Timothy Horn

Timothy Horn’s work embraces several disciplines and draws from a broad bank of skills and materials, including cast glass, blown glass, various metals, transparent rubber and sugar. His current Tree of Heaven and Gorgonian series were exhibited at the 2018 Adelaide Biennial at the Art Gallery of South Australia. These works combine the two distinct sources that have inspired his work over the past decade: those being patterns of 17th century jewelry, and 19th-century studies of natural forms such as lichen, coral and seaweed. Beginning with the silhouette of an historical piece of jewelry projected at a much larger scale, Horn drafts a working pattern with the addition of grafted imagery of natural forms. He then sets about fabricating a tree-like structure in wax, to be cast in bronze and nickel-plated. Pearls become large baroque forms in mirrored blown glass.

Timothy Horn lives and works in Truro, Massachusetts. Born in Melbourne, Australia, he studied Sculpture at the Victorian College of the Arts and then Glass at the Australian National University. A Samstag Scholarship brought him to the US in 2002, where he completed graduate study at Massachusetts College of Art. Horn’s work has featured in exhibitions at the Renwick Gallery in Washington D.C., the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, GoMA in Brisbane, and the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.