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Richard Jackson’s Returning Cycle (2019) and All Things Being Equal (2018) are remarkable, lucid essays in glass across its full range as a hot liquid and as a cooled resistant material. Their appearance is of carved light, addressing abstract, strongly planar forms (the sheet, the circle, the pillar) with a diverse range of kiln-casting, cold-working, carving and sandblasting techniques. Jackson’s forms emerge and are worked unsparingly from the inside–out and from outside–in, the trace of every contrasting mark held up in clear optical crystal and on a monumental scale. Fawkes and Jackson’s collaborative pieces, Together We Stand (2015) and New Perspective II (2017) each, though in different ways, achieves complete coherence as a discrete and free-standing artefact.
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