GERRY REILLY
GLASS ARTIST

Hot glass designer & artist, Gerry Reilly produces a decorative handmade range of art glass designs from his Melting Pot Glass Studio and Gallery in Margaret River, in the spectacular south west wine region of Western Australia.

After training  in Ceramics & Glass at Monash University and University of Tasmania between 1976 and 1981, Gerry worked in glass studios in Tasmania and South Australia, including the Jam Factory Craft Workshop and many private studios with glass and clay, before settling in the south west of Western Australia in the mid 1980s.           

Gerry Reilly is currently designing radically new artworks for the Designing Futures Project through Form WA, and he will exhibit these in “Evolve” at Bunbury Regional Art Galleries, opening December 7, 2007. Gerry works closely with FORM and the Fremantle Arts Centre Gallery, amongst numerous Australia-wide galleries, to provide beautiful art glass gifts for visitors and presentation works to a diverse range of companies and government departments.

Commissions include corporate gifts, trophies and interior designed pieces for clients as varied as the Legends Golf Tour trophy 2007 and Handa Cup perpetual trophy 2006,07; DEST Indigenous Higher Education Awards 2007; WA Business Arts Partnership Awards 2006; Masters International Surf Trophies 1993-2003, 2007; Geographe Bay Yacht Club's Race Week Awards 06-07; PrimeMinister’s Dept CHOGM diplomatic gifts 2001-2002; WA Premier’s Dept; Sultan of Brunei and Danish Ambassador’s collection, Hammersley Iron, Kleenheat Gas and Woodside Petroleum corporate gifts, Royal Perth Golf Club, Holmes A Court, Leeuwin Estate and Voyager Estate Collections.

Gerry has been a Fellow of the Crafts Council WA since 1995, is an affiliate of Craft Australia with Craftmark accredition. Gerry Reilly exhibits nationally and internationally and his artworks are represented in public and private collections around Australia and overseas, including the Ebeltoft Glasmuseum Denmark. Gerry is a participant in the Austrade Canada Art Glass Program, exhibiting in the Australian Glass Exhibition, Sandra Ainsley Galleries, Toronto in Dec06-Jan07.

Bibliographic reference: Noris Ioannou, Masters of their Craft - Tradition and Innovation in the Australian Contemporary Decorative Arts, Craftsman House, 1997, pp98-99.

Gerry (left) works with an assistant in
The Melting Pot's Margaret River studio.