Touch of glass

The Crafts Council Gallery continues its quest to challenge our expectations of craft with four artists whose main medium is glass, but whose work is purely fine art.

Helen Maurer arranges seemingly random pieces of flat glass and perspex that with the simple addition of light become projected childhood scenes of caravans, camping and the sea (detail of 'Over Exposed', right). Max Jacquard's installation incorporates light, sound and three hanging glass figures cast from his own body that imitate different textures. Matthew Durran suspends blown glass forms and uses layered glass as the negative to create cloud-like images direct on to photographic paper, and Valerie Olleon's heavy glass objects installed on narrow plinths combine transparency, opacity and reflection with more conceptual intentions.

'The four artists all differ greatly in terms of process,' explains fellow glass artist and exhibition curator Emma Woffenden, 'but they all reflect the fact that artists now move around quite freely within fine art and craft and that glass is a material that can be used very much in a mixed media sense.'

Solid Air, from Thur 11 Apr, Crafts Council Gallery, 44A Pentonville Road, N1 (020-7278 7700)

Touch of glass