Marina Hanser (born 1986) is a glass artist and educator from

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

Biography

Hanser moved to Australia in 2010 and completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts with a specialization in glass from the School of Art at the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public university, public research university and member of the Group of Eight (Australian universities), Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton, A ...

in Canberra in 2014. She also studied at the Glasfachschule Kramsach in Austria and Vetroricerca Studios in Italy. In March and April 2017 she held an artist's residency at the

Corning Museum of Glass The Corning Museum of Glass is a museum in Corning (city), New York, Corning, New York, United States, dedicated to the art, history, and science of glass. It was founded in 1951 by Corning Incorporated, Corning Glass Works and currently has a ...

. Her glasswork involves both traditional and non-traditional kiln casting, as well as coldworking and

pâte de verre Glass casting is the process in which glass objects are cast by directing molten glass into a mould where it solidifies. The technique has been used since the 15th century BCE in both Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Modern cast glass is formed by a ...

techniques. Hanser has won the Warm Glass Prize in the United Kingdom and the Boronia Award in Glass.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hanser, Marina Date of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) 1986 births Living people 21st-century Australian women artists 21st-century Austrian women artists Austrian expatriates in Italy Australian expatriates in the United States Austrian expatriates in the United States Australian glass artists Australian National University alumni Austrian emigrants to Australia People associated with the Corning Museum of Glass Women glass artists