Author(s): Akie Haga

Necklaces | Canberra & Region

In recent years, Akie Haga has been focusing on creating small scale work and one-of-a-kind wearable art. Her work embraces the elemental, liquid nature of glass - manifesting as organic, colourful and transparent forms. With her sculptural wearables, Akie highlights the unexpected side of the material of what glass can do and be, creating portable and accessible art for a wider audience.

During a recent interview, Akie confided that she has many drawers full of an ever growing number of small glass components accumulated over the years of exploring the material. They are puzzle pieces for her and her works are born of a continual arrangement of these pieces. It’s not unusual to spend a day or more doing this assembling process to make one work, only to take the finished work apart to start all over again. 

“It’s been more than 20 years since I found this material, but it feels like I still have so much to discover and create with molten glass. It is a challenging material but that is why I am drawn to it.”