Ms Wightman - winner of the 2014 Ranamok Glass Prize for Australian and New Zealand glass artists - has been exploring the connection between human existence and surfaces in the home that we interact with each day. The piece selected for the Fuse competition is titled Capturer, and emulates wallpaper typically found in domestic interiors, inspired by a roll of wallpaper found on a recent trip to Britain.
"I am intrigued by the connections we form with the spaces we occupy, and in this piece mirror sheet floats behind the printed glass surface, allowing the viewer to become part of the patterned surface.
"Strange shadows creep behind the pattern as the light in the space changes, creating an illusion of a world behind the wall," Ms Wightman said.
Once drawn, the pattern was broken down into seven layers that were screen-printed with glass powder on to flat sheets of clear glass.
Ms Wightman also taught one of the artists selected for the Fuse emerging artist category, Lewis Batchelar, who graduated from the Wanganui Glass School in 2012 with a diploma in glass design and production.
He is one of five emerging artist finalists.
