Meet Jazz
Biography
Jasmine Woods is a third year BA Glass and Ceramics student at the University for the Creative arts in Farnham. She began glassblowing in 2022 when Adam Aaronson invited her to work for him after she took a public class at his studio and she quickly discovered her love for the material and process, which inspired her to study Glass and Ceramics the following year. She is now an emerging glassblower with firm foundations in multiple other mediums such as ceramics, wood, metal, and textiles, thanks to the time she spent as an exchange student in the Pacific Northwest College of Art Willamette, in Portland, Oregon. She has a deep interest in the intersections of the physical and emotional, and how they interact with one another.
Using her insights gained from both Pilchuck glass school, and from visiting Maestros in Venice during the Glass Week; she is currently developing a body of work involving Venetian goblet making techniques, bitworking, hot sculpting and blowing to create forms inspired by anorexia nervosa. She is studying various perceptions and experiences of the body, aiming to showcase these using glassblowing as a medium.
Artist Statement
My current work is driven by questions regarding the body and how the emotional state of the mind can manifest itself physically within a person. I am drawn to subjects that explore vulnerability of the mind and body - how they can both be shaped, judged, controlled and experienced. I am exploring the body as more than a mere physical form to be seen, but rather as a psychological and cultural construct which can be deeply related to identity, trauma, control and perception.
The body has been shaped, idealised, disciplined and represented in many different ways throughout history and in contemporary art and craft practise. I am interested in investigating how glass can reflect various psychological states or experiences as a material, with themes such as fragility, tension, control and distortion running through my work.