Rate My Professor Gabriella Bisetto

Ms Gabriella Bisetto is a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art at the School of Art and Design in the College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities at Adelaide University. She lectures in the first-year Foundation course 3D Contemporary Art Studio, the second-year course Contemporary Art Practice, and the third-year courses Studio A and Studio B, in addition to supervising Contemporary Art Honours and Masters programs. In the glass workshop, she teaches Hot Glass Techniques and Processes as well as Kiln Formed Glass Techniques and Processes. These courses provide students with the knowledge required to work as professional emerging artists in glass or to integrate glass materiality into other fields including jewellery, sculpture, printing, ceramics, photography, painting, product design, and architecture. Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD students, Bisetto contributes significantly to postgraduate creative research and the development of future artists.

Her artistic practice centers on contemporary art and glass, exploring themes of ageing, disease, transience, and changes to the human body, often referencing the ancient Roman ‘memento mori’ concept. Her solo exhibition ‘First breath, last breath, Everything In between’ was shown at Jam Factory until 24 November 2024, presenting new cast, kiln-formed, and neon glass artworks alongside feather sculptures. Key works include ‘Transference’ (2023), a wall-spanning installation of pulled glass canes and LED lighting at MOD Museum of Discovery; ‘Sustain’ (2018) and ‘Distilled’ (2018), cast and lampworked glass; ‘Ode to Hennig Brand’ (2017), laboratory glassware; ‘ALVEOLUS #1 and #2’ (2017), coldworked blown glass; ‘Becoming’ (2015), 160 suspended hand-blown forms; ‘Three minutes of breath’ (2010), blown glass performance with video; and ‘The ocean within’ (2007), 40 glass bowls symbolizing body water content. Bisetto has won the Tom Malone Glass Art Prize twice, in 2024 and previously, recognizing her impact in contemporary glass art.