Mel Douglas (Burnie, Tasmania, Australia, 1978) investigates glass through the aesthetics of the mark, conceptualizing the form itself as mark and treating her sculptures as if they were canvases or sheets of paper. The artist uses the unique properties of glass – transparency, translucency or opacity – to connect and subvert space, developing two- and three-dimensional sculptures that spatially blend surface and mark, and where form no longer represents a mere support but becomes to all intents and purposes a three-dimensional drawing. Her practice consists in fact of a slow and deliberate process of manual engraving with a diamond point on the surface of her glass pieces.
