Susan Rankin


Glass Artist Susan Rankin is passionate about flowers and expresses the joy of flowers blown glass objects.

The flower vase series capture the beauty of the bloom on a vessel that is both decorative and functional. They enhance a bouquet of fresh cut flowers when in use and return you to the thought of garden when empty.

The flowering vine vessel series is Rankin's ongoing interpretation of life - beauty, colour, gesture, shadow, reflection, isolation, confinement, freedom and treasure. The pieces begin to breathe their own life once the shiny glass surface is removed, replaced with a dark textural surface and enhanced with paint. The richness of the colour speaks of the gardens both wild and tamed, from which they came.

Born , Saskatchewan, 1959.

COLLECTIONS
Corning Museum, Corning, N.Y., Claridge Collection, Montréal, Québec., The Michel-Pierre Grenier Collection, Montréal, Québec. Saskatchewan Arts Board, Regina, Sask., Moose Jaw Art Museum, Moose Jaw Sask., Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba., SkyDome, Toronto, Ontario. UBS Bank (Canada), Toronto, Ontario, Department of foreign affairs, Government of Canada., des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec.


PUBLICATIONS
2007-Jill Culora, ‘A Garden in Glass’, World Art Glass Quarterly Magazine, Volume 2, 2007
Cinzia Colella, ‘about the garden: an invitation to dialogue’, Contemporary Canadian Glass
Spring 2007 Catalogue, ‘PalmBeach 3’, Option Art, West Palm Beach , Florida.
2006-‘500 Glass Objects’, Lark Books,
2004-Catalogue, ‘Epergne’, Uncommon Objects, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto , Ontario.
New Glass Review 25, The Corning Museum of Glass.
Agatha Cinader, ‘Review – Epergne-Sue Rankin’, Contemporary Canadian Glass, Vol. 4 - #56, Spring 2004
2003-Richard Yelle, ‘Glass Art : International 2003’.
2002-Catalogue, '19th International Glass Invitational', Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, Florida.
2001 - Ellen Wieske, ‘Wirework’, Lark Books.
Catalogue, '18th International Glass Invitational', Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, Florida.
1999-James Strecker, 'Sheridan The Cutting Edge In Crafts', Boston Mills Press.
Deena Waisberg, 'Profile - Artist cultivates a garden of glass', The Toronto Star, Sunday September 26, 1999.
Catalogue, '17th International Glass Invitational', Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, Florida.
1997-New Glass Review 18, The Corning Museum of Glass.
Catalogue, '16th International Glass Invitational', Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, Florida.
1996-New Glass Review 17, The Corning Museum of Glass.
Catalogue, '20 Years Galerie Elena Lee', Galerie Elena Lee Verre D'Art.
Catalogue, '15th International Glass Invitational', Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, Florida.
1995-Patricia Tolmie, 'Guild Shop Talk', Craft News, Vol. 20 / No. 3, July -Aug. '95.
1995-Kevin Lockau, 'Gesture of Grace', Glass Gazette, Summer 1995.
1993-Catalogue, 'Vision to Reality', Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery.
1993-Catalogue, 'Taipei International Exhibition of Traditional Arts & Crafts, 1993', Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
Catalogue, 'Selected Treasures; a Treasury of Canadian Craft', Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
Fusion Magazine, Vol. 17/No. 3 Summer 1993.
Hickey, Gloria, 'Canadian Glass Now', Neues Glas/New Glass, 1/93.
1992-Catalogue, 'A Treasury of Canadian Craft', Inaugural exhibition, The Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver, B.C.
Orthner, Patricia, Fusion Magazine, vol. 16 no. 2, summer.
1991-Craft News, vol. 16 no. 1, January, Ontario Craft Council.
Ontario Craft, summer, Ontario Craft Council.
New Glass Review 12, The Corning Museum of Glass.
Flood, Sandra, The Craft Factor, vol. 16, no.3, fall, Saskatchewan Craft Council.
1990-The Craft Factor, vol. 15, no.4, Winter, Saskatchewan Craft Council.
Catalogue, 'The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa '90'.
1988-The Craft Factor, vol. 13, no. 2, summer, Saskatchewan Craft Council.