Mel Douglas

Throughout his career, Mel Douglas has pursued a body of work that has been hailed as "quiet, yet strangely energetic and animated" andas evidence of "his commitment to creative experimentation and evolution with the ever challenging medium of glass".
Robert Cook, curator of twentieth-century art at AGWA,
Art Gallery of Western Australia

Douglas's work, with its minimalist aesthetic, probes the creative possibilities of volume and line, where form is not a support for drawing, but a three-dimensional drawing itself.
Utilizing the unique qualities of glass and its rich mark-making potential, Douglas uses line as a means to inform, define and enable three-dimensional space.

Mel Douglas has worked as an independent artist since 2000. In 2020, she was awarded a PhD from the Australian National University for her practical research into how glass can be understood through the aesthetics of drawing. Douglas has won numerous awards, including the Tom Malone Prize in 2020 and 2014, the Ranamok Glass Prize in 2002, and Ebeltolft's International Young Glass Award in 2007. In 2021, she was selected as an Art Group Creative Fellow at Canberra Glassworks. In 2019, the NGA's Robert and Eugenie Bell Decorative Arts and Design Fund chose one of Douglas's pieces as the first acquisition for its collection.

Douglas's works are part of private collections and international public institutions such as:
Corning Museum of Glass, New York,
Chrysler Museum of Art, in Norfolk, Virginia,
Ebeltoft Museum of Glass, Denmark,
National Gallery of Australia, Australia.