From the late 1970s, in workshops in Victoria and South Australia, Nick and Pauline Mount operated as manufacturers of hand blown production glass, working with both employees and trainees.

One of Australia’s most experienced glassblowers, Mount now concentrates on making exhibition pieces such as his series of ‘Scent bottles’. He believes the future is in making best use of existing facilities like the glass workshop at JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design, which he used to manage. He hires skilled blowers and leases time in the workshop, later assembling his pieces in his home studio in Adelaide.

Mount also maintains an interest in production – such as a wine decanter commissioned for the Universal Wine Bar in Adelaide in the mid-1990s.

You can see Mount's work in the new exhibition Smart works: design and the handmade, until 4 November 2007 at the Powerhouse Museum.

Smart works: design and the handmade
Search Nick Mount in the Powerhouse Museum collection

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