Grania began making glass objects in 2015 with Kate Baker as her teacher and mentor and has continued to learn the many ways glass can be fired in a kiln; fusing and slumping, screen printing, sandblasting, casting and the ever fragile, pate de verre process.
Attending masterclasses with Kirstie Rae at Kate Bakers Studio, Silvia Levenson at Canberra Glassworks, Kirstie Rae and Mel Douglas at Monash University Melbourne and in 2024, a two-week residency with Emma Varga at the Glass Furnace in Istanbul, have been instrumental in giving her the time and space to develop ideas and refine techniques.
It was from attending the Glass Art Society conference in Murano in 2018 where she began meeting the wider glass community. She coordinated a group of fellow students to the CoLab conference in Wanganui 2019 and was a Director of the Australian Association of Glass Artists in 2025.
Grania was a finalist in the 2020 National Emerging Art Glass Prize in Wagga for her screen-printed block called 'Wonderment'. Since then, her work has been included in the Soho Art Exhibition, Hunters Hill Art Exhibition, John Villiers Outback Art Award, Newcastle Art Space, and in the Glebe Art Show the judges awarded ‘highly commended’ for her work.
Trading under the name ‘glassbygrania’, you can find her selling her jewellery, bowls, trinket dishes and glass decorations at the quarterly Artisan markets throughout Sydney.
Since joining the studio in November 2023, Grania continues to progress in her iterative glass journey through testing the boundaries of the materiality of glass and developing new concepts through a transformative process.
Phone: 0403 006 207
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/glassbygrania
Email: grania.hickley@gmail.com