'AS1' is the culmination of two unexpected mediums – recycled metal and glass by two Emerald-based artists, Michelle Gray & Raelene Bock. Drawing their inspiration from the beauty of nature, together they challenge both themselves and their materials by merging and melding these robust and difficult constituents to create everlasting soft gentle forms that they hope the viewer sees as beauty.

Glass and metal are both created from natural elements and are both forged in fire, in very different ways. They can be presented in numerous forms, and can be both tough and yet delicate all in one. We love that there are so many surprising facets to the joining of our two mediums and artistic techniques. We also love the many iterations that our ideas pass through during our artistic process of convergence – we begin with two concepts, two mediums, two thought processes and two personalities, and merge into one artistic outcome.