GEIR NUSTAD

GEIR NUSTAD

Hand Crafted Glass

Glass is fascinating in all its forms. Glass is powerful. Glass is fragile. Glass is enchanting and magical. But glass is also simply functional. However you approach it, glass is always technically challenging. To find a perfect balance between the technical challenge, the artistic design and the material possibilities of glass. Coupled with ideas and concepts that refer to my roots in the north of Norway. That is what I do. But as an artistic craftsman, I also want to go beyond that. I want to explore my limits as an artistic and technically skilled craftsman. I seek the extremes of the possibilities of glass. As a craftsman, artist and designer.


Welcome to my world!

Geir Nustad

ABOUT

GEIR NUSTAD

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HOW IT ALL BEGAN...

I was born in Tromsø, in the north of Norway in 1984. Here I grew up and lived the first part of my life being socially and political active, and since 2002 working with art and cultural projects. In 2006 I moved to Kosta, Sweden, to begin my studies to become a glassblower at the Kosta Glascenter (one of Europe`s most renowned glass schools).

I graduated In 2009 with promising results and continued the search for my own expression with glass. That same year I started studying in the Glass Department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where I graduated with a BFA in the summer of 2012.

I am currently living and working in the glass city of the Netherlands, Leerdam. I am working here as an artist and freelance glassblower. Since 2012 I am also working as a glassblower at the National Glass Museum Leerdam. My practice as an artist stretches from drawings and paintings, to objects, sculptures and installations, that consist mainly of glass, either as a sculptural medium or in the direction of design/applied-arts. I am trying to stretch the use of glass as a material and to create a bridge between craft, design and fine arts, creating a deeper connection between the object or sculpture and the spectator.

Products

Drinking glasses

Eye-catching glassware. Artistry and functionality woven into beautiful objects.

Drinking glasses

Eye-catching glassware. Artistry and functionality woven into beautiful objects.

Jewelry

Unique jewelry with a reference to natural hues from northern regions.

Jewelry

Unique jewelry with a reference to natural hues from northern regions.

Art work

A survey of glass blown quirky art objects by the hand of Geir Nustad.

Art work

A survey of glass blown quirky art objects by the hand of Geir Nustad.

Goblets

Extraordinary drinking utensils. Artistically and technically challenging created and thought out.

Goblets

Extraordinary drinking utensils. Artistically and technically challenging created and thought out.

Lamps

Functionality in glass beauty. Geir Nustad's lamps are creative and all unique in their design.

Lamps

Functionality in glass beauty. Geir Nustad's lamps are creative and all unique in their design.

Balance Vines

Extraordinarily designed drinking utensils. Chic and humorous. Because... only put back when the glass is empty.

Balance Vines

Extraordinarily designed drinking utensils. Chic and humorous. Because... only put back when the glass is empty.

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