About Glasstronaut.
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Ian Kirwan is a artist and sculptor with a wide range of experience and skills. He has gradually built up his knowledge of working processes through education and experience to create his original glass sculptures and architectural works.
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Working in the hot shop at University College of the Arts, 2011, Farnham, Surrey , UK.
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The workshop and garden at Albion Drive.
For the last 20 years he has lived & worked in East London. In 2015, in the back garden of his co-op house in hackney, he built a workshop from recycled & found materials from which to experiment and create his glass and metal sculptures.
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