Choreographing light through glass
- Jérémie creates hand blown functional vessels and sculptural objects
- His practice centres on form, colour and controlled improvisation
- He values the handmaking process and creating simplicity through complexity
Jérémie St-Onge trained to be a glassmaker in Quebec and spent several years working in professional studios. Working largely alone, he launched his eponymous collection in 2019. Jérémie’s pieces favour precise gestures and aim for perfection, utilising tonal colours and ombre tones with a frosted glass finish. “I allow the material to guide me, trusting that the end result will answer my penchant for asymmetry and subtle variation,” he says. Jérémie’s colour palette reflects his childhood memories of mineral collecting, country landscapes and historic objects. Alongside his studio work at Verre d‘Onge, he is developing a body work featuring more sculptural pieces to explore glass as a contemporary object with historical depth.
Interview
- When did you decide to start working with glass?
- It happened quite spontaneously after high school. I visited a glass school almost by chance. I immediately connected with studio work, manual processes and the environment of making.
- How do you define your approach to form?
- I try to go to the essential. My pieces are not technically complex, but they rely on precise decisions at the right moment. I am interested in silhouette, asymmetry and forms that are not fully planned.
- Why do you find glass an exciting medium to work with?
- Glass demands speed and accuracy. The technique has changed very little over the centuries, and I like working within that long continuum while producing objects that feel current.
- What ideas guide your practice today?
- I value handmade objects that people live with and become attached to. I want the pieces I make to feel simple, but considered, objects where simplicity carries its own complexity.
Jérémie St-Onge is an expert artisan: he began his career in 2014
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