This year, I’m working on some exciting projects.
WORN | Tauranga Fringe Festival
Accretions
I am developing a new body of experimental work that combines borosilicate glass chain with pumice coated in layers of glass.
Formed through volcanic activity, pumice is itself a type of glass, expanded and lightened by trapped gases during eruption. Using pâte de verre, a technique in which finely ground glass is mixed with a binder and applied by hand before firing, I build successive layers onto the pumice surface. Through repeated firings, crust like formations emerge that appear to grow from the stone.
ESTUARY ART & ECOLOGY AWARDS | MALCOLM SMITH GALLERY
Three Sea Reliquaries
I'm delighted to share that I have been awarded a Merit in the 2026 Estuary Art and Ecology Awards.
Three Sea Reliquaries continues an ongoing exploration of collecting, observation and the ways we choose to preserve fragile things. The work consists of three glass test tubes containing marine invertebrates formed in the flame. Each piece draws inspiration from the rich ecology of the Tāmaki Estuary and the shifting life found along its edges.
Merit Award Winner
4 July – 3 October
Malcolm Smith Gallery
COLLABORATION
Tidal Exchange
Earlier this year, I sent a box of glass experiments from my studio to Inna from JamInc Jewellery. A few months later, photos of the finished work arrived. It was fascinating to see familiar pieces transformed through her playful use of resin and found objects. Although we work independently, the resulting pieces share a connection to the shoreline, collecting, and the treasures we discover.
Small Sculpture Prize | Waiheke Gallery
Tidal Reliquary
This installation continues my ongoing exploration of glass as a vessel for holding and preserving memories. Five decorative lampworked test tubes stand upright, each containing glass seaweeds formed in the flame and finished with soft lustres that shift in the light.
Finalist
27 March – 17 May
Waiheke Art Gallery
FIESTA EXHIBITION | SPACE GALLERY
SMALL CELEBRATIONS
Small Celebrations reflects the role of making in my practice. When the world feels overwhelming and chaotic, returning to the flame and working with glass offers a sense of calm and continuity. The work celebrates small, personal moments of joy found through process and repetition.
17 February – 7 March
Space Gallery, Whanganui
Te Awaroa exhibition | Art kaipara
BLOOM
Bloom is a series of four small Fascinariums responding to the Kaipara, a place of abundance and growing fragility.
Each work brings together foraged shells with hand formed glass inclusions, sealed beneath blown glass domes. The shells carry their own histories, once living bodies, now remnants shaped by tide and time. The glass elements act as speculative growths, blooms that appear luminous and seductive, yet sit uneasily within their hosts.
4-28 February
Helensville Art Gallery
VILLAGE ARTS | EARTH FIRE WATER AIR
POD FORMS
Made in collaboration with Liz McAuliffe, these Pod Forms are a dialogue between clay and glass. Liz’s porcelain vessels are shaped, fired, and passed to me to ‘seed’ with molten glass. The result is both grounded and translucent, echoing the living systems we draw from. These works celebrate the generosity of process, the slow rhythm of exchange, and the beauty that emerges when two materials, and two makers, meet.
24 October - 30 November
Village Arts, Hokianga
TE MATATIKI TOI ORA THE ARTS CENTRE
Tidal Study
This series of lampworked glass sculptures explores the fragile biodiversity of the edge-world between land and sea.
Each piece is shaped by hand using the traditional technique of lampworking; melting glass in a flame and cooling it slowly overnight in a kiln. The resulting forms echo the organic tangle of seaweed drifting through tidal pools.
4-19 October
Christchurch Arts Centre
Exhibition | ORA GALLERY
Fixed in flow
A moment suspended: where stillness meets energy, and colour becomes atmosphere.
Artists: Rachel Walker, Catherine Roberts, Hollie O’Neill and Isla Osborne
10-31 October
ORA Gallery, Wellington
Liz McAuliffe | Isla Osborne
Small Observations
This ongoing collaboration with sculptor Liz McAuliffe brings together her finely detailed porcelain leaf and seed pod forms with my hand-blown glass domes. Liz’s work celebrates the quiet beauty of natural forms, inviting us to pause and really see what's so often overlooked. Together, we’ve created pieces that feel like contemporary heirlooms, echoing the curiosity and care of Victorian-era collectors. Each dome becomes a moment of stillness; a small, delicate encounter with everyday taonga.
Frankly Small (Merit Award Winner)
9 – 23 August
NZ Steel Gallery, Pukekohe
Jenny Mcleod Glass | Isla Osborne
Neptunes Necklace
A collaboration inspired by our native seaweed, Jenny and I have combined my blown glass beads with her fused elements to craft a series of sculptural wall necklaces that echo the movement of drifting tides. A playful dialogue in glass, they reflect connection, materiality, and decades of shared exploration.
23 June - 19 July
Kumeū Arts Centre, Kumeū