Chatter-detail , Photographer: Simon BruntnellA cluster of glass medals Chitter Chatter -detail a, Photographer: Simon BruntnellA cluster of medals.Each medal micro water-jet cut. Size of medals 50 x 60 x 3mmChitter chatter detail-iteration 2, Photographer: Vanessa CutlerDetail of Chitter Chatter when exhibited at National Glass centre. Research exhibition 2020Chitter Chatter -iteration 2 National Glass Centre. Sunderland, Photographer: Vanessa CutlerOne of two display cases that hold clusters of glass medals. All are held by pins allowing them to chatter amongst themselves. Chitter chatter-iteration 3. Pittsburgh Glass Centre, Photographer: Vanessa Cutlerthird iteration of ChItter Chatter. Each glass medal is help by a black glass lamp worked pin. Squeezed into a smaller frame with a white background allowing the shadows to make capturing the conversation even more difficult. It makes the viewer draw their eyes closer to what is in front of them. Size 1000x 1000 x 70mmChitter Chatter-iteration 1 , Photographer: Simon BruntnellInitial presentation of Chitter Chatter shown at crafts in the Bay, White House cone and Collect 2017. Medals all pinned out so they cross over one another forming a lace like pattern. All intended to draw the viewer in to see the detail and the precariousness of people handwritten scrawl. Size; 1200 X 1200 X 50mm Chitter ChatterAboutIn 2016 made a Creative Wales recipient. Grant funding to work with two American water jet companies This work explored micro water-jet cutting. Working in collaboration with various stakeholders I looked to capture handwriting in its written form but cut via machine. Hundreds of glass medals capturing snippets of conversations that chatter amongst themselves. Initially exhibited in 2017 at Crafts in the Bay and further iterations at Collect 201, more recently in Silica Valley, Pittsburgh 2020Vanessa CutlerPortsmouth, EnglandDetail: Chitter Chatter, Photographer: Vanessa Cutlermicro water jet cut glass medals, kiln formed and held by lamp worked glass pinsChitter chatter detail-iteration 2, Photographer: Vanessa CutlerDetail of Chitter Chatter when exhibited at National Glass centre. Research exhibition 2020Chitter cHATTER iteration 2- National Glass Centre Sunderland, Photographer: Vanessa Cutler Chitter Chatter set up in two cabinets.Each cabinet approximately 2metres land and a display of conversation medals held by pins on a laser engraved backboard. Chitter Chatter -iteration 2 National Glass Centre. Sunderland, Photographer: Vanessa CutlerOne of two display cases that hold clusters of glass medals. All are held by pins allowing them to chatter amongst themselves. Chitter Chatter-detail , Photographer: Simon BruntnellA cluster of glass medals Chitter chatter-iteration 3. Pittsburgh Glass Centre, Photographer: Vanessa Cutlerthird iteration of ChItter Chatter. Each glass medal is help by a black glass lamp worked pin. Squeezed into a smaller frame with a white background allowing the shadows to make capturing the conversation even more difficult. It makes the viewer draw their eyes closer to what is in front of them. Size 1000x 1000 x 70mmChitter Chatter -detail a, Photographer: Simon BruntnellA cluster of medals.Each medal micro water-jet cut. Size of medals 50 x 60 x 3mmChitter Chatter-iteration 1 , Photographer: Simon BruntnellInitial presentation of Chitter Chatter shown at crafts in the Bay, White House cone and Collect 2017. Medals all pinned out so they cross over one another forming a lace like pattern. All intended to draw the viewer in to see the detail and the precariousness of people handwritten scrawl. Size; 1200 X 1200 X 50mm More from Vanessa CutlerProjectSilica Valley 2020ProjectBritish Glass Biennale 2019ProjectToyama Glass prize 2021ProjectThe Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass 2022ProjectJourneys and Horizons ProjectHorizonsProjectMechanics series ProjectBritish Glass Biennale 2022ProjectTg "Transitions in Kiln-formed Glass"-Bullseye projectsProjectCollaborations -Wolverhampton Art Gallery